Friday, February 28, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // February 28, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 28, 2014

Awesome Netflix/Fitbit Hack Detects When You've Fallen Asleep, Auto-Pauses Your Movie

At an internal Netflix hackathon last week, a Netflix employee built an awesome hack: by using data from a Fitbit, it's able to detect when you've fallen asleep... read more

Apple Explains Exactly How Secure iMessage Really Is

Millions and millions of people use iMessage every day. But how many people know exactly what happens to a message once you send it? Maybe a handful. Up... read more

UPDATED: Mt.Gox Files For Bankruptcy Protection, Says 850,000 Bitcoin Lost

Mt.Gox has filed for bankruptcy protection and has outstanding debt of about $63.6 million, a lawyer for the bitcoin exchange said today during a press... read more

Microsoft Said To Be Considering A Free Version Of Windows 8.1

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Zero-Commission Stock Trading App RobinHood Kicks Off Private Beta

Soon, RobinHood will let anyone buy and sell stocks for free instead of having to pay E*Trade or Scottrade $7 per transaction. Today RobinHood begins inviting... read more

No, Google’s Sundar Pichai Didn’t Say Android’s Openness Makes It Less Secure

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What Can Indian Startups Learn From The Facebook Acquisition That Didn’t Happen

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Keen On… Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers In The Age Of (Nearly) Perfect Information

How do we decide what to buy? According to Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen, the authors of Absolute Value: What... read more

One Week With Whistle's New Activity Tracker For Dogs

Considering we humans now have a slew of gadgets, apps and products at our disposal that allow us to track and... read more

Gravity's Amit Kapur Says Personalization Is Going To "Explode" This Year

Following AOL's acquisition of content personalization startup Gravity last month, co-founder and CEO Amit Kapur... read more

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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // February 27, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 27, 2014

Google’s Project Ara $50 Modular Smartphone Could Change The Way We Buy Phones Starting Next Year

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Apple Makes Big Improvements In iOS Management Tools For Enterprise And Education

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Google Announces An Online Data Interpretation Class For The General Public

Google has launched its own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to teach the general public how to understand surveys, research, and data. Called "Making Sense of... read more

Samsung Galaxy S5 Breaks Records With Over 100K Pre-Registrations At T-Mobile In Under Two Days

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The Boeing Black Secure Android Smartphone Gets Official After Three Years In Development

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How Not To Be A Glasshole, Part 2

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Google’s Project Ara Modular Smartphone Gets Its Own Developer Conference This April

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Gravity's Amit Kapur Says Personalization Is Going To "Explode" This Year

Following AOL's acquisition of content personalization startup Gravity last month, co-founder and CEO Amit Kapur... read more

Hands On With Meta Pro, The Augmented Reality Glasses With 16X More Screen Than Google Glass

Meta, the augmented reality technology company, has captured the attention of the gadget world with the launch... read more

The Epic App Brings Kids' Books To The iPad — And Makes Them More Fun, Too

A lot of parents tend to want to limit "screen time" for their kids, and push them to read more books instead.... read more

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // February 26, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Feb 26, 2014

Visualizing 15 Years Of Acquisitions By Apple, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, And Facebook

You grow old, you slow down, and you die. That is, unless you can inject some fresh blood. After watching the last generation of tech giants wither or stagnate,... read more

Paramount Afraid Tweeted Stills Of ‘Top Gun’ Compete With Actual Movie

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The Fingerprint Scanner On The Samsung Galaxy S5 Will Be Accessible By Developers

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Mt. Gox’s Demise Marks The End of Bitcoin’s First Wave Of Entrepreneurs

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Google Quietly Begins Pushing Its Photo Backup Software To Google+ Users

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Rolls-Royce’s Drone Shipbots Will Rule Tomorrow’s Oceans, Shipping Containers

If you're rooting for the drone team, then chalk up another win: Rolls-Royce is working on unmanned cargo ships that would roam the Earth's oceans packed with... read more

How Could Snapchat Make Money? College Kids

Over 77 percent of college students are using Snapchat at least once every single day, according to research by Sumpto. And even more stunning, 45 percent... read more



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Hands On With Meta Pro, The Augmented Reality Glasses With 16X More Screen Than Google Glass

Meta, the augmented reality technology company, has captured the attention of the gadget world with the launch... read more

The Epic App Brings Kids' Books To The iPad — And Makes Them More Fun, Too

A lot of parents tend to want to limit "screen time" for their kids, and push them to read more books instead.... read more

CrunchWeek: Facebook's Epic, $19B Acquisition of WhatsApp

It’s that time of week for an episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together... read more

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