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by Alexia Tsotsis

Gadgets
Epson Home Cinema 3500 Projector Review
19 minutes ago by Darrell Etherington
Epson’s Home Cinema 3500 is a mid-range home projector that’s designed to provide bright, clear 1080p (and 3D) video without breaking the bank. It’s a big step up in size and embedded tech from the Epson PowerLite 2030, another projector I’ve recently tested, but does it justify the considerable extra expense? With the Super Bowl right around the corner, it’s… Read More
Apps
“Zombie” Apps On The Rise – 83% Of Apps Not On Top Lists, Up From 74% Last Year
27 minutes ago by Sarah Perez
With the app economy showing no sign of slowing, the iOS App Store, too, continues to grow, and has now reached over 1.42 million apps, according to a new report out this morning from app analytics firm adjust. One interesting metric the report uncovered is just how many of the apps are effectively invisible to consumers – something adjust lovingly refers to as “zombie… Read More
Apps
Vine Introduces Vine Kids
28 minutes ago by Jordan Crook
Vine is today introducing a new layer of the app called Vine Kids. It’s meant to be a safe, kid-friendly space for a younger audience to play around with the app and watch vines. The feature pulls from the millions of Vines being created on the platform and chooses ones that are appropriate for children. The interface of the Kids section of the app has also been tailored to be more fun… Read More
Airbnb Hires Former Say Media SVP Alex Schleifer As Head Of Design
56 minutes ago by Ryan Lawler
Airbnb has always been pretty design-oriented, but today it’s announcing that it has hired former Say Media exec Alex Schleifer to head its design organization. He’ll lead the user experience and content design teams, as well as working with the production design team Read More
Education
Rothenberg Ventures’ First Virtual Reality Accelerator Emphasizes Health And Education
58 minutes ago by Josh Constine
VR could enlighten and heal, not just entertain. Its immersiveness could distract us from pain, help us face our phobias, or give us first-hand training. “We have a belief that VR will disrupt every industry. And it’s global. So we made efforts to find companies in every different industry and that are global” Rothenberg Ventures’ founder Mike Rothenberg about the… Read More
Female Founders Fare Much Better In 2014
1 hour ago by Christine Magee
In a place where having a penis is referred to as the sine qua non of the startup founder, it’s easy to jump on the pessimism bandwagon and overlook any gradual momentum for women in tech. But the data tells a different story. Read More
Daily Mail Acquires Millennial-Focused Website Elite Daily
2 hours ago by Anthony Ha
Apps
Blinq Enhances Your Favorite Messaging Applications With Extra Information
2 hours ago by Sarah Perez
A new mobile application called Blinq is launching today into public beta to add a layer of contextual information to your favorite mobile messaging applications. Founder Yossi Ghinsberg, who’s better known for his adventures in the Amazon (not Amazon.com, but the actual unchartered wilderness), described Blinq as “more of a hack than an app,” saying that people are tired… Read More
Apps
Minibar Offers On-Demand Booze Delivery In 13 Cities
2 hours ago by Jordan Crook
The snow is piled high and frozen on the New York City streets. Joshua and Amanda sit on their couch for the fifth night in a row, bored out of their minds but unwilling to bundle up, venture into the winter night and try to find warmth elsewhere. “Christie and Caleb want to go out,” Amanda says unenthusiastically, without looking at Joshua. “You care?” “Tell them… Read More
Gadgets
Canon 5DS Leaked Specs Reveal A High Megapixel DSLR Geared For Color Accuracy
2 hours ago by Darrell Etherington
Canon’s announcing a new pro-level DSLR camera next week, according to CanonRumors, and now specs have leaked that reveal what we can expect. The 5DS (and 5DS R, a variant with the low pass filter removed, which should provide greater detail for landscape photographers at the expense of higher moiré) should offer a generous 50.6MP full frame sensor, dual DIGIC6 processors and an ISO… Read More

More news

Airbnb To Begin Collecting Taxes In Amsterdam, San Jose, Chicago, And Washington, D.C.
2 hours ago by Ryan Lawler
Today Airbnb announced that it will soon begin collecting and remitting tourist taxes in four new cities: Amsterdam, San Jose, Chicago, And Washington, D.C. Read More
Utah-based Kickstart Seed Fund Raises $39.2 Million
2 hours ago by Sarah Buhr
Early stage venture capital investors Kickstart Seed Fund announced today that it has raised a $39.2 million investment round from various Utah investors. This is the third round for the seed fund and one of the larger rounds in Utah venture capital history. The Utah-based firm typically invests $500,000-$1 million rounds of capital in local startups. Much of this is in the enterprise… Read More
Sportsman Tracker Raises $950k To Bring Hunters Into The Smartphone Age
3 hours ago by Matt Burns
AOL To Lay Off About 150 People, Mostly In Sales; Folding Joystiq, TUAW Into Engadget
3 hours ago by Ingrid Lunden
Some more details are emerging around AOL’s reorganization plans. Sources tell us that the company will lay off around 150 people, with the majority in sales. As part of it, AOL is also consolidating some websites. Gaming site Joystiq and Apple news site TUAW are both being folded into Engadget, and AOL Autos has already been folded into Autoblog. We reported about AOL… Read More
Government
Uber Sued In California For Fraud, Negligence Following New Delhi Rape
3 hours ago by Jordan Crook
Nearly two months ago, a young woman was allegedly raped by her Uber driver in New Delhi, India. The incident led to the banning of the service in India and a full-scale investigation there, but the victim has brought her case over to the U.S. now filing a complaint with the Northern District Court of California. The charges raised in the complaint include negligence and fraud, and the victim… Read More
Gadgets
Tesla Model X Caught On Video At The Test Track
4 hours ago by Darrell Etherington
A new model Tesla has been caught on camera at the Alameda Airport test track (via Electrek). The car looks pretty similar to a Prius, or perhaps a crossover utility vehicle, and could plausibly be either the Model X SUV Tesla has been working on for years, or, as others are arguing, a prototype of the mass-market Model 3 that the coming is planning to bring to market in the $35,000 price… Read More
Europe
U.K. Telco BT Sets Out ‘500Mbps’ Broadband Plan By 2025
5 hours ago by Natasha Lomas
As the U.K.’s political parties sweat their policy wonks to come up with voter-friendly manifestos ahead of the General Election in May, incumbent telco BT has dropped a reminder that broadband upgrades will never be big enough nor fast enough for digital’s cutting edge unless politicians find the willpower and public money to chuck at future-proofing the problem. Read More
Google Settles With UK’s Information Commissioner And Will Change Its Privacy Policy
5 hours ago by Ingrid Lunden
While Google continues to work through implementing Right To Be Forgotten legislation in Europe, there are some more developments around how Google handles consumer data and privacy. The search giant has reached an agreement with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office over how it collects personal data in the country, signing and publishing a lengthy document outlining… Read More
Media
Jay-Z Gets Into Music Streaming With $56M Bid For Aspiro, Owner Of WiMP And Tidal
7 hours ago by Jon Russell
Dr. Dre might not be the only rapper in the music streaming business for long. That’s because Jay-Z is making a move to buy Aspiro, a Swedish company that operates the WiMP Music service and Tidal, as it is known some markets. Read More
Asia
India’s Mad Street Den Raises $1.5M To Bring The Benefits Of AI To Apps And Services
8 hours ago by Jon Russell
Mad Street Den, a one-year-old artificial intelligence startup based in Chennai, India, has closed a $1.5 million seed round to bring technology developed in the labs to consumers in a useful way. Read More