Top Stories of the Day // January 2, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Jan 2, 2014

GymPact, The App That Pays You For Working Out, Relaunches As Pact With New Diet Features

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

Fly Or Die: Sony PlayStation 4

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

The Late Adopters

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

Windows 8.x Busts Past 10% Market Share As Windows 7 Rises, XP Falls

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Samsung Stock Closes Down 4.6%, Cutting $8B Off Its Market Value As Investors Worry

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

How The Quantified Life Can Help You Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions

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Motorola’s Flagship Moto X Gets A Permanent Price Cut

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

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Keen On… The 2013 Debacle: Why Gavin Newsom Says The Government Is On A Collision Course With The Future

It may be the holiday season, but Gavin Newsom, California's tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell.... read more

CrunchWeek 2013 In Review: Bitcoin's Big Rise, Edward Snowden And The NSA

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

Gillmor Gang: Almost Full

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Top Stories of the Day // January 1, 2014

Wednesday, January 1, 2014 Posted by bloggerdaddy 0 comments
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Today's Top Stories // Jan 1, 2014

Confirmed: Snapchat Hack Not A Hoax, 4.6M Usernames And Numbers Published

A site called SnapchatDB.info has saved usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million accounts and made the information available for download. SnapchatDB says... read more

The Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2013

Congratulations, Planet Earth! We made it another 365 days without crashing into the sun. Go team! It's the end of the year, and that means... read more

The Best And Worst Gadgets Of 2013

2013 was a heady year: a time of hope; a time for sadness; a time for twerking; and a time for doge. But it was also a time for gadgets. As we wait for... read more

Google To Close Bump And Flock, Its Recently Acquired File Sharing Apps

Bump and Flock, the file sharing apps Google acquired last fall, will be shut down by the end of this month. Both apps will stop working and be removed from... read more

Why 2014 Is The Year You Change

I stopped going to classes. I had a scholarship that paid all my living expenses ($1,200/month) so I didn't want to quit (ugh, and get a job?). So I stayed a... read more

Why I Lost Faith In Bitcoin As A Money Transfer Protocol

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Dell Looks To Set A New Tone For Its Private Life

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Keen On… The 2013 Debacle: Why Gavin Newsom Says The Government Is On A Collision Course With The Future

It may be the holiday season, but Gavin Newsom, California's tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell.... read more

CrunchWeek 2013 In Review: Bitcoin's Big Rise, Edward Snowden And The NSA

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

Gillmor Gang: Almost Full

... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // January 1, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // Jan 1, 2014

Confirmed: Snapchat Hack Not A Hoax, 4.6M Usernames And Numbers Published

A site called SnapchatDB.info has saved usernames and phone numbers for 4.6 million accounts and made the information available for download. SnapchatDB says... read more

The Best iOS And Android Apps Of 2013

Congratulations, Planet Earth! We made it another 365 days without crashing into the sun. Go team! It's the end of the year, and that means... read more

The Best And Worst Gadgets Of 2013

2013 was a heady year: a time of hope; a time for sadness; a time for twerking; and a time for doge. But it was also a time for gadgets. As we wait for... read more

Google To Close Bump And Flock, Its Recently Acquired File Sharing Apps

Bump and Flock, the file sharing apps Google acquired last fall, will be shut down by the end of this month. Both apps will stop working and be removed from... read more

Why 2014 Is The Year You Change

I stopped going to classes. I had a scholarship that paid all my living expenses ($1,200/month) so I didn't want to quit (ugh, and get a job?). So I stayed a... read more

Why I Lost Faith In Bitcoin As A Money Transfer Protocol

read more

Dell Looks To Set A New Tone For Its Private Life

read more

TOP VIDEOS

Keen On… The 2013 Debacle: Why Gavin Newsom Says The Government Is On A Collision Course With The Future

It may be the holiday season, but Gavin Newsom, California's tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell.... read more

CrunchWeek 2013 In Review: Bitcoin's Big Rise, Edward Snowden And The NSA

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

Gillmor Gang: Almost Full

... read more

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Top Stories of the Day // December 31, 2013

Tuesday, December 31, 2013 Posted by bloggerdaddy 0 comments
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Today's Top Stories // Dec 31, 2013

These Apps Will Help You Make 2014 Less Filthy

This year, several notable apps that connect users with house cleaners have launched or gained traction. These include Homejoy, Exec and laundry service Prim.... read more

Silicon Valley Hustle: Former Motionloft CEO Accused Of Defrauding Investors

Thanks to a series of high-profile exits and a generally frothy financing environment, it's not unusual to see successful entrepreneurs spending money at will.... read more

73% Of U.S. Adults Use Social Networks, Pinterest Passes Twitter In Popularity, Facebook Stays On Top

Facebook may be currently facing question marks over how well it's faring with younger users, but among those over 18 in the U.S. it remains the social network... read more

The FitBit App Now Turns The iPhone 5s Into A FitBit

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Nokia Closes Out 2013 With 92% Of The Windows Phone Market

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Microsoft’s Surface 2 Shortage Persists, Will Likely Stretch Into The New Year

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Divining The Underlying Value Of Bitcoin

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TOP VIDEOS

Keen On… The 2013 Debacle: Why Gavin Newsom Says The Government Is On A Collision Course With The Future

It may be the holiday season, but Gavin Newsom, California's tech savvy Lieutenant Governor, is as mad as hell.... read more

CrunchWeek 2013 In Review: Bitcoin's Big Rise, Edward Snowden And The NSA

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

Gillmor Gang: Almost Full

... read more

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