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Today's Top Stories // Aug 19, 2014

Tom Hanks’ Typewriter App Shoots To The Top Of The App Store

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Finally A Smarter Lightbulb That Doesn’t Require An App To Control It

There's plentiful choice if you're after a connected, energy efficient lightbulb that's controlled with your phone. There's LIFX, Philips Hue, Brightup, LuMini,... read more

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Raising Money At A Valuation Approaching $10B

Space Exploration Technologies, the commercial space transportation startup founded by Elon Musk with ambitions to land people on Mars, is raising investment... read more

Now On Kickstarter, Tickle Makes Learning To Code Fun With Scratch

There are a lot of games and puzzles now that promise to teach kids how to code, but Tickle stands out. Now on Kickstarter, the iPad app was created in part by... read more

Investment Banking 2.0 Says "Hello World!?"

David Gelles wrote in the New York Times this weekend about how large tech corporations have been conducting more M&A deals with less input from traditional... read more

This Real-Time Projected CGI Makeup Is Beautiful And Terrifying

CGI has come a long way - from simulating Jar Jar Binks on the silver screen to replacing green screens with King's Landing. Today, we should add this video to... read more

YC-Backed UPower Is Building Nuclear Batteries

Despite the promise of bountiful, cheap, and clean energy, nuclear energy didn't completely overtake fossil fuels like everyone expected in the middle of the... read more

TOP VIDEOS

Sympler Offers An Easy Way To Create Fun, Music-Centric Videos

 Co-founders Ben Jenkins and Alexander Kane swung by the TechCrunch office recently to show off Sympler, their... read more

Gillmor Gang: What's That Sound

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor — struggle... read more

CrunchWeek: Amazon Takes On Square, Tech CEOs Get Dunked, BurritoCannon Comes True

 We’re in the mid-August tech news cycle (AKA, it’s pretty slow), which made for some interesting... read more

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