At TechCrunch’s event in Shenzhen last month, we had a chance to test out the WT2, a clever and ambitious device from startup TimeKettle. It’s a pair of wireless earpieces; each person in a multilingual conversation wears one, and they…
Do-it-yourself investing can be scary for a lot of people, especially young wanna-be investors. The financial markets are complicated and so most people prefer to give their money to someone else to manage. When Brian Barnes graduated from Stanford in…
Image Courtesy of Zac Manchester Last year, extraterrestrial exploration venture Breakthrough Initiatives announced an ambitious plan to send tons of tiny spacecraft to our nearest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri. The project, called Breakthrough Starshot, is focused on launching lightweight…
The ethereum virtual machine (EVM) now has what appears to be its first ever decompiler designed to revert smart contracts into source code. Announced onstage today by the founder of cybersecurity startup Comae Technologies at the DefCon hacker conference in Las…
Instagram Back in 1996, three high school friends from a Los Angeles suburb recruited three local musicians to join their band, Xero. After failing to get a record deal and a general lack of success, two of the newcomers–including the…
Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup, a global competition of high-tech student projects, reached its culmination this week accompanied by the usual pomp at the company’s headquarters in Redmond. The winner of the $100,000 grand prize and 365 days of bragging rights…
No BAT, no VAT A joint statement from House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and other top Republicans killed two major tax reform ideas. “We are now…
Google is reportedly removing its ‘OK Google’ voice search command from Chromebooks. This information was first reported by Chrome Unboxed, citing this repository as its source. It’s likely this change is being made to make way for Google Assistant on…
When marketers sleep at night, they dream about email click rates in the double digits, social media campaigns with organic reposts by celebrities, and, maybe, just finally reaching Inbox Zero. That last dream may not be so elusive, and an infographic…
There is no better time to be a kid in Florida than at this exact moment. Elementary school students in 31 Marion County, Florida schools are free of homework for good after their superintendent issued a county-wide “no homework” mandate.…