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Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... ? Learn More It’s not often you get to interview a nuclear engineer and a physician who run a tiny vaporizer factory out of an oversized garage outside of San Francisco so today is your lucky day. Two weeks ago we spent some time with the guys from Thermovape, a homegrown, self-funded hardware company that just happens to produce some of the coolest and most effective vaporizers I’ve seen. For the uninitiated, the product is called the Thermo Essence Thermovape, a smoking cessation tool and “botanical vaporizer.” It’s designed for vaporizing the essentials out of botanicals like pot and tobacco as well as and oils. It’s not smokin...

Elin is the Community Manager for TechCrunch. Previously, she was one of the first Community Managers at Slide and was in charge of one of their most successful products, SuperPoke! Pets. Slide went on to be acquired by Google for $182 million. Originally from Huntington Beach, Elin attended California State University, Chico, where she studied Organizational Communications and Art... ? Learn More Disrupt SF is right around the corner and is shaping up to be one of the biggest events of the year. We have already announced many speakers which include our very own TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Marissa Mayer, The Honest Company’s Jessica Alba and Brian Lee, super angel Ron Conway, Vinod Khosla, Marc Benioff, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Path’s Dave Morin, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, Kevin Rose, and many others. Here is another chance for one lucky reader to win a chance to come join us! Not only will the winner receive a free ticket (valued at around $1,995*), but we are also going ...

Rip Empson is a writer and rabble-rouser at TechCrunch. He covers startups, music, social, mobile, health, and education. You can reach him at rip[at]techcrunch[dot]com ? Learn More “IBM wants it all and is aiming its guns on its last obstacle to industry control: Apple. Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry?” Steve Jobs asks us. “No,” we cheer in unison. “The entire information age?” He asks again, “Was George Orwell right about 1984?” Then the Apple CEO introduces us to the famous 1984 commercial directed by Ridley Scott that has since become a classic — some would say one of the most important commercials of all time. “Cut!” Welcome to the set of jOBS. Yes, you read that right. jOBS. A movie about the life of Steve Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher, Matthew Modine, and Dermot Mulroney. Directed by Joshua Michael Stern. Welcome to HOLLYWOOD. Well, Pasadena. Whether or not it feels “too soon” for Hollywood to be making a film about Steve Jobs, it’s happening. Not once, but...

Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... ? Learn More If you’re like me, you never real got into spectator sports. Maybe it was the jock-induced swirlies or maybe it was the pointlessness of ball-based games, but I couldn’t give two shot puts about the Olympics. Thankfully, there’s the Olwinpics Blocker from FFFFF.at. This plugin turns all mentions of the Olympics into soothing, bright primary colors. It works on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari and works a treat. For example, the image above is how I see this post: Olympics, olympics. Olympics! The project took two hours to build but will save you days of olympic overdose pain. Olympics! via BB View the original article here...

Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... ? Learn More Disrupt has long been the birthplace of software startups – but that’s changing. With the launch of Hardware Alley at Disrupt NY, we’ve inaugurated a very cool opportunity for hardware startups to grab a little Disrupt floor space and we’re doing it again in San Francisco. Hardware Alley happens on the last day of Disrupt and lets you get into the event at a discounted rate for one or all three days. Smaller startups should contact me directly at john@techcrunch.com but if you’re funded, ready to rock, and interested in holding court with some of SF’s preeminent VCs and thinkers, head over here to buy tickets. Here’s ...

Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and startups. Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing.... ? Learn More You guys! You guys! TechCrunch totally got mentioned in The Onion! It’s been a pretty one-sided relationship until now, with the fabled satirical newspaper remaining aloof despite several overtures on our end. It’s almost like The Onion staff thought it was totally cooler than us. Not today, though. Today, we’re the stars of this post about the new “Basmati” smartphone from Uncle Ben’s. (Note: That’s not a real smartphone.) Granted, we’re not in the headline, or in the first couple of paragraphs, but once paragraph five starts, we are on it : “As first reported by TechCrunch and the USA Rice Council, the Basm...

Ladies & gentlemen! The third annual TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon is officially open for business. It’s 24 hours of heads-down, caffeine-fueled digital duct taping with the Bay Area’s brightest, culminating in a no-holds-barred Hackathon presentation on Sunday afternoon. We’ll bring the API workshops, food & drink and industry veteran judges. You bring the MacGyver-style wicked smahts. The event will be taking place over the weekend of September 8th and 9th at the San Francisco Design Center. API workshops will take place on Saturday, and presentations will go down on Sunday afternoon. We have a very limited number of tickets available, so go get them now: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3689591668 Judges and API workshop announcements to follow. View the original article here This post was made using the Auto Blogging Software from WebMagnates.org This line will not appear when posts are made after activating the software to full version.