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‘Captain America: Civil War’ mostly ignores the real world, and it’s all the better for it | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 7 | I’ll be honest: I was kind of nervous about this one. In the run-up to this weekend’s release of , I’d seen some fond recollections of that the movie is based on, but here’s the objective truth: , with strained references to post-9/11 politics shoehorned into a dopey superhero story. The previous movie, , actual... |
User’s Guide to Disrupt NY 2016 | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,016 | 5 | 7 | Hard to believe that Disrupt NY is just around the corner! TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of sponsors who promise to make your experience at the conference better and better. : Download the newest version of the official Disrupt app to connect and message with other attendees at Disrupt. (Note: you can ... |
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VR is terrible for traditional storytelling | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 5 | 7 | “But among them was this poor Earthling, and his head was encased in a steel sphere which he could never take off. There was only one eyehole through which he could look, and welded to that eyehole were six feet of pipe. He was also strapped to a steel lattice which was bolted to a flatcar on rails, and there was no wa... |
The Information Age is over; welcome to the Experience Age | Mike Wadhera | 2,016 | 5 | 9 |
Twenty-five years after the introduction of the World Wide Web, the Information Age is coming to an end. Thanks to mobile screens and Internet everywhere, we’re now entering what I call the “Experience Age.” When was the last time you updated your Facebook status? Maybe you no longer do? It’s been that original sta... |
Embedded fuel cells power smartphones for a week… and could run the world | Garry Golden | 2,016 | 5 | 9 |
People love their smartphones but hate poor battery life. We love having access to the world’s information at our fingertips but tire of the need to constantly plug in to the world’s electricity grid. The recharging model of batteries fails us — the marketplace is ready for a new approach to portable power. We may be... |
Rancher Labs raises $20M Series B round for its container management platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | , a container management platform that supports both Kubernetes and Docker Swarm, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B round. This new funding round was led by new investor , a Chinese private equity and venture capital fund, with participation from existing investors Mayfield and Nexus Venture Pa... |
Virtual reality will revolutionize media content but VR headsets need to evolve | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | Virtual reality can deliver on its promise to bring new and immersive experiences to the masses, but the current iteration of hardware will need to evolve first. That’s the view shared by co-founder Dave Cole and Shanna Tellerman, co-founder and CEO of , two VR industry veterans who took to the stage at to dig int... |
WaterO brings reverse osmosis drinking water to the kitchen table | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | A month before Disrupt, Yu Zhou sent us an email titled, “We want to help solve the Flint water problem.” WaterO’s CEO wasn’t claiming to have the catchall solution to the lead problem plaguing the Michigan city, but his company was in a unique position to lend a hand. Since then, the Los Angeles-based startup announce... |
Laugh.ly aims to be the Pandora for stand-up comedy | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | A company called wants to make streaming sets from the best comedians as easy as streaming music on Pandora. Though not yet available to the public, Laugh.ly’s iOS application will allow users to follow both big-name comedians like Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Aziz Ansari and Amy Schumer, among others, as well as emerging ... |
Botify is an SEO crawler that helps your website optimize for Googlebot | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | Most businesses live or die on Google search rankings. If you can’t crack the top few results, it’s almost impossible to consistently drive organic traffic to your site. But how does Google decide which sites appear at the top of the results list? It uses , a proprietary automated software script to “crawl” every webs... |
OverNest launches GitZero with encrypted code searching at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | , a startup that was launched just over a year ago by several technology industry veterans, announced its first product, called , today at the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition in Brooklyn, NY — and it’s a pretty exciting product that makes encrypted code searchable. It’s widely known that you should ... |
Artveoli combines algae and microfluidics to generate fresh air indoors | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | Live in any major city, be it London, Paris, Los Angeles or Shanghai, and you’ll be all too aware that air pollution is a huge and growing problem. At the same time, indoor air quality can suffer because of attempts to reduce buildings’ energy consumption to make them less pollutive to the outdoor environment — by, for... |
Dataminr was in an unpaid pilot with intel agencies when Twitter ended the deal | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | We’re heading into summer, but the chilly relationship between government bodies and private tech businesses is growing frostier by the day. In the latest development, it has emerged that Twitter requested one of its key B2B partners, — a service that offers advanced social media analytics and early detection of majo... |
Chinese tech giant Kuang-Chi harnesses Israeli tech to build smart cities in China | Dennis Mitzner | 2,016 | 5 | 9 |
, a Shenzhen-based technology conglomerate, recently launched a $300 million Israel fund in Tel Aviv “Kuang-Chi is the first Chinese corporate VC and incubator that leverages the capabilities of the Israeli market together with the distribution, sales and marketing and technology development in China,” said Dorian B... |
Uber and Lyft ‘pause’ Austin operations today in standoff over regulation | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | Today, Uber and Lyft took their ride-hailing services offline in Austin, Texas, leaving drivers scrambling for other means of making income, and riders stranded or seeking another mode of transportation. Here’s why: , Austin voters upheld a rule that would require Uber, Lyft and other transportation network companies ... |
Facebook now directly denies report of biased trends, says there’s no evidence | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | Facebook is now strongly refuting claims that it suppressed conservative Trends after issuing a more vague and indirect PR statement earlier today about having neutrality guidelines. Facebook VP of search Tom Stocky Facebook has “found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true” at 9:30pm pacific May 9th, re... |
With Lumenus smart cycling apparel, you can leave your boring cycling jacket at home | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | As self-driving cars are not quite ready yet, bike accidents unfortunately are still a thing. Sometimes, stupid monkey brains can’t see someone riding a bike. wants to fix that with smart clothes and accessories for runners, cyclists and motorcyclists. The company is taking part in our Startup Battlefield competition... |
Scoutible says its video games will find you a job | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | The company launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York on Monday. With work experience at the White House, Goldman Sachs and a JD/MBA from Harvard under her belt, Scoutible CEO thinks she has what it takes to change the way businesses do hiring. [gallery ids="1319441,1319443,1319442"] Armed with $1.5 million in seed ... |
Spinn’s unique coffee brewer brings ‘third wave’ roasters to your countertop | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | There’s no shortage of ways to get a satisfactory caffeine fix these days, and some of them are mighty high-tech. , demonstrated onstage at Disrupt NY today, claims one of the most high-tech of all — but this elaborate centrifugal brewing method may be the most versatile, as well. “It’s a very low innovation industry,... |
Halo is building a wearable to make athletes better, stronger, faster | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | wants to build a new category of wearable. Not for passively tracking human activity, as so many existing wearables do, but for actively and positively influencing physical abilities — or that’s the claim — using an existing neurostimulation technique called transcranial direct current stimulation. The team demoed the... |
Ephemeral is developing tattoo ink designed to disappear after a year | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | Practically everyone who has ever considered a tattoo knows the old parental refrain of “you’ll have it forever.” It’s a fairly stark warning tinged with the regret of a generation covered in inked relics of disco and popular culture past. Some temporary solutions do exist, including the relatively recent phenomenon of... |
Behold.ai launches artificially intelligent medical software to find abnormalities faster | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | Jeet Raut’s mom was told she no longer had breast cancer. But it turned out to be a false diagnosis and she had to undergo further treatment. She’s okay now, but that medical mistake could have cost her life — and it gave Raut the idea to build a better way to catch medical abnormalities in the body. He and his co-foun... |
B.J. Novak’s “The List App” rebrands to li.st, arrives on Android | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 9 | When , best known for exec producing, writing and starring as Ryan on “The Office,” teamed up with Dev Flaherty to create a mobile application that allowed people to create lists and share them with others, they gave it a playfully anti-tech name: “ .” But following , more than 150,000 users have signed up to create ... |
Asian indie film platform Viddsee signs content deal with Discovery | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Viddsee founders Ho Jia Jian and Derek Tan , a streaming platform for independent short films in Asia, and Discovery Networks announced a content partnership today. The agreement is noteworthy because this is not only the biggest deal of its kind that Singapore-based Viddsee has inked so far, but also marks the first t... |
Whirlpool crowdfunds a beer maker | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Like the movie in which Robert DeNiro plays an intern, venerated appliance brand Whirlpool is spreading its wings, dusting off the cobwebs, and . The product, called Vessi, ferments and dispenses suds and even has a system for reducing and managing sediment. The system comes from W Labs, Whirlpool’s product design sku... |
Jeff Bezos on space, free speech and creating shows to sell more shoes | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | When it came to discussing Peter Thiel’s involvement in the , Jeff Bezos quoted Confucius: “Seek revenge and you should dig two graves, one for yourself.” Bezos, naturally, should have strong opinions when it comes to free speech: he’s the owner of The Washington Post. With Gawker locked in a legal battle that’s a sor... |
Crunch Report | Marketo Bought For $1.8 Billion | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Tito Hamze, Jason Kopek
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This Facebook bot will pick your next movie for you | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | As Facebook’s bot platform is still in its early stages, and most apps aren’t ready yet to become part of your everyday life. This is mainly due to shortfalls in natural language processing and the trial-and-error process of developers actually figuring out how users are going to use bots. But one company, the name... |
Get fit for summer with these workout apps | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Sworkit Sworkit also lets you select the duration of your fitness routine, beginning at just five minutes. The app is free and available on both the iPhone and Android. Couch to 5K They also have a half-marathon version for those of you who really want a workout. There are both free and paid versions of the app. ClassP... |
SeedPlus is an early-stage fund focused on finding global startups in Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | There’s a new early-stage fund in town — town being Southeast Asia. Singapore-based Jungle Ventures, last year, has a new initiative focused on seed stage investments in the region, which is . Jungle Ventures started out as in 2012, but it moved into Series A and Series B financing with its new fund last year. See... |
Depth-sensing walker monitors and connects the elderly and mobility impaired | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | The so-called Internet of Things is often underwhelming — who really needs a tweeting oven? — but inspiring applications of embedded sensors and ubiquitous connectivity still appear, and sometimes from the most unexpected places. Take this smart walker, for instance: The same tech that goes into tacky toys and frivolou... |
Not all startups need the bright lights of the big city | Ben Fischberg | 2,016 | 5 | 31 |
In an office park overlooking a lake in Southern New Hampshire, Rajesh Mishra is working to change how cell networks are created. Rajesh and his company, , along with a dozen or so other nearby startups in Southern New Hampshire, are taking on a variety of challenges that face tech infrastructure that most people ar... |
Is civic technology the killer app for democracy? | Lorelei Kelly | 2,016 | 5 | 31 |
Smartphone apps have improved convenience for public transportation in many urban centers. In Washington, DC, riders can to help them figure out where to go, when to show up and how long to wait for a bus or train. However, the problem with public transport in DC is not the lack of modern, helpful and timely inform... |
Xiaomi inks Microsoft patent deal and agrees to pre-install Office apps on its phones | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Xiaomi is moving closer to launching its smartphones in the U.S. market. Today the Chinese company announced a partnership with Microsoft that includes a cross-license and patent transfer agreement and the pre-installation of Skype and Microsoft Office products on Xiaomi devices. The companies said that, starting this ... |
After years of bootstrapping Vendini raises $20 million for its ticketing platform | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Nearly fifteen years after chief executive Mark Tacchi launched his ticketing services to compete with the likes of TicketMaster, the company has raised its first $20 million in outside capital. The new round came from New York-based private equity firm . “I started from scratch and basically grew it organically,” Ta... |
Periscope introduces real-time comment moderation | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Livestreaming app Periscope is a new experiment with real-time comment moderation, the company announced today. While its parent company has struggled over the years with spam and abuse — without much success, let’s be honest — is aiming to go a different route with the introduction of a community-policed system w... |
Robots date, mate, and procreate 3D printed offspring in ‘Robot Baby’ project | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Researchers in the Netherlands claim to have created the world’s first “robots that procreate.” What does that mean exactly? Well, child, when two robots’ fitness evaluation algorithms come to a successful conclusion, something beautiful happens. You’ll know when you’re older — or if you scroll down. “This breakthrough... |
Facebook spares humans by fighting offensive photos with AI | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | systems now report more offensive photos than humans do, marking a major milestone in the social network’s battle against abuse, the company tells me. AI could quarantine obscene content before it ever hurts the psyches of real people. Facebook’s success in ads has fueled investments into the science of AI and machine... |
Y Combinator announces basic income pilot experiment in Oakland | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Y Combinator announced today that it would launch its first basic income experiment in Oakland, CA. The startup accelerator began researching the concept of basic income last fall and will soon start paying salaries. Y Combinator initially said that it wanted to pay basic income to a group of people over a and study ... |
Energysquare is a wireless phone charging pad that doesn’t use induction | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Meet , a thin charging pad made so that you don’t have to plug in your phone charger ever again. Energysquare doesn’t rely on induction like most wireless chargers out there. Instead, Energysquare uses a conductive surface as well as a sticker on the back of your phone. The company is currently doing a . I met the te... |
Inventory shortages may herald rebirth of Apple’s aging Thunderbolt Display | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Apple’s Thunderbolt Display, , may be getting a refresh at , if inventory shortages at retail stores are any indication. Just try — dozens of locations near me are “ship to store” only, suggesting (as is often the case before a refresh) that stock has not been replenished or even, , sent back to the warehouse. The... |
Xbox One price drops to $299 just in time before unveiling slim Xbox One at E3 | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | Microsoft the price of its gaming console. The Xbox One now costs $299 in the U.S. with a 500GB hard drive, or €299 in Europe. For $319, you get a 1TB hard drive. And bundles also get a $50 price cut. Interestingly, this news comes right before E3. Microsoft is set to announce a . Rumor has it that it should be 40 p... |
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Katy Perry’s Twitter account, the platform’s most followed, got hacked | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | Many of Katy Perry’s 89 million Twitter followers—the —were probably intrigued and confused when the pop star tweeted supposed archnemesis Taylor Swift this morning. As it turns out, that tweet—along with several others that were filled with profanity and slurs—was the work of a hacker and quickly deleted. It appears ... |
Recently confirmed Myspace hack could be the largest yet | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 31 | You might not have thought of – much less visited – Myspace in years. (Yes, it’s still around. and other properties when it bought Viant earlier this year.) But user data never really dies, unfortunately. For Myspace’s new owner, that’s bad news, as the company just ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U... |
On-demand logistics startup Lalamove raises $10M more in push for profitability | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | , one of a number of companies offering logistics on-demand in China and across Asia, has closed $10 million in funding as it targets profitability this year. The round was led by existing investor MindWorks with other existing investors, including China’s Crystal Stream (China), AppWorks (Taiwan), Aria Group (Hong Kon... |
Watch Pitch@Palace Estonia Demo Day Right Here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Pitch@Palace’s Demo Day this Wednesday, June 1st from Latitude59 in Tallinn, Estonia. Investors, press and Latitude59 conference attendees will hear pitches from nine companies solving problems ranging from making university fundraising a default behavior to improving efficiency in th... |
How I moved my startup from San Francisco to San Diego | Andrew Gazdecki | 2,016 | 5 | 30 |
Tech giant of the West, soil of the , epicenter of the cutting-edge. Companies have long come to the Bay Area to plant their seeds, and . The stretch of land from Jose to encompasses some of the most revolutionary technology in the world, and the best of the best call it home. But that’s beginning to change. ... |
VetTechTrek is creating an e-learning platform to help veterans build careers in the tech industry | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | is a nonprofit founded last year with the goal of helping military veterans network with the technology industry. Over the last 12 months they have worked toward this goal by hosting multiple “treks” that brought more than 180 veterans and spouses to meet with veterans who work at more than 60 technology startups in N... |
Hate the games, not the players | Daniel Ruch | 2,016 | 5 | 30 |
Imagine that you are lead strategist for the Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump campaign (take your pick). Your job is to maximize voter turnout in November. You hypothesize that more people would vote if doing so were fun. If your campaign could turn rallies and voting into a game, you’d drive more people to the polls,... |
International startups: Sign up for a country pavilion at Disrupt SF | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | We’re just a few short months away from . Soon thousands of entrepreneurs, innovators and investors will flock to the beautiful Pier 48 for the best startup show in the Bay Area. Will you and your budding international startup be joining them? One of our favorite Startup Alley staples in recent years has been the coun... |
Buy tickets to the Austin and Seattle pitch-offs now | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | It’s time for a little friendly competition among startups. TechCrunch is coming to Austin and Seattle in two weeks, and we’re bringing the TC pitch-off with us. Ten companies will have exactly 60 seconds each to pitch their wares to a panel of expert judges, including TC editors and local VCs. After all the presentati... |
Iran forces messaging apps to move data to Iranian servers | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | Companies behind popular messaging apps have a year to move all the data they have on Iranian users onto servers in Iran, . This raises concerns about privacy. The Iranian government wants to be able to track private and semi-private conversations on messaging apps. Many social networks are already blocked in Iran, bu... |
Bitcoin price jumps 21 percent over 4 days, reaching a 21-month high | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | Bitcoin is back! Or at least, there are indicating that bitcoin might not be as dead as . Bitcoins are now trading at $547.40 on (the largest USD/bitcoin exchange according to ). And it represents a big 21.4 percent price jump over just four days. Today’s price represents a 21-month high. Surprisingly, bitcoin pr... |
Watch Microsoft Accelerator’s Machine Learning Demo Day here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Microsoft Accelerator’s Machine Learning Demo Day this Thursday, June 2 from the Showbox SoDo in Seattle. The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive three- to six-month program aimed at helping entrepreneurs get through the challenges of building a company, finding customers and scalin... |
French financial prosecutor went dark for a year to investigate Google France | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | Google was caught by surprise. Last week, nearly 100 employees of France’s equivalent of the IRS (Direction générale des Finances) for a tax non-compliance investigation. French financial prosecutor Éliane Houlette that her team had been secretly working on this raid for nearly a year. Google may be facing a $1.8 b... |
Facebook set to foster popularity of branded content | Jared Feldman | 2,016 | 5 | 30 |
was already becoming more attractive to many marketers and publishers trying to navigate the shoals of the online media ecosystem. Now, thanks to , it’s set to really take off. I think this sector grow quickly, and in some interesting new directions. At its annual conference, said it would allow publishers to... |
FirstMark Capital’s Matt Turck on the big data landscape | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 5 | 30 |
“We are entering the most exciting time for big data,” according to , in our latest interview. In 2010 only 2.5 percent of the Series A market was committed to big data. Today, the sector amounts to more than 7.5 percent of total venture investments. So where are we in the world of big data, and is the recent obsess... |
Diane Greene wants to put the enterprise front and center of Google Cloud strategy | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | When , it got more than a stealthy startup. It also landed as executive vice president of Google Cloud Enterprise — and that perhaps was the bigger prize. Greene brought with her years of industry experience, having co-founded and been CEO at VMware for a decade, building it into a virtualization powerhouse. In fact... |
Nestor focuses on delivering lunch for office workers in Paris | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | French startup just raised $1 million (€900,000) from business angels through , and . The startup competes in the incredibly fierce market of food delivery startups in Paris. Compared to its competitors, Nestor has a full stack approach and focuses on weekday lunches for office workers. Nestor’s product offering is... |
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Vote now in The Europas Conference & Awards for European startups | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 5 | 30 | In partnership with TechCrunch, , which I founded, has . Think of it as a relaxed, summer prelude to the heat of a Disrupt, followed by an all-out celebration of startups. Admittedly, it’s how we like to do things in Europe… The Europas includes a public vote to determine the industry’s favorites. Thus, voting . Thi... |
Afraid of the future? Try Technotopia | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | Over the past few months I’ve been on a mission: I want to prove that the future is not going to suck. While this project was originally going to end up in a book – and it still will – I’ve started recording a weekly podcast called Technotopia in which I speak to amazing thinkers about the future. We’ve covered , , a... |
PayPal nixes Purchase Protection for payments made through crowdfunding platforms | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | If you use your PayPal account to support a crowdfunding campaign, you can’t rely on its Purchase Protection plan anymore. The payment platform has , payments made on crowdfunding platforms will no longer be eligible for the , which allows users to open disputes for items that don’t arrive or are different than descr... |
The digital age of data art | Maxence Grugier | 2,016 | 5 | 8 |
Many artists use as material for art the raw data produced by our societies, seeking innovative means of display or transforming it into a work of art. By blurring boundaries between art and information, dispels the myth of the romantic artist while offering a fundamental artistic act in a critical commentary of th... |
Rapper and founder Ryan Leslie explains why his latest music isn’t on streaming services (for now) | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | If anyone wants to text and have a one-on-one conversation with a big-deal rapper, here’s his number: 646-887-6978. That’s not a secret. Leslie and encourages people to message him — it’s a way for him to develop a direct relationship with his fans. And now with his startup , he’s building tech tools to manage tho... |
Lilwil’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | Every student has a unique learning style, but it’s tough for teachers to figure out whether they learn best through lectures, images, reading, self-directed practice or group projects. By using publicly available education progress data and personality analysis, Lilwil is able to automatically identify the best teachi... |
AlexaSite wins the Disrupt NY 2016 Hackathon Grand Prize | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | night at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. But this time, you couldn’t see anyone waiting for a boat. Instead, the Cruise Terminal hosted a very special competition — the Hackathon. Around 650 engineers and designers got together to come up with something cool, something neat, something awesome. The only condition was t... |
E-susu aims to close the gap between community loan groups and traditional banking services | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | 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 within a family or community group, as wel... |
Teach-U: VR uses virtual reality to let anyone learn piano or drums | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | NYU Shanghai students Sean Kelly and Sam Shi want to use the potential of VR to increase access to information. Over the weekend at in New York, the duo initially looked into assisting students studying brain surgery but they switched their target and developed Teach-U: VR — a platform that lets students, and particu... |
Helix conducts research as you write | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | 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 Google — so researchers have to waste tim... |
Your voice is your password with Sesame’s Alexa app | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | Between Alexa’s built-in functionality and , 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 things without your permission, potentially putt... |
The Blind Date Club turns your Echo speaker into a matchmaker | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | 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 you search for dating profiles by voice, ... |
Hungry Host uses Alexa to help you figure out what to cook tonight | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | 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 the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon that does just that. With , you use Alexa to list... |
The Eliza app makes mental health tracking as easy as talking to yourself | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | 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 their day. The app turns the user’s speech into text that’s ready for sentiment analysis. After each memo is quickly analyzed, Eliza generates an infographic that shows users whether they ... |
CrowdBuilder is a new app that’s taking on the fragmented event promoter market | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | According to the research firm IBISWorld, there are currently more than in the U.S., most of whom have limited geographic reach. Even including the industry’s largest player, Live Nation Entertainment, the biggest companies in the space account for no more than a quarter of industry revenue, estimated to be $23 billi... |
This chat bot pretends to be you so you can keep up with your friends | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | Too busy to keep up with your friends? There’s a chat bot for that. We’ve all been there. The deluge of information on Facebook is why I no longer bother to check the social network — because, even when I try my hardest, I miss the important announcements like baby births and marriage proposals. The growth of messagi... |
Deep Focus saves you from being inundated by unimportant messages | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | 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 phone. summarizes who has contacted you and... |
VR Party is a social DJ dance club for virtual reality | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | 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 vision. I had all of this technology on ... |
TheHelpingHand.club uses Uber to direct homeless people to shelters | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | But four gentlemen met at the event and decided to build an app that could help keep homeless people off the streets and give them the care that they need. Called TheHelpingHand.club, the app routes Ubers to nearby shelters, soup kitchens and hospitals. A user can open up the app and a map shows which local facilities ... |
MenuMe turns menu text into photos | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | At the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 Hackathon, a team of engineers 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 will recognize the text and translate that into an image... |
911bot is a chat bot that could save your life | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 8 | 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 emergencies to the authorities through a quic... |
Strengthening authentication through big data | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 5 | 1 |
The fact that plain to protect our digital identities is no secret. For years, the use of two-factor authentication (2FA) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a means to ensure online account security and prevent fraud has been a hot topic of discussion. Technological advances, , have created new possibilities... |
How Android gets to 100% market share | Matt Heiman | 2,016 | 5 | 1 |
Android already commands globally, and percent in the US. But you wouldn’t know it here in Silicon Valley — almost everyone I know has an iPhone. As the consumer technology landscape evolves over the next five years however, there are a number of reasons to believe that Android, and the Google stack more broadly,... |
The tech elite are moving left this election cycle | Gregory Ferenstein | 2,016 | 5 | 1 |
This election cycle, the tech elite are almost exclusively backing liberals: Tesla’s Elon Musk donated to Hillary Clinton, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg gave handsomely to the San Francisco Democratic Party organization, and Microsoft’s Bill Gates gave to three Democratic congressmen. Far from being the exception, recen... |
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The future of apps should be better apps | Anshu Sharma | 2,016 | 5 | 1 |
A few weeks ago ran an excellent article entitled . While the premise that apps today have some major problems is sound, the conclusion, that apps are going to be replaced by something entirely new, was not. The future of apps is supposedly progressive web apps and emebedded dumbed down app functionality inside cha... |
SAM Labs raises $4.5M to turn kids into IoT-mavens | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 5 | 1 | London-based just announced that it raised £3.2M ($4.5M) from a group of investors led by . In addition to the institutional investor specializing in commercial spin-outs from academic institutions, the round was padded out with smart money from a number of angels specializing in high growth education technology. Th... |
Twitter’s dysfunctional Wall Street relationship | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 1 | Twitter’s stock is cratering this week following its earnings report on Tuesday, down around 15% and shaving more than a billion dollars off its market cap — again. This isn’t even an all-time low for Twitter. But the company is a long, long ways from its successful run after its initial public offering. At the time, T... |
Keith Block talks life at Salesforce and being a Boston sports fan in San Francisco | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 5 | 1 | The day I met Keith Block at he was relaxing in a suite at the Hynes Convention Center, a man at ease with his at Salesforce. His Twitter bio, like mine, also lists him as a Boston sports fan. We had a lot to talk about. The day we chatted, Block had been front and center at the morning’s event keynote, which featu... |
Here’s why we only did three deals last year | Adam Marcus | 2,016 | 5 | 1 |
There has been a huge disconnect between private and public company valuations over the last few years. . It probably won’t be the last. During this period of froth, companies were able to raise capital at increasingly ludicrous valuations, and entrepreneurs turned fundraising into a sport — with all the associated b... |
Homo Sapiens 2.0? We need a species-wide conversation about the future of human genetic enhancement | Jamie Metzl | 2,016 | 5 | 1 |
After 4 billion years of evolution by one set of rules, our species is about to begin evolving by another. Overlapping and mutually reinforcing revolutions in genetics, information technology, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and other fields are providing the tools that will make it possible to genetical... |
West Ham becomes first English Premiership football club to sign an e-sports player | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | West Ham United has become the first football team in the U.K. to embrace e-sports after pro gamer and World Cup runner-up , aka Dragonn. Market research firm the global e-sports market to reach $463 million this year and grow to surpass $1 billion before 2020, and, while the English Premiership is one of the most... |
Bar Roulette routes your Uber to a random bar nearby | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | Want to go party the night away but not sure where to go? ‘s has you covered. Press a button to summon an Uber and it will take you to a bar picked from the highest-rated bars on and . The twist? The app won’t tell you where you are going until you arrive. “Where are we off to?” “I have no idea.” “Cool, cool. Wai... |
A $1 paper-based test can detect the Zika virus in around two hours | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | “For our group it’s become an interesting case study in how quickly a group can mobilize in the face of an outbreak,” Dr. James Collins explains over the phone. The MIT biomedical engineering professor has been fielding press inquiries all day, in light of detailing the cheap, fast and effective tool his team develop... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 05.06.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
Relay is a beautiful app for creating and sharing custom maps | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | Today’s mapping applications are focused on helping you navigate from one spot to the next, or discovering the businesses around you. But they tend to be utilitarian in nature, and not what anyone would describe as “fun” to use. A new mapping application called changes that. This simple, expertly designed app lets yo... |
Rethinking security for the Internet of Things | Mike Gault | 2,016 | 5 | 6 |
Many people scoffed in January 2014 when Cisco CEO John Chambers the “Internet of Everything” as a potential $17 trillion market, five to 10 times more impactful on society than the Internet itself. , it seems that Chambers’ prediction for the phenomenon more commonly known as the Internet of Things (IoT) could be... |
Lenovo is launching a new $500 million startup fund | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | Chinese tech giant Lenovo is investing $500 million in startups after it a new fund. Unlike other corporates, Lenovo has a history of making deft investments. Its first fund, created in 2010 and $100 million in size, includes Israeli facial recognition startup Face++, and biometrics specialist Nok Nok Labs from the... |
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