Top Stories of the Day // March 12, 2015

TODAY'S TOP STORIES // Mar 12, 2015

GREG KUMPARAK An “Apple Engineer” Explains The 2015 MacBook (Or Not) The new Macbook has been... lets say, divisive. Even within TechCrunch, we've got one side suggesting it's "a betrayal" while the other declares it "nothing... read more

KEVIN ROSE The Gold Apple Watch Is Perfect For Douchebags Apple’s focus should be on selling as many watches as possible, not becoming a fashion brand.read more

FREDERIC LARDINOIS Google Brings Street View To Mount Everest Region Most of us will never travel to the Khumbu region of Nepal, which is home to Mount Everest, but thanks to Google's Street View, you can now get a better idea of... read more

FREDERIC LARDINOIS Meet Google’s New Chromebook Pixel read more

KYLE RUSSELL Treeline Wants To Take The Coding Out Of Building A Backend Y Combinator-backed Treeline is trying strip the job of building a backend down to its essence: building the pipelines data flows through in an application or... read more

DARRELL ETHERINGTON Apple Expediting The Future Is No Betrayal Apple's new MacBook, which limits input and output to a single USB-C port and a simple 3.5mm audio in/out jack, has been characterized by some as a move that's... read more

SHANE MAC The Moment I Knew Twitter Had To Buy Periscope I've been using Periscope for about five months. I would run into the team almost daily at a coffee shop, and since we were both in pre-launch building mode,... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Gillmor Gang: Hold the Phone  The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include... read more

Garmin Fenix 3 Review: For When You Need To Look Good Tracking Your Activity  This is common and one of the chief concerns Garmin is addressing with the Fenix 3. It looks and works like... read more

Hands On Video With HTC’s New Android Flagship, The One M9  It’s evolution not revolution for HTC’s new top-of-the-line smartphone, the One M9. But the predecessors... read more

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