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Technologies only become truly integrated into society when they move from requiring forethought to becoming an afterthought. It’s the progression of all innovations and it’s now happening to how we experience of the internet. Read More... →

By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers who stole security clearance data on millions of Defense Department and other U.S. government employees got away with about 5.6 million fingerprint records, some 4.5 million more than initially reported, the government said on Wednesday. The additional stolen fingerprint records were identified as part of an ongoing analysis […]... →

HBO has been awarded a patent for a sensor technology that measures and transmits the force at which a boxing glove hits someone’s face. The patent describes a system where accelerometer and gyroscope sensors are embedded in the front of a boxing glove. A database containing motion profiles of various kinds of punches recognizes and […]... →

At the very beginning, there were around a thousand startups. We hand-picked the 25 greatest companies so that they could compete in our incredibly competitive startup competition — the Startup Battlefield. They all presented in front of multiple groups of industry leaders serving as judges. The startups were competing for $50,000 and the highly coveted Disrupt Cup. After hours of… Read More... →

Posted by David-MihmAs we head into the thick of fall conference season, I'm happy to announce that the results of the 2015 Local Search Ranking Factors Survey are in. Eager to dive right in? Click here for the full results. At the very least, I hope they help kickstart your Birds of a Feather roundtable conversations. (Or if you have a local search addiction as debilitating as mine, perhaps even an after-party conversation over over a pint!) My high-level takeawaysGoogle's local search algorithm seems to b... →

At Disrupt yesterday, one of the most interesting talks was with Golden State Warriors forward Andre Iguodala. Other than being the MVP of the latest NBA Championship series, Iguodala is a businessperson. He’s looking for cool companies to work with, fun projects to work on and the latest in Silicon Valley trends. It sure helps that he’s on the Golden State Warriors, a team… Read More... →

St. Augustine of Hippo said “the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”—-which is somewhat unfair to people who can’t travel because of financial or physical reasons. Georama wants to help them with its virtual-reality travel platform, which offers live guided tours in high-definition video. The startup, which already has an enterprise… Read More... →

Making a cellphone is easy. You go into a mine, pull up some ore, extract various metals and then add components that you manufacture from other mines. Then you have to get FCC clearance and create lithium ion battery. Finally, you need to write a Snake game. If you can’t do that, try RePhone. The project is actually a tiny circuit board with a SIM slot and an optional screen. It also… Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Thursday, September 24 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free.  Death and taxes are often linked, if for no other reason than doing one makes the other seem not so bad. Both also share the trait that they tend to sneak up on people. And […]... →

Musicians, it’s time to stop hating streaming services, and here’s why. Troy Carter, one of the world’s most powerful artist managers (John Legend, Meghan Trainor, and previously Lady Gaga) just busted some myths with three reasons streaming is the future of music, not the end. Streaming Will Earn Artists A Lot With Enough Users – Royalty payouts from streaming might… Read More... →

The earth consists of 70% ocean and 30% land. And yet, famously, we know more about the surface of the moon than what lies beneath the waves, because only 5% of the world’s oceans have been explored. This, despite the fact that 95% of the world’s life, energy and resources lies in the sea. Currently our way of exploring this is by loading a bunch of electronics into something… Read More... →

Is Smule being a bully? Or is it just mounting a reasonable defense of its intellectual property? In a nutshell, those are the questions I was trying to answer during interviews with Smule CEO Jeff Smith, and with Mike Allen and Mark Godfrey, the former employees being sued by the company. Read More... →

Nvidia announced today that it has kicked off the entries for its 2016 Early Stage Challenge, which offers a $100,000 prize for the best startups using graphics processing units (GPUs). Nvidia is the world’s largest standalone maker of GPUs, and it uses the contest to filter the best new startups in its ecosystem. The graphics […]... →

Today at Disrupt SF, our own Sarah Buhr took to the stage with DJ Patil, this nation’s Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Data Policy and Chief Data Scientist, and Phaedra Chrousos, who heads the country’s Office of Citizen Services. The talk was framed by the fact that technology and politics, formerly separate worlds, are increasingly finding themselves standing side by side. It… Read More... →

In this episode of Youpreneur.FM, host Chris Ducker pulls back the red curtain and discusses how a podcast comes together as he talks to Lara Loest, his show notes editor. Lara breaks down the process, what it takes to put together quality show notes, and understanding new processes. Lara is the proprietress of Show Notes Made Easy, a company dedicated exclusively to show notes services. She'll go through her step-by-step creation process,... →

Storehouse, an app we voted our favorite mobile app at the Crunchies in 2015, just launched a major revamp of their photo sharing app that completely drops the newsfeed and the rest of its social networking functions. But why? The company says the drastic move comes from a rethinking of its overall purpose as it looks to make the process of sharing beautifully curated photo stories a… Read More... →

Pebble has a new watch, the Pebble Time Round. Announced this morning, Pebble co-founder and CEO Eric Migicovsky was interviewed on stage by our own Greg Kumparak at Disrupt SF to share the story behind this new watch, and what’s currently happening at the company. Read More... →

«ВКонтакте» занимается разработкой собственного протокола передачи сообщений пользователей, который позволит повысить скорость и защиту при передаче данных пользователей. Об этом сообщают «Известия».... →

Troy Carter, talent manager, VC, and founder of Atom Factory, spoke today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF about how his experience in entertainment has influenced the way he approaches the startup world. He began by discussing how startups are inherently more flexible in terms of strategy and obtaining eventual success. Specifically, he said how common it is for startups to pivot (using the example… Read More... →

Dave Pell, the man behind the extremely popular curated email newsletter "NextDraft," has perhaps the best list of testimonials anywhere. On most testimonial pages, you might see one marquee name, followed by a list of no-names. Mr. Pell's testimonials involve a list of Who's Who in the news world. For example, Steve Bodow, Executive Producer of The Daily Show , said, "Dave finds stuff I didn't see but should have.... →