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Local SF Brewery Creates A Platform To Help The Tech Crowd Choose The Right Beer
Aug 15, 4:06PM
Craft beers aplenty but not sure what your taste buds might like to try? Local Brewing Company is a newly opened brewery in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco with an app for that. Brewmaster and owner of Local Brewing Company, Regan Long, developed a mobile platform to help founders, VC’s and other bar patrons in this tech-heavy area of the city figure out which beer to order.… Read More
Navigating The New Waters Of Fundraising
Aug 15, 3:00PM
As a VC that has been in the industry for 15 years, I have watched many trends come and go. For the first few years of my career, my colleagues and I spent most of our time sourcing these trends and then incubating new innovation right here in Silicon Valley in the labs at IBM and AT&T. Today, however, the most successful venture capitalists all over the world are looking for innovation… Read More 
Bluetooth Suppositories And Other Teledildonics You Didn't Know You Needed
Aug 15, 1:00PM
Let us talk frankly about technology and sex, which are, as the old ad has it, two great tastes that taste great together. Let’s talk about vibrators, and teledildonics, and orgasms, and KinkBNB, and VR porn, and “Uber for escorts.” And let’s talk again about how our collective inability to about our collective inability to think about, talk about, and invest in sex in… Read More 
Loyalty Bay Raises $1M For Its API To Incentivize With Gifts
Aug 15, 10:18AM
You know those gift cards you see at the checkout counter in various stores? Well, it’s a kind’ve crazy business. Most people, when given gift cards, forget to spend them or that there’s a use-by date. And yet they remain popular, with so many people buying gift cards and vouchers instead of presents. As a result, most of the players make money from non-redemption. This is… Read More
The Future Of Consumer Marketing Is Personal
Aug 15, 2:00AM
Today’s marketing industry is a long way from achieving its end-game of a system that delivers the perfect creative through the best medium at the optimal moment to each individual audience member. To move toward that vision, the industry is evolving from an impression-centric paradigm to a user-centric paradigm. Read More 
Obama Is #TeamSpotify, White House Releases Two #POTUSPlaylists
Aug 15, 12:10AM
The Commander and Chief has just made his music streaming service allegiances known. The White House released a pair of playlists Friday morning that were allegedly hand-picked by Obama himself. Were they on Apple Music? Nah. How about Tidal? Forget about it. Two iterations of “The President’s Summer Playlist” were released, with both “Day” and… Read More 
Lessons from Seoul's Two Sharing Economies
Aug 14, 10:00PM
As a Fulbright grantee, I spent part of the last year researching the sharing economy in Seoul. One of my main findings? Korea actually has two. The first is small-scale, hyper local and socialist in flavor. The second is the polar opposite of the first, and encompasses Airbnb and Uber, the enormous, multinational corporations that remain those best associated with the term “sharing… Read More 
MissTravel Will Find A Sugar Daddy To, Uh, "Sponsor" Your Vacation
Aug 14, 8:52PM
Ever wanted to travel to an exotic island for a week but didn’t have the cash? Well, thanks to MissTravel, that’s not a problem anymore — if, and it’s a big if, you’re a young, attractive woman who’s willing to swipe right on a lonely, wealthy travel companion. MissTravel initially launched as a dating site two and a half years ago, the first in the… Read More 
InspiroBot Generates Random Inspirational Images To Make You Seem Deep And Maybe A Little Crazy
Aug 14, 8:45PM
Take a pretty picture. Slap some inspirational words on it. Post it on Facebook, then swim in a river of likes. If this is a thing you do, be afraid: you have been replaced by a robot. A wonderfully random, terrifyingly sentient robot. Meet InspiroBot, an “artificial intelligence dedicated to generating unlimited amounts of unique inspirational quotes for endless enrichment of… Read More 
Slack Decides Not To Kill Email For A Little While Longer, Integrates It Instead
Aug 14, 8:30PM
Slack! The email killer! It’s going to kill email! Welp, not today. The team clearly listens to its users, as the company announced a new integration (for Standard and Plus plan customers) that’ll make them extremely happy. Email will probably never completely die; it’s how organizations communicate with the outside world. Now you can bring email into your Slack channels:… Read More 
The 11 Best Performing Tech IPOs Of The Last Year
Aug 14, 7:38PM
What qualifies as a tech company? Everyone has their own definition. For this gallery, we’ve hewn closer to the Silicon Valley definition of tech with help from CrunchBase data. Every list has its biases. Those are our bends. Read More
Mozilla Makes Private Browsing More Private In Firefox, Adds Tracking Protection
Aug 14, 7:17PM
Mozilla is testing a new private browsing mode in Firefox that doesn’t just keep no trace of your porn browsing habits on your machine but that also blocks online services that could track you while you’re surfing the web. That’s not unlike what plug-ins like Ghostery and the EFF’s Privacy Badger can do for you, but Firefox now combines that with its own incognito mode. Read More 
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Samsung, 3D Printing, And The Coolest Cooler
Aug 14, 7:00PM
Samsung unveiled new phones and Samsung Pay this week, causing a bit of buzz in the world of mobile. Because we simply can’t resist it, we discussed the latest in 3D printing, while the Coolest Cooler has become the second-most funded project on Kickstarter. We discuss all of this, and our future romantic relationships with robots, on the latest episode of the TC Gadgets Podcast. This… Read More 
Bar Roulette Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
Aug 14, 6:55PM
The premise is simple: tap a button, get into an Uber and have no idea where you’re going. Actually, that sounds like a really awful nightmare I had once. Bar Roulette is a fun mashup built by Tyler Swartz during a hackathon that takes advantage of Uber’s API. Read More 
Why Google Became Alphabet, Explained In 120 Seconds
Aug 14, 6:47PM
What are the pros and cons of Google reorganizing itself as Alphabet? Well, Larry gets to play with the future, Google can focus on more ambitious projects, and it could help the company retain top talent. But will the independent Alphabet company CEOs get frustrated relying on Larry for resources? Here’s everything you need to know in a quick two minute video. Read More 
You Can Now Run Windows 10 On Your Mac
Aug 14, 6:14PM
Thanks to Apple updating Boot Camp, that is. If you have had a hankering to try out Microsoft’s latest operating system — and I can recommend at least taking it for a spin — now’s the time. Apple’s full directions here are worth your time, but the broad strokes are simple: If you have a Mac no older than ‘mid 2012,’ and are running the most recent build… Read More 
Creating A "SEA" Change In The Digital Age
Aug 14, 6:00PM
A popular anecdote states that Henry Ford paid his assembly line workers a good wage so they could afford to buy their own company’s cars. Although the reasoning for this decision has been questioned, there is no doubt that this move helped establish and sustain the American middle class through its 20th century heyday. A century later, the employment landscape has changed. The… Read More 
13 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
Aug 14, 5:35PM
This week, Google announced a major corporate restructuring, Samsung introduced two new flagship smartphones and Tinder took to Twitter in a full-blown PR meltdown. These are the stories to catch you up on everything that’s happened this week in the wonderful world of tech. 1. Google rocked the world with some light news on Monday. It has restructured the company and everything will… Read More 
RetroPie 3 Lets You Play Old Games On Your New Pi
Aug 14, 4:57PM
The RetroPie project has always been one of the best things about the Raspberry Pi. This software suite turns your tiny, single-board computer into a retro gaming engine and has powered such exciting projects as the CupCade. RetroPie includes all of the emulators necessary to play anything from the Atari 2600 to the Game Boy Advance. The new version, 3.0, is available for download here it… Read More 
The #ILookLikeAnEngineer Community Hosted One Of The Most Powerful, Inspiring Tech Events I've Ever Attended
Aug 14, 4:52PM
The #ILookLikeAnEngineer movement, an effort to highlight diversity in the tech industry, is still going strong. Last night, over 200 underrepresented engineers and supporters came together in San Francisco to talk about diversity and share their experiences about working in the tech industry. Read More 
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