For Aspiring Female Engineers, A Square Meal Of Code
“I thought I had to be a guy to be an engineer,” she told me as she was siting in the Square offices nearby her home in the Tenderloin, only days away from taking the AP Computer Science test. But Nguyen still held some small hope for being part of this world — she would read publications online that gave her an inside view into technology. She was reading TechCrunch last Fall… Read More-
Cue Is A Connected Lab-In-A-Box For On-Demand Health Testing At Home
The quantified self and quantified health trends frequently overlap -- but few startups are quite as tightly screwed into that sticking place as Cue. Not yet anyway. This San Diego-based startup is building a hybrid electronic-mechanical-chemical connected device that it says will enable people to quantify their health at a molecular level. Read More -
Gillmor Gang: Fits and Starts
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — take a walk on the wild side as The New York Times publishes all the news that fits. Except, that is, the news about itself. The Twitterverse is clogged with leaked Innovation reports, business model Kremlin Wall analysis, and newsroom disappearances galore. For the record, we also stop in for… Read More -
With A Revamped Website, Geek Culture Hub Nerdist Enters “Phase Two”
When I got on the phone with the team at Nerdist Industries to talk about the geek culture site's recent redesign, I had a confession to make — even though I'm a regular listener to the Nerdist podcast, and I've watched a number of their YouTube videos, I'd only been to the actual website ... Once? Twice? My experience might not be typical, but it's one illustration of how Nerdist fans aren't… Read More -
The Once And Future Web Platform
As a developer, articles declaring the death of the web are easy to dismiss out of hand. It's not unusual or unexpected for people to predict (or herald the arrival of) the next big thing and declare the status quo dead. Yet despite the mobile explosion over the past few years, the web is going to remain the dominant software platform for the foreseeable future. First, let me say that by web I… Read More -
The App Store Is Proof We’re In Idiocracy
The number one game in the iTunes App Store is a game about selling weed. Yes, really. The app, “Weed Firm,” however, looks brilliant when compared to what comes next: it sits just above yet another fairly dumb, time-waster of a game called “100 Balls,” reminiscent of beer pong. And that’s followed “Toilet Time,” which offers you quick games to play… Read More -
Let’s Face It, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft All Have Weaknesses
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures made waves recently when he told TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden that by 2020, (that’s less than 6 years, folks), Apple won’t be a top-3 tech company–and Google and Facebook would be. Wilson argued that Apple’s lack of understanding of the cloud would eventually do it in, while Google and Facebook, which are… Read More
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Brick And Bullet Kickstarter Aims To Deliver Home Network Audio Streaming For Live Music
If you have AirPlay or any other kind of wireless home network audio setup, you’ll no doubt be aware there’s a delay. You click play, there’s a few seconds of silence, and then the music starts. This is ordinarily fine, because we don’t usually need things to be real-time, but that’s not the case when you’re trying to broadcast live music within a home or… Read More -
SV Angel Leads Pinterest Financing At A $5 Billion Valuation
News broke this afternoon that Pinterest has raised a $200 million Series F valuing it at $5 billion. We've just confirmed that SV Angel led the massive round that could fund Pinterest until its monetization makes it self-sustaining. We had been tipped earlier that the deal was won by Andreessen Horowitz and others, with significant participation from SV Angel. We heard that SV Angel… Read More -
Crazy Dude Builds Fully Automatic Wolverine Claws In His Garage
Hello! Welcome to this week's edition of "Things You Really Probably Shouldn't Do At Home! Seriously." Armed with a pinch of ingenuity and a heaping fistful of insanity, garage inventor Colin Furze has recreated Wolverine's signature claws. They extend! They retract! They... look incredibly dangerous! Read More -
Foursquare’s Swarm And The Rise Of The Invisible App
Swarm is a new app from Foursquare out today that chisels off the check-in and proximity features of the main app and places them in a sparse, focus-driven new home. The app is nicely done, though it will be of most use to those in dense urban areas with lots of friends. Read More -
An Oculus Rift For Chickens Gives Animals The Freedom To Roam Without The Roaming
Oculus Rift has plenty of potential for changing human interaction, but what about other animals? One project from Iowa State University assistant professor Austin Stewart (via FastCo Exist) imagines how VR goggles could make chickens believe they’re free-range, even when they’re not. They can explore a virtual grassland, and with future iterations of Oculus, even peck at the ground… Read More -
Clever Kinect Hack Brings This Guy’s Full Body Into Virtual Reality
It’s one thing to bring your mind into virtual reality. Get some snazzy VR goggles in front of your eyes, bump the framerate up high enough — bam, you’re a good part of the way there. But bringing your body into the mix? Thats a whole different challenge. Crack that one, and you’ve got yourself a holodeck. It’s far from perfect (even as a spectator) but developer… Read More -
Flappy Bird Creator Promises Game’s Return – With Multiplayer And Fewer Addictive Qualities
It’s Episode XVII of the Flappy Bird Saga, and this time the formerly recalcitrant (he’s on a media tour at the moment) creator of the addictive game is promising the game’s return, eventually, complete with multiplayer. Nguyen told CNBC’s Kelly Evans the news on the network’s Closing Bell program today, albeit with the caveat that the game wouldn’t be coming… Read More -
Here Are The Best And Most Interesting iPhone 6 Mockups So Far
Apple hasn’t said anything yet about any iPhone 6, nor will it until the fall (or whenever it actually announces it) but that hasn’t stopped the Internet’s collective imagination and curiosity from creating countless mock-ups of what the next generation of Apple smartphone will look like. Just this morning, we heard about how the iPhone 6 could have 1704×960 resolution for… Read More -
U.K. Wanelo Competitor Nuji Launches A Weird App With An “Interactive” Woman As Part Of Its Interface
What are today's mobile shopping applications missing? You know, the social and collaborative e-commerce services, like Wanelo or Polyvore, for example? Better search? Streamlined checkout? No? How about a giant, animated video of a woman stretching, yawning and smiling at you when you first launch the app? Yes? Well, good news -- U.K.-based Wanelo competitor Nuji's new mobile shopping app has you… Read More -
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)
Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, by pushing out the diverse people who have helped create it. At least that’s the story you’ve read in hundreds of articles lately. It doesn’t have to be this way. But everyone who lives in the Bay Area today needs to accept responsibility for making… Read More
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