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"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned" Richard Feynman
"The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by people worse than themselves."
- Plato, Greek philosopher.
TV streaming app Molotov is now available on the iPhone
French startup Molotov has been available in France for a couple of
months already, and it is rolling out new platforms. After launching on
the iPad, the Apple TV and computers, the company is launching its
iPhone app. Android devices and recent connected TVs from Samsung and LG
are up next. Compar...
Jabra joins the fully wireless earbud game
Jabra’s still probably best known for its headsets/teleconferencing
devices, but the company’s been making a fairly aggressive push into
consumer headphones of late. Of particular interest is the fitness
space, leveraging its Bluetooth expertise into rugged, fitness-friendly
earbuds. You probably c...
Ad-blocking browser Brave launches payments, so you can support sites with cash, not ad clicks
The ad-blocking web browser Brave, co-founded by Mozilla’s former
CEO Brendan Eich, is today rolling out its grand experiment “Brave
Payments,” which will encourage web users to reward their favorite sites
by automatically and anonymously sending them Bitcoin-based
micropayments. The idea here is f...
Blue’s Yeti USB mic will ship with a copy of ‘Watchdogs 2’ for some reason
I’ve always considered Blue’s USB microphones a podcasting tool — and I
suspect Blue has, as well. They’re easy to use, they sound good and
they’re affordable. Heck, I recorded my bit of the last TechCrunch
podcast on a Snowball. The mics have also made a splash in the gaming
community, presumably ...
ROLI acquires software instrument maker FXpansion as it rolls-up music tech
ROLI, which makes the Seaboard (new type of keyboard musical
instrument), has acquired FXpansion, a maker of software instruments,
for an undisclosed sum. London-based FXpansion already makes sounds and
effects for ROLI’s growing collection of hardware and software products.
FXpansion’s virtual ins...
ISKN’s smart drawing pad learns a few new tricks
Didn’t see this coming. The big trend at this year’s IFA (once you
factor out the eight billion fitness bands and Bluetooth headphones, at
least) is apparently drawing pads. Wacom, Lenovo and now a new version
of the Slate from French startup ISKN are working hard to bring the pen
and paper kicking...
Microsoft zaps Windows 10 Anniversary Update login freezing bug
The Anniversary Update for Windows 10 brought a lot of nice features,
including OS-level Ink features for stylus devices. But it also brought
some nasty bugs along for the ride, including, but not limited to, a
login problem that caused users to encounter a total OS freeze when
running a PC that ha...
No, Palo Alto isn’t going to ban coding
A report in The New York Times on a culture clash taking place in Palo
Alto set off a bit of speculation as to the possibility of “a ban on
coding,” as the article put it. Well, don’t worry. That’s not going to
happen. Read More
Robots and on-board ovens deliver on Zume’s promise of better pizza
Today, in a world of bacon-wrapped crust and custom-modified Chevys
with pizza warmers, being excited about pizza is just not as easy as it
used to be. Zume Pizza founder Julia Collins and her Elon Musk-esque
approach to pizza doesn’t care much for the rest of the pizza industry.
In her mind, the p...
Crunch Report | Space X Rocket Explodes at Cape Canaveral
SpaceX rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral, DraftKings raises $150
million, Periscope adds a new way to monetize, Facebook launches Instant
Video, and Apple is set to clean its abandoned apps from the App Store.
All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Tech and government: The state of our union
Tech innovators tend to operate with an ethos that they consider
diametrically opposed to that of government, frequently leading to
friction. Given the current regulatory, legal and political climate in
our country, and while technology becomes increasingly more pervasive in
our society, there is a...
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