Category: Tech news

 What does a humanist history of the Internet look like? Though it isn’t a documentary in the journalistic sense, Werner Herzog’s Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World paints a unique picture of the bones and skin of our technologically interconnected universe. Read More

 Jeff Schumacher is the CEO of BCG Digital Ventures, a low-flying, two-year-old corporate venture group created by Boston Consulting Group and staffed, interestingly, with some former execs of BCG competitor Booz Allen. (Schumacher is himself a former Booz Allen managing director; he also spent six years with McKinsey & Co.) Though the unit is seemingly late to the corporate venture… Read More

 Canvs is a startup measuring emotion on social media, but CEO Jared Feldman insisted that we shouldn’t think of it as a social sentiment company. He said that’s because existing tools for measuring sentiment have earned something of a bad reputation. Where those tools are usually limited to classifying social media posts as good, bad or neutral, Canvs can classify a statement into… Read More

 The World Economic Forum (WEF) published an analysis today on the technological and sociological drivers of employment.
The report, titled The Future of Jobs, validates the accelerating impact of technology on global employment trends, and also highlights serious concerns that job growth in certain industries is still very much outpaced by large scale declines in other industries. Read More

 In this interview with HTT chief operating officer (and former MTV-VJ) Bibop Gresta, here what’s happening with the hyperloop company and how HTT is revolutionizing more than just transportation, but also entrepreneurship and business. Read More

 The only security in this world is a reserve of knowledge, not money – so said the industrialist Henry Ford. Whether it’s the dollar, pound, rouble, rupee, euro or yuan, physical or digital, our entire world is built on currency exchange. But from barter, banknote to bitcoin, the means of exchange have evolved significantly. Read More

 The jewelry industry is notorious for its insane markups on products and confusing array of terminology related to the metals used or gemstone grades – as with the “four C’s” of diamonds, for example. Now, a new startup – that’s managed to snag the old domain name Ice.com – is trying to change that. With its online jewelry marketplace, the company… Read More

 Earlier today in Davos, where afternoon temperatures reached a balmy 20 degrees (and evening temps have dropped to limb-numbing f-f-five degrees Fahrenheit), CEO Valery Vavilov of the bitcoin infrastructure provider and transaction processing company BitFury swung by our temporary  studio.
Among those topics addressed with senior editor Matt Burns: What BitFury does exactly, why… Read More

 There’s more to Switzerland than skiing, chocolate and endless beauty. Dr. Peter Vogel spoke to TechCrunch at Davos 2016 and argued that Switzerland is a great place to startup a company. But of course he would say that. Vogel is management and the Scientific Lead of a foundation dedicated to promoting startups in Switzerland. Vogal points out that Switzerland has a long history of… Read More

 Google’s long-anticipated Wi-Fi for railway stations in India is slowly going operational starting tomorrow. As was announced late last September, Mumbai Central railway station will be the first location at which Google will provide high-speed internet access. The program, part of Google’s Access & Energy Team, is in partnership with Indian state-owned company RailTel.… Read More

 John Harthorne sat down today with TechCrunch at Davos 2016. And boy is he enthusiastic about startups. Harthorne is the CEO of MassChallenge, a large startup accelerator based in Boston and quickly expanding across the globe. As Harthorne explains, MassChallange is different from other accelerators as it does not take an equity stake in the companies that graduate from the program.… Read More

 The Apple Pencil was billed as a tool that could assist both creatives and professionals. Microsoft, a company known fairly well for assisting professionals with pretty much every important document of theirs thanks to their Office suite, is now updating their Office app for iPad Pro so that users can utilize the Apple Pencil to notate and illustrate their documents, presentations,… Read More

Microsoft Garage today launched what must be the most annoying alarm clock for Android yet — especially if you hate mornings as much as I do. The Mimicker Alarm app only lets you dismiss the alarm by — you guessed it — mimicking certain facial expressions, taking a picture of an object that matches whatever color the app decides on for the day, or by repeating a tongue… Read More

 PINE64 has so far raised over $1.4 million in its Kickstarter campaign for their tiny, yet versatile, $15 computer. The Pine A64 costs less than three bottles of asparagus water from Whole Foods, but for that price you get a 1.2Ghz board, 512MB SDRAM, 10/100Mbps Ethernet Port, 3.5 MM Audio/Mic Output, 4K HDMI and 2 USB ports. I had the chance to chat with Johnson Jeng, Pine64’s… Read More

 Roger, a walkie talkie-style voice messaging app that launched in late 2015, has landed a $1 million seed round led by Social Capital. Read More