Anyone who has ever worked with clients will know the pain of tracking your time. Yes, it’s important to know how long you spent so that you can bill correctly, but it is tedious, hellish and horrid — and, added to that, too often left until the last minute when it becomes harder to remember what was done. Enter Timeular and its pretty little eight-sided box which makes… Read MoreDaily Archives: September 14, 2016
Anyone who has ever worked with clients will know the pain of tracking your time. Yes, it’s important to know how long you spent so that you can bill correctly, but it is tedious, hellish and horrid — and, added to that, too often left until the last minute when it becomes harder to remember what was done. Enter Timeular and its pretty little eight-sided box which makes… Read More
The audience at Disrupt got a surprise visit from Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot. While the company’s YouTube channel is quite popular, it’s even more impressive to see one of Boston Robotics’ robots in action.
Boston Dynamics founder and CEO Marc Raibert got interviewed by TechCrunch’s Brian Heater. The two of them spent some time commenting on a video of the… Read MoreBoston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert demos the Spot at Disrupt
It can take a lot to build a positive habit — whether that’s stretching every morning, drinking enough water or remembering to go on a run. Kayla Matheus and Laura Day hope to make that a little easier with a small robot that sits on your table or desk called MOTI, which is currently running a Kickstarter campaign. But how would that help? Basically, the duo want to try to… Read MoreMOTI wants to help build positive habits with a little ...
New audio-processing tech called Virtual:X will make cheap soundbars more immersive, thanks to psychoacoustic tricks that simulate invisible speakers. The post DTS's New Audio Tech Makes Your Cheap Home Theater Sound Amazing appeared first on WIRED.
DTS’s New Audio Tech Makes Your Cheap Home Theater Sound ...
New York City’s transit authority is understandably jumpy about the Galaxy Note 7. A week or so after the FAA issued a strongly worded warning asking travelers not to check or fly with Samsung’s new phablet, the MTA is following suit. The organization hasn’t officially banned the device, but it has issued the following warning over social media this week: MTA customers… Read MoreNYC’s transit authority urges people to stop using the Galaxy ...
Following the controversial firing of the editorial team who managed the Trending Topics that appear next to Facebook’s News Feed, the company is now actively working on technology that will help prevent fake news stories from showing up in the Trending section. Similar systems have been rolled out to News Feed in recent months, and now that same technology is making its way to… Read MoreFacebook to roll out tech for combating fake stories in ...
Instacart is one of the most well-known companies in what can be an extremely difficult on-demand delivery economy. It’s known for being one of the pioneers of a new age of online grocery delivery, especially in light of the previous failure of companies like Webvan, but it’s going to have a long uphill battle to profitability and sustainability. Instacart CEO Apoorva Mehta,… Read MoreHow Apoorva Mehta hopes to build an Instacart empire with ...
The News Feed is the heart and soul of Facebook, yet remains a pretty big mystery both in terms of how it works and how people use it. So at TechCrunch Disrupt SF writer Josh Constine sat down with Adam Mosseri, a VP at Facebook and head of News Feed, to hear more about how exactly News Feed works. The talk started with Constine asking Mosseri much content people consume daily on their… Read MoreFacebook denies it’s a media company despite censorship decisions
We already knew it was coming –thanks to an accidental tweet Amazon posted earlier this week – but now it’s official: Amazon’s connected speaker Echo Dot is back in stock and at a lower price point of $49.99. The Alexa-powered device offers many of the same features that you’ll find in its larger counterpart, the Amazon Echo, including access to Amazon’s… Read MoreAmazon’s connected speaker Echo Dot returns, is now only $50
Twitter needs to figure out a way to continue to grow — and it certainly seems open to looking into a lot of new places outside your phone to figure out how to do that. Today, the company said it is launching an app on the Apple TV, Xbox One and Amazon Fire TV, which will allow users to view Twitter content through the apps on their televisions. That includes live streams of 10 NFL… Read More