Technology such as Facebook’s Safety Check has massively helped with the challenge of identifying and finding people when they go missing, but it is anything but perfect. Confidant, a project developed at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon in New York this weekend, is aiming to complement existing systems with a notification service that gives early alerts when a person may be missing. Read More
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Rumored to have two cameras on the back and a stylus with a built-in speaker, this will be one of Samsung’s most important phones ever.
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Data intelligence company uses machine learning to transform unstructured data into more usable information.
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Around 750 engineers and designers got together to hack something cool, something neat, something clever. All teams have 60 seconds to present what the worked on for the last 24 hours. It’s a great way to experiment and unleash your creativity.
So without further ado, sit back and enjoy the Disrupt NY Hackathon demos. And let’s see who’s going to win… Read More
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The spread of the WannaCry ransomware was aided in part by the millions of people stuck on Windows XP. The post If You Still Use Windows XP, Prepare For the Worst appeared first on WIRED.
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The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, May 13, 2017. The Gang takes nothing off the table as Doc describes a near future of personal APIs and CustomerTech.
@stevegillmor, @dsearls, @kteare, @fradice
+ G3: Oh Snap! with Mary Hodder, Elisa Camahort Page, Maria Ogneva, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor.
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According to reliable analyst KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo and 9to5mac, Apple is about to launch not one but two new hardware devices at its WWDC conference in a few weeks. A new iPad with thinner bezels and a bigger screen is likely. This iPad has been rumored for months. There could also be an Amazon Echo competitor from Apple. As the name suggests, WWDC is a developer conference. For the past… Read More
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I helped work on a thing last weekend that I can’t write about, yet, and then last week I found my way to San Jose for Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference, and fine, all right, OK, I’m convinced: now that the smartphone boom is plateauing, AI/deep learning is the new cool face of technology — and, at least for now, Nvidia bestrides it like many parallel colossi. I use… Read More
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Have you heard the one about the White House press secretary hiding in the bushes? The post While You Were Offline: Sean Spicer Is a Living Homer Simpson GIF, Basically appeared first on WIRED.
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We sat with Stephan Jenkins before an intimate hometown show to kick off the upcoming “Summer Gods” tour, where 3EB will play its “Third Eye Blind” album front to back.
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