Sesame Ventures: Big Bird means big business for Edu-tech [Interview]

What is the Sesame Street number of the day? $10 million, according to its most recent venture. That’s how much…

8 years ago

Raptor response: Dutch police train eagles to snare unwelcome drones

Sometimes the best remedies for dispelling unwanted technology is to employ what is already present in nature. (more…)

8 years ago

4 ways that Facebook will change the world in 2016

This year Facebook is upping the ante like never before: spreading its digital tentacles into the world of Virtual Reality…

8 years ago

Old school vs new school fundraising: How for-profit companies are helping non-profits in the digital age

Ted Decareau is the founder of Doofl, a mobile fundraising app in which users make fun “dares” or challenges with…

8 years ago

Social marketers know how you are feeling, trippy or disturbing?

Viacom aims to measure ad responses with their new “sentiment analysis” tool, Twitter can tell when you are being sarcastic…

8 years ago

7 Moroccan journalists on trial for advocating citizen journalism via smartphones

Seven journalists in Morocco are on trial today for training civilians to use a foreign-funded smartphone app for citizen journalism. (more…)

8 years ago

Levitating Bonsai trees surpass $350K in kickstarter campaign

An innovative workshop in Japan has raised over $350K to market miniature Bonsai trees that magnetically levitate. (more…)

8 years ago

Researchers develop ‘sarcasm detector’ for social media

Researchers have developed algorithms that detect sarcasm on social media platforms. (more…)

8 years ago

Facebook bows to Germany, censors anti-migrant speech in Europe

Facebook launches a controversial European ban on anti-migrant posts under pressure from Germany's government. (more…)

8 years ago

8ninths offers brief escapes to the enchanting world of virtual reality

Virtual Reality Studio, 8ninths has launched a groundbreaking VR experience that takes users on wondrous, dream-like journeys without leaving home. (more…)

8 years ago

Lumosity fined $2M, purchased keywords to mislead consumers

Lumosity is fined two million dollars for falsely advertising that their "Brain Training" program would improve cognitive abilities with no supporting…

8 years ago

Netflix arrives in Africa, but who will have access?

Netflix arrives in South Africa, but what does this mean for expansion to the rest of the African continent where…

8 years ago

Top 3 reasons people are turning to tech architects for smarter homes

Fernando Zorrilla is the CEO of Cloud9 Smarthome, an NYC design-integrator out to make homes more connected and more beautiful.…

8 years ago

Google developing touchless screen that you control with your fingers in mid-air

Google is developing a radar-based technology that allows for no-touch screens that are manipulated by your fingers in mid-air. (more…)

8 years ago

Social media giants battle-it-out for global dominance in 2016

Facebook, Twitter, and Google are waging a cyber war to dominate the social media landscape with a barrage of new…

8 years ago

Slime molds are designing airplane, subway structures that are alive

Globules of living slime molds are implemented to redesign Airbus's newest partitions for airplanes with an organic intelligence more efficient than…

8 years ago

Twitter-a-Flitter: Social media giant granted patent for ‘dronies’

Social media giant Twitter is granted a patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that will most likely be used…

8 years ago

How to successfully bypass job applicant screening from an industry expert

James Hu, Co-founder & CEO of Jobscan, talks about the tough world of online job search and how you can…

8 years ago

Techmas: How the nature of gift-giving is changing this year

This is a guest article by Linas Ceikus.  He is the CEO and Co-Founder of Tinggly - an online gifting service…

8 years ago

ArsenicTV delivering user-generated media for the wants and needs of generation

The leader of the new wave of Snapchat-based media, Arsenic, has more viewers on Snapchat than MTV has on cable, and the…

8 years ago