Fri, 2016-04-29 07:51
Sam
Introducing Circuit Breaker, a Gadget Blog from The Verge
Vox Media has launched Circuit Breaker, a gadget blog run by The Verge and built to live on Facebook. Circuit Breaker also lives as a channel on The Verge itself, but the mission is to get The Verge's gadget content flowing in FB streams like yours.
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Darren Murph is back in the tech edit saddle, as global editor-in-chief of TechRadar, a UK-based site with a monthly audience of 44 million. If you already know Darren's name, it's probably through Engadget, where he spent almost eight years during that site's glory days.
Nine years ago this month, WSJ personal technology columnist Joanna Stern was an account coordinator at Kaplow Communications in New York. Last week Joanna was in Hong Kong, working the crowd at Converge, a two-day Asian tech conference co-sponsored by WSJ and f.ounders. Not bad.
CES is 69 days away, but not for you. Today is the last day you can submit your client for TechCrunch's Hardware Battlefield competition. Nominations for Engadget's Best of CES Awards begin Saturday. Publications are deep into planning their "what to expect at CES 2015" stories; some have already run. As usual we can expect the usual smartphones and earbuds and TVs the size of Kansas.
