Addiction can be a difficult thing to see. From outward appearances, Dr. Zoe Chance looked fine. A professor at the Yale School of Management with a doctorate from Harvard, Chance's pedigree made what
Mrinal Desai, founder and CEO of Addappt, is betting that people need a better way to keep their cell phone contact information up to date. Addappt, a smartphone app — iOS and Android — sy
Kids today have pretty much had their entire lives on public display from the time their mother posted their first embryo shot on Facebook. And currently there’s no way in the US to erase yours
My highest score on Dots — the original Dots — is 414. I achieved this respectable, albeit relatively average, score about a year ago, just after Dots was first released. When I open up th
If you’re an entrepreneur in the Austin or Seattle areas, pay close attention. You have exactly one weekend to complete your application to compete in the TC Pitch-Offs, where a few lucky startu
Building a successful security software company is notoriously hard to get right over the long haul. Computer security is a fast-moving target. You still need anti-virus software, for instance, but it
Google has officially confirmed that it received 12,000 requests to be forgotten from EU citizens on the first day that it offered the ability to do so, according to a report from the AFP. The request
The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor — grow more and more convinced that Apple is in for a good time this fall. The blending of streaming with d
Anger can be a deeply chilling emotion when coursing through politics, and we have witnessed our fair share of it over the past few years. In San Francisco, we watched as protesters blocked buses, bro
Silicon Valley, at its best, is a kind of insurgency. Most of the world is ruled by dinosaur bureaucrats; but as software eats the world, Valley misfits and iconoclasts, armed with razor-edge tech and
Lomography makes weird cameras that take weird pictures - on purpose. The New York-based company is famous for their work at rebuilding old fixed-focus camera styles that produced photographs that wer
MIT researcher Daniela Rus wants to help you bake a robot. Not out of cake batter, silly (although that would be delicious.) Instead, Rus’ project involves cutting out and “printing”
In a small lab, near a lake at the edge of West Berkeley, sits the prototype of what could revolutionize battery power as we know it. The secret to this power? Algae.
OK, just hang with me here. Lo
It’s been a good week for space travel. Just last night, SpaceX unveiled the Dragon V2 — their very first spacecraft capable for carrying astronauts (as opposed to just cargo) to the stars. Th
A bill introduced to the House of Representatives on Wednesday evening by Rep. Bob Latta would "limit" the FCC's ability to regulate the telecom industry by prohibiting it from classifying broadband a
OoberDocs, a neat little tool built and presented at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon, has expanded its feature set to include support for Google Drive. The service, which puts a copy of all incomi
Online artists’ community <a target="_blank" href="http://www.deviantart.com">deviantART</a> is hoping to <a target="_blank" href="http://heidi.deviantart.com/journal/deviantART-is-applying-to-manag
In case you had missed it, today is Friday, which means it’s time for another spin of the round table as Colleen Taylor, Ryan Lawler and myself sat down to dig into what happened this past week.
E-invoicing platform Tradeshift has landed a partnership with a company that processes transactions for the UK’s NHS, one of the biggest public-sector bodies in the world. The NHS Shared Business S
Another day, another bipedal robot that will eventually run you down and crush you! This new robot, called the Raptor, can run 26 miles an hour without falling over and even jump over obstacles.
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