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• Star Trek Into Darkness: Impressive but imperfect After three viewings, here’s the verdict. Like this:Like Loading...
• Divide & conquer makes quantum light a breeze to detect Classy experiment detects non-classy light, may help with quantum computing. Like this:Like Loading...
• Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activist’s laptop Backdoor took screenshots, sent them to attackers. Like this:Like Loading...
• Video: Reboots that need the boot, part 1—Aliens vs. Predator In this first of three posts, we dislike the 2010 Aliens vs. Predator remake. Like this:Like Loading...
• Google engineers discuss fragmentation, hardware, and Project Butter At a panel in San Francisco, Google talked about making Android better. Like this:Like Loading...
• Prenda lawyer Paul Hansmeier asks appeals court to delay sanctions But Hansmeier is having trouble even getting admitted at the 9th circuit. Like this:Like Loading...
• MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU refresh Waiting for next-generation Air? The stars may be aligning in your favor. Like this:Like Loading...
• Google+ App For Android Quietly Switched To WebP Image Format A Month And A Half Ago, Saves 50% Bandwidth About a month and a half ago, Google switched to its own WebP image format in its Google+ Android app, the company revealed at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco today. This, Stephen Konig, a Google product manager who focuses on WebP and Chrome Remote desktop, and Make the Web Fast team member and Chrome developer advocate Ilya ...
• Amidst Tumblr Acquisition Rumors, Yahoo To Hold Product Event With Marissa Mayer On Monday On Monday, it seems that we may get a better sense of what Yahoo plans to build in the wake of its acquisition spree, as CNBC is reporting that the company will be holding a “product-related” news event on Monday in New York City. Marissa Mayer will reportedly be speaking at the press conference, but ...
• Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog One of the more interesting projects to emerge from Evernote’s 2013 Devcup hackathon is called Postach.io, a new blogging platform that turns your Evernote notebook into a content management system. Input Logic, the Vancouver-based company behind the now just four-week-old service, has already caught the attention of local investors, as well as Evernote, who met ...
• Don’t Let Your Company’s Scale Tip Your Bathroom Scale Any programmer or blogger knows that when you work on the Internet, on a computer, it’s easy to gain weight. Tech office pantries are stocked with Red Bull, candy, chips and even things you wouldn’t think were too unhealthy, like protein bars. Protein bars are basically injections of sugar. That’s why they taste like a ...
• Facebook’s Growth Since IPO In 12 Big Numbers $FB is still stuck at $26.25, way down from its $38 IPO price, but it’s made important progress since going public a year ago. Daily users up 26%, mobile monthly users up 56%, and revenue up 38% are some highlights. It’s running out of people to sign up in the developed world, but with this ...
• Ask A VC: Accel Partners’ Rich Wong On Whether You Can Build A Great Tech Company Outside Silicon Valley This week, we hosted Accel Partners’ Rich Wong in the studio for our Ask A VC show. Wong, who has invested in Angry Birds (Rovio), Dealer.com, Mobilespaces, Atlassian, MoPub, talked about where he sees the next wave of disruption in mobile technologies. He believes mobile security is a huge opportunity mobile, especially at the enterprise level. Like ...
• Apple Boots Bang With Friends From The App Store Uh oh. Less than ten days after Bang With Friends made its mobile debut on the iOS App Store, Apple has seemingly changed its mind and given it the boot. Like this:Like Loading...
• Gmail And The Stock Android Email App Combined Have Over 100M Mobile Users Google’s Vikram Aggarwal, a software engineer working on the Android platform, revealed today that Gmail and Email, the native Android client that still ships on Android devices as well, now has a combined user base of over 100 million across the Android install base. It’s an interesting stat, because although Gmail and Email only represent ...
• Firefox 23 Lands In Aurora Channel: Kills Blink Element, Introduces Slew Of New Dev Tools Mozilla today bumped up Firefox Aurora, the pre-beta release channel of the popular browser, to version 23. With this, it is introducing a number of new tools for developers that will now slowly make their way into the stable release channel over the next few months. Sadly (or maybe not), this is also the first ...
• Zynga Tells CupidWithFriends To Stop Using ‘With Friends’ Zynga has apparently told the makers of the dating website CupidWithFriends that they need to change the site’s name, because it allegedly infringes on Zynga’s trademarks. CupidWithFriends was built by the startup Apartment 7 (which also released the dating apps Flock and Wednesday Night). The site launched a couple of months ago, allowing users to build ...
• Uber Prepares For Another Fight With DC Regulators Just about six months ago, Uber won a big battle with D.C. regulators to have its on-demand car service approved for operation within the nation’s capital. But new regulations from the D.C. Taxi Commission could severely hamper the company’s ability to offer low-cost services in the nation’s capital. Like this:Like Loading...
• Google Now Introduces Mark Up Tools For Select Partners To Flag Flights, Hotel Stays And Reservations In Emails Google made a relatively quiet announcement today regarding how it’s pushing the developer ecosystem forward around Google Now, its intelligent personal assistant for Android devices. The company has begun extending mark up tools for emails from select partners, which help highlight flight schedules, hotel bookings and various types of reservations, to make sure that Gmail ...
• GrubSeam? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge Today, thanks to the maturation of the web, digital tech, and smartphones now in seemingly every pocket, startups are finding it easier than ever before to build scalable solutions to finally address the many inefficiencies in our food manufacturing, production and distribution systems. As interest in food tech balloons, one area in particular appears to ...
• Tumblr May Reject Yahoo’s $1.1B Acquisition Offer For Being “Too Low” Sources close to to acquisition talks between Yahoo and Tumblr say the blogging platform feels that Yahoo’s $1.1 billion offer as “too low” and view it as “only a first offer”. Yahoo may have to significantly increase the offer to close the deal. An acquisition by some tech giant is likely in the cards for ...
• This Week On The TechCrunch Gadgets Podcast: All Google I/O, All The Time Google’s major developer conference, Google I/O, went down this week. Was it a bit of a letdown? Probably. Did cool stuff still come out of the event? Eh? Maybe? We discuss these topics and more this week on the TC Gadgets podcast. In fact, we even had Frederic Lardinois join as a guest, along with ...
• HTC Pledges To Pump Up ‘One’ Production While Samsung’s New Flagship Ships Like Crazy Oh HTC. You’ve produced one of the finest Android smartphones ever (seriously, just look at all these reviews), but you’ve faced more than your share of challenges when it came to actually pumping your top-tier One smartphone. As it happens, that may all soon change. FocusTaiwan reported earlier today that HTC is preparing to pump out ...
• Missy Elliott Gives A Special Performance At Haze Nightclub At ARIA Like this:Like Loading...
• Encore! The week in music Like this:Like Loading...
• ArtsBeat: Popcast: Punk as Fashion, Music and Theory Discussing punk’s origins and its legacy, and answering the question: what did hippies ever do to punks to be so hated?      Like this:Like Loading...
• Swedish defenseman banned for hit on Canada’s Staal (Reuters) – Sweden’s Alexander Edler was suspended for the rest of the ice hockey world championships on Friday for a knee-on-knee hit that injured Canada captain Eric Staal. Like this:Like Loading...
• WADA files appeal against Operation Puerto verdict MADRID (Reuters) – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has filed an appeal against the verdict in Spain’s “Operation Puerto” trial into an alleged doping ring in professional cycling, the agency said on Friday. Like this:Like Loading...
• Orb faces Preakness hurdle en route to immortality BALTIMORE (Reuters) – Shug McGaughey, the soft-spoken trainer of Kentucky Derby champion Orb, admits he thinks of what it would be like to saddle a Triple Crown champion. Like this:Like Loading...
• Djokovic crumbles to defeat against Berdych in Rome (Reuters) – Czech Tomas Berdych snapped a run of 11 consecutive defeats by world number one Novak Djokovic to reach the semi-finals of the Rome Masters before Rafa Nadal was stretched to the limit against David Ferrer on Friday. Like this:Like Loading...
• NVIDIA’s Shield May Be A Tough Sell, But Now You Can Pre-Order It From GameStop And Newegg Anyway If you were among the select few that signed up for NVIDIA’s Shield newsletter then you’ve been able to pre-order the company’s curious handset for a few days now. The remainder of the gaming masses originally had to wait until Monday for their own turn, but that’s no longer the case — NVIDIA’s retail partners ...
• Michigan Tech Sponsors A 3D Printers For Peace Contest Now that Defense Distributed is on the defensive, it’s time to think a bit harder about what 3D printing really means. To that end, Michigan Tech is sponsoring a Printers For Peace contest that is encouraging designers and engineers to make amazing stuff using a 3D printer that can change the world for the better. ...
• Dollar firms as focus turns to Fed policy Dollar benefits from talk by Federal Reserve committee member John Williams that central bank should begin cutting asset buying by the end of the year Like this:Like Loading...
• Galaxy S4 Will Pass 10M Shipments Next Week Less Than A Month After Launch, Says Samsung Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S4, is poised to pass 10 million shipments next week less than a month after the device launched, says co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun, according to the Korea Times. The S4′s international release took place on April 27, after the phone launched in Samsung’s home market on April 26. Like this:Like Loading...
• Huge population of YouTube copyright owners denied class action status Class action against YouTube would create “Frankenstein monster,” judge says. Like this:Like Loading...
• Google I/O in pictures: keynotes, sessions, and little green robots Take a photographic tour of our first day at the show. Like this:Like Loading...
• Google buys a D-Wave quantum optimizer To be shared with NASA and university researchers. Like this:Like Loading...
• How Google’s game services API will convince devs to make better games Google Play’s game services will help propel Android’s identity in mobile gaming. Like this:Like Loading...
• “The cutting edge of cybercrime”—Lulzsec hackers get up to 32 months in jail At the sentencing Kayla, Topiary, tflow, and ViraL are the called “worst kind of vandal.” Like this:Like Loading...
• Carbon in Alaskan soils stays stored despite warming Shrub growth keeps a vicious feedback from enhancing climate change. Like this:Like Loading...
• Blogger writes about predatory publishing, is threatened with $1B suit Citing India law, firm informs Jeffrey Beall he could face up to three years too. Like this:Like Loading...
• White Nexus 4 and Android 4.3 reportedly slated for June 10 These expected updates were MIA at I/O but may still be coming. Like this:Like Loading...
• Password Minder: The blank notebook that got laughed out of production An infomercial product for keeping passwords shockingly didn’t find an audience. Like this:Like Loading...
• Hands on with Hangouts, Google’s new text and video chat architecture XMPP support remains for clients, but federation with Jabber is out. Like this:Like Loading...
• FaceTime redux: AT&T nixes video chat on Google’s updated Hangouts AT&T says OS and device makers must enable the app—and only certain plans allowed. Like this:Like Loading...
• How Google updated Android without releasing version 4.3 Could there be a light at the end of the fragmentation tunnel? Like this:Like Loading...
• Nintendo kicks “Let’s Play” videos off YouTube then slaps ads on them Homemade videos are the best gaming ads out there, yet they’re taken down. Like this:Like Loading...
• Congress sends Google a list of questions about privacy and Glass Google has eight questions about Project Glass it needs to answer by June 14. Like this:Like Loading...
• Pebble Nabs $15M In Funding, Outs PebbleKit SDK And Pebble Sports API To Spur Smartwatch App Development Get ready for a whole lot more Pebble. The smartwatch company just announced several software enhancements for the Pebble and a $15M Series A led by Charles River Ventures. Pebble is not going to sit around, scared of iWatch rumors. They’re plowing forward on their own accord and committed to providing the best platform possible ...
• Here’s A Weekend Project For First-Time Tinkerers: Turn Your Converse Into A DIY Light Show The weekend isn’t upon us just yet, but here’s a little project to tuck away for when the Sunday doldrums set in — the New York-based tinkerers/part suppliers at Adafruit Industries have worked up a way to give your old pair of Chuck Taylors a bit of luminescent DIY flair. Like this:Like Loading...
• Leap Motion Talks New Beta, We Go Hands On With Motion-Controlled Google Earth Leap Motion was showing off its still unreleased gesture motion controller for computers at Google I/O 2013. The demo unit allowed you to use the controller to navigate Google Earth, and the functionality felt ready for prime time to me, as this was the first time I’d ever used the Leap Motion. The controls seemed ...
• Google Says All 2,000 Glass Explorers Have Been Invited To Pick Up Their Device Today, Steve Lee of the Google X and Glass Team, announced that as of last week, all 2,000 developers who signed up for the Glass Explorer program at last year’s I/O conference have now been invited to pick up their devices from Google’s offices in Mountain View, New York City or Los Angeles. Like this:Like Loading...
• NVIDIA’s Shield Mobile Gaming System Feels Like The Way Android Games Should Be Played NVIDIA brought its new Shield handheld gaming system to Google I/O this year and showed off a near-production device. The Shield made its debut at CES this year, surprising most since it’s a consumer handheld device from a company that generally makes internal components. But it has some neat tricks up its sleeve, including a ...
• Japanese Carrier DoCoMo To Pay $50M To Take A 7% Stake In Pioneer To Expand Its Push Into In-Car Transport Systems Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has announced it plans to invest around $50M into Japanese digital entertainment company Pioneer Corporation, which makes in-car electronics, to acquire approximately seven per cent of the company. The pair described the investment as “a business and capital alliance”, and said they plan to jointly develop an intelligent transport system for ...
• Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Active Rugged Smartphone Hits Bluetooth SIG As All-Terrain Phone Battle Heats Up Samsung is moving quickly to diversify its phone line, with variants of the S4 popping out of the woodwork left and right, including the Galaxy S4 Zoom, which features a rumored 10x optical zoom on its rear camera. Today the Galaxy S4 Active, a ruggedized, smaller version of the flagship S4 has hit the Bluetooth ...
• Rumor: AT&T To Discontinue The HTC First Facebook Phone HTC’s Facebook Home-laden First smartphone may only have debuted on AT&T last month, but it appears that the device may be a dud as far as consumers are concerned. According to a report from BGR’s Zach Epstein, sales of the HTC First smartphone have been so disappointing that AT&T will soon be dropping the device ...
• At I/O, Google Will Be Tracking Things Like Noise Level And Air Quality With Hundreds Of Arduino-Based Sensors If you’re attending Google I/O this week, you will be a part of an experiment from the Google Cloud Platform Developer Relations team. On its blog today, the team outlined its plan to gather a bunch of environmental information happening around you as you meander around the Moscone Center. Like this:Like Loading...
• Nokia Confirms The Flagship Lumia 925 For T-Mobile U.S: 4.5″ AMOLED Screen, Metal Edges, Extra Lens & New Camera Software Fresh from last week’s Verizon Lumia device launch, Nokia has taken the wraps off a new smartphone in its Windows Phone-based Lumia range at an event in London today. The Lumia 925 is its first flagship for T-Mobile in the U.S. This means that following the Lumia 928 launch on Verizon, and factoring in Nokia’s initial launch of the ...
• The Lumia 925, Nokia’s New Windows Phone 8 Flagship, Sheds Excess Weight, Wants To Mess Around With Your Photos Meet the Lumia 925, the latest smartphone flagship in Nokia’s increasingly populous Windows Phone portfolio. The 925 is clearly Nokia’s answer to criticisms of its high end devices being too heavy. The 925 drops a full 46g compared to the earlier Lumia 920, weighing in at 139g vs the 920’s hefty 185g. The ...
• Google To Begin Offering Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S4 With Stock Android For $649 On June 26 Google is offering a version of the Samsung Galaxy S4, arguably one of the top current Android devices, with Jelly Bean 4.2 unlocked on Google Play beginning June 26, the company revealed at I/O today. The news is big because it’s the first non-Nexus device to get blessed with this opportunity, and Google says it ...
• Zivix Announces Wireless iOS Connectivity For The Jamstik MIDI Guitar When we first met the team from Zivix their wild MIDI guitar, the Jamstik, promised a unique music-making experience thanks to a tether that connected it to a computer or iOS device. In the few short months since CES, however, they’re now preparing to announce that Jamstik works nearly flawlessly over Wi-Fi with iPhones and ...
• Unboxing The First Chromebook Pixel Given Away At Google I/O Sebastian Rodriguez waited in line 90 minutes to be the first person at Google I/O to get the Google Chromebook Pixel, the premium laptop given to all conference attendees today. Rodriguez is a a software engineer with Thales, a data security company. He humored us and did an “unboxing” of his new  Pixel. He was ...
• The Constitution And The 3D Printed Plastic Pistol By now, you have probably heard about the Liberator, a 3D printed plastic gun designed, assembled, and test-fired by Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed. Is it legal? Like this:Like Loading...
• The Magic Of Google’s APIs and Algorithms, The Bread And Butter Of The Google I/O Keynote It’s clear that Google had other things it could have talked about on the first day of the I/O conference. Like Google Glass. Instead, the attendees heard more about how Google has developed new ways to turn data into services. The highlights were not some fancy hardware but the magic of Google’s APIs and algorithms, ...
• Enterprise Business Intelligence And Analytics Startup EdgeSpring Raises $11M From Kleiner Perkins EdgeSpring, an enterprise business intelligence and analytics startup, is emerging from stealth and announcing $11 million in Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Lightspeed Ventures. Like this:Like Loading...
• Powering The Facebook Card, Marqeta Raises $14M From Greylock Israel To Recreate The Starbucks Loyalty Card For Merchants Marqeta, the startup that helps businesses nationwide attain the Starbucks loyalty Card “pay-in-advance for your coffee” model, is announcing $14 million in new funding from Greylock IL (an affiliate fund of Greylock Partners), Granite Ventures, new investor Commerce Ventures, and a number of leading new angel and unnamed strategic investors. Like this:Like Loading...
• Indie Music Agency Merlin: iTunes Remains Biggest Digital Destination; Spotify And Amazon 2nd And 3rd; Streaming Still Just An Opening Act On the heels of Google wading into the music streaming waters with its Google Play Music All Access service, with a $10 fee for all-you-can-eat streamed tracks, the indie music agency Merlin has today published some results of a recent survey of its 20,000-label member group, plus an analysis of 6.5 billion music streams over ...
• Instabeat Is Revolutionary HUD For Swimming Goggles You Can Back On Indiegogo While the world goes gaga for Google Glass, a small startup has come up with an intriguing new take on a device which can display information before your eyes. Instabeat is head-up display unit which attaches to swimming goggles and monitors your heart rate, calories, laps and turns during your swim. It’s been live on ...
• Gran Turismo 6 announced for PS3 The newest installment of the world’s best-selling racer is due by year’s end. Like this:Like Loading...
• Google beefs up Hangouts into text, photo, video chat powerhouse Babel opens hailing frequencies and unites Google+, Google Talk video/text chat. Like this:Like Loading...
• Google overhauling flagship search with “Answer, converse, anticipate” Voice-based “hotwording” to eventually become predominant search experience. Like this:Like Loading...
• Google Maps adds better directions, suggestions, and 3D Earth rendering Finding places to go and getting there easily are the priorities of new Maps. Like this:Like Loading...
• Powerful winds on giant planets confined to a thin atmospheric layer High winds on Uranus and Neptune confined to high, thin layer of atmosphere. Like this:Like Loading...
• Carnivorous plant has deleted most of its junk DNA Genes overlap, share regulatory sequences in order to compact the genome. Like this:Like Loading...
• RIP and good planet hunting, Kepler A second reaction wheel failed on the exoplanet-hunting telescope Like this:Like Loading...
• Google: “Take down your ad-free YouTube app” Microsoft: “Let us add ads” Downloading videos and showing restricted videos are the app’s two other sins. Like this:Like Loading...
• Steam players can now earn coupons for new games by playing old ones Trading cards earned by playing games generate goodies for Steam users. Like this:Like Loading...
• App developer calls critic “f*cken little know it all”; site goes down Site comes down after two ZPanel official forum accounts are compromised. Like this:Like Loading...
• Google wants your WordPress blog—and everything else—in its cloud Google adds PHP to AppEngine, tweaks compute and storage services to match AWS. Like this:Like Loading...
• Indoor Mapping Startup Meridian Adds Notification Zones To Their Strategy Indoor mapping software startup Meridian, continues to evolve their product strategy with a recent update to their offering. Called Zones, the company’s newest update to their indoor mapping platform — and indoor is the key word here — allows geo-fence style app push notifications to be scheduled, by drawing polygons on location maps. Like this:Like Loading...
• Death By A Thousand Cuts? Google Wallet’s Plan To Take On PayPal Leverages Chrome, Android, Google+, Gmail & More Flying under the radar amid a flurry of announcements from today’s Google I/O developer conference is the bigger news of how Google is stepping up its efforts to compete with online payment giants, such as PayPal. It plans to do so with a revamped checkout process for the web, mobile web, within mobile applications running ...
• Twitter Archiving Service TweetBackup Hits The Deadpool As Owner Backupify Focuses More On Enterprise Time for a back-up plan for your Twitter back-up plan. Backupify — the cloud-based backup, search and restore provider for online services — is shutting down its TweetBackup service for Twitter users. The company has posted a note about the closure on its site, as well as — yes — on its Twitter account, noting ...
• Google Makes Email More Interactive With Customizable Gmail Action Buttons Google today announced a small but cool update to Gmail. For emails where the developer has enabled this feature, Google will now show action buttons next to emails in your inbox that let you take actions without even opening the message. The cool thing about this, however, is that it’s open to developers, who can ...
• The App Store’s 50B Downloads Vs. Google Play’s 48B: Android Closes The Gap Apple had a bit of a head start when it came to mobile software sales, since it launched its App Store earlier than the Android Market (which would later become what we call Google Play today). But the gap was more pronounced in terms of downloads when they kicked off, but lately the gap has ...
• TC Makers: 3D Printing Wizards At Shapeways Show Us Their Brand New Queens Factory It’s rare to see a company that is so established yet so cutting edge as Shapeways. The company, founded in 2007 as a spin-off of Royal Philips Electronics, began as a one-off 3D printing service that offered basic plastic items for sale online. Over the years, however, the company has branched off into some amazing ...
• After Being Hit With A Cease And Desist, Car-Sharing Startup RelayRides Suspends Rentals In New York It’s becoming increasingly commonplace for startups in the so-called “sharing economy” to take heat from regulators who seek to hold them to the same business standards as incumbent businesses. The latest company to come under fire from regulators is peer-to-peer car-sharing startup RelayRides, which received a cease-and-desist notice from New York State’s Department of Financial ...
• See The New Google+ Photos Experience In Action, Making Your Pics Better Google+ is getting a big update for its photos experience, which is rolling out to users now. Initial impressions show a work flow that makes it easier to tweak pictures quickly and even automatically, without requiring that you learn a huge amount about Photoshop or other editing software. Like this:Like Loading...
• Watch Robots Fight With Lightsabers At Google I/O [TCTV] Meet the PR2 personal robot from Willow Garage. The human-sized bot can learn to fold clothes and do other activities via voice commands, and it can even get into sword fights. Watch as I challenge the PR2 to a lightsaber duel today at Google I/O, and learn how Willow Garage could help anyone run their ...
• Hands On And Walkthrough With The New, Much More Beautiful Google Maps Google took the lid off of its new version of Maps at I/O 2013 today, which is a dramatic redesign of the long-standing navigation and place-finding software across all platforms. We got a chance to go hands-on with the new Maps, which is still a beta product, with access only given out to a few ...
• Google Stock Price Closes At 52-Week High Of $915 On First Day Of Google I/O As Apple Takes Another Drop Google’s stock price came close to its 52-week high on the first day of Google I/O today, hitting $915 per share at close. In comparison, Apple today dropped 15 points to close at $428 per share, 277 points off its 52-week high. This morning, Google stock jumped to $909 per share from its opening price of ...
• Google’s Products Are Just By-Products Of Its Quest For Tomorrow Google isn’t about search, apps, or devices. Those are just vehicles, and there’s no destination. That’s because Larry Page’s Google is on an unending pursuit of the future, not just next quarter’s earnings. The scattershot of projects Google revealed today at I/O had just one unifying factor: They further that pursuit, or empower the curiosity ...
• Google’s Three-Hour I/O Keynote Boils Down To These Highlights And One Theme: Foundation Today’s three-hour-long Google I/O keynote came with plenty of announcements, but the company mostly assured us that it is focused on building frameworks that can benefit developers and consumers. We saw a more unified company that needed three hours in one session to get their message across. Breaking today’s keynote up into two days would have ...
• Theresa May urges ‘arrest anonymity’ People who have been arrested should not normally be named until they are charged, Home Secretary Theresa May says in a letter to police. Like this:Like Loading...
• Series of deadly attacks strike Iraq A wave of fresh bomb attacks in Iraq kill at least 23 people and injure dozens in Shia districts, amid rising sectarian tensions. Like this:Like Loading...
• Benfica 1-2 Chelsea Branislav Ivanovic scores a late winner to secure the Europa League trophy for Chelsea at the expense of Benfica. Like this:Like Loading...
• US lawmakers grill attorney general US Attorney General Eric Holder faces hostile questioning at a fractious congressional hearing on two scandals rattling the Obama administration. Like this:Like Loading...
• UPDATE 1-Motor racing’s Ecclestone denies bribery in German case-lawyers FRANKFURT, May 15 (Reuters) – Lawyers for Formula One Chief Executive Bernie Ecclestone reiterated on Wednesday that he had not bribed a German banker during the 2005-2006 sale of a stake in the… Like this:Like Loading...
• A Chat With Daniel Guermeur, Founder Of Das Keyboard I’ve been enamored with the Das Keyboard since it launched in 2005. These supremely clicky, IBM-style keyboards are some of the most rugged mechanical input devices you can buy. Their Pro model — an all-black monolith with black keys and no key markings — is the gold standard for Gibson-esque console jockeys who believe that ...
• Google’s Reportedly Launching A Music-Streaming Spotify Killer At I/O This Week Google is ramping up to deliver a streaming music service, which could debut as early as tomorrow at the I/O keynote, sources have told The Verge. The report has since been picked up by other publications, including The New York Times, which confirms that this is indeed the case according to its own unnamed sources, ...
• Brent Brookler Shows Off Flowboard’s iPad Presentation Builder Flowboard is trying create the best tools for “interactive storytelling” on a tablet. And the best way to illustrate those tools is through a demo, so founder and CEO Brent Brookler stopped by the TechCrunch office today to show us the app. First, Brookler showed us the beginning of creating a presentation. He chose a template, ...