Top Stories of the Day // October 5, 2015

Why The Internet Needs IPFS Before It’s Too Late | Twitter Names Jack Dorsey CEO, Adam Bain Becomes COO, Dick Costolo Steps Down From Board | NASA Astronauts Can Already Farm On Mars | New Malware Called YiSpecter Is Attacking iOS Devices in China And Taiwan | This Is How Most Of The World Uses Twitter | Philips Launches New Hue Bridge 2.0 With HomeKit Compatibility | Airpaper Will Cancel Your Comcast Service For You |

DAILY MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Amber Case Why The Internet Needs IPFS Before It’s Too Late IPFS isn't exactly a well-known technology yet, even among many in the Valley, but it's quickly spreading by word of mouth among folks in the open-source... Read More… Romain Dillet, Ingrid Lunden, Drew Olanoff, Matthew Lynley Twitter Names Jack Dorsey CEO, Adam Bain Becomes COO, Dick Costolo Steps Down From Board After four months of running under Jack Dorsey interim chief executive, today Twitter finally named him as its permanent leader. The man who helped co-found... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Eileen Burbidge to Speak at Disrupt London Eileen Burbidge is a Partner at Passion Capital, a leading early-stage VC fund based in London. She brings extensive operational experience to her investment activities gleaned from business and product roles at Yahoo!, Skype, Apple and elsewhere. Learn More… Sarah Buhr NASA Astronauts Can Already Farm On Mars The prospect of conquering the dark and vast expanse of space has fascinated the human mind for a good part of the last century. Perhaps that is why ‘The... Read More… Catherine Shu New Malware Called YiSpecter Is Attacking iOS Devices in China And Taiwan Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks has identified new malware, which it calls YiSpecter, that infects iOS devices by abusing private APIs. Most affected... Read More… Drew Olanoff This Is How Most Of The World Uses Twitter Blah blah blah, Twitter has 316M users or whatever and they’re not growing. Can it grow? Will it grow? Yes, there are a lot of questions that Twitter has... Read More… Romain Dillet Philips Launches New Hue Bridge 2.0 With HomeKit Compatibility Philips added support for Apple's HomeKit framework to its Hue smart light bulb product line. Unfortunately, existing Hue users will need to purchase a brand... Read More… Jordan Crook Airpaper Will Cancel Your Comcast Service For You There are few things in this (first) world that are worse than trying to cancel your internet and cable service. In fact, Comcast has folks that are dedicated... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service

Top Stories of the Day // October 4, 2015

The Blockchain Might Be The Next Disruptive Technology | Data Is A Mine And A Minefield | Can You Hear Me Now? | The Rise Of Entrepreneurial Communities | Pronoun, A Self-Publishing Platform For Authors, Is Ready To Serve Humanity |

DAILY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Florian Graillot The Blockchain Might Be The Next Disruptive Technology To process a transaction, you need first to make sure the sender owns the asset he wants to transfer, and make sure he will not trade it twice. In the... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Andre Borczuk Data Is A Mine And A Minefield I've worked in data science and healthcare-adjacent fields for about five years now. I studied biology and marketing at Wharton, where I did pancreatic cancer... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch is hiring iOS & Android mobile developers! Do you have experience building innovative apps for large audiences end-to-end? Do you want to build the next wave of news apps for TechCrunch and Engadget, solving complex, large-scale problems? If so, we want to hear from you. Learn More… Natasha Lomas Can You Hear Me Now? It's been a pretty big week for tech + privacy, with Apple overhauling the privacy-related info it pushes out to users -- sharpening its pro-privacy positioning... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Rep. Steve Chabot The Rise Of Entrepreneurial Communities This summer, as Chairman of the House Small Business Committee, I had the opportunity to honor an innovative business accelerator called First Batch. This... Read More… John Biggs Pronoun, A Self-Publishing Platform For Authors, Is Ready To Serve Humanity Pronoun, a self-publishing system that aims to help authors get their books edited and printed, is beginning the long road to making it easier for... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service