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Gillmor Gang: Toy Story
10:02 am PDT • May 9, 2015
The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 8, 2015. My Watch finally shipped, MacBook Nirvana, and @Scobleizer’s Oculus…
Startups
Brooklyn On Tech Helps Local High Schoolers Learn Coding And Professional Skills
9:33 am PDT • May 9, 2015
TechCrunch TV talked to a long list of New York startups during Disrupt NY, but we were also joined by a local nonprofit called Brooklyn on Tech. As co-founders Jessica…
Peter Thiel Is Wrong About Lean Startups
8:00 am PDT • May 9, 2015
Before I dive into the many ways that Peter Thiel gets the lean methodology as wrong as a glowing review of 50 Shades of Grey, let me say this: He…
13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
7:08 am PDT • May 9, 2015
We’re back from Disrupt NY, where we stayed up all night for the Hackathon, conducted numerous on-stage interviews with tech figures and heard from hundreds of startups on the products…
Can You Fear Me Now?
6:00 am PDT • May 9, 2015
I write to you from Aqaba, Jordan, a town made famous when conquered by “Lawrence of Arabia” and Faisal al-Hashimi 99 years ago, at a confluence where today four nations…
This Week On The TechCrunch Bitcoin Podcast: The Winklevii Double Down On Bitcoin
4:31 pm PDT • May 8, 2015
Hello dear friends, and welcome back to another episode of TCBTC, TechCrunch’s kinda-weekly bitcoin podcast. This time around the Skype booth, main host John Biggs and myself dug into the…
CrunchWeek: Dollars, Beers, Oculus, And New York
4:22 pm PDT • May 8, 2015
[tc_aol_on code=”518810656″] Hello from far-too-hot New York City, where Jonathan Shieber, Ingrid Lunden, and myself found a few chairs, a few beers, and a few topics to dig into as…
Startups
SimCity Creator Will Wright’s New App Wants To Create A Graphic Novel Of Your LIfe
4:00 pm PDT • May 8, 2015
The creator of SimCity, Will Wright, has come out with a new app called THRED — and it isn’t a game. Instead, Wright describes it as a natively built way…
This week we’re happy to have survived TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 intact, so we talked a bit about how the Apple Watch seemed to make that process a lot easier…
Immediately, a startup building mobile tools for salespeople, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in funding. Here’s the pitch, from the funding release: “We believe the future of…
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 05.08.15
1:06 pm PDT • May 8, 2015
Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Kevin MArks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Chat during LIVE show recording session Gillmor Gang on…
The CHIP Is A $9 Computer That Can Almost Do It All
1:01 pm PDT • May 8, 2015
If you need a computer about the size of a credit card, look no further. The CHIP is a $9 single-board computer that runs Linux and can do just about…
Storm Ventures has joined nearly every other startup capital entity in raising a new, larger fund. Storm’s fifth fund is a $180 million vehicle that the firm has stapled a…
If you’d like to dip your toe into the virtual world ahead of the coming consumer launches of Gear VR, Valve and HTC’s Vive, and the Oculus Rift, the Gear…
AI Project Designed To Recognize Scenes Surprises By Identifying Objects, Too
9:28 am PDT • May 8, 2015
In this week’s edition of ‘omg the machines are on the verge of sentience,’ we bring you news of a research project out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence…
Under the guise of “high-g quadcopter training” the folks at ETH Zurich have tethered multiple drones to a central pole and are teaching them to do 50 km/h accelerations of…
Dog carts are common but clunky. These little carts, attached to disabled dogs via straps and webbing, are often expensive and rarely cool. Now, however, you can get your disabled…
Yahoo announced this week that it’s adding support for Apple Watch analytics to its free mobile analytics service Flurry, which the company acquired last year. For those developers who are…
How Silicon Valley And Washington Can Come Together
8:00 am PDT • May 8, 2015
As technology permeates nearly every aspect of our lives, it has become an increasingly political topic. On one hand, Washington and Silicon Valley have seemingly never been closer with recent…
Amazon’s delivery drone plans may have seemed more like a media stunt than a concrete vision back when it launched, but with active testing taking place in Canada and now,…
