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Pressy: the one-button Android controller so cool it was Kickstarted in under a day

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As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala If Kickstarter had a 24-hour funders club, Pebble and the Bolex Camera would be welcoming Pressy today. In under a day, the multifunction Android controller has more than doubled its $40,000 goal (raising $108,435 from 4,889 backers as of this writing) and with 45 days left to go, the numbers keep climbing. Perhaps its simplicity is what’s making it such a hit. Pressy plugs into any Android device’s headphone port (Gingerbread and above), and…

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Google Exec Departs Amidst Rumors Of Tangled Love Quadrangle

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As reported on on TechCrunch. by ALEXIA TSOTSIS We’ve confirmed a report today that Android VP Hugo Barra is leaving Google for “Apple of China” Xiaomi. The report was timed to coincide with another story about the dissolution of Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s marriage to 23andMe co-founder Anne Wojcicki. It also revealed that a person whom Hugo Barra had been in a previous relationship with was now dating Brin. Barra’s departure was said to be “unrelated” to the above. Barra had been at Google since March 2008, coming…

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Business Entertainment Hardware Dev

Black Betty 2K camera can shoot, cut and upload video with built-in Mac Mini

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent The Black Betty company has just hit the scene with a cinema camera that pulls an astounding trick — it’s got a freaking desktop computer jammed into the body. Camera-wise, there’s a 2/3-inch 2K sensor with a 16mm lens mount developed by Silicon Imaging and used in films like Slumdog Millionaire. That’ll capture 2K or 1080p, 160-500 ISO footage at up to 30fps (or more for lower resolutions), and bring…

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Pandora Plans To Lift Its 40-Hour Free Mobile Listening Cap On Sept. 1

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ANTHONY HA During this afternoon’s earnings call, Pandora executives said that they would lift for the 40-hour monthly cap on free mobile listening that was announced back in February. This is actually the second time Pandora has instituted a free cap and then lifted it again — it last lifted the cap in September 2011. CFO Mike Herring said the decision was based on two factors. First, he described the cap as a…

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Business Culture

Burned out: tech money is harshing Burning Man’s anti-capitalist vibe

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As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom The tech world loves the festival’s creative spirit, but do they love it too much? At last year’s Burning Man, a prominent tech investor was attacked by ninjas. “They were just a bunch of people dressed up as ninjas, riding around on bikes,” says Garry Tan, Y Combinator partner and co-founder of Posthaven.com. “They yelled out ‘ninja! ninja!’ and then they tapped me lightly on the arm.” As…

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Parrot Announces The A.R. Drone 2.0 Power Edition

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MATT BURNS It was hovering. Just sitting there. The livery was different. A black body with different color blades. Something was clearly different about this Parrot A.R. Drone 2.0. It wasn’t as colorful as the ones he had seen before. He sat there for a lot longer. This drone was clearly hiding something under the piano-black shell. Eight minutes passed. 16 minutes passed. Then, just before the 36 minute mark, the drone,…

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Square Fined $507K In Florida For Operating A Mobile Payment Service Without A Money Transmitter License

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As reported TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN A little more state-specific financial regulatory hot water forSquare, the hot mobile commerce startup: it has been fined $507,000 by Florida’s Office of Financial Regulation for operating a payment service without a money transmission license. This looks like the second time that a U.S. state financial regulator has gone after the company, after Square was served with a cease and desist order in Illinios in March 2013, also for failing to…

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Hackermeter Wants To Kill Your Résumé And Replace It With A High Score

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK If you’re looking to hire a bad-ass programmer, fielding résumés can start to feel like an exercise in futility. They’re good for quickly filtering out folks who are clearly applying to everything — but when everyone in the industry has some crazy made-up senior ninja/rockstar/space cadet title, wheneveryone considers themselves a coder, and when “Proficient with C” can mean two entirely different things based on a person’s ego, that’s about all they’re good for.…

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Apple Business

Apple’s official charger trade-in scheme will cover UK, Canada and Australia

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr When we originally reported on Apple’s replacement program for third-party USB chargers, we only knew for sure that it covered the US and China. As 9to5Mac has spotted, however, the official webpage for the scheme now lists a number of other countries in which Apple will start accepting trade-ins on Friday, August 16th. These include the UK, where an official first-party charger will be reduced to £8 (from £15) when you hand over…

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Elon Musk details Hyperloop: public transit via aluminum pods and electric motors

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As reported on Engadget. By Michael Gorman Elon Musk is into transportation, whether it’s an electric car or a spaceship. Today, he detailed a plan to revolutionize a portion of public transit. It’s called the Hyperloop, and it’s meant to get folks from SF to LA (or any two cities less than 900 miles apart) in 30 minutes seated in aluminum pods that are hurtled to and fro at 800 miles an hour in a pair of steel tubes.…

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