Oculus Spots People Selling Rift Pre-Orders, Cancels Their Shipments
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The second version of the Oculus Rift VR headset is expected to start arriving this week, but actually getting your hands on one is going to be tough. Over 45,000 units had been pre-ordered as of the first of this month — and of those, only 10,000 are expected to actually ship in July. If you waited even 24 hours to get your pre-order in, you might be waiting a while. Perhaps eBay is… Read More-
Do You Feel Pressure Or Do You Apply Pressure?
One obvious yet under-appreciated law of business physics is: For any given company, the larger the company becomes, the more opportunities emerge to screw it up. Another obvious but not well-understood law: The more screwed up your company, the more people will complain about it and blame you. If we take these two together, it is easy to see that without intervention, the larger your… Read More -
Squink Lets You Print A Circuit Board For The Price Of A Cup Of Coffee
3D printing has changed the way engineers test products, allowing them to cut down on time and costs. But what about 3D printing the components that go into most of these products? Read More -
#Love: Virtually No Sex
Sex. The human race is crazy about it. It’s even been suggested that every human achievement has been driven by our innate desire to mate. But not for much longer. Technology may be at the cusp of replacing one of our most cherished and enduring biological functions. To understand the impact that technology could have on our sex lives, you must throw away the notion that sex is a special… Read More -
Floret Is A Gamified Dating App For Virtual Romance
There’s surely no shortage of dating apps out there, but for those of us who wish to arm ourselves with every weapon in the potential arsenal, might I introduce Floret. Floret is a new dating app that focuses on a common problem known as the Stable Marriage Problem, which essentially means that elements in a group are matched based on preferences, without any two elements in the… Read More -
Save $9, Here Are The TechCrunch Staff’s Email Addresses
I hate email. But there’s one thing I hate even more: people selling my email address. Currently trending at the top of Product Hunt, Pressfarm is an email database for tech journalists — and it’s not free. After creating an account, you can pay $9 a month to get access to a curated list of email addresses of people working for publications such as Business Insider, Re/code… Read More -
Microsoft Presses Ahead With Its Cloud Strategy
This morning at its Windows Partner Conference, Microsoft made a lengthy pitch to its assembled clients that the cloud isn’t the future, but rather the present. The company presented its cloud products and services as a way for partner companies to generate more revenue and land more customers. Microsoft, however, wasn’t overly boastful during its speech — instead, the… Read More
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Anonymish App Secret Has Raised Another $25M, Adds Facebook Login And Collections
Secret, the app that lets users share notes with others without revealing their identity, has attracted a lot of controversy (or celebration, depending on who you are) for how it enables the spread of racy but sometimes mean or simply controversial notes about people, places and things. But it is also attracting a lot of something else: moolah. Read More -
Timberman Is The New Flappy Bird
Gamers looking for a new way to spend time waiting in line or on a commute should go check out Timberman, the latest indie game to take the App Store by storm. According to App Annie data, the game has made its way to the top 5 apps overall in more than 20 countries and is the most-downloaded game in eight countries as of yesterday. Read More -
Google’s Leaked Play Store Redesign Foregrounds Media And Summaries
Google has a new look for all of Android coming with Android L, the final public release of which should arrive sometime this fall. The latest version sports something called ‘Material Design,’ a new set of principles for user interface creation that’s meant to make software better for touchscreens and high density displays. The Play Store wasn’t updated in the… Read More -
Bitcoin Mining Company Buys Critical Site To Improve Search Results
You’ll be excused for not being aware of Buttcoin.org, a bitcoin site that has been critical of both the endlessly optimistic spirit of the bitcoin community and, more important, of the broken hardware users have received from so-called bitcoin mining providers. One company, Butterfly Labs, decided to turn that double frown upside-down, so to speak, and purchased the site outright in… Read More -
Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Gets Beefed Up — Still Only Costs $35
The Raspberry Pi microcomputer has been a stunning success. More than 2.5 million of the low-cost Linux microcomputers have been sold in the two+ years since the gizmo went on sale, helping to power all manner of homebrew projects. Today the Pi Foundation has announced a new model B Pi, called the B+, which beefs up aspects of the design yet keeps the same $35 price-tag. Read More -
Hardware Is The New Software
Nest. GoPro. Beats. Jawbone. Oculus. All hardware companies and each of them accorded multi-billion dollar valuations either in private investment transactions or acquisitions by some of the largest technology companies on the planet. Read More -
Tech Company With $39 In Assets Now Worth More Than $6B
Are we in a bubble? We’re in a bubble. CYNK Technology, a ‘company’ with a grand total of $39 in assets, has seen its share price rise dramatically, spiking to a valuation of more than $6 billion in a matter of days. The company’s 52-week low valued the firm at less than $18 million. Read More
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