Liz Gannes

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Ditch the Wristbands: For Next Generation of Wearables, Dumb Clothes Get Smart

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, November 27, 2013 at 2:21 pm PT

GrubWithUs Will Reformulate as Superb, an App for Discovering Places

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, November 27, 2013 at 8:45 am PT

Founded Just 18 Months Ago, DraftKings Picks Up $24M for Fantasy Sports

By Tracking Spending and Finding Deals, BillGuard Hopes to Be Heir to Mint.com

Posted by Liz Gannes in Mobile, November 26, 2013 at 6:00 am PT

Wearable Sensors Could Be an Antidote to Football’s Concussion Problem

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, November 25, 2013 at 1:53 pm PT

FDA Tells 23andMe to Stop Marketing DNA Kits; 23andMe Says It’s Sorry for Being Slow

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, November 25, 2013 at 9:30 am PT

Uber Will Vouch for Its Drivers to Help Them Finance GM and Toyota Cars

Google Paid Mozilla Nearly $300M Last Year (a.k.a. Almost All of Its Revenue)

More Moolah for MOOCs: Coursera Raises Another $20M

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, November 22, 2013 at 9:35 am PT

Bloglovin Tripled Traffic This Year as Tumblr-Plus-Reddit for Ladies

Posted by Liz Gannes in Media, November 21, 2013 at 9:57 am PT

Pinterest Does Location: Not Just Pin Boards, but Now Pin Maps

Posted by Liz Gannes in Social, November 20, 2013 at 6:58 pm PT

Not Just Toys: LittleBits Raises $11.1M to Expand Amateur Electronics Products

Profitable for Three Years, Apartment List Raises $15M Series A Round

Posted by Liz Gannes in Commerce, November 20, 2013 at 4:30 am PT

PasswordBox Buys Legacy Locker

Tim Draper Steps Back From Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Firm Confirms

Next Google Glass Tricks Include Translating the World From Your Eyes

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, November 19, 2013 at 12:05 pm PT

Quora Will Push Its Most Link-Baity Content to BuzzFeed (Though It Would Never Call It That)

Posted by Liz Gannes in Media, November 19, 2013 at 11:33 am PT

Google-Backed Calico Makes Big Biotech and Genetics Hires

MetroMile Gives Away Driving Sensors for Free as It Expands Pay-Per-Mile Insurance Service

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, November 19, 2013 at 7:00 am PT

Trained Monkeys Fix YouTube Outage

If Sitting Is the New Smoking, Soon There May Be a Crowdfunded Gadget to Help You Stop

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, November 18, 2013 at 9:00 am PT

Adventures in Google Self-Driving Cars: Pizza Delivery, Scavenger Hunts, and Avoiding Deer

Posted by Liz Gannes in News, November 17, 2013 at 11:25 pm PT

After British Criticism, Google Assembled Team of 200 to Fight Child Pornography

Holiday Shopping for Your Favorite Astronomer? Perhaps a 3-D Printout of Cosmic Stellar Death.

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik