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A new startup is harnessing the power of the crowd to help entrepreneurs and tech companies do their jobs better. Testbirds, a German crowdtesting company, just raised €2.1 million ($2.9 million) as its first institutional funding, with French venture capital firm Senventure Partners leading this ro
WelVU, an innovation leader in personalized patient education technology markets, announced today the close of an initial seed financing of $1.25M, expanding the initial round due to strong interest from seasoned angel investors. The round closed on the heels of WelVU’s integrated enterprise healthc
We found out earlier this week that the upcoming PlayStation 4 system update will finally disable HDCP and add Twitch archiving, but the announcement said that “there’s a lot more coming in this update as well.” That “more” is apparently pre-loads for new games. PC gamers have had access to pre-load
The Turkish Prime Minister has banned Twitter across the country. Twitter was blocked just after midnight in Turkey on Thursday, according to Reuters. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan stated his intention to block the social media platform—which has been an essential means of communication and organiza
The increasingly public spat on peering and net neutrality continued Friday with a blog post by AT&T Senior Executive Vice President-External and Legislative Affairs Jim Cicconi. “When Netflix delivered its movies by mail, the cost of delivery was included in the price their custo
NASA is continuing to work on one of its most ambitious projects to date, and it is now offering money to companies, universities, and organizations to help find answers to the biggest technical hurdles that lie ahead. The mission itself sounds like it’s ripped from the pages of a science-fict
Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to continue U.S. leadership in clean energy innovation, the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy today awarded $17 million in Small Business Innovation Research projects to help small businesses in 13 states develop pr
If you don’t want to shell out for the 4K screen, you can opt for a 1,920×1,080-pixel HD screen instead. But where would be the fun in that? The Toshiba Satellite P50t is a 15.6-inch laptop with a pixel per inch rating of 282ppi. In comparison, the top-of-the-range 15.4-inch MacBook
PayPal has switched the Pay At Table and Order Ahead features in its iOS app on in Europe, starting with the UK, as TechCrunch reports. The services relate to the food and restaurant business, and were first announced in the US last year. They do pretty much what you’d expect by their names: Pay At
Samsung is set to begin delivering its curved Ultra HD displays and content to watch on the better than-HD sets. At a product unveiling Thursday at the Guggenheim Museum the Korean electronics giant announced its first curved Ultra HD displays, the 55- and 65-inch U9000 model displays, would be arri
We just learned about Android Wear for the first time, and now we’re already getting inundated in new hardware. Here’s a hot piece of gear from Motorola, the Moto 360. Billed as a more contemporary smartwatch than the clunky wrist-bricks we’ve seen before, the Moto 360 will suppose
Sprint isn’t content to keep writing its financial statements in red ink. To that end, the company is shuttering 150 service and repair centers, 55 of its lowest performing retail stores and laying off some 330 repair techs. A handful of call centers have been closed, too. While these might se
