Sony’s E3 press event happens at 6 PM PT/9 PM ET tonight, and we can expect a lot in the way of game announcements, along with likely pricing and release timeframe info for Project Morpheus, the virtual reality headset for PlayStation Sony is planning to launch this year. PlayStation recently returned to the top of the console sales rankings, but both this event and Microsoft’s… Read More
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This week’s AppleCast is actually last week’s, and it’s us recapping the WWDC announcements, including iOS 9, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Apple Music and watchOS 2. We also dive a little more deeply into 10.11 now that we’ve had some time with it. We cover the watchOS 2 pending updates in some detail, too, and specifically address the new Time Travel and Complications… Read More
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TechCrunch is headed to Austin and Seattle next week, and we’re bringing the world-renowned TechCrunch Pitch-Off with us. But what is a pitch-off without expert judges to weigh in on the cities’ most talented startups? We’re pleased to announce that in Austin on June 23 we’ll be joined by Josh Baer of Capital Factory and Bumble CEO and cofounder Whitney Wolfe. In… Read More
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I see a lot of articles written by well-intentioned people about how tech companies want to attract more diverse candidates. Usually, I don’t get more than three sentences in before I read about how the organization is making an effort to attract talent from historically black colleges and universities. Read More
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Filmaster, a movie recommendation engine built by a team in Warsaw, Poland, has sold to Samba TV for a little over €1 million. Filmaster was funded by HackFwd and HardGamma Ventures although the founders kept most of the company as it was sold.
Described as a service that offers movie recommendations using “its own proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning… Read More
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Scholly, the scholarship app best known for being featured on Shark Tank, recently announced multiple bulk purchases by both government and educational institutions.
Scholly works like this: After signing up, a student inputs basic information like race, GPA, and gender. The program then searches its database of over 20,000 scholarships and displays the ones for which the… Read More
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Adobe launched four new Android apps today (slightly ahead of schedule). While the company has long offered iOS tools for popular apps like Photoshop, Lightroom and others, it has generally not made these services available for Android. Starting today, however, Creative Cloud subscribers can also use Photoshop Mix, Brush CC, Shape CC and Color CC on Google’s platform.
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For people who didn’t grow up in the U.S., navigating the American startup scene can be intimidating. Dat Venture, a Boston-based accelerator for international entrepreneurs, wants to change this. Dat, which is kicking off its second cohort today, has refashioned the traditional accelerator model into a program designed to lower the barriers for international entrepreneurs looking… Read More
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Microsoft showed off a version of Minecraft designed specifically for HoloLens today for the first time at its E3 2015 press show. The HoloLens augmented reality display lets you view Minecraft in 2D anywhere you want, on a wall for instance, but also lets you display a 3D version of the world you’re interacting with on a surface like a table. You can play with others in the Minecraft… Read More
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The way people watch TV in a multi-device world is changing, which has led a number of consumers – especially among the younger demographic – to cut the cord with traditional pay TV, or just never sign up in the first place. Philo is a startup that’s helping cable and satellite TV providers re-engage this audience at the university level with a live TV service offering… Read More
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