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Greg Kumparak

FaceSubstitute Is The Coolest (And Creepiest) Thing You'll See This Week

Ready for your semi-regular reminder that technology is freakin' amazing? FaceSubstitute is a tech demo that lets you use your webcam to try on someone... read more

Darrell Etherington

Dropbox Closes Roughly $250M Round At $10B Valuation, WSJ Says

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Alex Wilhelm

Even BlackBerry Thinks Windows Phone Is Too Small

News is out today that BlackBerry has no intention of bringing a BlackBerry Messaging (BBM) application to Windows Phone. Comments published in TrustedReviews... read more

Jon Evans

The Techno-Militarization Of America

Remember last year? Edward Snowden! NSA! Shock! Horror! Dismay! Looking back I'm amazed we all seemed so surprised. Over the last decade, pretty much every... read more

Natasha Lomas

Amazon Patents “Anticipatory” Shipping — To Start Sending Stuff Before You’ve Bought It

Amazon has filed a patent for a shipping system designed to cut delivery times by predicting what buyers are going to buy before they buy it -- and shipping... read more

Josh Constine

Protect Yourself From The NSA With WireOver’s Encrypted File Sharing

Nothing is truly NSA-proof or hacker-proof, but WireOver wants to offer you more security than Dropbox, Google Drive, or Skydrive. The Y Combinator startup just... read more

Pankaj Mishra

Apple Turns To Old iPhone Models, And Lower Prices, To Woo Users In India

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Riide Is An Electric Bike For Cool Kids

2014 may very well be the year of electric bikes. There were quite a few personal e-vehicles showing their stuff... read more

Foundation: Nest's Tony Fadell on the Power of Focus

As part of our annual Google Ventures CEO Summit, Nest founder and CEO Tony Fadell and I filmed a live Foundation... read more

CrunchWeek: CES, CES, And CES

Talk about a long week. Along with a Polar Vortex infiltration, which left much of the northeast straight up... read more