Category: Tech news

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.
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 With an incredibly important national election coming up, it’s more critical than ever that everyone who can vote does — and is able to. Election tech firm Free and Fair is hoping to help avoid overflowing voting locations with a simple, open source device that automatically monitors waiting times and keeps voters and officials informed. Read More

 The Olympics are a testament to the human spirit, physical greatness, nation pride and, of course, swag. So, so much swag. Because let’s be real, if you train your entire life for a once-every-four-years event, you’d damn well better get a nice goodie bag. Samsung certainly did its part at this year’s games. As the Official Smartphone Partner for the Summer Olympics, the… Read More

 What happens when you mix sound bites from French artists and politicians with eclectic music ranging from electro swing, nu-disco, remixes of classical French hits, lounge music and more? You get more than ten million plays on SoundCloud, play your music on a yacht near the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy and become a popular music brand in France. Read More

 Your next tattoo could be functional as well as aesthetic. A new MIT Media Lab product called DuoSkin created in partnership with Microsoft Research turns temporary tattoos into connected interfaces, letting them act as input for smartphones or computers, display output based on changes in body temperature and transmit data to other devices via NFC. Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, PhD Student at the MIT… Read More

 On the heels of a recent White House initiative announced after its first “Workshop on Drones and The Future of Aviation,” San Francisco based robotics startup Zipline will test drone delivery of medical supplies to remote U.S. communities. Read More

 Pay attention, would-be Disrupt SF 2016 attendees. You’ve procrastinated long enough. Today is the final day to save $1,000 on tickets to Disrupt SF 2016. So if you’re planning to check out the best startup show in the Bay Area and make your wallet a little happier in the process, you should drop what you’re doing right now and get on over to our ticketing page and buy… Read More

 Quick! What’s your gym locker combination? Your girlfriend’s favorite Starbucks order? The type of ink your printer uses? Can’t remember? Gotta look it up? There’s a lot of information that we can’t access via a Google search, but instead tend to make a mental note of in order to recall. Sometimes, we might jot these things down in Notepad, but often we forget to… Read More

With a $500 Chromebook, HP gives Chrome OS the middle ground it needed. The post Review: HP Chromebook 13 appeared first on WIRED.

With a $500 Chromebook, HP gives Chrome OS the middle ground it needed. The post Review: HP Chromebook 13 appeared first on WIRED.

 Disrupt SF 2016 is right around the corner, and the time is running out to get tickets to the hottest startup show in the Bay Area for the lowest possible price.
You have just four days left to snag early bird tickets to Disrupt for $1,995 apiece, a full $1,000 less than what it will cost you when early bird ticket sales end on Friday. Head over to our ticketing page and get your deeply… Read More

 Following the bell today, Yelp reported a strong second quarter 2016 financial performance that made the stock soar almost 11 percent in after-hours trading. Yelp’s earnings release included better-than-expected revenue of $173.4 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.16. As part of the earnings release, Yelp made two additional announcements. First, the company said it… Read More

 This is the strategy behind Instagram Stories.
Snapchat invented a brilliant format for sharing day-to-day life: photo and video slideshows jazzed up with commentary that disappear after 24 hours so you’ll share an unpolished window into what you see. It quickly eclipsed the popularity of Snapchat’s 10-second exploding private messages, and made the app grow to 150 million daily… Read More

 Say you’ve got an experiment or prototype satellite that you want to expose to the ravages of space. Sure, you could launch it with a bunch of others, but what if you need it back afterwards? NanoRacks has you covered. Read More

 Small businesses have their pick of affordable DIY website-building platforms. But these “no coding skills required” platforms struggle to acquire and retain customers. While the UI is often beautifully designed, it’s still too much work — and for business owners, who has the time? A fresh crop of startups is putting the power of design and development back into the… Read More