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David Karp's Dilemma

# 2013-05-18 19:48:29, TechCrunch
As the Tumblr/Yahoo deal continues to be negotiated by press, and the world gears up for whatever is being announced Monday morning, Tumblr founder David Karp is probably having a very interesting weekend. It's likely, in between multiple discussions with his board members and Marissa Mayer, that he'll take a break, like a walk or somethi...

I know who 'Satoshi Nakamoto' is, says Ted Nelson

# 2013-05-18 19:31:15, The Register
Coiner of 'hypertext' claims to identify the linksSociologist, philosopher, computer industry pioneer and inventor of the term “hypertext” Ted Nelson is claiming that he knows the identity of Bitcoin inventor “Satoshi Nakamoto”.…

Visteon's HABIT is a concept infotainment system that puts road trip copilots out of a job (video)

# 2013-05-18 18:41:00, Engadget
A good acronym also hints at what it does, and Visteon's new intelligent in-car concept, HABIT, is a good example of that. The Human Bayesian Intelligence Technology system -- to give it its full name -- learns the behaviour of drivers so it can automatically change the temperature, heat the sea...

Mark Suster Talks Founder CEOs, The Acqui-Hire Frenzy, And Much More [TCTV]

# 2013-05-18 18:05:47, TechCrunch
Mark Suster of Los Angeles' GRP Partners is known for his unique insights on the tech and digital media worlds, having famously had success on "both sides of the table" as a repeat entrepreneur turned investor over nearly two decades in the industry. And he hit headlines several times this week, wit...

Confronting The Reality Of US Broadband Performance

# 2013-05-18 18:00:17, TechCrunch
Editor's note: Richard Bennett is a Senior Fellow with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and co-author of ITIF’s 2013 report, "The Whole Picture: Where America’s Broadband Networks Really Stand." We’ve all heard the story: America’s broadband networks are second-rate. We...

Ask Engadget: can you use an Android tablet as a graphics tablet?

# 2013-05-18 16:45:00, Engadget
We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Xan, who wants Cintiq functionality without paying Cintiq prices. If you're looking to ask one of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] ...

The Future Of Mobile-Social Could Spell The End For Social Networks

# 2013-05-18 16:16:41, TechCrunch
Editor's note:  Keith Teare is the founder of just.me and a partner at Archimedes Labs. He is also the co-founder of TechCrunch. This was a momentous week for those of us who are watching the rapid transition that is taking place from desktop computing to mobile., and particularly for those focus...

Mobile Miscellany: week of May 13th, 2013

# 2013-05-18 15:45:00, Engadget
If you didn't get enough mobile news during the week, not to worry, because we've opened the firehose for the truly hardcore. This week brought a new handset from Sony to the US and UK, updates to Nokia Creative Suite and three new (and very inexpensive) smartphones from Blu Products. These stor...

JVC rolls out the GC-P100 a new 600fps capable HD Camera

# 2013-05-18 15:04:36, Akihabara News
Announced last Friday in Japan, JVC’s new powerful camcorder the GC-P100 is the sport oriented or action amateur filmmaker dream comes true! Indeed thanks to JVC’s Falcon Bird technology the GC-P100 is capable to shoot by default Full HD 60p videos in 36Mbps as well as stunning 600fps ones in 32...

Streetlight Manifesto: Ungrateful

# 2013-05-18 15:00:00, Gizmodo
Streetlight Manifesto's new record, The Hands That Thieve, is an instant classic in the ever-shrinking world of really stellar ska music simply by virtue of being a Streetlight Manifesto album. But what "Ungrateful" brings to the table is something a little subtler; it's a great Catch 22 song.Read ...

Axio returns as Melon, an EEG headband that'll help you learn to focus

# 2013-05-18 13:32:00, Engadget
The quantified self movement's gaining steam, with companies creating all sorts of gadgets to track our activity levels, sleeping habits and even what's going on inside our heads. Melon's an EEG headband that taps into your brain's inner workings to show you how well you maintain mental focus. W...

One of the Basic Math Rules You Learned In School Is Wrong

# 2013-05-18 13:30:00, Gizmodo
There are probably a lot of things you learned in school that you don't even remember, but the "order of operations"—also known as PEMDAS—is likely to be one that stuck with you; you'll mess up even simple equations without it. The catch? Well, it's wrong. Read more...

Hell No, Tumblr Users Won't Go To Yahoo!

# 2013-05-18 13:14:47, TechCrunch
We’ve all by now heard about how Yahoo is trying to get some “cool” with a supposed $1 billion purchase of hip blogging platform Tumblr, but it may be a moot point if Tumblr’s users fail to stick around post-sale. Microsoft and Facebook may be trying to make a move ahead of Yahoo, Tumblr ma...

Ex-Valve Engineers' Crazy AR Glasses Put Tiny Projectors On Your Face

# 2013-05-18 12:28:00, Gizmodo
Want some more tech to put on your face? Neither full-on goggles like the Oculus Rift nor slender no-AR-yet specs like Google's Glass, CastAR takes a whole different approach to modified-reality tech by slapping tiny projectors on your face, and The Verge got to take a peek.Read more...

Cast AR hands-on with Jeri Ellsworth at Maker Faire 2013 (update: video interview)

# 2013-05-18 11:33:00, Engadget
When Valve's first hardware hire, Jeri Ellsworth, tweeted back in February that she was fired from the company, we were disappointed but also intrigued by what she meant by "time for new exciting projects." Well we finally saw what she's been up to here at at Maker Faire 2013. It's called Cast A...

Alt-week 5.16.13: bug eyes, robo-cops and fake flowers

# 2013-05-18 11:30:00, Engadget
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative tech stories from the last seven days. If we're to find a common thread in this week's collection of stories, it'd be nature's guiding hand. How it inspires science, how we seek to imitate it, and how unnatural the future of policing cou...

What Games Are: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Xbox?

# 2013-05-18 11:00:13, TechCrunch
With Xbox 360 having started well but ended in a very confused state, I worry that Microsoft is about to carry over much of its baggage to the new console. Will the company make the same mistake of not listening to the market that it has often made in recent years? Will it continue to believe that t...

This 18-Year-Old's Invention Could Make Your Future Phone Instacharge

# 2013-05-18 10:58:00, Gizmodo
While you are hanging out on the Internet (in your underwear, maybe?) on a Saturday, kids that are smarter than either you or I are out there getting ready to change the world. 18-year-old Eesha Khare (left), for instance, not only invented a supercapacitor that could someday be a phone battery that...

The Evolution Of Hacker News

# 2013-05-18 10:02:43, TechCrunch
The idea of a VC having its own news aggregator was a bit outlandish in 2007. But Y Combinator was in an unusual position in those days anyway. Startup incubators had been a highly visible part of the dot-com crash, and Silicon Valley was still skeptical of the concept nearly a decade later. So YC set out to be something different -- a co...

CrunchWeek: Google I/O Madness And Square's New iPad Hardware For Merchants

# 2013-05-18 10:00:14, TechCrunch
It's that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where a few of us writers chat up the most interesting stories from the past seven days. Ryan Lawler, Drew Olanoff (clad in his Google Glass), and I discussed all things Google I/O, including Larry Page's keynote, Google+'s new photo features, and...

Dell Project Ophelia USB Android stick to ship in July, priced at $100

# 2013-05-18 09:31:00, Engadget
We know that "wherefore art thou?" was about Romeo, but if your question was for (Dell's) Ophelia, then it's likely more "when art thou." The answer? July. The Android pendrive / USB computer we saw back at CES may be one of many, but distinctive thanks to its mainstream PC-maker origins. We're ...

Watch Ridley Scott's Aliens Animated in Just 60 Seconds

# 2013-05-18 09:30:00, Gizmodo
Who has time to watch a whole movie anymore? It's summer! So in the spirit of phoning in everything once the temperature rises above 70-ish, here's Ridley Scott's Aliens in 60 seconds of adorable animation. Brought to you, of course, by the fine folks who did Star Wars Episode IV, Back to the Futur...

I/Overload?

# 2013-05-18 09:05:07, TechCrunch
Did Google's conference succeed? It launched dozens of products in its 205-minute keynote, but did the world understand them? I saw some of the smartest journalists in technology struggling to handle the information density. But what's the alternative? Break it up across multiple days, or even multiple conferences? Google's breadth presen...

Google Hangouts Has a Weird, Fun Multi-Cam Trick

# 2013-05-18 09:00:00, Gizmodo
So, Google's new Hangouts app keeps all of your chats in sync across all of your devices. Cool, right? But what if you're in a video call on your phone, and then open the same video call on your computer. Boop! Suddenly there's two of you, as I just discovered when chatting with my friend Bay. Read ...

Someone Animated Patton Oswalt's Epic Star Wars/Avengers Mashup Rant

# 2013-05-18 08:46:00, Gizmodo
Not too long ago, Patton Oswalt riffed on his idea for a great plot for the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII film on Parks and Recreation. Now, it's got a whole bunch of..."digital effects" that turn it into the film we all deserve. It's alright JJ, we've got this one on lock. But thanks for throwin...

How Hike, India's Fast Growing Mobile Messaging App, Is Banking On SMS & Local Diversity To Beat The...

# 2013-05-18 08:45:23, TechCrunch
It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messaging app Hike is already channelling almost a billion messages a month between its 5m registered users. Those numbers sound insignificant when you stack them up against the big beasts of the messaging space – WhatsApp claims 200m+ monthly a...

How Much the Starship Enterprise Costs, Google I/O Goodies, And More

# 2013-05-18 08:00:00, Gizmodo
It's been a big, big week. Google I/O hit this week, bringing along a whole bunch of Android updates, if not a new version or any actual hardware. And aside from all that jazz, we've got an ode to Chris Hadfield, (a wild guess at) how much it would cost to build the starship Enterprise, why 3D-print...

Sprint closes deal to buy US Cellular spectrum, adds 420,000 customers

# 2013-05-18 07:14:00, Engadget
Sprint was clearly hungry for capacity when it bought spectrum from US Cellular last fall, and it's at last getting its fill -- some of it, at least -- by closing the deal today. The carrier has officially taken possession of 20MHz in airwaves across Midwestern cities like Champaign, Chicago and...

Watch This Badass Pilot Save the Day With a Ballsy No-Wheel Landing

# 2013-05-18 07:07:00, Gizmodo
Last night, the pilot of US Airways Express Flight 4560 was having some bad luck. The landing gear on his turboprop twin-engine plane just wouldn't go all the way down. So with some quick thinking and righteous piloting skills, he went in for a wheelless, sparky touchdown, and pulled it off without ...

Gillmor Gang: Live From Betaday

# 2013-05-18 07:00:57, TechCrunch
This Gillmor Gang was recorded live at betaday, the betaworks annual gathering in New York. The Gillmor Gang included John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Douglas Rushkoff, Paul Davison, and Steve Gillmor. Enjoy.