Enter MOTUS, a smart robot that will turn your smartphone into what the company calls a professional cameraman. | Continue reading
Creditbit price failed once again to move higher against the US Dollar and Bitcoin, and now CRBIT/BTC is facing a major resistance just below 0.00060BTC. | Continue reading
Social selling techniques are talked about a lot, so this post and the accompanying infographic seek to distill what really matters! Check it out and get ROI now. | Continue reading
Tonight’s episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley saw a new twist in the drama from last week over a “Shazam for food” app. Spoilers ahead if you have not seen episodes 3 and 4 of season 4. After securing hundreds of thousands of dollars in venture capital funding for their SeeFood start … | Continue reading
Lyft and Waymo are working together on self-driving car technology, with a new deal first reported by the New York Times on Sunday. The deal has been confirmed by both parties, and will see Google’s former self-driving car unit work together with the ride hailing company on effo … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price bounced off the support area as it made a pullback from its recent rally, indicating that buyers are getting back in the game.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 05/15/2017 – Ready to Resume the Climb? appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, will work with ride-sharing service Lyft to develop new autonomous vehicle technologies. The two companies confirmed the partnership today, stating that they would work together on new self-driving products and pilots, but stopping shor … | Continue reading
Valve’s Steam store is the undisputed leader of PC game distribution, though the marketplace is also a portal for buying VR games, software, and even traditional movies. Through a partnership with Seattle-based startup Pixvana, Valve is also launching a VR video section aimed at … | Continue reading
Each week following episodes of the third and final season of The Leftovers, Sophie Gilbert and Spencer Kornhaber will discuss HBO’s drama about the aftermath of 2 percent of the world’s population suddenly vanishing.Sophie Gilbert: Well. Matt Jamison’s God is surely a vengeful G … | Continue reading
Rocket Labs is targeting a big first in commercial spaceflight – the first launch of an orbital rocket from a privately-owned launch facility. Its Launch Complex 1 is located on New Zealand’s North Island, and it’s now finally ready to start test firing actual launches from the … | Continue reading
GUEST: Many startups are currently testing out one of the most exciting new investment trends: blockchain-based initial coin offerings (ICOs). Still unregulated and open for anyone to invest in, not just VCs, these token crowdsales are like Kickstarter campaigns for the crypto wo … | Continue reading
European and U.S.-based tech ‘scale-ups’ with Asia ambitions, rejoice. Outing today is a new $500 million VC fund from Silk Ventures, and backed in part by the Chinese government. Read More | Continue reading
Silk Ventures, a venture capital firm headquartered in London, with additional hubs in Menlo Park, Beijing, and Shenzen, has closed its inaugural investment fund at $500 million, targeting later-stage technology companies looking to expand into China. With a specific focus on so- … | Continue reading
Lucid Motors is a startup focused electric cars, and the company revealed the design of its first car, the Lucid Air, at the very end of last year. The luxury sedan looks like a natural competitor to Tesla’s Model S, but the company has a view of the direction of the industry th … | Continue reading
The augmented reality game of whack-a-mole in the popular Black Mirror episode "Playtest" may have seemed like a fascinating look at the future but now it's real. David Robustelli, a virtual reality and augmented reality developer at Amsterdam-based Capitola VR, posted video of a … | Continue reading
At a Sunday inauguration ceremony in the grand reception room at the Élysée Palace in Paris, Emmanuel Macron was officially instated as France’s new president. At age 39, he is the nation’s youngest head of state since Napoleon. Known for founding the independent political moveme … | Continue reading
The FTC filed a suit against Qualcomm and now they have friends to back them in this fight. | Continue reading
On Friday, Mastercard announced that it is partnering with payment processing companies Verifone and Global Payments to help speed up chip-and-pin transactions at stores by incorporating its M/Chip Fast technology into checkout terminals. While chip-and-pin cards are widely used … | Continue reading
GUEST: I’ve lived in Santiago, Chile for six years, and in just this short time I’ve witnessed Latin America’s tech ecosystem grow by leaps and bounds. Programs like Start-Up Chile, 500 Startups: Latam, and NXTP Labs are seeding Latin America’s tech ecosystem and providing incred … | Continue reading
This Black Urban Cottage was designed by CoLab Architecture, an architecture practice based in Christchurch, New Zealand. | Continue reading
Star Trek and Tron aren’t two things that typically go together, but filmmaker Patrick Collins recently mashed the pair together in a short film called Star Trek: Legacy. In this 22-minute film, he recut Star Trek: The Motion Picture and set it to Daft Punk’s fantastic score from … | Continue reading
India, the second most populous country has recently awoken to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Until last year, the country’s cryptocurrency community was made up of only a handful of people. Now, the rapidly growing ecosystem has witnessed not only an increase in Bit … | Continue reading
The 2017 version of the budget-friendly Samsung Galaxy J3 is now on sale at AT&T for the no-contract price of $179.99, or for $6 a month for 30 months. | Continue reading
The Beach Lab project was completed in 2017 by Surfside Projects, a design based Real Estate Development firm. | Continue reading
“The latest technology isn’t always easy to use for people of a certain age.” So says the narrator in one of sketches from last night’s Saturday Night Live, which imagined an Amazon’s Echo speakers designed for the elderly. The sketch runs through a handful of features for the de … | Continue reading
As the world readies to open for business on Monday, companies and governments are bracing for a second round of cyberattacks in the aftermath of Friday’s WannaCry hack.Indeed, security experts are already warning that a new version of WannaCry has emerged over the weekend that … | Continue reading
Back in 2014, YesVideo set up its Legacy Republic division and invested $6 million in it to hire consultants to help people convert their family photo albums and old videos into digital formats. While YesVideo focuses on providing services at retail, Legacy Republic goes directly … | Continue reading
This week marks the 2017 television upfronts, in which networks reveal next season’s programming for advertisers. To get ready for the new group of shows, lower-rated programs have been getting the ax. One such show was NBC’s time travel show Timeless, which was canceled last wee … | Continue reading
The UK National Cyber Security Center is warning the nation to be on guard for another wave of cyber attacks after Friday’s massive WannaCry ransomware attack. The nation’s National Health Service was severely impacted in Friday’s attack, forcing the country to shut down everyth … | Continue reading
Smart automobiles are a concept that has been in the works for a while. Starting from onboard computers which appeared at least a decade ago, the automotive industry has moved on to self-driven cars, and now they are stepping into the blockchain domain. In the recent months, comp … | Continue reading
A leaked sales presentation video shows off the hardware specs of the upcoming Moto X4, while another leaked slide shows the 2017 Motorola lineup. | Continue reading
Around 750 engineers and designers got together to come up with something cool, something neat, something awesome. The only condition was that they only had 24 hours to work on their projects. Some of them were participating in our event for the first time, while others were reg … | Continue reading
At the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York today, a team of sophomores from Rutgers University introduced a social robot, named Robota, to help teachers in special ed classrooms. Robota uses computer vision and sentiment analysis to identify students in a classroom who appe … | Continue reading
Aerospace startup Rocket Lab is finally about to launch its first vehicle to space. Later this month, the California-based company will try to pull off the inaugural test flight of its Electron rocket — a new launch vehicle capable of sending small satellites into orbit. The firs … | Continue reading
Is your money burning a hole in your pocket, and you’d like to use some of it for good causes, but you don’t know where to begin? A new app called Cradle wants to help. Presented for the first time ever at the Disrupt Hackathon today in New York, and created by New Yorkers Gesin … | Continue reading
On Friday afternoon, NHS hospitals in the UK were infected with a ransomware strain known as WannaCry. Since then, it has continued to spread across the world, infecting computers in over 150 countries. Follow along for the latest updates. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Technology such as Facebook’s Safety Check has massively helped with the challenge of identifying and finding people when they go missing, but it is anything but perfect as missteps have shown. Confidant, a project developed at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon in New York this w … | Continue reading
Since its discovery on Friday afternoon, the WannaCry ransomware attack has continued to spread this weekend, impacting over 10,000 organizations and 200,000 individuals in over 150 countries, according to European authorities. However, while measures have been taken to slow the … | Continue reading
Classroom collaboration software exists, but Epigrammar thinks its approach better tackles the issue of student grammar, test creation and comprehension. Teachers can help facilitate student conversations on an assigned text by uploading it to Epigrammar, then helping their stud … | Continue reading
We’ve all seen the maps that show Florida being consumed by rising sea levels. But many of us still underestimate the impact of climate change because we can’t actually visualize its effects on the places we care about. In just a few hours at the TechCrunch NY2017 Hackathon, Jam … | Continue reading
Hardware is hard at the best of times. But software developer Patrick Morris-Suzuki set himself the ambitious challenge of creating a blink-detecting system for hands-free typing during an overnight hackathon here at TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2017. Read More | Continue reading
Many of the articles I write are intended to make it easier for any business owner who needs copy for a website, blog or promotional material to DIY it with the bets possible results. But sometimes you think to yourself “I need a copywriter for this project!” While it is possible … | Continue reading
With only 24 hours to build an app, it’s never easy to come up with a viable idea, nevermind build one that involves training a machine learning algorithm. Yet that’s exactly what a team of four friends accomplished this weekend at the annual TechCrunch Disrupt New York Hackatho … | Continue reading
Last night on Saturday Night Live, a spoof advertisement for an “Alexa Silver” poked gentle fun at how an Alexa speaker could be used with the elderly to do things like listen to their long, rambling stories (and respond with “uh-huh”), as well as answer questions even when addr … | Continue reading
WEDJ (that’s “We DJ,” not “Wedge,” for the record) is collaborative music playlist building app that sprung out of this weekend’s all-night Hackathon at Disrupt NY. Built by a team of four part-time hackers, the app is something of a real world version of the dearly departed Tur … | Continue reading
I used to feel tremendous guilt about sleeping in on Sunday mornings, or as I like to call it, attending the first church of Bedside Baptists. Where I come from, not going to church is the first sign of backsliding into sinful habits and regaining your heathen status. There are a … | Continue reading
At 5:27 a.m. local time on Sunday, North Korea conducted a successful test launch of a ballistic missile, despite growing concern and threats of increased sanctions from members of the international community. The missile, which flew 430 miles and reached an altitude of more than … | Continue reading
RoboWaiter’s crack team consisting of a developer, designer and a robotics expert came together at last night’s Disrupt NY hackathon to create a faster, better, smarter waiter using IBM Watson and robots. Developer Sharon Yang came up with the idea last night before the event w … | Continue reading