FEATURE: In the latest chapter of the Samsung app store saga, I take fantasy tropes into battle, get inconvenienced by cult members, and do a whole lot of gambling. | Continue reading
I haven't yet seen Oliver Stone's Snowden at TIFF this year — though you can read Bryan Bishop's rather unfavorable review here. Luckily, I don't really have to, thanks to "The Veil," the new original song written by Peter Gabriel for the film's soundtrack, which by all reports, … | Continue reading
Another hack presented on stage here at the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2016 hackathon uses AR to contextualize gadgets with the aim of helping consumers better understand what they’re looking at, find a local stockist and even buy the gizmo there and then. Read More | Continue reading
XOXO Fest plays out like a link blog come to life. For five years, XOXO co-creator (and pioneering link-blogger) Andy Baio recruited some of the web’s most fascinating creators to the Portland festival he runs with Andy McMillan, and the result is new attention for some criminall … | Continue reading
Machine vision technology will let any smartphone or tablet recognize objects so we don’t have to rely on humans or barcode scanners. TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon project PepperPay brings machine vision to the checkout process. You just hold up the item you want to buy in fron … | Continue reading
Some people are simply the worst. For reasons that are my own fault, I’ve recently been involved in series of conversations that I’d really rather not be having. Enter Phoney.club, a mobile-first service that can quickly get you out of sticky situations. At TechCrunch Disrupt SF … | Continue reading
Douppikauppa, a well-known drug seller on Valhalla darknet marketplace was arrested by Finnish law enforcement agencies. Read more... | Continue reading
“Doing something for children was our first thought,” Camilo F. Buscaron explains, fresh of the Disrupt Hackathon stage. “We wanted to do something in education.” At some point during the 24 hour process, however, things took a turn for the medical, no doubt helped along by the f … | Continue reading
Malaria is treatable and preventable. And yet, the World Health Organization reports that almost half the world’s population — 3.2 billion people — are still at risk of contracting the life-threatening disease. At the Disrupt SF Hackathon, a group of teenage girls is gamifying ma … | Continue reading
BMW plans to accelerate its electric vehicle plans, in the wake of an executive shake-up and leading into a vote planned for the end of this month. The new BMW expanded electric lineup will kindle fully battery-powered versions of the Mini, the BMW 3 Series and the X4 SUV. The co … | Continue reading
As a filmmaker, Oliver Stone arguably built his career on the idea of questioning the establishment. Whether critiquing the way we looked at the Vietnam War (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July), the Reaganomic excesses of the ‘80s (Wall Street), or even conventional cinematic no … | Continue reading
GUEST: Look at the people you work with. There’s a good chance at least one of them has a Side Hustle. There’s a good chance their out-of-office hours are consumed by some sort of side-project, whether that’s writing a book, developing a new product, contributing to some philanth … | Continue reading
Everyone knows waiting on hold for a representative sucks, and only a few companies have systems that will call you back when a representative is ready. The result is hours wasted and very often you’ll forget you’re on hold and the representative will hang up, or your call will … | Continue reading
Every company needs to understand their customers better, and it’s difficult to get a grip without a body of knowledge, especially when the customer is new to you. Imagine being able to access a pool of aggregated data about that customer to help you understand him or her better. … | Continue reading
Possibly my favorite hack to come out of the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon is solving a so very San Francisco problem. Meter Maid Monitor uses high tech cloud magic to automate the game of dodging meter maids when you’re parked in the 2-hour resident bays around the city. Read Mor … | Continue reading
LoveBot is the thoughtful husband or wife that you aren’t.Presenting at the 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon, Guru Ranganathan was sure to specify once he got onstage that his LoveBot doesn’t do what you probably think it does.Instead of making robot love, this chatbot speaks … | Continue reading
TechCrunch kicked off the annual Disrupt event in San Francisco with a hackathon, where teams had just 24 hours to put together a project before presenting it in front of a live audience and judges. One of the “hacks” that caught our attention was PickMe, a Facebook-integrated ch … | Continue reading
You’re organizing a get-together, but getting input from your friends about where to go and when to meet feels like an exercise in herding cats. Enter Full Circle, an app built off a Twilio API that enables a host to text numerous contacts simultaneously and survey them via a sho … | Continue reading
The anti-muslim, anti-hispanic and increasingly xenophobic tenor of the debate – especially on the Republican side — is bound to scare smart entrepreneurs from coming to America. Innovation depends on tolerance and openness. Read More | Continue reading
Pepper, the humanoid robot, is coming up with all sorts of ways to serve its human overlords, including in eldercare. The little rolling robot took to the stage at the Disrupt SF Hackathon today to show how it could help our aging parents, should they fall and not be able to get … | Continue reading
There’s plenty of information online to help people figure out whether their plants are healthy and what they need to do to make them better. But they can be distributed far across the Internet and sometimes hard to find, and aren’t necessarily available on demand, according to M … | Continue reading
At the TechCrunch Hackathon today in San Francisco, Torrey Nommesen showed off Fake Number Club, the easiest way to someone down if they ask you for your number. If you call or text a particular number, a robot will explain that your hopes and dreams of a long, loving and meaning … | Continue reading
Tesla is preparing a significant upgrade to its autopilot technology for a future software update, the company announced today. The biggest change is in how the company uses its radar sensors. Previously, a camera and image processing system were the the primary sensors, backed u … | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is finally sharing the “major improvements” coming to Tesla’s Autopilot feature. In a press call this afternoon, Elon Musk described the changes coming with the 8.0 Autopilot software update, most prominently the elevation of radar as a primary source of infor … | Continue reading
Today, Tesla revealed Version 8 of its Autopilot software, going in one to two weeks. Version 8.0 includes updates to the signal processing tech used to interpret images received from the onboard radar. The update focuses primarily on the radar component of the Autopilot sensor s … | Continue reading
At the Disrupt SF Hackathon today in San Francisco, a team of seasoned software engineers unveiled Pepper the Inflight Service Bot, a robot flight attendant that doesn’t hate picking up barf bags, can circulate in a plane even when there’s turbulence, and can speak to passengers … | Continue reading
The Bitcoin community now has more worrying things on its plate. As if hacking incidents plaguing cryptocurrency exchanges aren’t enough, the number of malware and ransomware threats on the rise. In the past couple of weeks, a number of new malicious programs were detected by mul … | Continue reading
bisa fwf from nra - apols x posting| iainflett@hotmail.com |Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 11:52:19 -0500From: pakurilecz@GMAIL.COMSubject: Archive offers a backstage pass to six decades of Canadian music historyTo: ARCHIVES-NRA@JISCMAIL.AC.UKOn March 31, 2016, the University of Calgary … | Continue reading
bisa fwd from nra - apols x postingiainflett@hotmail.com |Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:04:45 -0500From: pakurilecz@GMAIL.COMSubject: Massive digital archiving project means these unique musical recordings will live foreverTo: ARCHIVES-NRA@JISCMAIL.AC.UKThe Montreux Jazz Festival has … | Continue reading
GUEST: The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Recession or not, what is universal is the bewilderment of many entrepreneurs on how negative VCs have become over the past nine … | Continue reading
Last week, the FBI arrested a pair of Israeli teenagers who allegedly ran an online booter service called vDOS, as reported by Brian Krebs.vDOS was an online service that helped carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites. The business allowed buyers t … | Continue reading
Japanese company Prodrone showed off a new drone his week called The PD6B-AW-ARM. Its main feature? Terrifying arms. The claws can grab anything up to 44 pounds and deliver it. It is very cool and very scary looking. I’ll never own this drone because it’s for commercial use, but … | Continue reading
GUEST: The bot revolution is upon us. They are taking over the majority of our conversations – whether fitting or not. Does this mean we should rejoice as the weight of tedious tasks is lifted off of our shoulders, or should we be worried of these software applications and what t … | Continue reading
Pretty Little Liars, the teen version of Desperate Housewives but with fewer Emmys for some reason, is coming to an end after seven seasons. "After seven seasons" is being used loosely here since every season was broken up into two half-seasons that were each 10 to 12 hours long. … | Continue reading
Should a 'trustless-ness' be a requirement for transacting safely in a free-market economy? | Continue reading
Amanda Knox found herself in the tabloids yet again this past weekend, when she arrived at the Toronto airport for TIFF, accompanied by her current boyfriend, author Christopher Robinson. Robinson was called out for his Riff Raff-esque appearance: cheetah-print pants, Terry Richa … | Continue reading
In this week's episode, we talk about a milestone for Pokemon Go, a big announcement from Nintendo, the latest Humble Bundle, and more Android apps news! | Continue reading
Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack’s user researcher, but her views here do not represent her employer. You can write to her at askle … | Continue reading
Provenance, a UK based blockchain supply chain traceability solution provider intends to fight illegal fishing and associated human rights violations. | Continue reading
On Thursday, the Dutch publisher of Playboy won a major legal victory concerning photographs that had been uploaded to the internet without its permission on a file sharing site. The ruling handed down by the European Union Court of Justice could have enormous consequences for us … | Continue reading
At the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday night, two back-to-back screenings of Nate Parker’s The Birth Of A Nation were met with standing ovations from both audiences. The crowd was there to see the first festival screening of the lightning-rod film since its Sundance … | Continue reading
Thrustmaster launched a flight throttle that brought back memories for me this week. The Thrust Master Weapon Control System Throttle is aimed at virtual pilots who enjoy flight simulator games. This new throttle controls your speed and has buttons so you can fire a variety of we … | Continue reading
A philanthropist asked a racecar designer to make an all-terrain vehicle suitable for humanitarian missions in Africa. The result was the Ox, “the world’s first flatpack truck” — meaning it can be packed up into a flat box and shipped like Ikea furniture. The truck is absurdly si … | Continue reading
If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer. ― Robert Brault When Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage appeared i... | Continue reading
Getting your site to rank in Google can be a tough slog. It requires knowledge of current ranking factors, as well as the time and ability to optimize your content for those factors. Any SEO hacks or “secrets” you can figure out can also go a long toward helping you. While Google … | Continue reading
If the Sundance Film Festival is the germinating seed of the year in film, a place where indie films make their first stop before slowly finding their way to audiences over the ensuing months, TIFF is its polar opposite. Every year Toronto plays host to a showcase of star-studded … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama on Sunday paid tribute to the relatives and friends of the victims of the 9/11 attacks. Photo: AP | Continue reading
All the rest from IFA, the LG V20 in many ways, and more - here are the Android and computing-related videos you don't want to miss this week. | Continue reading