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Visa and Bank of America today announced that they’re giving away 10,000 Google Cardboard virtual reality headsets at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, for fans of the New England Patriots to watch a new video of the football team practicing. These aren’t just any Cardboard headsets — they’re limited edition, according to a statement. Naturally, […]... →

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Healthcare, like so many other sectors of the economy, is being transformed by technology. The changes are most obvious at the front end of healthcare, where health payment solutions, data analytics tools, telehealth, wearable devices and other products and services are addressing the needs of both businesses and consumers. But just as important is what’s happening behind the scenes, in… Read More... →

GUEST: In recent months, there has been a lot of shake-up in the media landscape – from the Charter-Time Warner merger to the AT&T acquisition of DirecTV. There is no doubt the industry is undergoing a major transformation to adapt to the demands of today’s consumers. Traditional service providers are also feeling pressure to stay ahead […]... →

After announcing it at E3 2015, Square Enix unveiled the first gameplay trailer for one of its most anticipated games, Final Fantasy VII. And it looks like it’s more than just a remake with better graphics. Read More... →

В 2015 году и YouTube, и Facebook запустили возможность публиковать панорамные видео формата 360°. Этой функциональностью воспользовались крупные бренды, многие из которых совместили формат с виртуальной реальностью. Редакция vc.ru публикует обзор роликов. На компьютерах формат видео поддерживается в браузерах Chrome, Firefox, Opera и Internet Explorer (для Facebook — только Chrome и Firefox), на мобильных устройствах — в операционных системах Android и iOS.... →

Murdoch wants to give you what you didn’t ask for, yet. Instant messaging is overshadowing social media, and that’s creating new opportunities for data mining and delivering useful content. Murdoch has built a way to listen in to your instant messaging conversations and chime in with recommendations for you and your friends. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt London’s Hackathon,… Read More... →

Издание Business Insider собрало 15 способов сфокусироваться на работе, эффективность которых подтвердили исследования учёных со всего мира.... →

Are you ever hungry and wonder which nearby restaurants have available tables right now? Immediate.ly, conceived at TechCrunch’s Disrupt London Hackathon, aims to fix that problem. London-based developer Dan Cohen and Oxford student Chaiyakorn Srisakvarakul put together a tool, using Esri API, that shows restaurant openings on a map. “It’s a real-time map updating on… Read More... →

James Hitchcock and Moti Ferentz, along with the rest of their team, were visiting London for TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015’s hackathon — but they didn’t quite have access to the data they needed in order to find their way around with apps like Google Maps. So, as part of the hackathon, they built SMSNav.me. Users tap a button that sends a text message with their… Read More... →

It’s been a long night at the Copper Box Arena in London. The arena hosted the handball competition of the Summer Olympics two years ago. But this weekend has been all about a different kind of competition — the Disrupt London Hackathon. Some of them were participating in our event for the first time, while others were regular hackers. Their challenge was to come up with a neat,… Read More... →

How many times has your mom or dad called with an obvious-to-you question about their phone, or printer, or in the case of my mother, the Apple TV? Of course, you want to be a good son or daughter and help, but sometimes it’s a bad time or it’s hard to understand the problem without being there with them. That’s where Mummo, a product built at our Disrupt London Hackathon,… Read More... →

Meet Roslyn Scott and Dalton Scott, a mother and son team who just demoed a neat idea for making code more accessible, here at the Disrupt London 2015 hackathon. Read More... →

Tag Heuer’s chairman Jean-Claude Biver announced that the company is ramping up weekly production of their Carrera Connected Smart Watch from 1,200 to 2,000 pieces. The watch costs $1,500 and features a nice steel case and Android Wear. Buyers get the option to upgrade to a limited edition mechanical watch for another $1,500. Biver is also trying to move sales away from the web to brick… Read More... →

While governments around the world struggle to address the needs of the 4 million refugees who have fled Syria since the start of that country’s civil war in 2011, hackers across Europe are marshaling resources to help. At our own TechCrunch Disrupt London Hackathon, a team of five young Belgians have created Safe Haven, a location-based app that aims to connect refugees with aid… Read More... →

A team at the TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 hackathon has created what they say is one of the first personal assistants for the WhatsApp messaging platform. Called WhatsBot, the assistant uses a combination of artificial intelligence, location data from Foursquare, and mapping data from Esri in order to help you find places to meet up with friends, family, or colleagues. To use the… Read More... →

People in developing countries may not have the luxury of access to many modern technologies. They do, however, have affordable access to smartphones increasingly. According to a recent mobility report from Ericsson, there are 2.6 billion smartphone subscriptions globally, with another 3.5 billion expected to come online by 2020. With that growth comes increasingly rapid SMS penetration, and… Read More... →

Ahoy, mates! We’re in foggy London town and Disrupt Europe 2015 is officially underway, as the Hackathon presentations kick off right now. In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s the scoop: Before every TC Disrupt conference, we give coders and developers from the area a chance to check out the coolest APIs in the land and throw together a MVP in less than… Read More... →

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Dropping by the Disrupt London hackathon at around midnight, we expected to see many participants losing energy or flat-out asleep — and understandably so. Instead, almost everyone remained appallingly friendly, enthusiastic and eager to talk about their projects. They may have gotten a boost from the traditional midnight offerings of beer and pizza, not to mention a mysterious… Read More... →