The first rule of being cool is not telling people you want to be cool. Yahoo <a target="_blank" href="http://allthingsd.com/20130516/will-yahoo-try-to-get-its-cool-again-by-doing-a-deal-for-tumblr/?m
Despite rising costs and increasing competition from rivals like Tencent, Chinese Internet giant Sina narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $13.2 million from $13.7 million a year earlier, the compan
Emotions play tricks on our memories, making our recollections of events much happier or heart-wrenching than they actually were. Smartphone app <a target="_blank" href="http://expereal.com/">Expereal
MessageMe -- a messaging app that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/08/messageme/">launched in March</a> with a little Facebook <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/facebook-messageme/">c
One of the most interesting product demos on display at Google I/O this year was a virtual sky-diving simulation built using eight separate computers running Chrome, along with a Kinect-like motion se
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.crowdoptic.com">CrowdOptic</a>, a startup with technology for identifying where people are pointing their smartphone cameras, has raised another $1 million in fundi
NVIDIA brought its new Shield handheld gaming system to Google I/O this year and showed off a near-production device. The Shield made its debut at CES this year, surprising most since it's a consumer
Data visualization software company <a target="_blank" href="http://tableausoftware.com">Tableau Software</a>, going by the symbol "DATA," will start trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange at
Andrew Mason must be some kind of spirit animal of optimism. We assumed he was kidding when today he wrote that he had recorded "a seven song album of motivational business music". Just three months a
“Los Angeles is an underachieving city,” wrote the Los Angeles Times in its 2013 mayoral endorsement. “The candidate with the most potential to rise to the occasion and lead Los Ang
Today, Steve Lee of the Google X and Glass Team, announced that as of last week, all 2,000 developers who signed up for the Glass Explorer program at last year's I/O conference have now <a href="https
Secret sharing app Whisper has seen tremendous growth since launching last fall. But until recently, it’s only been available on iOS. With a launch on Android’s Google Play store this week, Whispe
Leap Motion was showing off its still unreleased gesture motion controller for computers at Google I/O 2013. The demo unit allowed you to use the controller to navigate Google Earth, and the functiona
Google's underwater Street View launched last September, but Google's Ocean program actually started six years ago when one of the founders of Keyhole (which, after being acquired by Google, later bec
There has been a lot of talk about rooting your Glass device, or if it’s even possible. Well, it is. During a Hacking Google Glass session today, the team shared the steps to go through to gain
Y Combinator's Paul Graham revealed a bunch of personnel news in <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-kevin-michael-steve-dalton-andrew-and-qasar">a just-published blog post</a
Participating in hackathons is nothing new in certain parts of the world, especially Silicon Valley. Once in a blue moon, a small team of people creates something exciting that generates buzz, potenti
If subjects like "XORing Elephants: Novel Erasure Codes for Big Data" get you all worked up, you'll dig the "Research Publications At Facebook" site, which collects scientific papers written by Facebo
I remember waking up 6am, going downstairs, and firing up my Atari 800XL. The disk labeled <em>Karateka</em> inserted, the drive would grunt a few dozen times and the screen would flash. Suddenly, wit
The weekend isn't upon us just yet, but here's a little project to tuck away for when the Sunday doldrums set in -- the New York-based tinkerers/part suppliers at Adafruit Industries have worked up a
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