Saturday, May 31, 2014

Top Stories of the Day // May 31, 2014

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Today's Top Stories // May 31, 2014

Don’t Freak Out You Guys, But Twitter.com Has Switched To A New Font

Apparently Twitter has switched its web interface from the Helvetica Neue font to Gotham Narrow SSm. Honestly, I barely have any idea what that sentence means,... read more

This Algae Battery Could Power A Tesla With 200X The Charge

In a small lab, near a lake at the edge of West Berkeley, sits the prototype of what could revolutionize battery power as we know it. The secret to this power?... read more

Stanford Asks Students To Learn From Snapchat Founder’s Mistakes. We All Should.

Following the leak of sexist, crude emails sent by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel during his time at Stanford, the university's Provost John Etchemendy has issued a... read more

The Lomo’Instant Blows Through Crowdfunding Goal To Bring Artistic Instant Photography To The Masses

Lomography makes weird cameras that take weird pictures - on purpose. The New York-based company is famous for their work at rebuilding old fixed-focus camera... read more

Meet Raptor, The New Running Robot That Will Smother Your Soul In Fear

Another day, another bipedal robot that will eventually run you down and crush you! This new robot, called the Raptor, can run 26 miles an hour without falling... read more

Meet One Of The Tech Dudes Who Dated Those Women Flown In From NYC To Meet Tech Dudes

The very idea of it was appalling to many - an online dating site, the Dating Ring, was shipping women from New York City to date San Francisco tech dudes.... read more

Google’s Rumored Stars Bookmarking Service Gets A Bit More Real As Chrome Extension Leaks

We've been hearing rumors about Google Stars -- a new bookmarking service from Google -- for quite a while now, but today, the project got a bit more real... read more

TOP VIDEOS

CrunchWeek: Google's Self Driving Car, Apple Buys Beats, And Founders Misbehave

In case you had missed it, today is Friday, which means it’s time for another spin of the round table as... read more

Swivl CEO Brian Lamb Talks About Life After Crowdfunding

Brian Lamb started Swivl with a vision: he wanted to make it easier for videographers and presenters to film themselves... read more

TC Cribs Tours Twitch, Where Playing Games Is Part Of The Job

 In this episode of Cribs, we stopped by Twitch, the San Francisco-based startup that’s created a massively... read more

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