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Breaking: App Store Chronicle To Only Cover North Korean Tech

Hey all, Over my years doing this, I’ve found that the technology news industry is unnecessarily saturated. There are too many people covering Apple and Samsung! That’s why today, we’re switching to a new niche. From now on, The App Store Chronicle will be exclusively covering North Korean technology. You may be wondering “Why”? Well, I’ll tell ya. North Korean tech is growing fast....

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Massive Bitcoin Exchanged Robbed and Destroyed – What Next?

Today we learned that Mt.Gox, one of the biggest bitcoin exchanges in the world, has gone dark. Strong rumors support the idea that Mt.Gox was robbed of 744,000 customer Bitcoins, worth some $300 million, and worth nearly a billion dollars a few months ago. Mt.Gox users have taken to the web to bemoan their lost millions (people actually lost millions of dollars), but Mt.Gox...

Flappy Bird Developer Pulls Game Over Privacy Concerns – Is he the next Salinger?

About once a year, a game goes so viral, that everyone downloads it. First there was Angry Birds, then Words with Friends, and DrawSomething, and Candy Crush. Usually these games grow so popular that the developer tries to milk their success. Zynga went public after Words. DrawSomething sold themselves to Zynga. Candy Crush made millions of dollars in in-app purchases. Flappy Bird’s creator, Dong...

Exclusive: Snapchat Hackers Friend 4 Million Users [And show their work to the CEO of Snapchat]

Young hackers Ash Bhat and Ankit Ranjan just hacked into Snapchat, and friended 4 million users. After getting their project up and running, they showed it to Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat. We talked to Ranjan, who gave us the whole story. According to Ranjan, Bhat came into the HackTech hackathon at Caltech thinking “I want to piss off a company”, and because of the...

Leo Grand homeless hacker coder inspiring story with his chromebook by samsung

Meet Leo The Homeless Hacker, And Learn How His Life Changed

A few months ago, Patrick McConlogue, a New York software engineer, came across a homeless man exercising using boat chains and rocks as makeshift machinery. In the sorrowful tale of Leo Grand, homeless since he lost his job in 2011, McConlogue saw promise, and he acted upon it in a way that not many people would. Patrick proposed an experiment online, hypothesizing that a homeless...