Pick up that can. Now say you had to put it down on its side rather than its base, how would you go about doing it? Very easily and without thinking about it, no doubt. But simple manipulations like that, which allow us to interact fluidly with o... Teaching robots to adjust their grip the way humans doThis entry was posted in Gadgets MIT robotics robots TC on March 2, 2017 by Devin Coldewey
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, had a great day in its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. After pricing the IPO at $17 per share yesterday, the stock opened at $24. It then closed the day at $24.51, a 44% premium to the people who bought it yesterday. But like with all IPOs, not everybody got to access Snap’s IPO price. This is usually reserved for a smaller group of… Read More Snapchat stock finishes up 44% on first dayThis entry was posted in Apps Finance IPO Social and tagged snapchat on March 2, 2017 by Katie Roof
In the hype period for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the game’s creators compared it to the original NES classic. I chalked this up to the usual pre-release silliness; how could a brand-new game be anything like something released in 1986? It turns out I’d underestimated both Nintendo’s candor (understandable) and the timelessness of the first Zelda’s design. Read More A Link to the PastThis entry was posted in Gadgets Gaming Nintendo Reviews TC on March 2, 2017 by Devin Coldewey
Facebook’s Messenger bots may not be having the impact the social network desired. Just yesterday, online retailer Everlane, one of the launch partners for the bot platform, announced it was ditching Messenger for customer notifications and returning to email. Following this, Facebook today announced an upgraded Messenger Platform, which introduces a new way for users to interact with… Read More As Messenger’s bots lose steam, Facebook pushes menus over chatThis entry was posted in Apps Messenger Mobile Social TC and tagged facebook on March 2, 2017 by Sarah Perez
Facebook’s Messenger bots may not be having the impact the social network desired. Just yesterday, online retailer Everlane, one of the launch partners for the bot platform, announced it was ditching Messenger for customer notifications and returning to email. Following this, Facebook today announced an upgraded Messenger Platform, which introduces a new way for users to interact with… Read More As Messenger’s bots lose steam, Facebook pushes menus over chatThis entry was posted in Apps Messenger Mobile Social TC and tagged facebook on March 2, 2017 by Sarah Perez
Your Android phone is about to get an upgrade. Google today is making good on its promise to bring its Siri alternative known as Google Assistant to more Android devices, starting today. The company announced at Mobile World Congress over the weekend that its Assistant would soon launch in the U.S., followed by English-language launches in Australia, Canada and the U.K., as well… Read More Google Assistant hits more Android devices todayThis entry was posted in Android Apps Mobile and tagged google on March 2, 2017 by Sarah Perez
Building on its promise to give the entrenched a run for their money, conversational AI startup Ozlo is making its meticulously crafted knowledge layer available for purchase today. Ozlo’s new suite of APIs that includes tools for both expressing knowledge and understanding language will help to democratize the creation of conversational AI assistants. In the spirit of the expert systems… Read More Ozlo releases a suite of APIs to power your next ...This entry was posted in artificial intelligence business Enterprise Social Startup company Startups TC world wide web and tagged google on March 2, 2017 by John Mannes
Co-founder Ernestine Fu hopes that Blackstorm Labs, the makers of a bullet hell-ish fantasy shooter called EverWing, has figured out how to tap into that real-time co-operative experience that you might find in a massive online game like World of Warcraft within Facebook Messenger. The company is calling the experience Boss Raids. EverWing runs on HTML5 within Facebook Messenger, where… Read More Blackstorm Labs looks to bring the co-op experience to a ...This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Startups TC on March 2, 2017 by Matthew Lynley
There is an inherent problem that plagues all dating apps. The world is getting smaller — instead of choosing a mate from the pool of our college classmates or neighborhood friends, we’re now connected to everyone on the planet with a few taps of the thumb. This means that dating apps rarely run short of people to serve up, which means that we’re playing a game of optimization. Read More Dating app Sapio wants you to think harder about swiping ...This entry was posted in Apps Social Startups TC Tinder on March 2, 2017 by Jordan Crook
A new startup called unGlue wants to help kids better manage their time on connected devices. Just don’t call it parental control software, says co-founder and CEO Alon Shwartz. The idea, he explains, is to offer families a simpler solution for setting limits on screen time across devices, whether inside the home or away. Shwartz, a serial entrepreneur, came up with the idea for… Read More unGlue helps parents set screen time limits on any deviceThis entry was posted in Apps children family Gadgets kids Mobile parental controls parents TC on March 2, 2017 by Sarah Perez