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Chat bots have ballooned in popularity in recent months, and now we’re seeing some interesting examples of how that technology, where computers interact and respond to human requests, is being used to solve other problems. Today, Zendesk is taking the wraps off “Automatic Answers”, a service for businesses to reply to emails from customers without ever having a human… Read More... →

It’s really frustrating when that super-fly Snapchat you took at 55 mph of the unreleased Tesla Model 3 you caught in the wild turns out blurry. DigitalGlobe will be able to snap that picture from 400 miles away, at 17,000 mph, with its new satellite. TechCrunch got a sneak preview of DigitalGlobe‘s, nearly billion dollar, satellite that will be able to send hella dope grams… Read More... →

Posted by Isla_McKettaFeel like you're already over the term "storytelling" without ever really having understood how you can successfully apply it to your writing? You aren't alone. Like so much jargon, this amazingly powerful and useful word is in serious danger of being consigned to LinkedIn profiles and marketing parody. Even storytelling guru Annette Simmons is over the way we're teaching storytelling as a content cure-all. "We need to stop 'telling stories' that oxytocin or the magic of a 'narrative a... →

Made in Space, the company that owns and operates a 3D printer on the International Space Station, has announced their next big project: growing optical fiber in microgravity. The company is scheduled to send a new manufacturing product to the ISS in the first quarter of 2017. If initial tests are successful, the company could begin producing higher quality optical fiber for applications here… Read More... →

Adobe’s Lightroom is a widely-used tool among photographers, but the mobile version has always been hampered by poor RAW support — until now. Previously limited to DNG files, Lightroom for iOS now has the ability to open and tweak any RAW file that the desktop version can. Read More... →

The road to the Rio Olympics for the U.S. women’s volleyball team has included grueling, six-hour practice sessions, sparking the need for players to train smart — not just hard. After all, one critical injury could derail the team’s chances of a successful showing on the world stage. That’s where a tiny wearable by Vert comes into play. Read More... →

Сооснователь компании Дмитрий Волков — о миссии и фокусе инвестирования... →

After having become one of the most viral mobile applications of all time, Pokémon Go will soon include advertising, according to its developer. In an interview with the Financial Times, Niantic CEO John Hanke said that “sponsored locations” would provide a new revenue stream, in addition to in-app purchases of power-ups and virtual items. In other words, retailers and… Read More... →

Собственник Forbes, Artcom Media Group вступила в конфликт с сотрудниками редакции: Анастасией Горшковой, Андреем Коняхиным и, возможно, Ильей Нагибиным, который уже покинул издание.... →

Традиционный день скидок для участников программы Prime на Amazon, завершившийся во вторник, стал причиной заметного увеличения трафика не только на ресурсы крупнейшего в мире ритейлера, но и на сайты его конкурентов. По наблюдениям представителей рекламной сети HookLogic, ближайшие соперники Amazon, такие как: Walmart, Target, Macy’s и Best Buy зафиксировали рост трафика, как минимум, на 13% […]... →

Инженеры Facebook в корпоративном блоге рассказали о том, как устроен процесс тестирования мобильных приложений соцсети на различных смартфонах. Для проверки сервисов компания открыла в своём дата-центре, расположенном в американском городе Прайнвилле, лабораторию для тестирования приложений сразу на 2000 смартфонов.... →

Despite holding the vast majority of the world’s wealth (or perhaps because of that), banks aren’t exactly hotbeds of cutting-edge tech, often relying on decades-old systems for everyday tasks. ThoughtMachine, a company led by ex-Google engineer Paul Taylor, is looking to change that with a modern, fully integrated, blockchain-based banking operating system called Vault OS. Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

You don’t have to sit through a lot of pitches before your will-to-live-o-meter points to “kill me now.” Imagine you’re a VC, sitting through your fifteenth pitch that day — are you still going to be enthusiastic? Probably not. So what happens if you could instead feed your pitch deck into a chatbot that gives you feedback, suggestions and eventually invests… Read More... →

В эпоху расцвета мессенджеров коммерческие компании получили уникальную возможность общаться со своей аудиторией при помощи текстовых сообщений. При этом пользователи Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp и Snapchat не возражают против получения личных сообщений от брендов в приложениях. К такому выводу приходят аналитики агентства Epsilon. «В настоящее время мы переживаем переломный момент: поведение пользователей диктует брендам переход от […]... →

Here’s your weird but interesting technology story for the day. The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) are using M&M dispensing drones to save endangered black-footed ferrets in rural Montana. The ferret’s main source of food are prairie dogs, which being killed by the sylvatic plague, a disease spread by rats and fleas that has existed since the 1800s. To date, biologists… Read More... →

Farmigo, an online farmer’s market that allowed consumers to shop for locally grown food via the web, then pick up those orders at nearby locations, says it will now be shutting down its delivery service. According to an announcement penned by Farmigo founder and CEO Benzi Ronen on the startup’s homepage, the company can no longer continue its community delivery operations… Read More... →

Испанский футбольный клуб «Валенсия» представил собственную профессиональную киберсборную, выступающую в дисциплине League of Legends. В неё вошли игроки, ранее выступавшие в составе команды wSystem, пишет Cyber.Sports.ru.... →

Halifax-based Spring Loaded Technology announced today that it has delivered the first 60 in of a planned 190 bionic knee braces to the Canadian Army, part of a $1 million (CAD) contract awarded to the company. The UpShots are the military grade version of the company’s assistive wearable, which utilizes liquid spring technology, promising lift output similar to those provided by the… Read More... →

Facebook invited a small group of reporters to its Prineville, OR data center this week. Most companies don’t even give their own employees access to their data centers (outside of the relatively small group of people it takes to keep the millions of servers inside up and running), but because Facebook open sources most of its server and networking designs, it’s a bit more open… Read More... →