Top Stories of the Day // July 31, 2013

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	Disrupt SF returns Sept. 9-11 with an all new slate of outstanding startups and influential speakers including Dick Costolo and Marissa Mayer. Early Bird tickets are available until August 19: register today and save $1,000! Today's Top Stories // Jul 31, 2013 John Biggs NSA Project X-Keyscore Collects Nearly Everything You Do On The Internet Further leaks have revealed an NSA project called X-Keyscore that, with a few keystrokes, can give a data analyst access to nearly everything a user does on the... read more Josh Constine Memes Give Facebook Fans A Voice Amidst Comment Chaos Whispering in a riot is how I would describe commenting on a Facebook Page's feed posts. No matter how thoughtful they are, your words get drowned out. But a... read more Josh Constine Quip Is A Beautiful New Mobile-First Word Processor From Ex-Facebook CTO Bret Taylor 30 years later and our word processing software hasn't changed, not even to adapt to mobile. That changes tonight with the launch of Quip, a free new word... read more John Biggs Study Finds 3D Printing Could Save The Average Home Up To $2,000 A Year While I don't have to remind you about the value of studies - many company-funded studies are best dropped directly in the trash after publication - this one... read more Darrell Etherington Google To Supply Free Wi-Fi Hotspots For All 7,000 U.S. Starbucks Locations Google has just announced via a blog post that it will be offering free, faster Wi-Fi hotspots at all U.S. company-operated Starbucks locations, which will get... read more Natasha Lomas Old Enough To Remember Paperboy For NES? Now You Can Live It With Oculus Rift Old school gamers will remember Paperboy, a 1984 arcade game that let you savour the pleasure of virtually breaking your neighbours windows by tossing a rolled... read more Natasha Lomas Sensoria's Smart Fitness Socks Track Your Steps And Coach Your Running Style The Sensoria Smart Sock Fitness Tracker tracks your steps and advises on running style by doing real-time gait analysis using a combination of a pair of socks... read more Darrell Etherington Google Offers Glass Explorers An Invite To Make A Friend A Glasshole, Too Google is bringing more Glass Explorers into the program, and it's doing that the best way it knows how: by letting current users invite a friend. Those among... read more John Biggs Veteran Gaming Journalist Steve Morgenstern Dies Of Sudden Illness Gaming journalist Steve Morgenstern died on July 24 after a sudden illness. He was founding editor of Atari Age, a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to the platform... read more Jordan Crook Yet Another Smartwatch Joins The Fight And This One's "Hot" Pebble not meeting your needs? The Basis knows just a little too much about you for your comfort? Is the Metawatch too meta?... read more Read more at techcrunch.com CRUNCHGOV DAILY ROUNDUP Gregory Ferenstein Taxi Groups Call For Eradication Of Rideshare Startups At SF City Hall Protest The CrunchGov Essential is a scannable roundup of technology’s influence on the day’s big issues. Below a feature post, we present the most… read more Read more at techcrunch.com/crunchgov/ To forward this newsletter to a friend, click here.
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