Greg Kumparak
Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008.
Greg was born just outside of San Jose, and now lives in the East Bay of California.
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Samsung’s Galaxy S5 Can Be Tricked By The Same Lifted Fingerprint Hack As The iPhone 5S
Remember back in September when a couple of researchers figured out how to bypass the iPhone 5S' fingerprint lock with a fancy fake rubber finger? Turns out, the fingerprint sensor on Samsung's new Galaxy S5 falls victim to the very same trick. They didn't even have to make a new mold. Read More
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Microsoft Rolls Out The April Xbox One Update — Here’s What’s Inside
Do you have an Xbox One? It’s update time! Get excited! Well, not too excited. Moderately excited. Like the last few monthly updates, this month’s patch is mostly meant to bring in features that aren’t so much oh-my-god brand new as they are things that were surprisingly absent after the jump from Xbox 360 to Xbox One. Read More
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The Most Overused Startup Pitch Becomes A Super Rare Cards Against Humanity Card
"Let me tell you about my new startup. It's basically [some popular startup] but for [some completely unrelated thing]." If you've ever been to any startup event, you've probably heard it 14 thousand times. Now it's a Cards Against Humanity black card. The bad news? You'll probably never see the card in person, because it's crazy rare. Read More
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How Much Time Have You Killed In Front Of Your TV? This Tool Tells You
Do you ever wonder how much of your life you've spent watching TV shows? It's probably a lot. But how much? Two week's worth? A month? This tool crunches the numbers for you. Read More
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Apple Nabs Itself A Renewable Power Plant Project in Oregon
Apple’s been on a bit of a buying spree lately. Embark! Cue! Burstly! If you had to guess the next thing Apple would take under its wing, what would it be? If you guessed “a hydroelectric power project in Central Oregon”, you’d be right! You’d also be a weirdly specific guesser. OregonLive reports that Apple has taken over the efforts to complete a hydroelectric plant… Read More
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Reddit Starts Listing Trending Subreddits To Get More Users Into Its Smaller Communities
Subreddits are, perhaps, reddit’s biggest strength. Introduced in 2008, they’re a huge part of the reason why the site rose to popularity, and why that popularity has yet to taper off. Want a community for something you like? Build a subreddit. Don’t like the current popular subreddit for that thing? Screw it, build a new one. Anyone can build one — and as long as the… Read More
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Amazon Acquires Digital Comic Book Store Comixology
Amazon has just announced that they will acquire comiXology, a service that offers digital versions of comics from Marvel, DC, and many others. If you’ve never used it, it’s probably easiest to think of comiXology as a sort of iTunes/Kindle Store for comic books. You buy a comic through their online store, then read it either on the web or through the company’s iOS/Android apps. Read More
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Aereo Plans To Launch Chromecast Support On May 29th
Despite being in the middle of a battle to convince the Supreme Court that their service isn’t illegal, Aereo rolls on. In case you’ve missed it: Aereo rents HDTV antennas to cordcutters for $8 a month to let them view and record live TV from their phones, tablets, and computers. The antenna stays at Aereo’s HQ, and all of the video data is piped to users across the Internet. Read More
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NYC’s Flatiron School Raises $5.5 Million To Teach People To Code For A Living
Can you teach someone to code well enough to do it for a living in just 12 weeks? NYC’s Flatiron School thinks so — and with around 98% of their students finding paid development gigs after the program, they might just be right. They’ve just raised $5.5M to keep the ball rolling. Like many a “bootcamp”-style course that has sprung up in the last 3 or 4 years, the… Read More
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Google Seems To Be Considering Doing More With Chromecast’s Home Screen
Note: Not an actual screenshot; just a mockup of what the weather icons could look like in practice While I’ve been a fan of the Chromecast since the beginning, I find myself using it more and more lately. During the work day, I end up using it for all of the random videos I want to watch but that I don’t want taking up my laptop’s screen space or taking my full attention. As… Read More
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Google Delays I/O Registration By A Week At The Last Minute
If you were planning to wake up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to get your name into the running for a Google I/O ticket as early as possible (not that timing matters, given that it's a roulette this year): feel free to cancel that alarm. Google has just announced that its pushing back I/O registration by a week from its originally scheduled date, from April 8th to April 15th. The reason? The… Read More
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Xbox One Will Be Able To Upload Game Recordings Straight To YouTube Starting Tomorrow
You’ve just pulled of a truly epic, one-in-a-million shot in Titanfall. Your team is going nuts. Everyone on the opposing team is calling you a hacker. This is why you play games. “Xbox, record that!” you yell, saving the last 30 seconds of gameplay to the console’s hard drive forever. Now… how to share it with the world? Up ’til now, getting the clip online… Read More
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Crazy Oculus Game Has One Player Defuse A Bomb While Everyone Else Shouts Instructions
Aaaand in this weekend’s edition of “Crazy Games Made Possible By Virtual Reality”: here’s Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. The premise: you and everyone in the room are part of a bomb disposal team. You’ve found a bomb that is already ticking down, and you’re preparing to defuse it… but you need help. One player, wearing an Oculus Rift, is responsible… Read More
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5-Year Old Kid Finds A Security Exploit On The Xbox One, Gets A Researcher Credit
I thought I was a pretty clever kid when I was 5. Other kids ate boogers; I didn't. Do you know how many gold stars I had? All the gold stars. One thing I didn't have, though: an acknowledgement from Microsoft for finding a security vulnerability. This kid does. Read More
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Egomotion Raises $750K From Android’s Co-Founder And Others To Make Your Smartphone Smarter
Back in November, I wrote about an Android app called Agent. Agent uses your phone’s myriad sensors to make your Android smartphone just a wee bit smarter. It’ll detect when you’re driving, and automatically respond to texts to let people know you can’t type right now. During the hours you normally sleep, it’ll auto silence your phone (but still give people a way to… Read More
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Unreal Engine 4 Gets Support For Making Linux And SteamOS Games
Unreal Engine 4, the newest version of the game engine that powers many a AAA gaming title, just got a feature that may prove quite important in the near feature: the ability to build games that run on Linux. Read More
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Google Is Reportedly Testing A Snooze Button (And More!) For Gmail
An email comes in. It’s important. Not like, oh-god-drop-everything-or-we’ll-all-die important, but it’s something you should probably answer. But you’ve got stuff to do right now, so you don’t. “I’ll answer this tomorrow,” you tell yourself. By tomorrow, the email has dropped down to the bottom of your inbox, replaced by 100 way less important… Read More
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Nokia Announces Three New Lumia Phones: Two Cheap, One Not-So-Cheap
Microsoft is just cramming this first day of its Build conference with news. New Windows 8.1! Royalty-free Windows for phone makers! The return of the start menu! And now? Not one, not two, but three new Windows Phone-powered Nokia Lumia phones. With these new phones — the Lumia 630, 635, and 930 — Microsoft is trying to cover its bases at both ends of the market. Read More
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Twitter Now Lets You Easily Search For Tweets By Date Range
Quick! What were people tweeting about last April Fool’s day? Up until now, this was actually kind of a hard thing to answer. Even in Twitter’s Advanced Search page, there was no obvious way to limit your search by a specific date range. Now there is. The weird part? You actually could do this before. It was just kind of a pain, and not at all user friendly. You had to be quite… Read More
