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T-Mobile Is Testing An App That Unlocks Your Smartphone With A Single Button
2:53 pm PDT • August 9, 2014
The good news: T-Mobile is playing with the idea of letting you unlock your phone (so that it can run on other carriers) with a single click. Hurray! No more…
Men Initiating Change Is An Important Step Toward Eradicating Tech’s Bro Culture
2:00 pm PDT • August 9, 2014
The conversation about women in tech is shifting as technology companies begin to hold themselves accountable. Recent moves, such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Yahoo releasing their employee diversity numbers,…
Startups
The Poet, Scientist, Journalist, Boxer Approach To Entrepreneurship
12:00 pm PDT • August 9, 2014
One of the great challenges for startups is figuring out where to start. Entrepreneurs believe that unless they build something now, their idea will become outdated or stolen by their…
For The Love Of Open Mapping Data
11:00 am PDT • August 9, 2014
It’s been exactly ten years since the launch of OpenStreetMap, the largest crowd-sourced mapping project on the Internet. The project was founded by Steve Coast when he was still a student.…
Gillmor Gang: More of the Same
10:00 am PDT • August 9, 2014
The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — split down the middle on the latest app trend known as unbundling. Foursquare begat…
Who’s Doing Common-Sense Reasoning And Why It Matters
9:00 am PDT • August 9, 2014
When we humans communicate, we rely on a vast background of unspoken assumptions. Everyone knows that “water is wet,” and “people want to be happy” and we assume everyone we…
I was ready to come to Amazon’s defense (and I will, eventually). In their long letter to the writing community, they made some excellent points. They inflamed our passions, gave…
Timista is an event-planning app that uses AI to power recommendations for things to do in London that can be realistically chained together, based on their proximity, timings and availability.
Media & Entertainment
The New TV Pilot Season: Bringing YouTube Stars, Channels And Bloggers To TV Screens
7:00 am PDT • August 9, 2014
Hollywood is in love with YouTube. Last year, DreamWorks Animation paid $33 million for YouTube channel AwesomenessTV, Warner Bros. invested $18 million in the YouTube channel Machinima and most recently,…
John McAfee In Crazytown
6:00 am PDT • August 9, 2014
“The press has portrayed me alternately as a mad genius or a mad psychotic genius,” began the infamous John McAfee, speaking at Def Con–and why break that streak now? I…
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11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want to Miss This Week (8/8)
5:00 am PDT • August 9, 2014
Here’s a recap of some of our top stories from 8/2 to 8/8. The public has scrutinized the success of standalone apps like Facebook Slingshot, Twitter Music, and Instagram Bolt, but most people don’t realize…
Disney Conquers Physics, Uses 3D Printing To Create Impossible Spinning Tops
8:05 pm PDT • August 8, 2014
Have you ever been sitting around bored and found yourself trying to get some random household object — a battery, a pen, whatever — to spin around like a top?…
Media & Entertainment
Female Entrepreneurs Want To Inspire Young Girls With Miss Possible
8:00 pm PDT • August 8, 2014
Looking around their engineering classes at the University of Illinois, Supriya Hobbs and Janna Eaves noticed something was missing — other girls. And so like good engineers, they set out…
One of the big subjects of discussion in the banking industry earlier this year was the publication of the Millennial Disruption Index, stating that millennials view banks as irrelevant and…
Tech Companies Praise The President For Speaking Out In Favor Of Net Neutrality
6:00 pm PDT • August 8, 2014
President Barack Obama spoke in favor of net neutrality this week, pushing back against the idea of paid prioritization, which many call Internet “fast lanes.” Following the president’s comments, a…
Middle Schoolers Learn About Startups By Launching Their Own
5:00 pm PDT • August 8, 2014
In the tech world, we’re used to seeing young entrepreneurs, from Mark Zuckerberg to Evan Spiegel. But not this young. A group of four middle schoolers from Torrance, California, spent…
Stellar, Uber, And The Rise Of Computational Trust
4:00 pm PDT • August 8, 2014
How do you feel about letting strangers into your home? Our homes act as a kind of sanctuary from the outside world, a highly personal and exclusive refuge. They should…
FCC Chairman Dismisses Verizon’s Defense Of Throttling High-Bandwidth Customers
3:01 pm PDT • August 8, 2014
Verizon announced in late July that it would start throttling the 4G data speeds of customers on unlimited data plans who are among the top 5 percent of their users…
Taking A Wait-And-See Approach With Disruptive Innovations
3:00 pm PDT • August 8, 2014
There’s been quite the brouhaha lately about disruptive innovation. On one side is Harvard Prof. Clay Christensen (author of The Innovator’s Dilemma) and his long-prevailing theory about how disruptive innovation…
CrunchWeek: Carpooling With Lyft And Uber, Twitch Cracks Down On Copyright, Foursquare’s New App
2:56 pm PDT • August 8, 2014
You know what goes great with a sunny summer Friday? A new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to shoot the breeze about the…
