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Around two weeks out from the purported release date of the technical preview of Windows 9, videos of the upcoming operating system have hit the Internet. German site WinFuture has released a…
A Random Walk Down Hardware Alley
6:19 pm PDT • September 14, 2014
Last week at TC Disrupt I took to the aisles of Hardware Alley armed with a microphone and a full glass of cold brew, highly potent Jittery Joe’s coffee. The…
Hardware
Up Close With The Tissot T-Touch Solar Expert, The Perennial Hiking Watch For Geeks
4:33 pm PDT • September 14, 2014
For years the Tissot T-Touch line has been Switzerland’s unique answer to the quartz hiking watch. While other manufacturers offered analog quartz pieces, Tissot has been the only company that…
A Tale Of Two Apps
2:32 pm PDT • September 14, 2014
Sometimes multiple apps adopt similar ideas and designs as part of some peculiar cultural zeitgeist. But things get murkier when ideas become shared and adopted by long-time friends riffing on…
Putting Smartphone Zombies In Their Place
10:24 am PDT • September 14, 2014
City planners are charged with designing cities for residents, from developing spaces for popular activities to balancing the needs of different constituencies. For planners in Chongqing, China, one of those…
Media & Entertainment
Places Is A Sharing Platform That Puts Privacy First
8:00 am PDT • September 14, 2014
Places is a privacy-centric startup that’s building a secure Dropbox-style platform for file sharing and messaging — but one that has end-to-end, client-side encryption built in. It’s currently launched in…
Mobile Payments Are Finally A Reality Thanks To Apple
6:00 pm PDT • September 13, 2014
A song lyric from “All That Jazz” comes to mind following Apple’s big announcement about mobile payments on Tuesday: “Everything old is new again.” Amid rumors and leaks surrounding the…
A Cambrian Explosion In AI Is Coming
4:00 pm PDT • September 13, 2014
You can call it a Virtual Personal Assistant, an Intelligent Agent, an Intelligent Interface or whatever you wish. We call it inevitable. The era of the assistant that began with…
Product Hunt Raises $6 Million From A16Z
3:58 pm PDT • September 13, 2014
Product Hunt, the aggregation site that many people consider a direct competitor to TechCrunch and other tech blogs due to its ability to surface new tech products and startups, has…
Here Are Clips From The First SiriusXM TechCrunch Radio Show
1:00 pm PDT • September 13, 2014
On Tuesday we launched our SiriusXM radio show, TechCrunch Radio, from Disrupt SF. Jordan Crook and John Biggs discussed the Apple Watch and did a startup pitch-off. Here are a…
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Media & Entertainment
Hey Microsoft, Acquiring A Hit Game Is Stupid
12:32 pm PDT • September 13, 2014
Buying a game company is like buying an aging baseball player. You’ll need a miracle to get another hit. And while they might have plenty of fans, they probably aren’t…
Considering how important proprietary deal flow has become as a tool for differentiation within venture capital, it’s surprising that more VCs aren’t shopping in the South. They simply aren’t looking…
Startups
PopKey’s iOS 8 Launch Will Replace Written Language With The Expressive Art Of The GIF
11:30 am PDT • September 13, 2014
We’re on the verge of a linguistic revolution, made possible by the fact that Apple has opened up its iOS operating system to allow third-party keyboards. One of the first…
Startups
Sailo Is A Marketplace Connecting Boats, Captains And Renters
11:00 am PDT • September 13, 2014
If you think boating sounds vaguely appealing but you’ve never actually made it out on the water, a New York City startup called Sailo aims to help. It’s not the…
Gillmor Gang: AppleJacked
10:00 am PDT • September 13, 2014
The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Benedict Evans, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. It’s three days later and I’m still going back and forth over which iPhone to…
Colorado High Schooler Invents Smart Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint
9:00 am PDT • September 13, 2014
Colorado has a history with gun violence so it’s only appropriate that 17-year-old Kai Kloepfer, a high school student from Boulder, would want to apply biometric user authentication to firearms.…
Technologists’ Duty Can Go Beyond For-Profit Industries
9:00 am PDT • September 13, 2014
Early last year, I wrote an article explaining how our team views the concept of duty for leaders in the technology ecosystem. We believe that this duty involves looking beyond…
11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
8:38 am PDT • September 13, 2014
It’s been an exciting week for us here at TechCrunch with the Hackathon, Disrupt SF and Apple’s product launch all taking place within a few days. Here are 11 of our best stories from…
The Music Industry Is About To Change, And Apple And U2 Are Just The Beginning
7:00 am PDT • September 13, 2014
Of all industry roller coasters, the music industry must be the wildest. The last 30 years reshaped the business in a way we never could have imagined. Music as a…
Twitter’s Huge Mistake
6:00 am PDT • September 13, 2014
The worst tech news I read last week was: “Twitter CFO says a Facebook-style filtered feed is coming, whether you like it or not.” The horrified firestorm of condemnation that…
