Friday, January 3, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // January 3, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Jan 3, 2014

Uber’s Denial Of Liability In Girl’s Death Raises Accident Accountability Questions

A six-year old girl named Sophia Liu was tragically killed last night when an SUV driver confirmed to be an Uber-contracted driver struck her in a San Francisco... read more

Haloband Lets You Control Your Smartphone With A Tap On Your Wrist

The rise of mobile has given me so much: 24/7 connections with friends around the world, information exactly when I need it, the ability to track my fitness and... read more

Google’s VP9 Video Codec Gets Backing from ARM, Nvidia, Sony And Others, Gives 4K Video Streaming A Fighting Chance

Google's VP9 video codec is getting a major boost today. While Mozilla, Google's own Chrome browser and a few video players like FFmpeg started supporting VP9... read more

Developer Spams Google Play With Ripoffs Of Well-Known Apps…Again

It's not uncommon to search the Google Play app store and find a number of knock-off or "fake" apps aiming to trick unsuspecting searchers into downloading them... read more

Apple’s New Mac Pro Uses 74% Less Aluminum, 68% Less Power And 84% Lighter Packaging

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Iconic ZX Spectrum Home Computer Of The ’80s To Be Reborn As Retro Gaming Keyboard For iOS

In the U.K., the iconic 8-bit home computer of the 1980s was the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Few keyboards have surely been pounded as hard as the Spectrum's... read more

Go Ahead, CES 2014 – Prove There’s Tech I Want To Wear

Wearables is a word that can make one weary in the sphere of online tech journalism. It's been a buzzword for at least a year now, and many are predicting 2014... read more

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Keen On… The 2013 Debacle: Why Gavin Newsom Says The Government Is On A Collision Course With The Future

It may be the holiday season, but Gavin Newsom, California's tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell.... read more

CrunchWeek 2013 In Review: Bitcoin's Big Rise, Edward Snowden And The NSA

It's the end of the year, which is always a time for reflection -- auld lang syne and all that jazz. So for the... read more

Gillmor Gang: Almost Full

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Thursday, January 2, 2014

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Top Stories of the Day // January 2, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Jan 2, 2014

GymPact, The App That Pays You For Working Out, Relaunches As Pact With New Diet Features

GymPact, the app that makes you pay--literally--if you don't meet your exercise goals, has a new name, Pact, and two new diet-oriented features for the New... read more

Fly Or Die: Sony PlayStation 4

The console wars are in full swing, and no contender is more focused on hardcore gamers as the PS4. Sony's next-gen PlayStation is not like the Xbox One,... read more

The Late Adopters

Was 2013 a "lost year for technology?," as an article in Quartz recently proposed? Hardly. Yet I can understand, to some extent, both why there's a growing... read more

Windows 8.x Busts Past 10% Market Share As Windows 7 Rises, XP Falls

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Samsung Stock Closes Down 4.6%, Cutting $8B Off Its Market Value As Investors Worry

Samsung isn't off to a great start for 2014 – during its first full day of trading of the new year, it lost 4.6 percent of its stock price value, which... read more

How The Quantified Life Can Help You Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions

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Motorola’s Flagship Moto X Gets A Permanent Price Cut

Let's be real here: there's a decent chance that you picked up a new smartphone at some point during the holidays, so you're off the market for at least a... read more

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Keen On… The 2013 Debacle: Why Gavin Newsom Says The Government Is On A Collision Course With The Future

It may be the holiday season, but Gavin Newsom, California's tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell.... read more

CrunchWeek 2013 In Review: Bitcoin's Big Rise, Edward Snowden And The NSA

It's the end of the year, which is always a time for reflection -- auld lang syne and all that jazz. So for the... read more

Gillmor Gang: Almost Full

... read more

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Will your business survive 2014?

Happy New Year..
 
Let's start this year off with a post about business survival and how to make sure you'll make to 2015. 
 
 
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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // January 1, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Jan 1, 2014

Confirmed: Snapchat Hack Not A Hoax, 4.6M Usernames And Numbers Published

A site called SnapchatDB.info has saved usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million accounts and made the information available for download. SnapchatDB says... read more

The Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2013

Congratulations, Planet Earth! We made it another 365 days without crashing into the sun. Go team! It's the end of the year, and that means... read more

The Best And Worst Gadgets Of 2013

2013 was a heady year: a time of hope; a time for sadness; a time for twerking; and a time for doge. But it was also a time for gadgets. As we wait for... read more

Google To Close Bump And Flock, Its Recently Acquired File Sharing Apps

Bump and Flock, the file sharing apps Google acquired last fall, will be shut down by the end of this month. Both apps will stop working and be removed from... read more

Why 2014 Is The Year You Change

I stopped going to classes. I had a scholarship that paid all my living expenses ($1,200/month) so I didn't want to quit (ugh, and get a job?). So I stayed a... read more

Why I Lost Faith In Bitcoin As A Money Transfer Protocol

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Dell Looks To Set A New Tone For Its Private Life

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TOP VIDEOS

Keen On… The 2013 Debacle: Why Gavin Newsom Says The Government Is On A Collision Course With The Future

It may be the holiday season, but Gavin Newsom, California's tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell.... read more

CrunchWeek 2013 In Review: Bitcoin's Big Rise, Edward Snowden And The NSA

It's the end of the year, which is always a time for reflection -- auld lang syne and all that jazz. So for the... read more

Gillmor Gang: Almost Full

... read more

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