death
What happens to your crypto when you die?
As the crypto industry matures, one consideration often left ignored is estate planning for your assets when you pass.
Empathy raises $30M for a personal assistant that helps with the practical and emotional process of bereavement
Death is one of the hardest things to cope with in life, both from an emotional and organizational standpoint. And what’s worse is that the latter of these is inevitably compounded by the fact t
Empathy emerges from stealth with $13M for a digital assistant aimed at bereaved families
Death, despite being one of the most inevitable of life’s events, can also be one of the most complicated and problematic. Fraught with emotional and religious complexities, for many families it
Facebook is introducing a new ‘Tributes’ section for memorialized accounts
Facebook is rolling out a new feature for memorialized accounts that will allow people to leave messages in a Tributes section that is separate from the rest of the profile’s timeline. Depending on
Wondery wants to become Hollywood’s podcast dream factory
When Hernan Lopez, the former chief executive of Fox International, started the podcast network Wondery roughly two years ago with a seed investment from his former bosses at Fox Networks Group, podca
Google’s New Inactive Account Manager Gives You Control Over Your Digital Afterlife
What will happen to your Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google+ accounts after you die? That’s probably not something you really want to think about, but as more and more of our data now lives
Google Reader’s Death Is Proof That RSS Always Suffered From Lack Of Consumer Appeal
The idea of RSS was one that never quite gripped with normal Internet users. Sure, for us geeks who absolutely love consuming as much information as possible, RSS is a wonderland. When Google launched
Man dies playing Wii Fit
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/wii-fit-board2_1123147f.jpg">In another example of out-of-control electronic violence, another good man was been struck dead thanks to vi
What happens to your online presence when you die in real life?
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/wowdeath.jpg" />So here's a weird question for y'all: what happens when you die? More specifically, what happens to the “online version
Bury me with my BlackBerry, please
“No, don’t recycle my BlackBerry — put it in my coffin with me.” Noelle Potvin, family service counselor for a funeral home and cemetery in Hollywood, California, is noticing a
Better a dead Symbian than an open one
Livin’ on the high end. TheRegister makes an interesting point: Symbian is dead. Once Nokia bought and decided to open-source it you can be certain that it will end up in low-end, developing mar
Video: How should Mario die?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mED07-sgC3w&hl=en] Happy Monday, Readers! I hope the weekend treated you well with some hard earned rest and relaxation. I thought we’d start off wit
Australia's 'green' graveyard uses GPS to find graves
Now the environmentally conscious can continue their quest to clean up this dump we call Earth by requesting to be buried near Lismore Memorial Park Cemetery in the Northern Rivers region of Australia
Professor: The iPhone will destroy the Internet!
I’m an expert when it comes to cellphones and wireless devices of all kinds. I write about them and the technologies they utilize every single day. That being said, I’m no professor. Jonat
Get the last laugh by insisting that your family send your ashes to the moon for $10,000
Funerals are expensive. To my family and friends; I’d rather my funeral have an open bar, a band, and a gigantic velvet painting of me than an open casket and a bunch of people crying. I’d
Today is Netscape Navigator's last day; Pour one out for our homie
[photopress:netscape_1.jpg,full,center] It’s a sad day for the Internet, as today marks the final day of Netscape Navigator, the first mass market graphical Webrowser and the precursor to our fa
Study: Cell phone radiation affects protein expression
Here it is, your daily dose of semi-rational fear. A bunch of females (two Jettas full) had a patch of skin exposed to an hour of 900MHz radiation from GSM phones. The researchers then checked out ski
DVI slowly going the way of the buffalo
Omigosh DVI, I can’t believe you’re leaving already. You JUST got here! Stick around for a bit, huh? I won’t miss your prohibitively expensive cables and the constant fear of pending
Pleo dies
Ugobe, into your hands I commend my spirit. It is finished. This big nasty men at DVICE posted a video of them abusing and eventually killing their Pleo dinosaur. The video is horrible. They choke the
Update: Cellphones won't explode burning you and your family alive
Remember yesterday we brought you news of a Korean man who owned an LG cellphone that exploded and killed him? Ok, it wasn’t the phone, it was something else. We’re still not sure what, bu