Researchers often need to go beyond Google to find the kind of medical journal articles and flat data files necessary for their work. But many journal articles are locked away in databases like JSTOR or PubMed, which don’t have the reliable search capabilities of an engine like G … | Continue reading
NYU Shanghai students Sean Kelly and Sam Shi wanted to use VR to help increase access to information. Over the weekend at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York, the duo initially looked at helping students learn brain surgery but they switched their target and developed Te … | Continue reading
An interesting hack presented on stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2016 is a platform for non-traditional banking services. Called e-susu, the app is designed for people who are involved with informal loan groups to help them better manage the process of lending money wi … | Continue reading
Today we are taking a look at the Zilker smart irrigation device for the home. It will grant you remote control, save water and keep your wallet healthy. | Continue reading
GUEST: With Facebook’s introduction of bots on Messenger last month, chatbots, which have been around for decades, have suddenly taken the leap from fun toy project to cutting-edge business proposition. With this rapid rise to prominence, it’s critical to differentiate the hype f … | Continue reading
Between Alexa’s built-in functionality and Skills API, you can now use the platform to do almost anything. Simple voice commands let you do things like order a pizza, send someone money on Venmo, or even buy another Echo.But here’s the thing – anyone using your Echo can do these … | Continue reading
When novice users are on the lookout for a proper Bitcoin wallet solution, search engines are the first tool they will wield. However, throughout the years, various fake wallet providers have made their way to the top of search results, and especially Bing seems to be a source of … | Continue reading
Can Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa serve as a matchmaker? That’s the idea behind The Blind Date Club, a project from a team of coders presenting today at the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 Hackathon. Designed as a voice-activated app for the Echo speaker, The Blind Date Club lets y … | Continue reading
Twelve hours into last night’s Disrupt NY Hackathon, Andre Smith still wasn’t sure what he was doing. “People ask me about what my ideas are before the Hackathon,” he explains in a bit of a sleep-deprived daze. “I have no idea. I was already in deep. I didn’t really have a clear … | Continue reading
You have a bunch of ingredients in your fridge, and you don’t know what you want to cook. You just bought an Amazon Echo, dying to figure out some new things to do with it. Well, you can do both of these with a hack put together at TechCrunch Disrupt NY that does just that. With … | Continue reading
Der Urlaub liegt nun fast genau ein Jahr zurück. Mit den Reiseberichten wollte ich, zusätzlich zu den Fotos, diesen wunderbaren Urlaub auch in Worte fassen und für mich aufbewahren, aber auch mit der Öffentlichkeit teilen. Nebenbei sind auch einigen Video Clips angefallen die ich … | Continue reading
Radiohead promised to release its album by 2PM today, and it's almost here — but a Google Play Music page went live with details just a bit early. The group's ninth overall album is called A Moon Shaped Pool, and includes 11 tracks from "Burn The Witch" to "True Love Waits."Radio … | Continue reading
If it’s your birthday, Mother’s Day or some other significant occasion, it’s likely you’ll receive a barrage of text messages, emails and calls. Even if it’s not a special day, between your friends, significant other and boss, there’s probably a fair amount of action on your phon … | Continue reading
Makers of an app called Eliza want to make it as easy for people to track their psychological well-being as it is to track their physical fitness.The Eliza app asks users to record a voice memo, say, venting about an issue they’re dealing with at work or simply reflecting on thei … | Continue reading
At Unity Technologies, chief executive John Riccitiello sees a sea of games and game startups streaming through doors. Unity was founded in 2003 to “democratize game development” with easy-to-use game engine tools. In the last quarter, 220,000 games were made with Unity, and thos … | Continue reading
On a road trip across Germany earlier this year, my wife and I made a four-hour detour to visit Miniatur Wunderland. It's Hamburg's most popular tourist attraction and it was, without question, worth the trip.Miniatur Wunderland is the Guinness Book of World Records-certified lar … | Continue reading
Just getting started in PPC but know where to start? Take a look at our 6 part series for building PPC accounts on a budget. With this post focusing on account structure. | Continue reading
Too busy to keep up with your friends? There’s a chat bot for that. Read More | Continue reading
According to the research firm IBISWorld, there are currently more than 65,000 event promoters in the U.S., most of who have limited geographic reach. Even including the industry’s largest player, Live Nation Entertainment, the biggest companies in the space account for no more t … | Continue reading
Coders stayed up all night at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon this weekend in Brooklyn, New York. With just 24 hours to build something meaningful, it was no easy task. But four gentlemen met at the event and decided to build an app that could help keep homeless people off the s … | Continue reading
One of the biggest limitations of mobile VR at the moment is the lack of input. Google Cardboard is gathering some fixes via sensors from companies like PMD, but Angel Say wanted to make that solution available on the more high-powered Gear VR platform so at this weekend’s TechCr … | Continue reading
At the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 hackathon, a team of engineers from MasterCard teamed up to create an app that can help travelers visiting a foreign country better understand what food is being described on a menu. Just by pointing their phone at the restaurant’s menu, the app … | Continue reading
Bitcoin may now have a fee market, but that reality doesn't mean the network has optimized for this environment, developer Jameson Lopp argues. | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
The mainstream media has been having a field day ever since Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist proclaimed himself to be the Satoshi Nakamoto. After Craig Wright failed to convincingly prove that he and Satoshi Nakamoto are one and the same, the media has painted him … | Continue reading
When you find yourself in an emergency situation, it’s hard to know what to do. And even if you do, panic can take over. 911bot, a product built at the Disrupt Hackathon here in New York, aims to help you out in a pinch. The Facebook Messenger-based chat bot lets you report emerg … | Continue reading
AdBlock and AdBlock Plus are now available from the Windows Store for Microsoft's Edge browser, letting Windows 10 users browse the way Microsoft intended while giving them the option to control the ads they see. Microsoft opened up Edge browser extensions to testers in March, pa … | Continue reading
Sad, mad, glad, confused about the presidential race so far? Well, if you are really lost on who to vote for, IBM may have a solution depending on your mood. Watson Elections, one of the surprisingly few political applications for IBM’s supercomputer, debuted on stage this mornin … | Continue reading
GUEST: Volatility in the on-demand economy has many citing a contraction. But is it all doom and gloom or is there another factor at play here? On one hand, new startups are constantly launching in the space, capitalizing on the public’s growing need for instant gratification. On … | Continue reading
Welcome back to Android Apps Weekly! This week we talk about a potential YouTube cable service, Google I/O 2016, and the best Humble Mobile Bundle ever! | Continue reading
Forgotten genius Ring Lardner was a popular satirist of the 1920s, famous for the practice of "listening hard." He delighted fans by... | Continue reading
The Nexus 5X is a fantastic phone, but feels as if it never lived up to its possible potential. Let's examine just what went "wrong" and seek to "solve" the situation. | Continue reading
Amazon has pledged to expand its same-day service to underserved people in the 27 cities it currently operates, and not to launch the service anywhere else without being able to cover every zip code, Bloomberg reports. The move follows a Bloomberg investigation in April that foun … | Continue reading
OKLAHOMA CITY — Taken at face value, Kevin Durant was just complimenting veteran forward David West for his decision to value professional goals over financial ones by joining the Spurs. West turned down a $12.6-million contract option with the Pacers to sign for the veteran’s mi … | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Lillard’s helpers were invaluable | Miami’s dark side without Whiteside | Lowry comes back for Raptors | Jackson ‘owes’ Knicks job to Rambis? No. 1: Lillard’s helpers were invaluable — First things first: Without a medical degree, can you nonetheless hazard a … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price is trading lower today after forming another rounded wave top. Analysis considers mining production costs and the historical relationship of market price to this fundamental metric. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis … | Continue reading
A House is a single-family home with a special architecture located in Mosha, Tehran, Iran. The house was designed by New Wave Architecture. | Continue reading
The class of 2015 graduated with an average of $35,000 in student loan debt, the most in history. And yet, executives and hiring managers continue to complain about their inability to fill skilled positions in their companies. This is the skills gap, and we’ve been talking about … | Continue reading
Bluetooth-Lautsprecher? Schon seit Jahren absolute Massenware, von klein bis groß, von preisgünstig bis amtlich teuer: Die Teile sind schlicht überall im Einsatz und ein Blick in die Abteilungen der Elektronik-Supermärkte &nda... | Continue reading
Austin, Texas voters have rejected a measure called Proposition 1 that would have shielded ride-hail drivers from stricter background checks, and now Uber and Lyft are threatening to cease operations in the city on Monday. Originally reported by KXAN Austin, Proposition 1 would h … | Continue reading
When it was unveiled in 2011, the Panono, a toss-able sphere of cameras, was seen as a harbinger of the consumer 360-degree content revolutionA successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo a few years later pushed it closer to reality and finally into people's hands this year.Bu … | Continue reading
GUEST: It’s clear from the last six months that the cyber threat landscape has gotten worse quickly. Hospitals are under siege from ransomware, breaches are increasingly moving to mobile devices and we’ve seen a successful attack against a public utility. The cyber threats we fac … | Continue reading
Interested in trading ether? Here are some basics about the Ethereum market you should know before buying in. | Continue reading
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we've written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight.If you were paying attention to world technology news this … | Continue reading
Losing jobs to technology is nothing new. Since the industrial revolution, roles that were once exclusively performed by humans have been slowly but steadily replaced by some form of automated machinery. Even in cases where the human worker is not completely replaced by a machine … | Continue reading
This week we got our first glimpse of the Galaxy S7 Active, we discussed why Intel called it quits on the smartphone market, and analyzed the results of our big phone camera comparison. Here's the news of the week! | Continue reading
Und nicht nur das Moto G der neuen Generation kündigt sich langsam an, sondern auch das kommende Moto X. Es ist zumindest laut evleaks sicher, dass das Bild die kommende Version zeigt. Doch nun kommen die Fragen: was wird aus dem doch essentie... | Continue reading