Matthew Panzarino
Matthew Panzarino has been a professional photographer, hobbyist chef, hardware tinkerer, independent Apple blogger, Managing Editor at The Next Web and now Co-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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Nest Halts Sales Of Protect Smoke Alarm Over Safety Concerns About ‘Wave To Dismiss’ Feature
Nest CEO Tony Fadell has just issued a notice recommending users disable the Protect smoke alarm's 'wave to dismiss' feature. In testing, it was discovered that people could accidentally trigger the dismiss feature, delaying a smoke alarm. 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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Facebook Buys A Virtual World
Today, in somewhat of a surprise move, Facebook purchased virtual reality company Oculus VR. The purchase elicited visceral reactions from people dismayed that Oculus sold out so early to snarky comments about what Facebook might do with it. Read More
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Facebook To Buy Oculus VR, Maker Of The Rift Headset, For Around $2B In Cash And Stock
Facebook has announced plans to purchase Oculus VR, the company behind the Rift headset, for around $2B in cash and stock. This includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million shares of Facebook common stock. 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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The Secret Bubble
There are a couple of kinds of ‘bubbles’ that we talk about in tech. The most prominent is the ‘money bubble’, which posits that companies and investors are riding a wave of faux optimism when it comes to the worth of technology. This is the other kind. 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
