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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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
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April Fools’ 2014: The Round-Up Of The Best
It’s that time of year again, friends. The day when “up” becomes “down”, lies become truth, dogs become people, and when the Internet becomes a liiiittle bit unbearable for a day or so. It’s April Fools’ Day! Yay. As is something of a tradition around these parts, we’re keeping a big running list of the best (/worst?) of today’s gags from… Read More
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Homestar Runner Springs Back From The Dead, Releases New Stuff For The First Time In Four Years
♫Everybody. EVERYBOOOODY!♫ Homestar Runner, the site that introduced an entire generation of kids to wasting all of their time on the Internet, has been updated for the first time in four years. Read More
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Google’s Pokémon Challenge Asks You To Prove You’re The Very Best, Like No One Ever Was
Do you want to be the very best? Like no one ever was? Google wants you to prove it. At least, they would in a world where April Fools jokes were real and companies weren't allowed to tug at our heart strings with pretend commercials for games that we'd actually totally play... Read More
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How Dropbox Knows When You’re Sharing Copyrighted Stuff (Without Actually Looking At Your Stuff)
Late last night, a tweet was spread far and wide showing that a DMCA notice had blocked a file from being shared on a Dropbox user's account. What was going on? Was Dropbox suddenly doing something sketchy? Were they suddenly lurking around their users folders, digging for copyrighted material hiding amongst personal files? Nope. The system is neither new, nor sketchy. It's been in place for… Read More
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Valve’s VR Expert Michael Abrash Joins Oculus As Chief Scientist
After Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, many were worried that Oculus’ top talent — many of whom are industry/VR pioneers — would leave out of spite. Seems quite the opposite is happening. Michael Abrash — the man largely responsible for leading Valve’s recent charge into Virtual Reality — has just joined Oculus as its Chief Scientist. Abrash… Read More
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New Android Handsets Will Need “Powered By Android” Logo To Get Google Play, Gmail, Etc.
For better or worse, Samsung, HTC, and the rest of the Android manufacturing lot just looove to mess with the way Google’s OS looks and feels. So much so, in fact, that the OS sometimes stops looking like Android at all. Seemingly annoyed by the lack of credit where credit is due, Google has started asking manufacturers to show a “Powered By Android” logo at startup. According to… Read More
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Oculus Hack Uses Cameras And Music To Mess With Your Perception
By being open to indie developers and relatively cheap, the Oculus Rift has done something that no VR headset has done before it: encouraged experimentation. This crazy augmented reality perception experiment, for example? Yeah, it probably wouldn't have happened with those old headsets. Read More
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Japan’s New Alert System Will Warn Mobile Users Of Incoming Missiles, Terror Attacks
It’s hard to imagine a more terrifying text message than one that reads “Incoming ballistic missile detected. Please find shelter.” Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency announced this morning that their alert system — similar to the one you might’ve seen lately for broadcasting AMBER alerts to your phone in the U.S. — will now automatically warn… Read More
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Threes’ Creators Publish An Epic Work Log To Show How Frustrating It Is To Be Cloned
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right? Not really. That’s just something that people like to say without really thinking about, because it sounds nice and makes them feel better. Kind of like saying “there’s no such thing as bad press.” when of-freaking-course there is. In reality, being imitated can be crushing — especially when your thing thats being… Read More
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A Brief History Of Oculus
Less than two years ago, Oculus raised 2.5 million dollars on Kickstarter. Yesterday, they were acquired by Facebook for $2 billion. Oculus has definitely generated its fair share of buzz in its short lifespan — yet many people are hearing about them for the first time this week. For them, and for those who might've missed some details along the way, here's Oculus' story so far. Read More
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Facebook’s New “Tweaks” Library Lets Developers Fine-Tune Their iOS Apps On The Fly
Let’s say you’re building an iOS app. Your iOS app has lots of little animations, and you (or your designers) want to get the timing on those animations just right. Should that fancy expanding-drawer effect take half a second, or three-fourths of a second? Normally, a developer would take a guess at the timing that seems right, compile their app, test, change, recompile, rinse, lather… Read More
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HP: That Big 3D Printing Announcement In June? Never mind!
Remember last week, when HP CEO Meg Whitman casually mentioned the company’s plans to make a “big technology announcement” about 3D printing some time in June? Whoops! Looks like she spoke a bit too early. While HP is still looking to make some mysterious 3D printing announcement, they’re quietly backpedaling on the whole “in June” thing. The good news: whatever… Read More
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Pushbullet Instantly Blasts Alerts From Your Android Phone To Your Computer
Bzzzt. Your phone vibrates. The problem? It's across the room. Maybe it's a text. Maybe someone just liked your Facebook photo. Maybe some dumb game wants to remind you to buy fake food for your fake cat. You better go check, or curiosity is going to drive you up the wall. With Pushbullet, that notification — whatever it may have been — would have gone straight to your monitor. Read More
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Sony’s Advantage
Oculus didn't invent virtual reality — but they sure as hell made people care about it again. As of this week, however, they no longer stand alone in their arena. Sony has decided they want to play the VR game too — and they've got at least one huge, not-so-obvious advantage. Read More
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The Awesome Easter Egg In Sergey Brin’s Old Resume
The best part of Sergey Brin's mid-90s resume is tucked away somewhere the casual observer generally wouldn't think to look: the source code. Read More
