Category: Tech news

AirHelp, a company that helps passengers get paid when their flights are delayed or cancelled, isn’t afraid of a fight. Even a really, really big one.

The tech cognescenti love talking about Kickstarter as a place for bootstrapping hardware projects. But the less-glamorous Tindie could prove just as important to the evolution of hardware design.

Batman’s origin story gets a new reboot in Gotham—Fox’s forthcoming show about the early career of James Gordon, the man who will one day become commissioner of Gotham City. Watch the first trailer here.

If you haven’t seen The Amazing Spider-Man 2 but still want your X-Men: Days of Future Past fix, the movie’s post-credits scene is online now for your viewing pleasure.

Suppose that an autonomous car is faced with a terrible decision to crash into one of two objects. It could swerve to the left and hit a Volvo sport utility vehicle (SUV), or it could swerve to the right and hit a Mini Cooper. If you were programming the car to minimize harm to others–a sensible goal–which way would you instruct it go in this scenario?

If Astro Teller had his way, Google’s next big moonshots would take on the worlds of energy and agriculture.

Don “Big Daddy” Garlits can add another record to his impressive resume–fastest quarter mile run ever made in an electric vehicle.

New research has used seismic waves to map the amount of magma under Yellowstone, and it’s a doozy. Despite the massive magma deposit, a volcanic supereruption (the kind doomsday people are always ranting about) is still very unlikely.

 Google Wallet is coming to Glass soon. According to a source close to the company, Google is currently testing a way for Glass users to send money to their friends through Wallet by simply using their voices to ask Glass to “send money.” The company is testing this service internally right now, but chances are it will launch to all Glass users in the near future. Read More

 Programmers don’t like to leave the confines of their offices. Therefore, access to closed-circuit cameras would be a great addition to any programmer’s arsenal, at least to see if the pizza guy is outside. From this problem was born Evercam. The system works in three ways. You can connect your IP camera to the system to add “apps” to your stream. For example, you can press… Read More

 “Do we want to be Game Boy, or iPhone or Android?” That’s how Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe says his team considered the acquisition by Facebook. Without the financial backing, Oculus may have had to scale back its ambitions. But now, big developers are flocking to build for the Oculus virtual reality platform. Read More

 Roadie is a nifty little robotic device. It’s a small box that you put on your guitar’s machine heads. You connect it to your phone and it automatically tunes your guitar, all by itself. Earlier today, the startup was selected as the audience choice in the Disrupt NY Battlefield. And it’s no surprise. Roadie is accurate, fast and easy — if you’re a musician, it will… Read More

 Today’s e-commerce retailers are under serious competitive pressure from all sides, but maybe most importantly from Amazon. That company has developed a massive big data analytics service for its online retail operations that can track and adjust prices based on internal and external data every two minutes. Given that most users make their purchase decisions based on price, that can be a serious… Read More

 Skout, a social networking app that’s backed by $22 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, just acquired nightlife app Nixter. Skout’s CEO Christian Wiklund (pictured above) said he pursued the deal to find a better way to marry offline and online interactions in Skout’s app with real-world events. While Skout is an app that helps connect strangers all over the… Read More

 The U.S. Platform Development Group has a pitch for companies looking for growth capital and the investment bankers that love them. The group launched OfferBoard, its new growth capital crowdfunding platform, onstage this afternoon during TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Using the Princeton, NJ-based company’s services, bankers and businesses can have an easier time reaching a broader base of potential… Read More