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20:24 14.05.2017

EEG hardware hack uses blink detection and predictive text for hands-free typing

Hardware is hard at the best of times. But software developer Patrick Morris-Suzuki set himself the ambitious challenge of creating a blink-detecting system for hands-free typing during an overnight hackathon here at TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2017. Read More... →

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20:21 14.05.2017

Building a smarter Hacker News

With only 24 hours to build an app, it’s never easy to come up with a viable idea, nevermind build one that involves training a machine learning algorithm. Yet that’s exactly what a team of four friends accomplished this weekend at the annual TechCrunch Disrupt New York Hackathon. The team — made up of twin brothers Daniel and David Robinson, Nathan Gould and Chris… Read More... →

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20:19 14.05.2017

‘Elderly Alexa’ helps family care for their remote loved ones via voice

Last night on Saturday Night Live, a spoof advertisement for an “Alexa Silver” poked gentle fun at how an Alexa speaker could be used with the elderly to do things like listen to their long, rambling stories (and respond with “uh-huh”), as well as answer questions even when addressed as “Alaina,” “Allegra,” “Aretha,” or other names.… Read More... →

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20:14 14.05.2017

WEDJ lets bars and clubs create in-person social playlists in real time

WEDJ (that’s “We DJ,” not “Wedge,” for the record) is collaborative music playlist building app that sprung out of this weekend’s all-night Hackathon at Disrupt NY. Built by a team of four part-time hackers, the app is something of a real world version of the dearly departed Turntable.FM (itself a virtual version of a real world experience, thus continuing… Read More... →

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19:50 14.05.2017

RoboWaiter wants to make American restaurants great again with robots

RoboWaiter’s crack team consisting of a developer, designer and a robotics expert came together at last night’s Disrupt NY hackathon to create a faster, better, smarter waiter using IBM Watson and robots. Developer Sharon Yang came up with the idea last night before the event when her waiter took a while to take her order. Humans, she pointed out, are often busy and… Read More... →

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19:49 14.05.2017

Val.ai lets self-driving cars bid for parking spots

Where will self-driving cars go once they drop you off? In big cities, parking can be expensive and take forever to find. But TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon team Val.ai built a way for autonomous vehicles to participate in auctions for nearby parking space. When a self-driving car needs to park itself, it can submit real-time bids for local spots occupied by others. If a currently parked… Read More... →

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19:42 14.05.2017

Buttons for Good donates to charity every time you take an Uber

What if every time you took an Uber, you gave to charity without spending extra money? That’s the idea behind Buttons for Good, a hack developed at TechCrunch’s Hackathon at Disrupt New York. Button co-founders Chris Maddern and Stephen Milbank used their expertise in mobile links to build the site. They were joined by employees Tyler Nappy and Patrick Lewis. Maddern said they… Read More... →

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19:42 14.05.2017

CodeCorrect finds solutions to common errors in your code

Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon, one hacker came up with a project that might have come in handy for all the other developers in the room. CodeCorrect was presented as a way to fix errors developers run into while they’re writing code. Read More... →

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19:37 14.05.2017

reVive is a VR solution to diagnosing ADHD built by high school students

The first team to go onstage at the Disrupt NY 2017 Hackathon showed off reVIVE, a virtual reality solution to diagnosing ADHD. The team of three high school juniors wanted to create a solution that would simplify the lengthy and expensive process of diagnosing the illness. The team tells me that ADHD normally takes six to nine months to diagnose and that process alone can cost patients… Read More... →

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19:33 14.05.2017

BackMap helps people who are visually impaired navigate cities and indoor areas

I’m not sure what it would be like to navigate the streets of New York if I were visually impaired, but I imagine it would not being the most comfortable experience. BackMap, which came out of TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s 2017 hackathon, is a backpack that vibrates to let you know when to turn right and when to turn left. While walking outside, you could input your location via the app… Read More... →

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19:33 14.05.2017

BikeParking.Club brings connects a social network to bike locks in a city

Palo Alto has a bike lock problem, and a pair of software developers and a designer took a shot at trying to solve that problem in 24 hours in New York this weekend. Eugene Tonev, Alexander Sivura and Yuri Dymov — currently at health startup HealthTap — put together a model of the kinds of bike racks you might see on the streets of Palo Alto. But this rack has a connected lock,… Read More... →

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19:33 14.05.2017

TexTranslator

The world isn’t lacking for translator apps, but it is lacking for tech that allows people to access translation services via text messaging. As foreign travelers might tell you, Google Translate is great, for example, but it fetches translations from the internet, requiring that travelers have WiFi access and/or a data. An earlier project called SMS Translator auto-translated all… Read More... →

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18:32 14.05.2017

В Москве открыли киберспортивное пространство Yota Arena — 12 фото

Кажется, компьютерные клубы возвращаются в новом обличии... →

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18:27 14.05.2017

Watch the Disrupt NY Hackathon demos live right here

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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18:00 14.05.2017

Gillmor Gang: Doc Soup

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. Prod/Dir: @tinagillmor Read More... →

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17:38 14.05.2017

Get ready for a new iPad and a mysterious Siri speaker at WWDC

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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17:06 14.05.2017

Google's Mother's Day Logo In Cactus Plants

Today is Mother's Day in the United States and some other countries and to celebrate, Google has a special Google logo, a Doodle, for the day. This Doodle shows a larger cactus planting the seeds for a new cactus and then taking care of the baby cactus until it grows up...... →

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16:40 14.05.2017

Gucci, Nike и ботинки, похожие на носки: что носят топ-менеджеры крупнейших ИТ-компаний

Обувь, которая стоит дороже, чем кажется.... →

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16:00 14.05.2017

Pattern recognition

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 coal face of technology — and, at least for now, Nvidia bestrides it like many parallel colossi. I use… Read More... →

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13:44 14.05.2017

Часть российских пользователей получила доступ к приложению Android Pay

Некоторые российские пользователи Android получили доступ к приложению для платежей с помощью мобильного телефона Android Pay. Однако воспользоваться им пока нельзя — карты российских банков невозможно подключить к сервису.... →

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