Time is moving fast. It feels like New Year's Eve was just yesterday, but it's already the middle of January. Before we slide through the end of the month, we've got some discounts for you. Some of our favorites this week include affordable TVs from TCL—they might come in handy for the upcoming Super Bowl—and…

David Barnett, a former philosophy professor and the founder and CEO of PopSockets, says his interactions with Amazon have often amounted to “bullying with a smile.” Like many companies, PopSockets, which makes a popular plastic grip that can be attached to smartphones, discovered several years ago counterfeit versions of its products available for sale on…

Photograph: PETER BELANGERMSR Lightning Ascent SnowshoesAluminum frames make these snowshoes light—around 35 ounces each—and steel crampons underfoot make them tough enough to stomp over gravel and boulders without losing their edge. The mesh bindings wrap around nearly any size of boot to grip snugly and uniformly without any blister-causing pressure points.$320Photograph: PETER BELANGERThe North Face…

Hi everyone, my name is Eric Eldon and I’m the new writer of the Startups Weekly newsletter.  I’ll be picking my favorite explicitly startup-focused articles of the week for you…

North of Silicon Valley, protected by the Point Reyes National Seashore, is the only operational ship-to-shore maritime radio station. Bearing the call sign KPH, the Point Reyes Station is the…

'This is the very, very beginning of something much bigger' This week, LaunchDarkly announced that it has raised another $54 million. Led by Bessemer Venture Partners and backed by the…

In films, TV shows and books — and even in video games where characters are designed to respond to user behavior — we don’t perceive characters as beings with whom…

Microsoft has confirmed a security flaw affecting Internet Explorer is currently being used by hackers, but that it has no immediate plans to fix. In a late-evening tweet, US-CERT, the…

At most, 7 million of Instagram’s 1 billion-plus users have downloaded its standalone IGTV app in the 18 months since launch. And now, Instagram’s main app is removing the annoying…

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app…