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Virtual reality gaming and the pursuit of "flow state"
Dec 16, 11:30PM
Maggie Lane Contributor Share on Twitter Maggie Lane is a writer and producer of virtual reality experiences and covers the industry for various publications. More posts by this contributor Inside Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VR Interview Experience Does Ready Player One reveal the future of VR? You need to stop procrastinating. Maybe it's time […]
Original Content podcast: Netflix's 'Mowgli' offers a darker take on Kipling's 'Jungle Book'
Dec 16, 10:01PM
At first, “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” might seem like an afterthought — or maybe a failed exercise in franchise-building. This new take on the story of Rudyard Kipling’s “Jungle Book” comes just two years after Disney’s version made nearly a billion dollars at the worldwide box office. Plus, it seemed a little strange for director […]
HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder Colin Kroll found dead of suspected overdose
Dec 16, 4:56PM
Colin Kroll, the 35-year-old co-founder and CEO of the HQ Trivia app, has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his apartment, TechCrunch has confirmed. A spokesman for the NYPD told us that a female called 911 for a wellness check on Kroll’s apartment and he was found dead inside at 08:00 hours […]
3D-printed heads let hackers – and cops – unlock your phone
Dec 16, 4:00PM
There’s a lot you can make with a 3D printer: from prosthetics, corneas, and firearms — even an Olympic-standard luge. You can even 3D print a life-size replica of a human head — and not just for Hollywood. Forbes reporter Thomas Brewster commissioned a 3D printed model of his own head to test the face […]
Ten pieces of friendly VC advice for when someone wants to buy your company
Dec 16, 2:30PM
David Frankel Contributor David Frankel is a managing partner at Founder Collective. More posts by this contributor Startups should read this checklist before they go ‘whale hunting’ for big partners You earn a million dollars a year and can’t get funded? I've been fortunate to have been part of half a dozen exits this year, […]
In the winds of crypto winter
Dec 16, 2:00PM
Well, it was surreal while it lasted, by which I mean the 2017-18 cryptocurrency bubble. For a while there, Coinbase was #1 in the App Store, Bitcoin was above $10K, and there were more notional crypto zillionaires out there than you could shake a Merkle tree at. Those were the crazy days. Now, though, a […]
Epic sheathes Infinity Blade after Fortnite fan backlash
Dec 16, 11:20AM
Epic, the maker of the insanely popular, cross-platform third-person shooter online game Fortnite, has ‘fessed up to a gameplay misstep when it dropped a super powerful new weapon into the battle royale arena earlier this month — triggering a major fan backlash. Complaints boiled down to it being unfair for the overpowered weapon to exist […]
The business case for serverless
Dec 15, 11:30PM
Zack Kanter Contributor Zack Kanter is the co-founder of Stedi. More posts by this contributor Why Amazon is eating the world While serverless is typically championed as a way to reduce costs and scale massively on demand, there is one extraordinarily compelling reason above all others to adopt a serverless-first approach: it is the best […]
Cydia shuts down purchasing mechanism for its jailbreak app store
Dec 15, 9:23PM
Years after becoming one of the go-to destinations for iOS jailbreaks, Cydia's app store is disabling purchases. Users will be able to access existing downloads through the store and access purchases via third-parties, but beginning this week, they'll no longer be able to buy apps through the store. Founder Jay "Saurik " Freeman revealed the […]
The limits of coworking
Dec 15, 6:07PM
It feels like there's a WeWork on every street nowadays. Take a walk through midtown Manhattan (please don't actually) and it might even seem like there are more WeWorks than office buildings. Consider this an ongoing discussion about Urban Tech, its intersection with regulation, issues of public service, and other complexities that people have full […]
California says all city buses have to be emission free by 2040
Dec 15, 5:58PM
On the heels of a dire government report published last month about climate change and its devastating impacts, many cities and states are scrambling to find ways to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that threaten their air quality, not to mention their economies. As is often the case, California is leading the charge, yesterday becoming […]
Tony Hawk goes mobile
Dec 15, 5:00PM
For three years, Tony Hawk has been conspicuously absent from the video store shelves. For most game developers, that's little more than a blip between titles. When your name and face are attached to 16 titles in 15 years, however, everyone starts to notice when you're gone. "It's usually the first topic of discussion with […]
Workers protest outside Minnesota Amazon warehouse
Dec 15, 3:19PM
Yesterday afternoon, Somali-American workers marched outside of Amazon's Shakopee, Minnesota fulfillment center, chanting "hear our voice." Estimates of the exact number of marches vary from source to source, but The Minneapolis Star Tribune puts it at around 100. It's a fairly familiar refrain for the company, after years of reports about questionable working conditions. Some […]
Discord announces 90/10 revenue split for self-published titles on upcoming games store
Dec 15, 12:36AM
After gaming chat app startup Discord announced in August that they were building out a games store, today, they’ve detailed that they’ll be pursuing a very competitive 90/10 revenue split for self-published titles in 2019. In addition, the company revealed that they now have 200 million active users on their chat app, up from 130 […]
Apple is producing new content about Snoopy and other Peanuts characters
Dec 15, 12:12AM
Apple has signed a deal with DHX Media that will see the Canadian broadcaster producing new shows, specials and short films about Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang. That includes exclusive short-form content for Apple starring astronaut Snoopy, aimed at getting kids excited about STEM. Peanuts was created by Charles Schulz, […]
Facebook restructures Building 8, separating projects into Reality Labs and Portal groups
Dec 14, 11:35PM
Facebook is restructuring its experimental hardware efforts and giving its moonshot projects a home within its AR/VR research division. The restructuring, reported by Business Insider (paywalled), didn’t result in any layoffs but did see some shifts of teams as the old Building 8 group rebranded to Portal and some projects moved to the former Oculus […]
Propel raises $12.8M for its free app to manage government benefits
Dec 14, 11:03PM
Propel, maker of the Fresh EBT app for managing food stamps and other benefits, announced today that it has raised $12.8 million in Series A funding. Fresh EBT (the EBT stands for the Electronics Transfer Benefit card, which is how food stamp participants receive their benefits) allows users to check their food stamp/SNAP balance and […]
Amazon Echo speakers now play friendly with Apple Music
Dec 14, 9:29PM
Amazon recently said Apple Music would find its way onto Amazon Echo devices sometime soon — and sure enough, it appears to be rolling out now.
'donald' debuts at No. 23 on worst passwords of 2018 list
Dec 14, 9:01PM
Almost 10 percent of people on the interwebs used at least one of the 25 worst passwords on SplashData’s annual list, which was released this week. And nearly three percent of you are still using “123456,” the worst password of the entire ranking. The eighth annual list of worst passwords of the year is based […]
Google agrees not to sell facial recognition tech, citing abuse potential
Dec 14, 8:39PM
In recent months, pressure has been mounting for major tech firms to develop strong policies regarding facial recognition. Microsoft has helped lead the way on that front, promising to put in place stricter policies, calling for greater regulation and asking fellow companies to follow suit. Hidden toward the end of a blog post about using […]
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