The 2024 election is likely to be the first in which faked audio and video of candidates is a serious factor. As campaigns warm up, voters should be aware: voice…

Hot on the heels of Elon Musk’s visit to China earlier this month, the country welcomed another American tech billionaire. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Meli

Seedstars Capital and Swiss philanthropic foundation Fondation Botnar have launched Seedstars Youth Wellbeing Ventures, a $20 million investment mandate targeting early-stage startups in Africa that a

Hot on the heels of Elon Musk’s visit to China earlier this month, the country welcomed another American tech billionaire. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Meli

Hot on the heels of Elon Musk’s visit to China earlier this month, the country welcomed another American tech billionaire. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Meli

Parking Panda Helps You Find, Rent & Rent Out Parking Spaces Quick Pitch: Find, rent or rent out a parking space online. Genius Idea: Earn money off your empty driveway. When Nick Miller was a student at Georgetown, he had, by his description, one of the best parking spots in the city. "If I could have sold that driveway, I probably would have gotten half a million for it," he joked. "But I was in

The social analytics measurement tool published the various Klout scores of the 2012 Time 100 -- Time magazine's list of the most influential people of the year. A shift in what drives influence greatly impacted the movers-and-shakers who landed on this year's list. Justin Bieber is the only person with a perfect 100 Klout score, perhaps thanks to his "beliebers." Bieber made last year's Time 100.

When Alex Ewing was a kid growing up in Purcell, Oklahoma, he knew how close he was to home based on which billboards he could see out the car window.…

Search Twitter for #4twenty or #Happy420, on the other hand, and you'll be able to see everyone who's tweeted about Friday's unofficial holiday. (For the uninitiated it involves celebrating what Greg Focker might call "puffing the magic dragon"). Social media and mobile tech has often been helpful to marijuana smokers. Cannabis News Pro app for $2.99 connects tokers with marijuana news and helps t

"It is important that there is a third ecosystem that is brought into the mix here, and we are fully supportive of that with Microsoft," Shammo said. Carriers are currently dependent on Google's Android and Apple's iOS to drive most of their product sales. Carriers are traditionally responsible for paying the full retail price for any smartphones they sell. The iphone has a retail price starting a

Take Down the Fed with Ron Paul: the Adventure Game [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO] [brightcove video="1573915537001" /] Ron Paul may not be the most avid gamer -- but the leading libertarian certainly wouldn't want to stop you playing his character in an upcoming videogame from Texas-based programmer Daniel Williams. "Ron Paul: The Road to REVOLution" is a side-scrolling adventure game that echoes console clas

Want to Instagram the Night Sky? Adapter Puts iPhones on Telescopes [brightcove video="1573505596001" /] When it comes to photographing stars or birds in the distance, most people don't think of launching their iPhone's camera app. A new startup is aiming to change that. The startup, Arcturus Labs, is developing a gadget called Magnifi that attaches an iPhone to just about any lens. It allows user

The 2024 election is likely to be the first in which faked audio and video of candidates is a serious factor. As campaigns warm up, voters should be aware: voice…

An End to Wireless 'Bill Shock'? New Site Points the Way Just in case wireless companies forgot they were supposed to help customers avoid bill shock for going over their monthly plans, the the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just gave them a big reminder. The FCC has launched a "Bill Shock" website that keeps consumers up to date with where each wireless carrier is in the process of insta

PicPlz Founder Dalton Caldwell: All This Gossip About The Instagram Sale Is ‘A Waste Of Time’ Apparently lots of people are still talking about Instagram’s sale to Facebook (last week seems like ages ago to those of us in the attention-deficit-disordered world of blogging, but I guess a $1 billion pricetag will tend to keep tongues wagging for a while.) The latest Instagram/Facebook detail the cha

Media & Entertainment Facebook Updates Android App: 1.9 Adds Photos, Message Sharing From Home Screen Facebook has released an update to its Android app today that should give users of the social network on Android devices a more integrated and instant experience — and takes Facebook another step closer to making its mobile app experience more like the one people have when using the social network

Will the DVD die off like the LaserDisc and VHS Tape before it? There's a compelling case that streaming video is killing its predecessors. This year, it is estimated, there will be 3.4 billion movie views online, compared with 2.4 billion disc views. Streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu Plus have racked up tens of millions of subscribers. It's easy to see why -- viewing a mov

Because I’m so clearly ready to settle down and have a family, I am at the first ever 500Startups MamaBear Family conference in Mountain View today, watching a group of talks from family-oriented startups and people who have experience with family-oriented startups — like Wittlebee‘s Sean Percival and mama-entrepreneur Randi Zuckerberg. Yesterday I was totally ready to remove my uterus, but today

And there's a catch -- the Instagrammers will get access to vantage points and corners of the storied arena that are off-limits to national media. The Internet photography stars are being hosted by Madison Square Garden's corporate arm and sponsor Delta Air Lines. They aren't being paid or forced to take branded shots, but asked only to document the game as thoroughly and creatively as possible fo

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Will This Open-Source Animated Film Change the Movie Industry Forever? [VIDEO] [brightcove video="1571631725001" /] Tube is an open-source animated film based on "The Epic of Gilgamesh," the ancient poem from Mesopotamia. Its collaborative animators seek funding through Kickstarter for the film's completion and release. To date, the filmmakers' side jobs have funded the open movie -- three years i

How George Takei Went From Star Trek to Social Media Superstar For nearly 50 years, George Takei has been famous for his portrayal of Hikaru Sulu on the original '60s television show Star Trek. Takei appeared as Sulu for three seasons and six subsequent movies. After Star Trek, Takei continued to act and perform voice-overs. Yet, like many members of the cast, his identity remained synonymous with

Diablo III has entered an open beta period as of 12:01 p.m. PDT, according to a post on Blizzard Entertainment's website. Anyone with a valid Battle.net account can take the highly anticipated game for a spin all weekend long. The beta ends at 10 a.m. on April 23. Registration for a Battle.net account is free for new players, and you'll need to download the Diablo III client, of course. Once you'r

When Things Fall Apart thematically mirrors the work the Red Cross does, rebuilding communities that have been shattered to pieces by natural disasters. The campaign fits into Georgia Tech Professor Eric Gilbert's research on Twitter mobilization through changing profile pictures in both organic and orchestrated campaigns. Since people adopted green icons during the Iranian uprisings in 2009, caus

Shazam for iPad [iTunes link] is available now in the App Store -- and it's free. The latest iPad app includes Retina display graphics and its LyricPlay feature that was released for the iPhone in January. With LyricPlay you can view the lyrics to songs on your iPad and follow along as the song plays. The app contains the lyrics of around 20,000 of the most popular songs on Shazam. It also gives y

How do you define success in unknown territory? For founder Chris Hardwick, it’s not necessarily views or shares -- it’s producing the things he loves and keeping his audience engaged. "We make the stuff that we would want to consume," says Peter Levin, CEO of Nerdist. "That's the metric we use, for better for worse, and our YouTube channel is a very clear indication of that. We're doing shows wit

Blockbuster movie director James Cameron made the top two worldwide grossing films of all time – Titanic and Avatar. This week in Las Vegas he spoke not to the movie industry, but to television broadcasters at the NAB convention about how important TV is to the future of 3D. TechCrunch also got a chance to talk to him about 3D on tablets and tweeting from the bottom of the ocean. Cameron believes

By now, most brands are rightly viewing social media as an integral piece of their overall marketing strategy. However, many still hold the incorrect notion that injecting more money into social media is the only way to build and nurture an online fan base. In reality, there are several standout social media marketing tactics that can mobilize an enthusiastic audience while remaining cost effectiv

Storify Adds GetGlue Tool to Help TV Networks Follow Viewer Reaction Entertainment social network GetGlue will join Storify's list of social media sources along with other platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram. Storify users curate comments, images and videos to build social stories in a new media format that is interactive and social. Users create their stories within Stor

If Charles Darwin Created Foursquare, It Might Look Like This Name: Project Noah Big Idea: Project Noah harnesses the power of mobile to let users contribute to real scientific data and research. Why It's Working: Project Noah calls itself a "butterfly net for the 21st century," giving members of the connected generation a way to reconnect with nature on the platform where they're most comfortable

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