15 TechHack Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

This week saw headlines regarding the iPad professional turning into accessible for pre-order, the the big apple strike down of fantasy sports sites like Fan Duel and Draft Kings and a brand new Facebook app that might create a threat to Twitter. Alex Wilhelm talked

with following internet news person Lauren Hockenson regarding why journalists area  unit jumping ship on optimistic, and therefore the Cribs crew visited the    visually beautiful military installation of Minted, a web marketplace of freelance artists and    designers. keep within the understand with these stories.

1. Matthew Panzarino reviewed the new iPad professional, that became accessible to pre-order in the week. He notes that the device could be a powerful beast, pushing over five.5M pixels in the least times while notinsulant. together with the Pencil, its thinness and exactness area unit unmatched.
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2. Another software package company has filed to travel public: Atlassian, the corporate behind enterprise-focused social merchandise like Slack challenger HipChat, has filed Associate in Nursing F-1 type with the SEC to travel public on National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations below the ticker “TEAM.”

3. YouTube launched its long-awaited music service YouTube Music. the improved, paid expertise is free throughout a 14-day trail; at the moment, it’s $9.99 a month as a part of the YouTube Red an-free subscription. These area unit our initial impressions of the new app. 

4. T-Mobile declared a brand new feature known as “Binge On,” that plays on the common shopper habit of binge observance on video streaming sites. The carrier can now not count Netflix (and many alternative video services like Hulu and HBO) against your knowledge set up. however can others follow suit?

5. In-N-Out Burger is suing food delivery startup Door Dash, claiming trademark infringement and unfair competition. Basically, In-N-Out desires Door Dash to prevent delivering their food due to issues around quality, food handling and safety.

6. within the latest of the Fan Duel/Draft Kings scandal, the Empire State lawyer General born a bomb on daily fantasy sports sites – these 2 startups enclosed. Sites like them are categorised as “illegal gambling sites” and are ordered to stop taking cash from the residents of recent royal house state. The official cease-and-desist notices are delivered.


7. uBeam, the corporate that uses ultrasound to transmit power over the air to charge electronic devices wirelessly, free details regarding however so much, how fast, and simply plain however it will charge a phone while not wires.

8. we have a tendency to went hands on with Facebook send word, a brand new push notification news app that might replace Twitter.

9. Drew Olanoff introduced US to the LucidCam, a degree and shoot VR camera that's laugh ably straightforward to use, appearance nice, needs no post-production by the user and can value $299. Olanoff calls it “the way forward for shopper VR."



10. Alex Wilhelm talked to Peggy Johnson, Microsoft’s new deal boss, on what it'll consider the corporate to succeed in geographic area. He wrote, “Cash-rich, profitable and sporting new leadership, the corporate desires to alter its image in geographic area.” Johnson are the one pushing this transformation.

11. John Biggs talked to specialists and bust down what precisely happens throughout a security breach in “So You’ve Been broken.” the matter with breaches, ultimately, is that it's a exposure of a business in flux.

12. Ron Miller wrote regarding however suddenly, each company is turning into a plunger. a minimum of this implies there's no shortage of investment cash accessible immediately for a startup with a decent plan.

13. Crunch Network contributor Justin Khoo wrote an open letter to Gmail, mentioning the quirks inside the service that deter developers from operating with email, and advising the service to repair whats broken before asking developers to initiate.

14. Guest contributor Tony Aube wrote regarding however no UI is that the new UI, movement the question: “What if electronic communication might remodel the manner we have a tendency to move with computersa similar manner it remodeled the manner we have a tendency to move with every other?”

15. tete-a-tete, a wearable device that permits you to stream the sound of your heartbeat to a worshippedone’s pillow, launched on Kickstarter. we have a tendency to spoke with the founder on her insane journey oftransferral this device to promote.