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Gil Penchina on angel investing, market timing, and his ambivalence to venture capital
Oct 02, 11:30AM
Let’s start with a bit of background. How did you get into angel investing? I was one of the early folks at eBay and by 1999 it was completely overrun by consultants from McKinsey, Bain and BCG. It went from being a cool fun startup to an MBA factory. Angel investing was an outlet for me to hang out with people I liked– startup founders doing crazy stuff! Where did you get the money… Read MoreWill the coming robot nanny era turn us into technophiles?
Oct 01, 10:00PM
In as little time as a decade, affordable robots that can bottle-feed babies, change diapers and put a child to sleep might be here. The human-machine bond that a new generation of kids grows up with may be unbreakable. We may end up literally loving our machines almost like we do our mothers and fathers. Read MoreCheck out this epic, expertly executed $77k Indiegogo backer troll
Oct 01, 8:00PM
It doesn’t get much more meta than this. Raising $77k on Indiegogo, the filmmakers behind It’s All Good absconded with the money, spending it all on cocaine, prosti… oh, wait. No, it was limousines and champagne. The backers were rightfully outraged, but there’s a twist. It turns out that the real movie the scallywags were making was about a team of filmmakers… Read MoreInventor Ken Mages sees the Internet as democracy in action
Oct 01, 7:19PM
This week on the Technotopia podcast I talked to Ken Mages, a Chicago-based inventor and co-founder of Secure One. Mages has been working in computers since his college days at the University of Illinois where he started a business doing what would later be called desktop publishing. His experience in the tech industry is boundless and he’s a really easy guy to talk to. He and I chat… Read MoreApple loses patent retrial to the litigious VirnetX, ordered to pay $302.4M
Oct 01, 6:02PM
Here’s yet more evidence that the US patent system needs over-hauling. Back in February we reported that Apple had been ordered to pay $625 million to notorious litigator VirnetX after a U.S. court judged that the iPhone-maker had infringed on patents held by VirnetX in its iMessage and FaceTime services. (VirnetX often described as a patent troll because it makes almost all of its… Read MoreHow deep learning allowed computers to see
Oct 01, 6:00PM
One of the biggest challenges of the 21st century is to make computers more similar to the human brain. We want them to speak, understand and solve problems — and now we want them to see and recognize images. For a long time, our smartest computers were blind. Now, they can see. This is a revolution made possible by deep learning. Read MoreGillmor Gang LIVE 10.01.16
Oct 01, 5:09PM
This was a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Today’s LIVE recording has concluded. Our live chat stream during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page HERE G3’s archive on ustream G3’s Facebook page HERE Read MoreSurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie: IPO, yes; 2017, not likely
Oct 01, 3:23PM
On Thursday night, at a StrictlyVC event at SurveyMonkey in Palo Alto, this editor sat down with CEO Zander Lurie to learn more about the direction of the 17-year-old company, known for the roughly 90 million surveys that the outfit and its customers create for their various constituents each month (and whose average order volume is $300, says Lurie). I was particularly interested… Read MoreYou might be surprised to learn who's collecting your data
Oct 01, 3:00PM
Most people understand that in order for digital services to work properly or stay free they may need to allow the services to track some of their data. It’s time to demand that all third parties hold themselves to a higher standard and disclose what they do with consumers’ data. Those that resist the urge to collect, share and sell data not vital to their service will ultimately… Read MoreLearned helplessness and the languages of DAO
Oct 01, 1:00PM
Everything is terrible. Most software, even critical system software, is insecure Swiss cheese held together with duct tape, bubble wrap, and bobby pins. See eg this week’s darkly funny post “How to Crash Systemd in One Tweet.” But it’s not just systemd, not just Linux, not just software; the whole industry is at fault. We have taught ourselves, wrongly, that there is… Read MoreArgentina's startup scene is primed, but not yet firing on all cylinders
Oct 01, 11:30AM
Over the last decade, Argentina’s public profile has been far from flattering. With a steady feed of headlines that have included, “Inflation”, “Corruption”, and “Political Instability”, the country has been shut off from most international tech investment since the “dot com” bubble. Since then, Argentina has had to overcome severe… Read MoreCrunch Report | Facebook Snapchat Clone in Poland
Oct 01, 3:35AM
Facebook is testing a Snapchat clone in Poland, PewDiePie’s Tuber Simulator hits the top of the charts, Marc Andreessen talks about quitting Twitter, Yahoo open sources porn-detecting software, Nutanix is up 131% on its first day of trading on the Nasdaq. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
The Cancer Moonshot needs a heavy dose of computational infrastructure
Oct 01, 1:00AM
Top cancer researchers recently reported their findings and recommendations to President Obama and Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot task force. All 10 recommendations in the report heavily concentrate on enabling computational infrastructure, and included these key words: sharing data, engaging patients, precision medicine, genetic understanding, interdisciplinary, ecosystem and… Read MoreHonest Co. is reformulating its soaps after ingredients controversy
Sep 30, 11:54PM
The consumer products startup founded by Jessica Alba, The Honest Co., on Friday told The Wall Street Journal that it plans to reformulate its dish soap, laundry detergent and other cleaners after an earlier controversy over their ingredients. The Honest Co. markets its products as gentler, healthier and more environmentally sustainable than those of mainstream brands in the U.S. However… Read MoreMeerkat, star app of 2015, is officially dead
Sep 30, 10:57PM
Remember Meerkat? It came out of nowhere in early 2015 — a star of SXSW, in particular — and was on everyone’s tongue for weeks. Then came Periscope, a strikingly similar competitor built mostly in stealth mode, and word that Twitter had acquired it for nearly $100 million dollars before much of the world even knew it existed. Suddenly, interest in Meerkat fizzled. A year and… Read MoreHere's how you can stop jumping back and forth between Google's calendar and map apps
Sep 30, 10:10PM
Logistics are difficult, especially when every day you’re trying to keep track of 9 meetings, 13 phone calls, a dinner, a post-dinner, and a post-post-dinner. In a recent update, Google has decided to do its part to make daily logistics easier by more fully integrating its Maps and Calendar offerings for Android users worldwide. Now when you open Google Maps, you’ll be able to… Read MoreTwitch announces Twitch Prime, Loyalty Badges and video uploads
Sep 30, 9:44PM
Twitch, the video game live-streaming service acquired by Amazon for nearly a billion dollars back in 2014, kicked off its annual TwitchCon conference this afternoon with a keynote. With keynotes generally come a bit of news… and sure enough, here’s what’s new: Twitch Prime: As we scooped right before the Keynote, Twitch officially confirmed Twitch Prime. Included for free… Read MoreRosetta goes out in a blaze of glory — and science
Sep 30, 9:31PM
Let’s all take a moment and pour one out metaphorically for Rosetta, the pioneering spacecraft that gave our newly spacefaring race its first comet landing. The orbiter performed its final task early this morning, making a controlled crash into the comet’s surface, destroying itself in the process but gathering valuable data down to the last minute. Read MoreWeekly Roundup: Snapchat's new Specs, Beyoncé is a tech investor and SpaceX's plans to colonize Mars
Sep 30, 9:14PM
This week, Elon Musk revealed SpaceX’s plan for humans to inhabit Mars, Google rebranded its cloud services and rumors swirled about a Twitter bid. These are the top stories of the week, and you can also receive them in your inbox. Read MoreApple is screwing up HomeKit; here's how they can fix it
Sep 30, 9:00PM
The real magic of the Internet of Things happens when devices work together. It will be magic when Siri, on your iPhone, can adjust your thermostat or confirm you locked the back door; when your door lock can tell your sound system you’re home and start the music. That’s not the reality we live in, because most devices can’t talk to each other. Without a common language,… Read MoreIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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