Saturday, May 2, 2015

Top Stories of the Day // May 2, 2015

Death To C |
Rise Of The Quants — Again |
TC AppleCast 13: Life With Apple Watch |
Apple Confirms Tattoos Can Affect Apple Watch’s Heart Rate Sensor Readings |
Protecting Users’ Location Data From An Unconstitutional Search |
Hobnob Lets You Create Personalized Event Invites To Send By Text |
Meet The Disrupt NY 2015 Speakers And Judges |
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Today's Top Stories // May 2, 2015

Death To C

Ladies and gentlemen, the C programming language. It's a classic. It is sleek, and spartan, and elegant. (Especially compared to its sequel, that bloated mess... read more

Rise Of The Quants — Again

I graduated from Stanford in the late 1980s with a dual degree in engineering and economics, and, like so many others of my day, I was drawn to Wall Street.... read more

TC AppleCast 13: Life With Apple Watch

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Apple Confirms Tattoos Can Affect Apple Watch’s Heart Rate Sensor Readings

Apple has updated its Apple Watch support documentation, confirming that the device may have issues when worn by users who have wrist tattoos. The changes were... read more

Protecting Users’ Location Data From An Unconstitutional Search

Location data is highly sensitive. It contains information about where we live, our daily habits and our network of friends. We discover new places to go; avoid... read more

Hobnob Lets You Create Personalized Event Invites To Send By Text

There are a number of services today that allow you to create and send digital invitations to birthdays, parties and other events, where the invites themselves... read more

Meet The Disrupt NY 2015 Speakers And Judges

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TOP VIDEOS

CrunchWeek: Secret's Demise, Botched Earnings, And Microsoft Goes Viral

 Hello from New York, friends, where TechCrunch’s staff has taken up residence to put on a small confab... read more

Gillmor Gang: Time Machine

 The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded... read more

CrunchWeek: Zenefits Loves Cash, Everyone's Watching Apple, And Amazon's Epic Quarterly Report

 Another week has left us in a miasma of earnings, product releases, and something called the Apple Watch.... read more

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Friday, May 1, 2015

Top Stories of the Day // May 1, 2015

Tesla’s $3,000 Powerwall Will Let Households Run Entirely On Solar Energy |
How Old Do You Look? Microsoft Built A Robot That Tries To Guess Your Age |
HoloLens Hands-On: How We Built An App For Microsoft's Augmented Reality Headset |
Over-The-Air HDTV Makes Xbox One A Near-Perfect Cord-Cutting Console |
The Secret About Rich Founders And Ferraris |
How To Install Windows 10 IoT On Your Raspberry Pi 2 |
Rocket Internet’s Foodpanda Gobbles Up $100M More Led By Goldman Sachs |
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Today's Top Stories // May 1, 2015

Tesla’s $3,000 Powerwall Will Let Households Run Entirely On Solar Energy

You almost certainly associate Tesla with cars -- very cool cars -- but the company has an even grander vision beyond that. Today, CEO and founder Elon Musk... read more

How Old Do You Look? Microsoft Built A Robot That Tries To Guess Your Age

How old do you look? Old for your years? Young enough that you get carded every time you try to buy a beer? Now, how old do you look... to a computer that... read more

HoloLens Hands-On: How We Built An App For Microsoft's Augmented Reality Headset

Microsoft's HoloLens is no joke. We've now tried the company's latest revision of its unreleased augmented reality headset and even built an app for it. The new... read more

Over-The-Air HDTV Makes Xbox One A Near-Perfect Cord-Cutting Console

Microsoft announced support for over-the-air TV broadcasts, including HD content, early in April. I've been using the setup since, after enrolling in the Xbox... read more

The Secret About Rich Founders And Ferraris

By now, the outrage machine is in full bore over the shutdown of Valley darling Secret. The once high-flying app, which allowed you to anonymously share details... read more

How To Install Windows 10 IoT On Your Raspberry Pi 2

Thanks to the release of Windows 10 for multiple single-board computers, tinkerers are now waking up to the possibility of running Windows as a usable and... read more

Rocket Internet’s Foodpanda Gobbles Up $100M More Led By Goldman Sachs

Less than two months after raising $110 million, Foodpanda -- the Rocket Internet-backed food delivery service -- has gobbled an additional $100 million serving... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Gillmor Gang: Time Machine

 The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded... read more

CrunchWeek: Zenefits Loves Cash, Everyone's Watching Apple, And Amazon's Epic Quarterly Report

 Another week has left us in a miasma of earnings, product releases, and something called the Apple Watch.... read more

Facebook Testing Caller Id App "Hello" | Crunch Report

 On today’s Crunch Report, Google announces Project Fi cell service, what your favorite apps will look... read more

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