Category: Tech news

 Mobile apps are something that you interact with on a very personal basis — you carry them around in your pocket, check in with them frequently, and really let them into your life. So in this episode of Inside Jobs we decided to turn the tables and get personal with someone who builds mobile apps. Danilo Campos is the developer and designer behind beautiful mobile apps for iOS including… Read More

 Today in the Twitter log cabin beat: Twitter installed its previously purchased log cabins, which we reported on here, into its office at 1355 Market Street. The log cabins are part of the company’s mid-Market office expansion, which includes a new cafeteria. Twitter now occupies seven floors of the 11-floor, 77-year-old SF Mart building. Read More

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Airlines are awful at Twitter, and should leave the platform entirely. I’m not the first person to say this, but today’s knock-it-out-off-the-park fail from USAirways’ Twitter account served as an excellent reminder. Read More

 When Sequoia Capital partner Roelof Botha talks about a company, people listen. Botha has been the mastermind behind funding rounds of several successful startups, with a specific knack for social services. He’s repeatedly found himself in the top 30 on Forbes’ annual Midas List, which ranks the top individual investors at the major venture capital firms. Which is why we’re excited to… Read More

 Y Combinator is announcing today the addition of four new partners to its roster, as part of its larger push for more growth under new president Sam Altman. Altman announced in a blog post this afternoon that YC’s current outreach director Kat Manalac has been promoted to take on a partner position at the organization, and joining YC as part-time partners are Stripe CEO Patrick Collison,… Read More

 Following its blockbuster IPO, Twitter soared north of $70 per share, topping out at $74.73. Not bad for a company that priced at $26 per share. Since that late-2013 high, Twitter has retreated, trading today just over the $40 mark. It traded under that threshold last week. In the face of that slide, and despite a massive share-price correction — read: selloff — following its fourth-quarter… Read More

 Titan Aerospace, the drone maker Facebook had been in acquisition talks with prior to being bought by Google (as we’ve now confirmed following The WSJ’s initial report), was a name that took many in the industry by surprise. How was it that a company that reportedly has solar-powered drones that can fly at 65,000 feet above sea level for five years without needing to land, did not have more public… Read More

 After Brendan Eich’s short tenure as Mozilla’s CEO, the organization today announced that it has appointed Chris Beard as its new interim CEO while it looks for a long-term replacement. Beard is also joining Mozilla’s Board of Directors. Read More

 Google has a new patent application with the USPTO (via 9to5Google), which takes one of the basic concepts of Glass and extends it even further, embedding tiny cameras that could be embedded in contact lenses for various uses, including photographing what a wearer sees, or providing the basic input for a contact-based assistive device for the visually impaired. Google has previously detailed a… Read More

 Google has acquired Titan Aerospace, the drone startup that makes high-flying robots which was previously scoped by Facebook as a potential acquisition target (as first reported by TechCrunch), the WSJ reports. The details of the purchase weren’t disclosed, but the deal comes after Facebook disclosed its own purchase of a Titan Aerospace competitor in U.K.-based Ascenta for its… Read More

 Get ready for 15-second news segments on MSNBC. Following an announcement in January that NBCUniversal News Group had made a strategic investment in mobile news startup NowThis News, the companies are announcing their first collaboration on regular programming, with a show called “15 Seconds to Truth.” As you can probably guess, each segment will be 15 seconds long (a format that NowThis News… Read More

 The new Microsoft loves everyone equally, and supports all platforms – to the extreme in some cases, as with embedded support for Apple’s Passbook passes in Windows Phone 8.1, something noted by The Verge’s Tom Warren and explained in greater detail by Rene Ritchie at iMore. The gist of it is that Microsoft has reverse-engineered how to read Passbook files (.pkpass) and can turn… Read More

 After graduating from college, your brain is stressed to the max. You need to find a place to live, find a job, and most terrifyingly, figure out how to be a self-sufficient adult. The last thing on your mind is all the new clothes you’ll have to buy for your inevitable full dance card of job interviews, but NextSuit aims to change all that. The site, which is going to launch soon, lets you… Read More

This stick is no stooge. It has the brains of a puck, and most of the brawn. But because it’s a stick, it’s cheaper and simpler, and therefore a great option for people new to the whole puck-and-stick game.

As some of you might be aware, the WIRED website underwent some cleanup and upgrades a couple of weeks ago. No sooner than those fixes started to take effect and all us bloggers started feeling our way around a new blogging interface, we got slammed with a malware attack. I’m a simple historian, so I […]