Sal McCloskey

  Sal McCloskey is a tech blogger in Los Angeles who (sadly) falls into the stereotype associated with nerds. Yes, he's a Star Trek fan and writes about it on Uberly. His glasses are thick and his allergies are thicker. Despite all that, he's (somehow) married to a beautiful woman and has 4 kids. Find him on Twitter or Facebook,

   

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1135 Stories by Sal McCloskey

Chicago tried and failed to use big data to predict crimes

Have you ever seen the movie Minority Report? If you haven’t, all you need to know is that it’s about a special police unit that’s able...
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Spotify is accusing Apple of using its power to hinder its competition

The problem with Apple releasing its own music-streaming service is that it now has to compete with existing services like Spotify without using its control...
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HTC is working on two Nexus devices for Google

It looks like HTC will be returning to Google’s Nexus program this year, and this time it’ll have two devices instead of one. This is...
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Tesla is practically drowning in Model 3 pre-orders

The Model S is one of the best electric vehicles on the market at the moment, if not THE best, but it’s price puts...
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Tidal wants to stream movies as well as music

Tidal has been plagued by an endless stream of controversy and criticism since it first launched, and things are going so poorly for the...
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General Motors just spent $1 billion on an autonomous car startup

Autonomous cars are the future of the automotive industry, but unfortunately for traditional automakers, it’s the technology industry that’s leading the charge in this...
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Microsoft will unveil universal Xbox One apps later this month

One of the biggest selling points of Windows 10 is its apps can work on any device running a version of the operating system, or...
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BMW is preparing for a fight against Apple and Google

Apple and Google want their software to power the vehicles of the future, but many automakers aren’t keen on allowing Silicon Valley to encroach on...
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Truecaller wants your phone number to replace your email address

Your email address is basically the online ID that allows you to create accounts on various apps and websites, and even though many of...
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Apple Music now has more than 11 million paying subscribers

There was a lot of doubt surrounding Apple Music when it first launched, but now that most of the bugs have been fixed, not to mention...
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SpaceX declared MIT the winner of today’s Hyperloop competition

Thousands of engineers from colleges and high schools from across the world gathered at Texas A&M University in College Station on Saturday to compete for a...
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Marissa Mayer has written a kill list for Yahoo’s employees

The fate of Yahoo’s employees is being determined by where they are on the new kill list that CEO Marissa Mayer has written up,...
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Believe it or not, the Director of the NSA is actually pro-encryption

The Director of the National Security Agency is the last person I’d expect to come out in support of encryption, but that’s exactly what Mike Rogers...
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Uber is ready for a full-scale launch of its food-delivery service

Uber’s experimental food-delivery service is finally ready for a full-scale launch in the United States, and that should make GrubHub extremely worried. Known as UberEATS, the new...
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One of Bitcoin’s top developers believes it’s a failed experiment

Mike Hearn has been a prominent part of the Bitcoin community for years, even going so far as to walk away from a job at Google...
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This new streaming app is like a combination of Netflix and YouTube

Xumo isn’t really bringing anything new to the video streaming market, but it’s combining the best parts of Netflix and YouTube to create an app...
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