Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino has been a professional photographer, hobbyist chef, hardware tinkerer, independent Apple blogger, Managing Editor at The Next Web and now Senior Editor at TechCrunch.
He has made a name for himself in the tech media world as a writer relentlessly covering Apple and Twitter, in addition to a broad range of startups.
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Yahoo Acquisitions Power Flickr’s New Object Recognition Search, Editing And Video Capture
Today, Yahoo launches new Flickr apps for Android (and iOS coming soon.) They include the ability to shoot video in the apps, or upload it directly. There is also better search, more detailed statistics for individual photos and a redesigned interface that’s had a lot of the crap scraped off of the interface to present you with Read More
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Anki Drive Expands Its Robotics Expertise With New Cars, Tracks, And AI
There are a couple of things that differentiate Anki from any other robotics company. First, it's the only one I know of to launch on an Apple keynote stage, with an introduction from Tim Cook. Second, it's one of a select few that's actually advancing the robotics industry by building toys — not industrial equipment. Read More
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Veteran Apple Designer Greg Christie Departs As Jony Ive’s Role Grows
Apple has confirmed the exit of long-time iOS designer Greg Christie, who was a Vice President in Apple's design department. Read More
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Twitter’s Vine Introduces Direct Video Messaging
Twitter's Vine has introduced a feature that allows you to message other users directly via video. This adds both a direct messaging channel and video clips to its messages, a big addition to Twitter's video app. There is a direct parallel to be drawn here between Instagram's Direct image messaging feature, obviously — and it goes hand in hand with Twitter's renewed interest in its direct… Read More
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IFTTT Gets An iPad App, Curated Recipe Collections And Native Notifications
Today, the Internet glue service IFTTT gets an iPad app to complement its offerings on the iPhone and the web. You can also now use native push notifications in your recipes, and collections of recipes have gotten much more exposure. Read More
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Lumoid Wants To Rent You A Camera Now, And Everything Later
Aarthi Ramamurthy is standing outside of her building talking to her first paying customer, and she’s about to make a product decision. She’s shipped him a camera across country overnight on a rental program, and he’s so in love with it that he wants to buy one from her. He’s wondering if he can apply his rental fee towards the purchase of the camera. Read More
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Apple Continues To Flesh Out iWork Apps After Aggressively Culling Features
Apple has updated its iWork apps for iOS, Mac and iCloud beta with a bunch of improvements and additional sharing options today. There's a bunch of new features but one of the nicer ones is the addition of 'read-only' sharing of iWork documents. Read More
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Meet Astro Teller, Head Of Moonshots At Google’s Project X Lab
Astro Teller has your dream job, currently serving as the Captain of Moonshots at the Google[x] lab. There, he dreams and creates things like Google Glass, smart contact lenses, balloons that bring the Internet to the most remote regions, and many other seemingly impossible projects he and his team hope will one day become reality. Read More
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Twitter Adds People Tagging And Multiple Photo Sharing To Tweets
Twitter has announced a couple of additions to its image offerings today, including the ability to tag up to 10 people in a photo without using any precious characters up. You’ll also now be able to attach up to four photos to a tweet, and Twitter will automatically craft a collage for you. The people-tagging feature will undoubtedly offer Twitter a way to increase the density of its social… Read More
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The Sweet Irony Of Popcorn Time
The absolutely lovely irony with Popcorn Time is that it's doing for the distribution of pirated movies exactly what the movie industry needs to do for itself. Read More
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Medium Launches Simple iPhone App That’s Just For Reading
Blogging platform Medium has released a simple app for the iPhone that allows users to read articles from the site. They're presented as a feed that's recommended for you automatically, though articles that have been recommended by people you follow feature their mug shot next to the title. Read More
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Tesla Evaluating ‘Judicial Remedies’ To Oppose Direct Sales Ban In New Jersey
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has taken to the company blog today to oppose a ruling by the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission that it would no longer be able to sell directly to customers. The ban was put into place utilizing a law designed to protect franchise owners from outside pressures by car manufacturers. Read More
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Apple Continues Pursuit Of IT And Education With Improvements To Its ‘Secret’ Loyalty Pricing
Late last week, Apple quietly updated its loyalty pricing program with several improvements that should drive more sales to organizations, IT pros and education. Read More
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In Wake Of TestFlight’s Acquisition By Apple, Twitter’s Crashlytics Launches Beta Beta App Distribution Tool
Crashlytics, the testing and analytics company that was acquired by Twitter last year, is firing up a new beta distribution tool. The timing is pretty on-point as one of the major two players in the business — TestFlight — was just acquired by Apple along with its parent analytics company Burstly. Read More
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Apple Makes Big Improvements In iOS Management Tools For Enterprise And Education
Apple has been busy in the IT department. Today, it released a slew of improvements and alterations to its large-scale deployment tools for education and enterprise customers. Some of the tweaks get way out in the weeds of deployment strategies, so they’ll only be really exciting for the actual pros who deal with this stuff. But the big picture is that Apple is looking to make deployments at… Read More
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Here’s An Actual 3D Indoor Map Of A Room Captured With Google’s Project Tango Phone
We broke the news yesterday that Google was producing a prototype 3D sensing smartphone called Project Tango. We also broke down the capabilities of the vision processor inside the device and talked about what it means for the future of phones. Read More
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Inside The Revolutionary Computer Vision Chip At The Heart Of Google’s Project Tango Phone
At the core of Google’s freshly announced experimental Project Tango smartphone platform is a vision processor called the Myriad 1, manufactured by chip startup Movidius and its CEO Remi El-Ouazzane. The chip is being used by Google’s Advanced Technology And Projects Group, retained in the Motorola split, to enable developers to access computer vision processing never before seen on a… Read More
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Facebook Buying WhatsApp For $19B, Will Keep The Messaging Service Independent
Facebook is purchasing messaging giant WhatsApp for $16 billion in cash and stock, according to a regulatory filing. The deal is being cut for $12 billion in Facebook shares, $4 billion in cash and an additional $3 billion in RSUs for employee retention. A termination fee is attached to the deal that would cost Facebook $1 billion in cash and $1 billion in shares if the deal fails to pass… Read More
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Secret To Launch A Bug Bounty Program As Soon As Today
Today, for a brief time, a post on the secret sharing app Secret and an image on Twitter caused a twinge in the cockles of every user’s heart. The image appeared to indicate that your email — and therefore your identity — could be tied to your Secret posts. Given that the vast majority of posts on Secret are stuff that would end up being really, really awkward to explain to… Read More
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Kickstarter Wins The 2013 Crunchie For “Best Overall Startup” By Leveling The Maker Playing Field
It’s not often that a startup changes the way the world works, but Kickstarter has done just that. The crowdfunding site had a banner 2013 and has won the Best Overall Startup award at this year’s Crunchies. The category was packed with strong contenders. CloudFlare is a silent partner to the modern content delivery system of the Internet. Snapchat is a young but powerful entry into… Read More
