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Today's Top Stories // Oct 12, 2013

How To Opt Out Of Google's Weird New Ads That Use Your Face And Name

Angry that Google is planning on using your face and name for the sake of advertisements? Here's how to make them not. read more

Yahoo Acquires Bread, Will Shut Down The URL Shortener That Earned You Money

Yahoo has just acquired Bread, a 2.5 year old startup that had raised $3.5 million [Update: and we hear was low on cash and shopping itself around to several... read more

Memo From AOL Mgmt Re: Use Of TechCrunch Editorial Branding For Personal Pranks

Dear [Name Unknown, possibly Chris Smith?],... read more

ION Glasses Are The Unobtrusive Notifications System You Wear On Your Face

Google Glass, Google schmass. What you really want on your face are these puppies. ION Glasses are sunglass or prescription glasses frames with a built in LED,... read more

Marc Andreessen: Series A Investments Are Still The Bread And Butter Of A16Z

This week, the Wall Street Journal published a brief interview with Andreessen Horowitz Partner Scott Weiss in which he seemed to indicate that the firm is... read more

The Panopticon Is Extremely Convenient (So Use Facebook, Google, And Chrome)

I write from the Philippines, where a phone has just been released which, if stolen, can be remotely triggered to repeatedly scream "Thief! Thief! Thief!" Back... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Brian Chesky Talks About Why Airbnb Didn't Acquire European Clone Wimdu, Global Growth And More

Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO Alfred Lin... read more

Ask A VC: Redpoint's Ryan Sarver On Why He Joined Venture Capital And More

In this week's Ask A VC, we hosted Redpoint Ventures' newest partner Ryan Sarver in the studio to talk about his... read more

How Harvey Mudd Transformed Its Computer Science Program - And Nearly Closed Its Gender Gap

Harvey Mudd is known as one of the most elite science, engineering and mathematics colleges in the world. But historically,... read more

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