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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Top Stories of the Day // December 31, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Dec 31, 2013

These Apps Will Help You Make 2014 Less Filthy

This year, several notable apps that connect users with house cleaners have launched or gained traction. These include Homejoy, Exec and laundry service Prim.... read more

Silicon Valley Hustle: Former Motionloft CEO Accused Of Defrauding Investors

Thanks to a series of high-profile exits and a generally frothy financing environment, it's not unusual to see successful entrepreneurs spending money at will.... read more

73% Of U.S. Adults Use Social Networks, Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

Facebook may be currently facing question marks over how well it's faring with younger users, but among those over 18 in the U.S. it remains the social network... read more

The FitBit App Now Turns The iPhone 5s Into A FitBit

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Nokia Closes Out 2013 With 92% Of The Windows Phone Market

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Microsoft’s Surface 2 Shortage Persists, Will Likely Stretch Into The New Year

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Divining The Underlying Value Of Bitcoin

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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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Monday, December 30, 2013

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Chromebooks overtake Android tablets and Macs in US business sales

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 11:21 AM PST

Fitbit app lets you track activity with just your iPhone 5s, no Fitbit device required

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 10:58 AM PST

The biggest stories of 2013: Console wars, Bitcoin's boom and the NSA's very bad year

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 10:00 AM PST

Archos will debut multiple 'Pebble-like' smartwatches at CES, starting at less than $50

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 09:30 AM PST

Archos previews connected home, health monitoring devices ahead of CES

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 09:30 AM PST

FAA selects six sites for drone testing because flying robots are our future

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 09:03 AM PST

Tech's biggest misfires of 2013

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 08:00 AM PST

The man behind NYT Magazine's gorgeous covers is headed to Apple

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 07:26 AM PST

Huawei Ascend Mate 2 snapped with its predecessor, said to keep 720p panel

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 03:37 AM PST

French Uber users face 15-minute delay starting next year

Posted: 30 Dec 2013 02:31 AM PST

LG makes Knock a standard feature, update coming for L Series II models

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 11:49 PM PST

Google, Audi to announce in-car Android plans next week, says WSJ

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 10:38 PM PST

Samsung's new chip could put 4GB of memory in your next smartphone

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 09:24 PM PST

How would you change Canon's EOS-1D X?

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 07:19 PM PST

Samsung's 110-inch Ultra HDTV is the world's largest, and it goes on sale Monday

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 06:11 PM PST

Hackers reverse engineer Wii U GamePad to stream from PC (video)

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 05:40 PM PST

Weekly Roundup: 2013 Mac Pro review, judge okays NSA spying and more!

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 05:01 PM PST

The best cellphone deals of the week: 12.29.13

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 03:24 PM PST

Defense bill makes US-based Russian satellite monitoring stations 'next to impossible' due to spying fears

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 02:11 PM PST

IRL: A look back at the original PlayStation Vita

Posted: 29 Dec 2013 12:36 PM PST

Top Stories of the Day // December 30, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Dec 30, 2013

Facebook’s Cutesy Annual Report To Partners Reveals First Country-By-Country Mobile Stats

TechCrunch has obtained never before published metrics showing Facebook's international growth. Facebook sent some partners a playfully illustrated eMagazine... read more

Fly Or Die: Microsoft Xbox One

As console makers all present their refreshed products this year, Microsoft has led the pack with the ever-impressive Xbox One, complete with cable TV control,... read more

Reason #152 Virtual Reality Is Awesome: Personal Movie Theaters Without The Awful Other People

I love going to the movie theater. Seriously, I love it. I just hate all the other people that go. The talkers. The texters. It's just not worth it anymore.... read more

What Makes Girls Fall In Love With Computers And Code?

The perennial discussion about women in technology is in high gear once again, this time after remarks made by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham about the... read more

Amazon’s Rough Christmas

Amazon may have had one of its best Cyber Mondays in reported history, but it doesn't mean that the holiday shopping season went off without a hitch. The... read more

Mophie’s Powerstation XL Packs In The Power For Extended Time Away From Outlets

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SD Cards Aren’t As Secure As We Think

The hardware hacker Bunnie Huang gave a talk at the Chaos Compute Club Congress where he offered some good news and some bad news. The good news? SD cards... read more

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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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Ask A VC: Accel's Ping Li On The Impact Of Data-Driven Software and More

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Accel Partners' Partner Ping Li joined me in the studio to talk about big data... read more

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Sunday, December 29, 2013

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Top Stories of the Day // December 29, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Dec 29, 2013

Uber, LeCab And Others Now Have To Wait 15 Minutes Before Picking You Up In France

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Google’s Chromebooks Have Hit Their Stride

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RSA’s Deal With The NSA Reflects A General Mistrust

Here's how it works when a big company believes that its power is in its girth: They enter this bizarre world that leads them to believe that what comes from... read more

The Bathys Atomic Watch Is Heading Towards A Crowdfunded Future

Bathys, a boutique watchmaker based on Kauai, Hawaii and run by one determined man, first announced their wild Cesium 133 atomic watch in October. Now, a few... read more

What Games Are: Games And Money Are Still Weird

Suppose you have a passion-project game. You want to develop it for iOS, to be "console quality". You want it to be cool. Given how everything has... read more

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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

Ask A VC: Accel's Ping Li On The Impact Of Data-Driven Software and More

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Accel Partners' Partner Ping Li joined me in the studio to talk about big data... read more

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Saturday, December 28, 2013

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Feedback Loop: frustrating applications, form factors vs. operating systems and more

Posted: 28 Dec 2013 08:30 AM PST

Nike updates Training Club app to help you keep those New Year's resolutions

Posted: 28 Dec 2013 04:22 AM PST

BlackBerry urges BB10 users to roll-back its glitchy Twitter app

Posted: 27 Dec 2013 11:35 PM PST

Microsoft connects Windows 8 for PCs, phones with new Solitaire, Minesweeper and Mahjong

Posted: 27 Dec 2013 05:36 PM PST

Hackers get encrypted PINs in Target data breach

Posted: 27 Dec 2013 03:51 PM PST

Daily Roundup: Snapchat security exploit, judge okays NSA spying and more!

Posted: 27 Dec 2013 02:36 PM PST

UPS and FedEx buckle under holiday load, leaving retailers and families in the lurch

Posted: 27 Dec 2013 01:52 PM PST

Engadget Podcast 374 - 12.26.13

Posted: 27 Dec 2013 12:10 PM PST

Top Stories of the Day // December 28, 2013

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Today's Top Stories // Dec 28, 2013

2013 Mac Pro Review: Apple’s New Desktop Boasts Dramatic Redesign, Dramatic Performance

Apple's new Mac Pro is a sight to behold: In black aluminum with an eye-catching cylindrical design, there's little chance you'll ever mistake it for any other... read more

I Can’t Believe I’m Saying This, But T-Mobile Is Awesome

I've spent the last week back in my wintry homeland in Canada, and here the scales have fallen from my eyes, and I have seen the light, and I have a message for... read more

How A Fabricated Story About Iron Maiden’s Love Of Music Pirates Became Internet Truth

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A Look Back At How The Content Industry Almost Killed Blockbuster And Netflix (And The VCR)

In 1977, the first video rental store was launched, a 600-square foot store located in Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. George Atkinson, the entrepreneur who... read more

What The Data Says About How We Spent Christmas Morning

The kids woke up, the parents got called out of bed and for a few hours, shockingly, it looks like the family put down their mobiles on Christmas morning,... read more

Snapchat Downplays Phone Number Matching Hack, Says It’s Added New Counter-Measures

Following security researchers publishing a way to match Snapchat usernames to phone numbers, Snapchat has published a skimpy statement making the hack sound... read more

Asia’s Richest Man Invests In BitPay

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Ask A VC: Accel's Ping Li On The Impact Of Data-Driven Software and More

In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Accel Partners' Partner Ping Li joined me in the studio to talk about big data... read more

Keen On… Innovation: Is Silicon Valley Losing Its Mojo?

Perhaps best known for his definitive book about Facebook, David Kirkpatrick is one of tech's smartest and best... read more

TC Cribs: TellApart Turned An Old Auto Shop Into A Golden Land Of Tech (And Champagne)

There are a few extra special Christmas gifts that can't be wrapped and don't quite fit under the tree -- love,... read more

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