Artificial intelligence (AI) enterprise company AppZen closed a $2.9 million seed round today. AppZen uses machine learning algorithms and natural language processing to automate and analyze expense reports for fraud. The company plans to extend into other back-office functions l … | Continue reading
Digital media company Purch has acquired Business.com — which, in addition to being a pretty great URL, offers advice and other content for small businesses and operates a marketplace for business products and services. Purch owns a number of product-focused sites, including Tom’ … | Continue reading
Advertising that grows your business is not just any digital advertising. Discover how to improve your campaigns with these digital advertising tips. | Continue reading
Before we create a truly powerful AI, it's important that we will be able to control it. Google has published a paper outlining some of the problems this situation presents. | Continue reading
Women who live in some Latin American countries where the Zika virus is spreading are increasingly seeking access to abortion — even though, in many instances, abortion is illegal or restricted. Since November 17th, 2015, when the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) issued an … | Continue reading
In a sea of ad-based gaming, currencies upon currencies, and premium purchases, it's fun to find a game every so often that abandons that entirely. Sometimes, a game itself is a premium purchase, bestowing everything, from content to opportunities, with reckless abandon. It's a m … | Continue reading
Throughout his life, architect Bill Claudill wrote down notes on this and that, and organized those thoughts under the title This I Believe. When Tom Peters turned 60, he decided to scribble down 60 thoughts, one for each year - that seemed to capture his professional and persona … | Continue reading
Sales startup Outreach announced today that it scored $17.5 million for its latest funding round. Trinity Ventures led the investment, followed by Microsoft Ventures. “Outreach is the first data-driven platform for business sales communication, helping sales teams to achieve a 3 … | Continue reading
Three years ago, the design agency Critical Mass created a prototype of a high-top Converse Chuck Taylor with a built-in wah pedal called the . Now, in partnership with CuteCircuit, Converse has brought the shoe to life, and giving a pair to legendary guitarist J Mascis of Dinosa … | Continue reading
If you picked up the Nexus Player or Android TV device to play some games, you'll want to check out these awesome Android TV games! | Continue reading
Red Hat today announced that it’s acquiring 3scale, a company with software for managing the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) that companies can expose for other developers to use. The deal is not material to Red Hat although the publicly traded open-source softwa … | Continue reading
As grand touring cars go, they don't get much more beautiful than the Vanquish Zagato that Aston Martin revealed as a concept several weeks ago. At the time, Aston didn't reveal any production plans — but it was pretty obvious that they wanted to make a few. (Who wouldn't?) Now, … | Continue reading
The DAO Token Holders received bad news today, after a team lead by ex-DAO curators, Slock.it employees, researchers and Ethereum foundation members managed to launch a counter-attack -known as the Robin Hood attack-. The preemptive strike was intended to secure the remaining The … | Continue reading
Congress has failed to pass an expansion of online surveillance powers for monitoring suspected terrorists — at least for now. In a vote today, the Senate fell just short of the 60 votes needed to adopt an amendment brought by Senator John McCain (R-AZ), mustering only 58 support … | Continue reading
Poisoned trust. Yearnings for transparency. The cyber Pearl Harbor. Executives from Google, Facebook, Dropbox, and other major tech companies met with the president’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley yesterday. The discussion was laced with moments of … | Continue reading
The New York Knicks have acquired former NBA MVP Derrick Rose from the Chicago Bulls. | Continue reading
Dear friends and loved ones,This is my son Klav. As you can see, he is beautiful. Thank goodness, because I am emotionally, physically, and mentally exhausted from delivering Klav into the world. It took forever, plus however long it takes to read "What is Code?"Have you ever hea … | Continue reading
Mashable's Senior Tech Correspondent Christina Warren gives you a first look at macOS Sierra, Apple's latest operating system for Mac. It launches fall 2016 as a free download for most users. The public beta launches in July.More details: http://on.mash.to/28NNfSB Read more...Mo … | Continue reading
Samsung's 360 degree video app has been rebranded as Samsung VR. Additionally, Samsung is now allowing user-generated content onto the app. | Continue reading
Michelle Obama has joined Snapchat. The First Lady announced yesterday that she is joining the platform so users can see a behind-the-scenes look at her life in the White House. You can add her using the QR code above, or by manually adding “MichelleObama”. In addition to her dai … | Continue reading
The Internet of Things genie is out of the bottle and growing at an accelerating pace. According to Gartner, 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015. This number will soar to more than 20 billion by 2020. Here are some of the changes … | Continue reading
Google today announced the availability of a new widget with which people will be able to use the Google Domains service to find and buy a domain name while they’re using non-Google services, like Square and Big Cartel, to build websites. The widget provides you with more than “2 … | Continue reading
Virtual agents and chatbots will be the top consumer applications of artificial intelligence over the next five years, according to a consensus poll released today by TechEmergence, a marketing research firm for AI and machine learning. The emphasis on virtual agents and chatbots … | Continue reading
Emin Gün Sirer already helped identify the bug that led to an expensive exploit of The DAO. Now he's helping ensure future DAOs are safe. | Continue reading
Google and Udacity have offered Android app development courses in the past, but none quite like this. | Continue reading
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The Derrick Rose era has come to an end in Chicago. Rose is the centerpiece of a trade that would send him from his hometown to the New York Knicks, according to a report from the Chicago Tribune, where he would team up with Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps P … | Continue reading
Nest has taken another step to showcase its ability to be a platform by opening up its store to third-party products built off of its “Works with Nest” program. While there are more than 100 supported products, the Alphabet-owned company currently has plans to only sell the LIFX … | Continue reading
Democrats are in the middle of a sit-in protest on the floor of the US House of Representatives, but C-SPAN isn't allowed to turn its TV cameras on to film it. So it's turned to something else: Periscope and Facebook LiveC-SPAN has been airing live video from representatives on t … | Continue reading
TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Microsoft Accelerator’s Bangalore Demo Day today, Wednesday June 22nd starting at 11:35pm PT. The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive three- to six-month program aimed at helping entrepreneurs get through the challenges of building a company, … | Continue reading
Watching 360-degree videos alone on your Gear VR is about to get a little less lonely. Oculus just rolled out the ability for users to see and leave Facebook’s five emoji reactions on 360 Videos within Gear VR’s video app. While Reactions started as a risky attempt at tampering w … | Continue reading
I want to hate these Zungle Panther sunglasses, which have bone conduction speakers built into them, but I kind of can’t resist them. They’re so unfashionable that maybe I’m into them? They’ve also already surpassed their Kickstarter goal of $50,000 with 23 days to go. Is this so … | Continue reading
Let me be very clear – when the right company wants to go public, market conditions just don’t matter. Read More | Continue reading
Well, I can't blame Kemco for trying. While the publisher has used IAP in its games for a few years now, even releasing free versions of some of them, it has largely stuck to what it's become known for on mobile: traditional single-player JRPGs. The quality of the games varies ac … | Continue reading
SoundCloud has long been one of my favorite apps for discovering new music.The fun design and numerous independent acts that litter the app made it worth using. The problem, however, is that this discovery was far too manual in a world where algorithmically-curated playlists are … | Continue reading
The Arecibo telescope has been a landmark observatory for 50 years, but limited funding could see the facility shut down in the near future. | Continue reading
The Chuck Taylor from Converse has always been popular with rock stars. Now, embedded technology has made the sneaker even more useful to musicians. The Converse All Wah literally puts a guitar wah-wah pedal in your shoes, allowing you to twist your guitar's sound with no need to … | Continue reading
In force a vote on gun control, House Democrats staged a sit-in this morning. When C-SPAN cameras went dead, Periscope took over. C-SPAN claims it has no control over the cameras in the House of Representatives, meaning government officials turned them off (likely to avoid scruti … | Continue reading
The Samsung Gear 360 will cost $349.99 and will get an extremely limited release in the US on June 23 at Vidcon in Anaheim. | Continue reading
SoundCloud is launching a new feature that aims to help its users find new tracks and artists they’ll love, based on their activity and listening history. Called “Suggested Tracks,” the addition is essentially SoundCloud’s attempt at personalizing the service to its individual us … | Continue reading
Pac-Man’s most notable mobile outing is making its way into your living room. Publisher Bandai Namco launched Pac-Man 256 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam today for $5. The Hipster Whale-developed game’s conceit on the infamous glitch that occurs in the original Pac-Man … | Continue reading
Medium format cameras are known for a few things. First and foremost, they produce excellent images that smaller format cameras can’t touch. Second, they are big and heavy and aren’t really designed to ever leave the studio. And finally, they are known for being really, really ex … | Continue reading
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The Indiana Pacers, Utah Jazz and Atlanta Hawks are all trying to solve their point guard issues on the eve of Thursday night’s Draft, engaging in a reported three-team deal that would send Hawks All-Star Jeff Teague home to the Pacers, Pacers veteran Geo … | Continue reading
I am all for a world of brand mashups. Taco Bell's Doritos Loco Tacos had me racing to the drive-thru opening week, and the Sour Patch Kids-flavored Slurpee at 7-11 is...not my favorite, but I just like knowing that it exists.For the latest edible remix, Burger King has tunneled … | Continue reading
Now that Samsung has officially launched its 360-degree camera, it’s also launching a site where you can upload your videos. The site is called Samsung VR, and replaces Milk VR which was limited to ‘influencers’ in the VR space (read: brands). In opening Samsung VR up to the mass … | Continue reading
Picture this: over happy hour suds in a generic Irish pub, a man wants a cheap laugh to endear himself to his colleagues. He unholsters his iPhone, opens LinkedIn, and types a two-word prompt. The app thinks for a moment, then uploads an ordinary profile page belonging to a midd … | Continue reading
We’re happy to announce the GamesBeat 2016 developer contest. We’re going to pick five developers who will demo their games at our annual GamesBeat conference, August 1 to August 3 at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles. The submissions can be for any type o … | Continue reading
BetaList features the newest startups. Today, we take a closer look at Refind, a new take on social bookmarking. Submit your startup to get featured too. What is Refind? Refind is the home for the best links on the web. It lets you save great links that will come in handy in the … | Continue reading
When Mark Zuckerberg recently posted a photo with his computer in the background, it revealed his paranoia about hackers tapping into not only his webcam, but his microphone, too.SEE ALSO: NFL Twitter account hacked soon after Drake's, Twitter 'checking' into leaksThe photo shows … | Continue reading