This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the hosts discuss the Apple TV, and some new kitchen tech that cooks for you.
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Daily Archives: November 6, 2015
Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we’re chatting about Twitter’s issues with diversity, Activision paying a lot of billions for the maker of the addictive game Candy Crush (hear Megan talk about her recovery), and Facebook’s earnings. They crushed it. So: As our resident… Read MoreCrunchWeek: Diversity, Candy, And Books Of Faces
Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over the past 18 months. Their suite of apps (Tempo, Fly and Crop) will be made available for the next three months. You’ll still be able to use them, but there will be no more updates. We're excited to announce that we've… Read MoreGoogle Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Google Photos Team
Doodle makes it easy to schedule things with friends, coworkers, whoever — but scheduling isn’t the only thing that you need to organize an event. So the company has also connected its tools to the invitation process, by rolling out an integration with Paperless Post. Doodle CEO Michael Brecht said this is the Zurich-headquartered company’s first big US partnership, and… Read MoreDoodle Partners With Paperless Post To Bring Easy Scheduling To ...
In case you want to opt out of the smart watch trend without having a dumb watch, Chronos is there for you. comScore made moves this week in the world of mergers and acquisitions, while the Ario smart lamp went live (and surpassed its goal) on Kickstarter. We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the TC Gadgets Podcast, featuring John Biggs, Matt Burns, Romain Dillet,… Read MoreThis Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Chronos, comScore, And ...
Confirming earlier reports, Apple today is debuting a new category to its App Store that will help consumers better locate mobile shopping applications. The “Shopping” category will be available worldwide, and will feature apps that span across omni-channel, auctions, price comparison, product reviews and more. These applications were previously listed in the App Store’s… Read MoreApple Debuts A New “Shopping” Category On The App Store
Wi-fi setup is usually pretty easy: you find a space in the house, hire a team of radio experts to scan it for dead spots and an entire IT team to manage security and QoS. Then you try to connect from the back patio and discover that you can’t watch YouTube from the picnic table. To remedy this Dr. Paul Judge and Mike Van Bruinisse created Luma. This tiny Wi-Fi hotspot connects using a… Read MoreLuma, Quite Improbably, Makes Wi-Fi Setup Fun
The Bond franchise has taken us on a roller coaster of technological possibilities, and finally, we've struck a happy medium.
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The Evolution of the Bond Gadget, From Insane to Reasonable
One of America's largest automakers is putting their cars in the cold hands of machines to strip out the human error factor in durability testing.
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