Klint Finley
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Klint Finley is a reporter for Wired, an occasional columnist for TechCrunch, and the co-host of the Mindful Cyborgs podcast. He has also contributed to publications such as Boing Boing, Oregon Business, ReadWriteWeb, Disinfo, and Shift.
Finley covers a range of topics for Wired such as startups, emerging tech, the Internet of Things, privacy, technology law, network neutrality, machine learning, open source, hacker culture, code literacy, and more.
E-mail newsletters are so hot right now.
Some of the best known are by Ann Friedman, Alexis Madrigal, Dan Hon and Rusty Foster. There's a web ring for e-mail newsletters now, but really the best ne
Daniel Suarez self-published his first novel, Daemon, in 2006. The book and its sequel Freedom chronicled the rise of a botnet that uses self-driving cars to kill humans, crashes the stock market, and
We live in the age of cryptocurrency heists, Chinese moon landings, eco-disasters and electronic cigarettes. Sounds like something out of a cyberpunk novel. Well, a cyberpunk novel without the brain i
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Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But there's a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolut
"The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body," William S. Burroughs once said in a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85zCwCQPDI8">Nike commercial<
Fake meats have been around for years, but a new crop of Bay Area startups backed by tech investors think they can make meat substitutes good enough to compete with the real deal. The most ambitious p
The biggest change I've seen in the tech industry in the past decade isn't social media, cloud computing, big data, consumerization or even mobile. It's the mainstream acceptance of open source. Even
The Internet makes it easy to collaborate across borders. But despite the rise of remote work and virtual teams, founders still need to travel for business sometimes. For some, travel practically beco
Today <a target="_blank" href="http://www.neotechnology.com/">Neo Technology</a>, makers of the NoSQL graph database <a target="_blank" href="http://neo4j.org/">Neo4j</a> announced that it has raised
Despite the efforts of many different organizers over the years software developers have resisted unionization. The relatively high pay and good working conditions of developers, the stereotype of gee
<a target="_blank" href="http://FastMail.fm">FastMail</a> is a popular e-mail provider among power users who want to be customers instead of products. But its interface has been stuck in the 90s -- un
<a target="_blank" href="http://prezi.com">Prezi</a>, a popular alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint and other presentation applications, launched a new version of its interface today. The company, whi
Open source business intelligence vendor <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pentaho.com/">Pentaho</a> today announced that it has received a $23 million round led by New Enterprise Associates with pa
Last month we wrote about DevelopersAuction, a company that lets startups “bid” on developers who are looking for work. During the first two-week long auction companies made $30 million wo
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.acquia.com/">Acquia</a> was founded by Dries Buytaert, the creator of the open source content management system Drupal, to monetize the project offering hosting and
Today cloud cost management company <a target="_blank" href="http://cloudyn.com">Cloudyn</a> announced a new free <a target="_blank" href="http://cloudyn.com/what-it-is/reserved-instance-calculator">s
<a target="_blank" href="https://goresponsa.com/en">Responsa</a> is a tool for adding interactive FAQs (frequently asked questions) to your company website through an embedded widget.
That sounded
More established companies are turning to skunkworks projects -- relatively independent teams within large companies -- to compete with nimble startups or just generate fresh ideas. One example is Del
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/famo-us-is-a-gaming-engine-for-3d-interfaces/">Last month</a> as part of our TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield Coverage, we wrote about <a target="_blank" href=