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To Solve Phone Addiction, App Shows How Many Times You Check Your Phone
Silicon Valley has made billions off phone addicts. Studies say owners unlock their phones upwards of 150 times every day, which is rewiring our brains and fueling mobile ad sales. Read more...
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Taxis Have Lost 65 Percent of Their Business, Screwing The Disabled
Uber and Lyft have been squeezing yellow cabs ever since they launched their on-demand car services. But the political shtick that startups are the underdog against "big taxi " is becoming a lie:...
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Peter Thiel Slams Twitter: "A lot of pot smoking going on over there"
Everyone's favorite gay libertarian hypocrite is up early this morning, and he's got big opinions: Peter Thiel just hopped on CNBC to call Twitter's executives a bunch of weed-snorting losers.Read...
View ArticleThe Absolute Worst Way to Talk About Women in Tech
Fancy a bit of gender apartheid at your tech event? Use this handy all-female speaker shortlist by @wearecaper : http://t.co/FpyMam4s9w— Chris Beach (@chrisbeach) September 16, 2014 Read more...
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Apple Keeps Steve Jobs' Empty Office Untouched
Like an emotionally abusive high school coach still haunting your anxiety dreams, the specter of Steve Jobs looms over the Apple of today. Maybe preserving his office three years after his death is...
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Thirsty Uber Seeks the Fresh Blood of Military Veterans
Uber, the smartphone-based succubus that's driving taxis to extinction (but isn't really driving disabled people anywhere), is branching out to military vets and their loved ones. They want vet...
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VC Shocked By Startups Wasting the Wasteful Money He Handed Them
Fred Wilson is a star venture capitalist, one of those check-cutting white men whose blog posts are read like tea leaves by his peers (Think Marc Andreessen with less skull and more brain). But...
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Your Electronics Are Probably the Product of Forced Labor
The internet keeps a close eye on what companies like Apple, Samsung, and Sony import out of Southeast Asia, since those components hint at products coming down the pipeline. The Department of Labor...
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This Has to Be the First Intentional #Normcore Magazine Cover
Bloomberg Businessweek's explanation of this cover is so aggressively content-free as to itself probably count as a performance of #normcore. But they are famously deliberate about their design...
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Techies Are Now Panhandling For Funding
Sand Hill Road is Silicon Valley's premiere boulevard of big dreams and bad investments. Thanks to the loose funding standards fueling the current bubble, these two founders think they can raise cash...
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Microsoft Shutting Down Silicon Valley Research Lab Amid Layoffs
The company that brought you classics like Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 is making a move that doesn't bode well for future breakthroughs: according to canned employees, its R&D lab in Silicon Valley...
View ArticleRecode reports noted yacht racing cheater Larry Ellison is leaving his day job.
Recode reports noted yacht racing cheater Larry Ellison is leaving his day job.Read more...
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TechCrunch Takes Brave Stand Against Sexism Towards Men
The internet's app release bulletin board of record is expanding into new territory: MRA editorials, straight from the dankest depths of some godforsaken subreddit. Read more...
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Knob-Wrenching Nightmare Tiesto Is Now a Venture Capitalist
Tech loves their celebrity-backed apps, even if they rarely pan out . Now the feverish push to spin every star into a startup has pulled in a group of DJs, anchored in part by the Dutch dance manbrand...
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Larry Ellison's Oracle Started As a CIA Project
Yesterday, Vox somehow managed to write an entire article about the history of Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison without mentioning the CIA even once. Which is pretty astounding, given the fact...
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Groupon Sneaks Out Horrible Diversity Report Before Alibaba IPO
Tech titans slowly began releasing their diversity numbers earlier this year as a well-intentioned conversation starter about the industry's troubling sameness. But as the disclosures pressed on,...
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Are Investors Afraid of the Tech Bubble? Let's Read Their Emails
For the first time in a long time, some of venture capital's biggest names are openly worried . Sky-high valuations, easy money, and mounting burn rates are on everyone's mind (and in everyone's blog...
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Kevin Rose Is Competing With His Own Investment
On September 4th, Kevin Rose, the Digg founder turned partner at Google Ventures, sent out a series of texts to the folks who were beta testing his new photo-sharing app, Tiiny. People were curious...
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Rand Paul Opening Silicon Valley Office to Fund Expected Presidential Run
Republicans have been ratcheting up their efforts to win-over the new money elites of the tech boom. The latest move comes from Senator Rand Paul, who announced he's opening an office in the Bay...
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Meet The Special People Helping Celebrities Invest In Startups
The New York Times has located a new breed of hustlers trying to convince Hollywood celebrities to make money off startups instead of traditional endorsement deals. It's not even a hard sell,...
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