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New York City’s tech industry is mostly white (62%) and male (60%), according to a recent analysis from the Center for an Urban Future. The fact that white men make up the majority of NYC’s tech force isn’t a huge surprise, but what’s interesting is how those figures compare to the diversity stats big tech firms like Apple, Amazon and Google have reported over the… Read More... →

Why should Silicon Valley care about the 2016 election? According to Georgetown University’s Larry Downes, it’s going to be an election in which the most disruptive technologies – from the Internet of Things to drones to Bitcoin to Uber – are becoming political issues. Read More... →

Google has turned off its website for showing search activity for the flu and dengue fever, as a way to suggest the presence of such diseases in certain places around the world. Google said today that it will be offering its data to organizations such as the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Boston […]... →

There are more than 26 million companies in the United States with fewer than 20 employees. The vast majority of those businesses have fewer than five employees, and often only one. There are about to be a whole lot more of these very small businesses. Interestingly, it's because big businesses are also going to become radically smaller. Long before robots replace manual laborers and algorithms replace even the smartest knowledge workers,... →

HBO is expanding HBO Now, its subscription streaming service, to the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. As of today, you can watch all HBO series, movies and documentaries for $15 per month with either Amazon’s $99 Fire TV setup or the even more affordable Fire TV Stick that retails for $39 bucks. HBO launched Now exclusively with Apple earlier this year, and brought the service… Read More... →

Want to participate in the Disrupt SF Hackathon but missed out on the first wave of tickets? Well, good news. Today we’re releasing the next wave of Hackathon tickets to the general public, and you can score your tickets to the event right now. To purchase your tickets, just head over to our Hackathon ticketing page to sign up. But act fast, because the first batch of tickets flew off… Read More... →

In June of last year, VC Experts discovered a filing that suggested ZocDoc, a roughly eight-year-old, New York-based online medical care schedule service, was raising a new round of funding worth $152 and that valued the company at $1.6 billion. That round has closed with $130 million, at a current valuation of $1.8 billion, the company announced today. It was led by Atomico and the… Read More... →

Microsoft today detailed an update to its Office for iOS apps that tighten the integration that Outlook has with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The new versions have been on Apple’s App Store since last week, but we’re only hearing about them now because Microsoft’s Office team apparently can’t write as quickly as it can code. […]... →

One of my favorite things to do is to watch and see what emojis become candidates for Unicode updates (don’t judge). Sometimes they’re really great and sometimes they’re well…obnoxious. Two years ago, the word “selfie” was added to the Dictionary, which made my day really awful until I saw that “twerk” was also added. Then it turned into the… Read More... →

Nine in 10 parents believe that teaching computer science is a good use of school resources. Two-thirds of parents believe CS education should be mandatory in schools. Eight percent of students think they will learn about CS in the future. Three out of four principals say their schools offer no CS coding or programming classes (and for reasons I can’t quite fathom, lots of schools… Read More... →

In its quest to add a little fun through your (literal) journey through life, Swarm is launching version 3.0 of the app, bringing in a special new game that lets you compete with your friend network. In short, the Swarm leaderboard rewards users with coins for checking in at various places. Some check-ins might be worth only one coin, whereas others can be worth 10 or more, based on factors… Read More... →

What do you look for in an app? It might be something useful that helps to organise your life, it might be to connect with friends and family, or perhaps it’s a diverting game to while away the daily commute. But would you ever look for art on the App Store? Stepping beyond the gallery, artists have been making fruitful use of the medium for some time now to produce a range of art apps… Read More... →

A new version of the bluetooth tracker tag Tile just dropped on Amazon, Tile’s website and a host of T-Mobile stores. The updated item tracker now boasts a ring that’s three times louder and has added a super dandy new feature called Find Your Phone. I am notorious for losing things amongst my friends, so when Tile launched its successful 2013 Selfstarter campaign (which went on… Read More... →

This is the final part of the three-part Adaptive Content series on The Mainframe. Hosts Tony Clark and Chris Garrett discuss how you can use adaptive content to create richer content experiences that work for attraction, retention, and conversion. In this episode: The priority content areas you should focus on Where to start, and what you need to pull together How to utilize the assets you have,... →

LawDingo users, meet DocDingo, CashDingo and PsychDingo. As I’ve written in the past, the Y Combinator-incubated startup promises to connect you with a lawyer instantly, usually over the phone. The idea is to help users get legal advice quickly and affordably, and to help lawyers reach new customers, even if they’re on the other side of the state. Read More... →

A few short weeks ago, Yuri Milner announced to the world that he’d be investing $100 million to find extraterrestrial intelligent life. Today, TechCrunch has its own announcement: Yuri Milner will be joining us on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September. Milner is one of the biggest names in tech venture capital, founding DST Global after finding success as the CEO of… Read More... →

Payment processing service Stripe today announced that its tool consumers can use to check out and make purchase online can now work in a few languages other than English. Developers can now program Stripe’s checkout tool to work in Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, or Spanish. That might sound like a nice update to […]... →

When a small team of software engineers first started working on Flu Trends in 2008, we wanted to explore how real-world phenomena could be modeled using patterns in search queries. Since its launch , Google Flu Trends has provided useful insights and served as one of the early examples for "nowcasting" based on search trends , which is increasingly used in health, economics , and other fields . Over time, we've used search signals to create prediction models,... →

Writing is weird. Unlike speaking, it's not something we do naturally. And unless we train ourselves out of it, that weirdness renders some creative, but wooden and dense prose. Speaking is a natural act. Every single human being has the ability to do it. And at a very young age. The reason why, says cognitive scientist and linguist Stephen Pinker, is because we have a language instinct. We master this instinct as we imitate sounds made by mom and dad, brother and sister,... →

Android Wear’s watch faces are getting a bit more interesting today. Developers were always able to display a lot of information on their watch faces, but users couldn’t interact with them. Starting today, however, you’ll be able to install interactive watch faces that allow you to pull up more information and launch apps with a tap right from the watch face (and… Read More... →