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“The key was to create an instrument for all children,” explains Skoog co-inventor Dr. Ben Schögler. “That includes kids with disabilities, whether physical or learning disabilities. It was made to be an inclusive instrument, because musical instruments are beautiful, they’re fantastic, but they’re difficult to play.” Born out of Edinburg University in… Read More... →

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In late January, Nature magazine announced that a computer designed by Google’s DeepMind defeated a human master in the ancient Chinese board game, “Go.” This impressive achievement once again raised the expectations for a predicted future in which computers will have artificial intelligence. No matter which side of the debate one falls on, DeepMind’s achievement… Read More... →

It takes some serious engineering magic to build low-latency group mobile video chat and simultaneous content viewing. That’s why Sean Parker’s recently relaunched video chat room app Airtime acquired vLine, which offered video chat infrastructure to SaaS companies. Founded in 2010, vLine was backed with $1.5 million from Kleiner Perkins and Harrison Metal. vLine’s team will… Read More... →

Комарова начала работать под началом Таврина в 2008 году, тогда - на радио.... →

SAP announced a broad partnership with Apple today to bring iOS to SAP’s enterprise customer base. The announcement comes almost two years after Apple made a similar deal with IBM. As with IBM, SAP hopes to take Apple’s design sense and marry it to the enterprise capabilities of a company like SAP. It’s no secret that Apple wants a bigger piece of the enterprise market and… Read More... →

You may remember Launcher as the once-banned iOS widget which Apple booted from the App Store after its approval, then months later allowed back in. The problem Apple had with the app, seemingly, is that its sole existence was to be a widget provider – the app by itself didn’t offer any standalone functionality beyond widget configuration. Today, Launcher is out with its first… Read More... →

Anything is possible if we all work together — and no one gets left behind. That is the lesson these tiny “VelociRoACH” robots taught me today. Read More... →

Imagine for a moment that you’re a fly on the wall of a Samsung executive board meeting. It’s pretty easy to imagine why the Family Hub Refrigerator seemed like a great idea. Someone probably said something about leveraging the smart home and disrupting the kitchen and they were off to the races. And sure, there are certainly pieces of the fancy new smart refrigerator that make a… Read More... →

Quizlet, the makers of popular web and mobile study tools, hired a new CEO, Matt Glotzbach, former Vice President of Product Management at YouTube. Glotzbach led the creation of YouTube’s music subscription service, and fan-funding business platforms. But Quizlet will not be his first education-focused initiative. A 12-year Google veteran, he was part of the founding team of Google apps… Read More... →

Прошедшие отбор проекты поедут в Париж на финал конкурса, который состоится 13-14 октября 2016 года... →

В своей еженедельной колонке управляющий партнер соинвестиционной платформы AltaClub Игорь Рабинович рассказывает о наиболее значимых венчурных сделках Израиля за прошедшие семь дней. Израильская платежная платформа Zooz привлекла $24 млн Израильская платформа для онлайн-платежей Zooz закрыла сделку на сумму $24 млн в раунде финансирования серии С, возглавляемом Target Global Ventures, при участии Fang Fund, iAngels, Kreos Capital, Blumberg Capital, lool ventures, Rhodium, Claltech XSeed Capital, CampOne Ve... →

Министр связи России Николай Никифоров 5 мая объявил о начале разработки отечественной мобильной операционной системы. Компания-разработчик — «Открытая Мобильная Платформа» (ОМП) — расположилась в татарстанском Иннополисе.... →

TrapTap, which has raised over $200,000 on Kickstarter with about a week to go, alerts drivers to speed traps, school zones, speed zones, and red light cameras by blinking red, green, or blue. But it’s not a radar detector; it’s more like connected car training wheels. TrapTap says it has mapped every school zone and red light camera in 60 countries. You stick the little round puck… Read More... →

eBay announced today that it is acquiring Expertmaker, a Swedish company that specializes in analysis of big data with a machine-learning twist. Read More... →

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От специалистов требуется навык портирования Android на новые платформы, то есть новая ОС будет некой разновидностью известной операционки.... →

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Amazon has hired Xerox PARC employee and AI researcher Ashwin Ram to head up R&D for Alexa, the e-commerce behemoth’s AI-driven virtual assistant. Ram first tweeted about his appointment on Tuesday, and a spokesperson for Amazon has now confirmed the hire but declined to offer any further comment. Read More... →

It’s easy to move your money between banks. What’s annoying is moving your apps. There’s been a recent explosion of fintech products in spaces like stock trading, wealth management, payments, loans, remittance, and insurance. That’s been fueled by a massive uptick in venture investment in private fintech companies, which hit $19 billion in 2015 according to CB… Read More... →