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U.K. ISPs Agree To Do More To Filter Extremist Content Online
The U.K. government’s latest crack down on terrorism is once again focusing on the digital sphere, with Prime Minister David Cameron announcing that major Internet companies have agreed to do…
Logitech Keys-To-Go Review: Finally, An iPad Keyboard I Can See Myself Using Long-Term
Logitech has been building iPad keyboards for years – they were among the first to recognize the value of doing so, in fact. But for all their experience, and various…
PhotoShrinker Lets You Quickly Free Up Space On Your Smartphone
For those struggling with smartphones that seem to be constantly running out of storage space, a new application called PhotoShrinker can help. The app lets you free up space on your iPhone…
Skype Web Beta Means You Can Start Chatting Without Installations Or Plug-Ins
Update: Good news! Skype says that Chrome on Chromebooks and non-Windows platforms can use Skype for Web for instant messaging, but not yet for voice and video because the plugin hasn’t…
Kindle Software Update Lets You Share Your Amazon Library With A Partner And More
Kindle has a new update rolling out to its Kindle e-reader device hardware, which includes new features for the latest Kindle, Kindle Voyage and Kindle Paperwhite devices. The update includes…
7 IT Startups That Will Change How Businesses Innovate In 2015
IT is going through a renaissance right now. New products and services are released every month that dramatically change how we can develop products and manage our IT shops. Innovation…
Our future robot overlords could have feline cunning and cat-like reflexes thanks in part to research being conducted at Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing.
Mobile Game Firm Gumi Announces December 18 IPO In Japan At A $900M Valuation
Japanese mobile game-maker Gumi has announced that it will list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange next month, ending months of speculation over its future.
U.S. Authorities Are Reportedly Gathering Phone Data Using Fake Celltowers On Planes
the Wall Street Journal published a report claiming that the The U.S. Justice Department is “snagging a large number of innocent Americans'” mobile phone data as part of technology that…
Peach Is A Flash Sales App With An Auction-Based Twist
There are already a gabazillion flash sale sites and apps available, but the Berkeley, California-based founders of Peach App believe that there is still room for innovation in the world…
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Mind Candy Reports Losses As Moshi Fades And It Pins Hopes On Warriors
As was widely predicted after Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters smash-hit game failed to make the shift from Web to mobile in any meaningful way — apart from a few cursory…
Say Media Is Selling Off Its Content Sites, Including ReadWrite and xoJane
Say Media owns sites like xoJane, ReadWrite, and Fashionista — but the company doesn’t plan to own them for much longer. CEO Matt Sanchez told Digiday that the company will…
SXSW Wants More Control Over Downtown Austin And Permit Limits On Unofficial Events
The free alcohol may not flow so abundantly at SXSW 2015. Event organizers have asked the city of Austin to cut down on the amount of permits it hands out to…
Sintratec Is Going To Build The First Sintering Desktop 3D Printer
A Swiss company called Sintratec is planning to release the world’s first sintering 3D printer for the desktop. Sintering, which is the process of building a 3D object by shooting…
Ex-Reddit CEO Wanted To Move The Company To Daly City Instead Of SF [Updated]
As we detailed this morning, Reddit CEO Yishan Wong has resigned from the company after what Y Combinator President Sam Altman called a “disagreement with the board” about the location…
The Prynt Case Turns Your Smartphone Into A Polaroid Camera
Hot off of their Haxlr8r demo day presentation last week, hardware startup Prynt was nice enough to drop by TechCrunch HQ to show off the latest prototypes of their smartphones…
With Advanced Warfare, Activision is taking the extremely successful Call of Duty mostly to places it’s already been, which is to say this is a game about war, shooting, explosions…
TubeMogul Soars 14% After Reporting Strong Q3 Revenue Of $27.4M, Smaller-Than-Expected Loss
Rising nearly 6 percent in regular trading, TubeMogul spiked 16 percent in after-hours trading after reporting better-than-expected revenue, profit and guidance.
NSA Surveillance Faces Senate Test
The United States Senate could vote on the USA FREEDOM Act as soon as next week, pushing the surveillance reform bill ahead this year. That would buck prior conventional wisdom…
Reddit CEO Resigns, Alexis Ohanian Returns As Chairman
If there’s one constant in life, it’s change, and the fourth quarter of 2014 has brought quite a bit of change for Reddit, the massively popular aggregation site that could.…