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
Where will self-driving cars go once they drop you off? In big cities, parking can be expensive and take forever to find. But TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon team Val.ai built a way for autonomous vehicles to participate in auctions for nearby parking space. When a self-driving … | Continue reading
Und wer gedacht hätte, das schlimmste rings um WannaCry wäre vorbei, der hatte vermutlich nicht verstanden, wie einfach der Ransomware-Wurm WannaCry umzuschreiben ist.In einem Blog-Post von Matthieu Suiche wird ausführlich erklärt,... | Continue reading
What if every time you took an Uber, you gave to charity without spending extra money? That’s the idea behind Buttons for Good, a hack developed at TechCrunch’s Hackathon at Disrupt New York. Button co-founders Chris Maddern and Stephen Milbank used their expertise in mobile lin … | Continue reading
Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, one hacker came up with a project that might have come in handy for all the other developers in the room. CodeCorrect was presented as a way to fix errors developers run into while they’re writing code. Read More | Continue reading
The first team to go onstage at the Disrupt NY 2017 Hackathon showed off reVIVE, a virtual reality solution to diagnosing ADHD. The team of three high school juniors wanted to create a solution that would simplify the lengthy and expensive process of diagnosing the illness.The t … | Continue reading
I’m not sure what it would be like to navigate the streets of New York if I were visually impaired, but I imagine it would not being the most comfortable experience. BackMap, which came out of TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s 2017 hackathon, is a backpack that vibrates to let you know wh … | Continue reading
Palo Alto has a bike lock problem, and a pair of software developers and a designer took a shot at trying to solve that problem in 24 hours in New York this weekend. Eugene Tonev, Alexander Sivura and Yuri Dymov — currently at health startup HealthTap — put together a model of t … | Continue reading
The world isn’t lacking for translator apps, but it is lacking for tech that allows people to access translation services via text messaging. As foreign travelers might tell you, Google Translate is great, for example, but it fetches translations from the internet, requiring tha … | Continue reading
Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning are three buzzwords (four if you consider Bitcoin as well) dominating the internet. An Indian startup, Signzy Technologies has combined all the three to create a digital trust platform that speeds up compliance in the coun … | Continue reading
Google is expected to formally announce more details on the version 8.0 of Android, which we know to be codenamed Android O. But the biggest question about Android O — more so than what new features it will bring to the mobile OS or if Google will be able to actually get carriers … | Continue reading
Folks got no use for braggin'. — Jimmy Shirl Playing with adjectives is like playing with dynamite. You can blow up potential... | Continue reading
Test your luck in this week's Sunday Giveaway and you could win yourself a brand new LG G6! | Continue reading
This year, people are expected to spend more than half their day reading e-mail, articles, or posts on social media, and it’s only going to get worse. To help solve this problem, researchers at Salesforce have developed an algorithm that uses machine learning to produce “surprisi … | Continue reading
When it comes to financial success in the business world, big data is everything. Broken down, big data is that fountain of raw undiluted information that comes surging out of most companies’ analytics reports. From production data to financials to customer specifics, it’s usuall … | Continue reading
Around 750 engineers and designers got together to hack something cool, something neat, something clever. All teams have 60 seconds to present what the worked on for the last 24 hours. It’s a great way to experiment and unleash your creativity.So without further ado, sit back an … | Continue reading
The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, May 13, 2017. The Gang takes nothing off the table as Doc describes a near future of personal APIs and CustomerTech.@stevegillmor, @dsearls, @kteare, @fradice+ G3: Oh Snap! with … | Continue reading
Samantha Cristoforetti is an Italian astronaut with the European Space Agency. She currently holds a few spaceflight records — including being the first person ever to brew an espresso in space. In 2014 and 2015, Cristoforetti spent 199 days aboard the International Space Station … | Continue reading
According to reliable analyst KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo and 9to5mac, Apple is about to launch not one but two new hardware devices at its WWDC conference in a few weeks. A new iPad with thinner bezels and a bigger screen is likely. This iPad has been rumored for months. There could als … | Continue reading
Happy Mother’s Day! I thought it would be nice to share these photos of different animal moms and their baby cubs, cygnets, piglets, pups, joeys, calves, and more on this day. | Continue reading
Es ist - gefühlt - viele Jahre her, da konnte man bequem mit einer App bewaffnet in die Bahn einsteigen und schnell ein Ticket ziehen. Das lief in Berlin sogar mit S- oder U-Bahnen und berechnete einem tageweise auch noch nachträglich den... | Continue reading
In Copper Head bar high technologies and classic traditions merged into one. The brewery gives an opportunity not only enjoy freshly brewed .. | Continue reading
GUEST: The news made the rounds in early April. “America’s Retailers Are Closing Stores Faster Than Ever” read a Bloomberg headline. “These 21 Retailers Are Closing 3,591 Stores — Who Is Next?” wrote Forbes. It felt like the end of an era for many. Back in 1998, I worked at a com … | Continue reading
The death of Navy SEAL Kyle Milliken and the wounding of two more U.S. troops in Somalia this month marked the first deadly engagement for American forces in the country since the Battle of Mogadishu of October 1993. The two events differ in notable respects, not least in their m … | Continue reading
Get even more from your Android device by running a desktop OS! There are lots of options including Debian (no root) and full Ubuntu Linux (root). | Continue reading
The Federal Trade Commission says it’s cracking down on pop-up scams selling tech support “fixes” to fake computer problems. The FTC says it has taken 16 new “actions,” from settlements to guilty pleas, as part of Operation Tech Trap, a plan to stop similar scams. In all, the age … | Continue reading
This week we talked about Google's new Fuchsia OS, Project Trebble, and T-Mobile's new exclusive phone. Here's the news of the week! | Continue reading
I woke today to a TV image of crews in New Orleans removing the city’s massive statue of Jefferson Davis. I felt breathless, feeling a mixture of elation, disorientation, and bitter envy. Score one more for the Big Easy.Why do I feel that way? Walk with me through the neighborhoo … | Continue reading
Es gibt ein neues Tizen-Smartphone von Samsung mit Tizen 3.0. Das Z4 setzt die bislang noch recht stiefmütterlich laufende Alternative zu Android fort mit einem Einsteigersmartphone, das zunächst nur in Indien erscheinen wird, aber wohl auch... | Continue reading
As the massive WannaCry ransomware attack spread to over 100 countries this weekend, French automaker Renault halted production in several of its factories on Saturday, according to a spokesperson. Speaking to Automotive News, the spokesperson confirmed that the company shut down … | Continue reading
I helped work on a thing last weekend that I can’t write about, yet, and then last week I found my way to San Jose for Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and fine, all right, OK, I’m convinced: now that the smartphone boom is plateauing, AI/deep learning is the new coal face of … | Continue reading
It looks like we have another social media tussle on our hands right now. Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has introduced a new BIP. That is nothing unusual, as there are many improvements to be made where Bitcoin is concerned. However, this particular proposal seemingly uses the go … | Continue reading
There is something undeniably appealing about a little monster. That’s why people can call their human children “little monsters” and it’s not an insult.Everyone loves a tiny, chaotic neutral, nonverbal goober upon which to pour their affections — all the better if the baby meme’ … | Continue reading