The new new web
Over the last five years, almost everything about web development has changed. Oh, the old tech still works, your WordPress and Ruby On Rails sites still...
Blind People Really Do Have More Sensitive Hearing, MRI Study Finds
A new study out Monday suggests that losing your sight early in life can lead to subtle alterations in the brain circuitry primarily responsible for hearing....
Watching Bill Gates Boogie Down on 4/20 Makes Me Wish I Was Rich Enough to Feel Like Dancing
Last week marked Bill Gates’ annual Mosquito Week, and it seems he celebrated the end of it by hitting the Miami club scene. Read more… Source...
California Eyes Ban on Contracts With All Tech Companies That Work With ICE
Up and down the state of California, lawmakers and activists have been pushing a local and state-level campaign to kill contracts with tech companies that work...
ACE Sees “Piracy Reduction” Efforts Pay Off, But Work is Not Done Yet
During the summer of 2017, several of the largest entertainment industry companies in the world teamed up to create a new anti-piracy coalition. The Alliance for...
Security lapse at contract startup Evisort exposed sensitive data
Evisort, a document and contract management company, left one of its document databases unsecured, exposing customer data. The startup, founded by former Harvard and MIT students...
Talk media and TED2019 key takeaways with TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha
Anthony just returned from Vancouver, where he was covering the TED2019 conference — a much-parodied gathering where VCs, executives and other bigwigs gather to exchange ideas....
If You Used This App, the Passwords of the Private WiFi Networks You Connected to Leaked Online
Thousands of users of an app called WiFi Finder, the stated purpose of which is, obviously, to locate and provide credentials for public wifi hotspots, inadvertently...
Why it’s so hard to know who owns Huawei
It’s one of the greatest technology “startup” success stories of the personal computer and smartphone eras. Yet, despite selling 59 million smartphones and netting $27 billion...
Blueland launches with a suite of eco-friendly cleaning supplies designed to reduce plastic waste
Sarah Paiji had the idea to launch the eco-friendly refillable cleaning supply retailer Blueland after hearing about the abundance of microplastics in the water she was...
