| ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bg_white-squares.png) ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/my-pact-iphone.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Catherine Shu GymPact, the app that makes you pay--literally--if you don't meet your exercise goals, has a new name, Pact, and two new diet-oriented features for the New... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/screenshot-2014-01-02-09-35-00.png?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Jordan Crook The console wars are in full swing, and no contender is more focused on hardcore gamers as the PS4. Sony's next-gen PlayStation is not like the Xbox One,... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/the-late-adoptors.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Sarah Perez Was 2013 a "lost year for technology?," as an article in Quartz recently proposed? Hardly. Yet I can understand, to some extent, both why there's a growing... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/screen-shot-2014-01-01-at-9-04-42-am.png?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Alex Wilhelm | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/samsung-s4.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Darrell Etherington Samsung isn't off to a great start for 2014 – during its first full day of trading of the new year, it lost 4.6 percent of its stock price value, which... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/quantified.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Gregory Ferenstein | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/moto-x02.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Chris Velazco Let's be real here: there's a decent chance that you picked up a new smartphone at some point during the holidays, so you're off the market for at least a... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/screen-shot-2013-12-29-at-11-46-34-pm.png?w=150?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | It may be the holiday season, but Gavin Newsom, California's tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell.... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/lawlercrunchweek.jpg?w=150?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | 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 | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |