| ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/bg_white-squares.png) ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/solar-roadways-sandpoint_sidewalk.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Ryan Lawler Here's an idea crazy enough that it just might work: Pave the streets with solar-powered panels that have their own built-in heat and LED lights. That's... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/iphone-5s-5c.png?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Darrell Etherington | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/screen-shot-2014-05-25-at-12-12-42-pm.png?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Colleen Taylor | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/casper-mattress-2.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Anthony Ha Earlier this year, I wrote about Casper, a Lerer Ventures-backed startup that says it's trying to reinvent how mattresses are built and sold. Since then, the... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/kik1.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Danny Crichton The second messaging revolution is now quickly coming to a close. With the news today that Korea's leading messenger KakaoTalk is merging with one of that... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/3651475141_536f254f35_z.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Catherine Shu If the actions of the U.C. Santa Barbara shooter last week turned the Internet into a crime scene, then the Web is also where we turn to grieve and try to... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/newbattle.jpg?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | Darrell Etherington | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/screen-shot-2014-05-25-at-4-10-16-pm.png?w=210&h=158&crop=1?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | To listen to Guy Goldstein, the CEO of Check (formerly Pageonce), tell the story, you’d think he never... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/gg-test-pattern-sepia3.jpg?w=210&h=158&crop=1?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | The Gillmor Gang — Alexia Tsotsis, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor —... read more | | ![](http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/alexiacw.jpg?w=210&h=158&crop=1?w=152&h=102&crop=1) | This week our inimitable boss Alexia Tsotsis took to the Round Table with Kyle Russell, one of our latest... read more | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |