Ready for a break from all that football to talk some tech? Well you’re in luck, because it’s time for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show where a few of us writers take a look back at the past seven days and talk about a few of the week’s most interesting stories. It was as interesting a week as ever for the tech world, so we pushed back posting a bit today to make sure we didn’t get too lost in the Super Bowl buzz.
This week, Leena Rao and I were very happy to be joined...
OtterBox Acquires Rival Protective Case Maker LifeProof After Settling Patent LawsuitComments Off
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Shipments Hit 10 Million One Month After ReleaseComments Off
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Why Does Hollywood Hate The Future?Comments Off
“What were the last Hollywood movies you saw about technology & the future that were optimistic? They seem to be systematically dystopian.” I happened to be sitting in a movie theater waiting for Iron Man 3 to start, so I tried to come up with a good counter-example. It’s a lot harder than I thought it would be. Then the pre-movie trailers starting playing. The new Will Smith (and son) flick, After Earth: dystopia. The new Guillermo del Toro flick, Pacific Rim: dystopia. Even the new Superman flick, Man of Steel, could be classified as a technological dystopia (more below). |
Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication, Has A Patent To Prove ItComments Off
Just hours after Twitter finally rolled out its long-awaited Two-Factor authentication, the Megaupload founder is claiming to have invented the entire mechanism… and he’s got a patent to prove it. |
LinkedIn Has Definitely Acqui-Hired Maybe, Omar Hamoui’s Polling Startup, Minus Hamoui HimselfComments Off
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Samsung’s Galaxy S4 has hit 10 million channel sales one month after its release. The company 
A few weeks ago, Chris Dixon 
Oh, Kim Dotcom. You just never stop surprising us.
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