Top Stories of the Day // August 19, 2014

	Today's Top Stories // Aug 19, 2014 Sarah Perez Tom Hanks’ Typewriter App Shoots To The Top Of The App Store read more Natasha Lomas Finally A Smarter Lightbulb That Doesn’t Require An App To Control It There's plentiful choice if you're after a connected, energy efficient lightbulb that's controlled with your phone. There's LIFX, Philips Hue, Brightup, LuMini,... read more Ingrid Lunden, Jonathan Shieber Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Raising Money At A Valuation Approaching $10B Space Exploration Technologies, the commercial space transportation startup founded by Elon Musk with ambitions to land people on Mars, is raising investment... read more Catherine Shu Now On Kickstarter, Tickle Makes Learning To Code Fun With Scratch There are a lot of games and puzzles now that promise to teach kids how to code, but Tickle stands out. Now on Kickstarter, the iPad app was created in part by... read more Jacob Mullins Investment Banking 2.0 Says "Hello World!?" David Gelles wrote in the New York Times this weekend about how large tech corporations have been conducting more M&A deals with less input from traditional... read more Jordan Crook This Real-Time Projected CGI Makeup Is Beautiful And Terrifying CGI has come a long way - from simulating Jar Jar Binks on the silver screen to replacing green screens with King's Landing. Today, we should add this video to... read more Kyle Russell YC-Backed UPower Is Building Nuclear Batteries Despite the promise of bountiful, cheap, and clean energy, nuclear energy didn't completely overtake fossil fuels like everyone expected in the middle of the... read more TOP VIDEOS Sympler Offers An Easy Way To Create Fun, Music-Centric Videos  Co-founders Ben Jenkins and Alexander Kane swung by the TechCrunch office recently to show off Sympler, their... read more Gillmor Gang: What's That Sound  The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor — struggle... read more CrunchWeek: Amazon Takes On Square, Tech CEOs Get Dunked, BurritoCannon Comes True  We’re in the mid-August tech news cycle (AKA, it’s pretty slow), which made for some interesting... read more Get more at techcrunch.com To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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