Category: Tech news

 I don’t care about valuations. But I do care about the tech industry as the most powerful means for the promulgation of new / cool / interesting / important technology; and the tremors running through the industry of late, as the so-called “unicorns” begin to tremble and quake, are hard to ignore. Evernote. Dropbox. Square. Theranos. Snapchat. IPO down rounds. Read More

 More than a billion people do not have access to cellular networks, three billion people live without phones and five billion people do without Internet access. While billions became connected to phone and Internet networks over the past decade, huge numbers of people are still underserved by these networks. The existing telecom and Internet infrastructure faces a tremendous challenge in… Read More

 500px, the photography platform where users post and share, as well as buy and sell photos, has become the latest Western technology company to enter China. The Toronto-based startup launched a localized version of its service in China — 500px.me — this week, following an initial trial period. Read More

 Hello friends, and welcome to the very last CrunchWeek. After a three-year run, this little show is over. Sometimes things change.
Regardless, it was a pleasure to send off this particular ship into the void flanked by Megan Rose Dickey and Matthew Lynley, two humans that I hold in the highest regard. Read More

 Record companies, advertising firms, film studios, and television networks are all being forced to change the way they think about doing business in the age of the internet. Read More

 Mavrck, a startup that helps marketers recruit customers to create promotional content, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. There are plenty of other companies working on influencer marketing, but Mavrck co-founder and CEO Lyle Stevens said they usually identify influencers without helping brands “activate” them, or they’re focused on how to “rent”… Read More

Earlier this week, Apple Store employees at the Highpoint Shopping Centre in Melbourne, Australia, asked a group of black students to leave the store because they worried they might “steal something.” Apple has since apologized to the students, and Apple CEO Tim Cook recently sent out a company-wide email, obtained by BuzzFeed, in which he called what happened (see below) an… Read More

Acer’s inexpensive Switch 10 has been updated, bringing it into the Windows 10 era and taking another axe to the price.

The post Review: Acer Aspire Switch 10 Special Edition appeared first on WIRED.

Definitely has beauty. Do the brains match?

The post Review: Moto 360 appeared first on WIRED.

 The internets lit up today when someone posted a photo of a cop talking to someone in a self-driving car. Yep, it got pulled over. Why? According to Google, it was going too slow. According to the original poster, the Mountain View police officer didn’t get the memo on these things patrolling the streets, so of course wanted to know why the thing was going so damn slow: Yes. We talked to… Read More

 Woe betide traditional banking because Dimitry Voloshinskiy and his team are on the prowl. Voloshinskiy is the founder of the NextBank Project, an attempt to create a truly bitcoin-based bank. The team has raised $950,000 so far using personal money and angels and they hope to attract more. What is a BTC bank? First, they’re looking to attract the bitcoin crowd. “We are a 100%… Read More

 In what will go down as the best example of a crowdfunded media project ever in the entire known universe forever, the team that put together the original Mystery Science Theatre 3000 are about to crash through their goal of raising $2 million to start filming the show again. For those who left the house in the 1980s and 1990s, MST3K is a show the made fun of cheesy movies. Joel Hodgson and… Read More

 Just 24 hours after developers of the popular screen brightness app f.lux released a side-loaded version for iOS, Apple has told the developers that they are in violation of the company’s developer program agreement. Since f.lux’s private APIs are not allowed in the App Store, the developers decided to allow users to directly download the app’s source code, taking advantage… Read More

 This week, Fiverr, an online market for small services, announced $60 million in new financing led by Square Peg Capital. Earlier backers Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel Partners and Qumra Capital also chipped into the round, which brings the company’s total funding to a pretty significant $110 million. We recently talked with founder and CEO Micha Kaufman and what those investors… Read More

 It’s something of a rule: if a cool thing exists in a video game or movie, someone will (try to) make it real.
Bioshock’s Big Daddy. Wolverine’s Claws. Thor’s Hammer.
And now: the Shishkebab, the insane, fire-engulfed sword from Fallout. Read More