Top Stories of the Day // February 7, 2015

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Feb 7, 2015

GREG KUMPARAK Own A Chromecast? Google Wants To Give You $6 The Chromecast is already a damned great little device. Pretty much the only thing that would make it better is if Google randomly gave you free money for... read more

JOHN BIGGS A Rare Look Inside A Massive Bitcoin Mine Bitcoin mining is not a pretty business. It requires lots of specialized servers that are essentially unusable for normal computing and lots of cooling. But... read more

DARRELL ETHERINGTON Netflix Is Making A ‘Game Of Thrones’ For All Ages Legend Of Zelda TV Series read more

RYAN LAWLER, KIM-MAI CUTLER Snoop Dogg Is Raising A Fund For Investing In Weed Startups "Invest in what you know." That's a common piece of advice given to new investors that Calvin Broadus, Jr. (a.k.a. Snoop Dogg, a.k.a. Snoop Lion) seems to be... read more

DARRELL ETHERINGTON Watch Vestigen’s Project Ara Sensors Show How Modular Smartphones Could Change The World read more

TYLER PERRY New York City’s Tech Boom Continues While Silicon Valley grabs attention as the center of the tech universe and birthplace for some of the biggest startups, the most recent growth data shows that... read more

JON EVANS What You Need To Know About Zero Knowledge Anonymity? Privacy? How quaint. We live in a world bedecked with ever more cameras, ever more sensors, ever more drones, ever more data, ever fewer things that... read more

TOP VIDEOS

CrunchWeek: Raspberry PI, Microsoft Buys Sunrise, And Drunk Drones  There is nothing that is better to soothe your Crunchies hangover than a breezy video clip with John Biggs,... read more

Gillmor Gang LIVE 02.06.15  Gillmor Gang – Danny Sullivan, Dave Sifry, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording... read more

Gillmor Gang: The Whole Truth  The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics... read more

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