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Facebook has launched a tool, Automatic Alternative Text, for blind and visually impaired people to “see” images on the Facebook. For people using screen readers to identify what’s displayed on a screen, AAT uses object recognition technology to generate descriptions of photos on Facebook. This tool, led by Facebook’s accessibility team, has been several months in… Read More... →

Facebook today announced the launch of a feature called automatic alternative text. It’s a big step forward in accessibility, because it will allow people who use screen readers — software that provides spoken descriptions of what’s onscreen — to receive summaries of what’s contained in photos that people post on Facebook. Until this point, only […]... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Laurene Powell Jobs is moving her education reform program forward this Friday. She, along with Russlynn Ali, chief executive of the XQ Institute, will announce the next phase of their plan to reinvent the high school system. At the third-annual Female Founders conference in San Francisco, Ali revealed that since the program began […]... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston has announced that she’s taking a temporary leave of absence, stepping aside after 11 years of being a major part of the Silicon Valley startup program. During her one-year sabbatical, she plans on spending time with her family and thinking about projects and other things she wants to […]... →

VB EVENT: Intuit made headlines last month when VentureBeat reported that one million people were using TurboTax on their mobile phones. And now with the U.S. tax filing deadline less than two weeks away, the company is working to simplify the process even further. Speaking today at VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit, Nat Rajesh Natarajan, senior VP for product and engineering at Intuit, the […]... →

Tips are everywhere. There’s an abundance of generic advice available for how to build teams and culture, how to fundraise, how to be productive, how to stay above the noise… But what about specific advice? Specific tips for what differentiates the leaders from the followers. And even more specifically, a guide to differentiate and succeed as a hardware startup. Read More... →

An untold number of schools will be receiving some happy news this coming Friday. According to an on-stage appearance today at the Female Founders Conference in San Francisco, philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs revealed that a six-month-old project she’s backing called XQ: The Super School Project, is announcing then which U.S. schools will advance to the next phase in a national… Read More... →

Thomas Staggs, chief operating officer at The Walt Disney Corporation, is stepping down. Staggs is widely seen as the successor to CEO Bob Iger, so this makes the entertainment giant’s plans after Iger’s departure seem a lot less certain. Staggs has been at Disney for 26 years, and he was recently promoted from leading the company’s theme park division to COO, a move… Read More... →

NASA has collaborated with Microsoft to create a new mixed-reality exhibit known as “Destination: Mars“, allowing the public to explore the red planet with holographic tour guides. The exhibit will open this summer in Florida at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Featuring the second person on the moon, Dr. Buzz Aldrin, and guided by Curiosity Mars Rover driver… Read More... →

Doppler Labs’s augmented audio device, Here, seems to be all the rage in music hardware these days. Doppler recently won a SXSW Innovation Award and will begin a partnership with Coachella starting next week. Each Coachella attendee received a code with their tickets to claim their free Here Active Listening devices to wear at the week-long music festival. Read More... →

Posted by Nicholas-Chimonas[Estimated read time: 18 minutes] SEO futurists have predicted the death of links as a ranking signal for years on end. That hasn’t happened yet, and I'm happy to say that link building as a practice has greatly evolved. But rapid change often creates confusion, and there doesn't yet seem to be a strong consensus on how link building teams should be constructed, where they fit in the marketing plan, and how much ought to be invested into link acquisition. To bring more clarity and... →

Posted by Nicholas-Chimonas[Estimated read time: 18 minutes] SEO futurists have predicted the death of links as a ranking signal for years on end. That hasn’t happened yet, and I'm happy to say that link building as a practice has greatly evolved. But rapid change often creates confusion, and there doesn't yet seem to be a strong consensus on how link building teams should be constructed, where they fit in the marketing plan, and how much ought to be invested into link acquisition. To bring more clarity and... →

EXCLUSIVE: Machine Zone, one of the top-ranked mobile game companies, said it is launching a platform today that lets other companies license its cloud technology to enable millions of people to communicate and interact in real time. The company, which makes the hugely popular multiplayer Game of War, said it is also renaming itself MZ. MZ consistently has […]... →

Combine love at first sight with powerfully simple design and what do you get? More than one million dates each week on Tinder, perhaps the world’s most popular dating app. Best known for it’s “Swipe Right” feature, Tinder has been on a tear in recent months introducing new features and even scratching at the surface of the vast amounts […]... →

NASA took the wraps off a new website on Monday dedicated to tracking global changes in the sea level. It’s packed full of free online resources that will likely be useful to teachers, the climate-change-curious, and anyone just looking to dig into publicly available data. Read More... →

When Microsoft announced its Windows 10 strategy last year, the thinking was that the unified platform would drive Windows Mobile and finally bring the Windows phone out of the doldrums where it’s been virtually forever. The idea was you could develop once for Windows 10 desktop and easily share that code on any device, making it impossibly attractive for developers, which would… Read More... →

A committee of industry representatives appointed by the FAA turned in recommendations suggesting a four-tiered system for classifying drones and how they may (or mayn’t) interact with crowds. Read More... →

Google today talked for the first time about Walt, a piece of software that people can use to figure out how long it takes for a device to respond to touch or voice input. Google has been using Walt to do performance tests on Android devices and Chromebooks, and now the software is available under […]... →

Norwegian startup Auka is setting its sight on hitting two birds with one stone: Helping banks lagging behind compliance with EU regulation, and rolling out high-tech banking to customers across Europe. The company is a white-label service aimed at retail banks, and is the first fully licensed and regulated payments infrastructure running on Google Cloud Platform. Read More... →

MetaMind, a Palo Alto-based AI startup founded in July 2014, is being acquired for undisclosed terms by Salesforce. According to new post published at the company’s website by CEO Richard Socher — a Stanford PhD who studied machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and computer vision –Salesforce plans to use its technology to “further automate… Read More... →