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 | Sarah Perez | |  | Natasha Lomas There's plentiful choice if you're after a connected, energy efficient lightbulb that's controlled with your phone. There's LIFX, Philips Hue, Brightup, LuMini,... read more | |  | Ingrid Lunden, Jonathan Shieber Space Exploration Technologies, the commercial space transportation startup founded by Elon Musk with ambitions to land people on Mars, is raising investment... read more | |  | Catherine Shu There are a lot of games and puzzles now that promise to teach kids how to code, but Tickle stands out. Now on Kickstarter, the iPad app was created in part by... read more | |  | Jacob Mullins David Gelles wrote in the New York Times this weekend about how large tech corporations have been conducting more M&A deals with less input from traditional... read more | |  | Jordan Crook CGI has come a long way - from simulating Jar Jar Binks on the silver screen to replacing green screens with King's Landing. Today, we should add this video to... read more | |  | Kyle Russell Despite the promise of bountiful, cheap, and clean energy, nuclear energy didn't completely overtake fossil fuels like everyone expected in the middle of the... read more | |  | Co-founders Ben Jenkins and Alexander Kane swung by the TechCrunch office recently to show off Sympler, their... read more | |  | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor — struggle... read more | |  | We’re in the mid-August tech news cycle (AKA, it’s pretty slow), which made for some interesting... read more | | | To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here. | | |
