Smarter TV: CrestaTech Grabs $13M To Bring Region-Free TV Reception To Any Device Cord cutters and web TV users could be heard issuing a collective groan yesterday as rumors surfaced that popular online video service Hulu may soon begin requiring its users to prove they have cable or satellite subscription. Sure, distribution models have changed, but we’ll still make you pay regardless, the old gu

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

A new trailer for the upcoming Dark Knight Rises movie, the third installment in Christopher Nolan's Batman series, is now available for your viewing pleasure. Fans were able to "unlock" the trailer early by participating in an elaborate viral campaign, but now Warner Bros has made it available to everyone, and you can see it below. The new trailer (see the previous one here) puts emphasis on the

Washington Post only wants Digg’s human assets by Staci D. Kramer Apr 30, 2012 - 10:47 PM CST 1 Comment Tweet Share Post The ex-newspaper editor in my house looked up from his laptop and yelped, “The Washington Post is hiring the people from Digg?” Usually that wouldn’t be a blip for him but he instantly connected the move to the latest batch of people to lose their jobs in the WaPo newsroom throu

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

昨年の夏に開催された「ブレークスルーキャンプ2011」で優勝後、「第３回 SF NewTech Japan Night」で最多得点をマークした学生スタートアップ「Facematch」が5月1日、国内で正式にサービスをスタートした。既に報じている通り、「Pitapat」と名前を変え米国ではリリース済み。日本でのリリースに際し、まずはiPhone版アプリがiTunes App Storeから無料でダウンロード可能となっている。 運営母体は「株式会社Pitapat」で、サイバーエージェントを引き受け先とした第三者割当増資を実施し、2012 年1月20日付でサーバーエージェントの子会社となっている。 奇しくも4月30日は、Facematchチームのメンバーが運命の出会いをした日。5月1日のサービスインは、まさに彼等の新たな船出となった。 紆余曲折の365日。そして、ここからスタート 学生スタートア

True Fit, the AI-powered size-and-fit personalization tool, has offered its size recommendation solution to thousands of retailers for nearly 20 years. Now, the company is venturing into the generative AI…

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

As It Graduates From Network To Platform, Edmodo Now Serving 7M Users, 80K Schools Edmodo is one of the startups whose name pops up a lot when you talk about “edtech.” Founded in 2007, the company is almost old school, yet, in spite of the influx of new education-focused startups, Edmodo continues to press forward. This is largely due to its appeal as a social learning platform for K-12 education

[読了時間:1分] 都内のシェアオフィス、コワーキングスペース6拠点が連携して、共通パスを発行する 「東京OFFICEクルージング」が5⽉1⽇にスタートする。 参加する施設は以下の通り。 「HAPON新宿」（新宿） 「partground」（渋谷） 「LightningSpot」（渋谷） 「Sprout」（五反⽥） 「STUDIO4」（武蔵⼩山） 「colormell」（東日本橋） 最近急速に増えてきたシェアオフィス・コワーキングスペース。どこが自分に適しているか分からないという人も多いだろう。まずはトライアルで使ってもらうことを目的に、この6拠点を1回づつ使える共通利用パスを3000円で販売する。今後は都内を中⼼に10拠点程度に増やし、1回ただけでなく複数回使えるチケットの販売も予定されている。 提供期間は、2012年5⽉10日（木）から7月末日まで。 購入は5月1日より、それぞれの拠点

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

The Digg Team Is Going To WaPo, But The Assets Aren’t Has The Washington Post acquired Digg, as reported in The Next Web? Sort of. We’re hearing that the Post has hired the Digg team, but is not acquiring the site or the technology. In other words, this is a talent acquisition, and in fact Digg properties, patents, and assets are still for sale. TheNextWeb’s report provoked some “what the hell?” r

EduFi, a fintech startup that enables financially strapped students to secure loans for their education, has raised $6.1 million in a pre-seed round led by Zayn VC with participation from Palm Drive C

Hack Your Housing: Check Out This Berkeley Freshman’s ‘Ridiculously Automated’ Dorm Room So this is pretty fun. A University of California at Berkeley freshman named Derek Low uploaded a video to YouTube today of what he’s calling the “BRAD”, or the Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm. Apparently, Low set out three months ago to make “the most ridiculously automated dorm room in the school ever.”

Instagram Passes 50 Million Users, Adds 5 Million a Week The photo-sharing app is on fire. It now has more than 50 million users -- and is adding new ones at the rate of roughly 5 million per week, according to its API. Instagram hit 40 million users around April 13, and 30 million at the start of the month (no April Fooling). This is astonishing growth for an app that started 2012 with just 15 mi

Make-A-Wish helps Evans teen donate music instruments to hospital

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

Improv Everywhere Surprises Couple with Impromptu Date in Central Park Comedy troupe Improv Everywhere has released a delightful new video that shows how a random couple was surprised in New York City's Central Park with a romantic "instant date," with the help of champagne, dinner service and a private serenade. An unsuspecting couple sitting on a bench near the Conversatory Water on Manhattan's

Rumor: Hulu Will Soon Require Viewers To Have A Cable Subscription [Update: It’ll Happen, But Not “Soon”] If you love watching TV shows on Hulu but don’t have a cable subscription, things could get a bit more complicated in the near future. According to the New York Post, Hulu could soon start requiring its users to prove that they also have a cable or satellite subscription. This would obviously

Per Vices, The Rare YC Hardware Startup, Sets Out To Disrupt Wireless Communications Y Combinator might be best known for software plays like Dropbox and Airbnb. But it’s also harbored a few hardware companies, notably the one that blew out Kickstarter funding records with Pebble Watch this month. There’s actually one more waiting in the wings. Per Vices is a startup from the latest class that’s l

Got friends returning from a four-year stint on Mars, or elderly relatives who still don't get why Facebook is such a big deal? Want to spark a discussion about whether the site is worth its $100 billion valuation? Then you could do a lot worse than simply screening this video. Made by online investment platform Kapitall, the 150-second vid takes some of the most eye-popping stats about the social

Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III and Trent Richardson -- the draft's first, second and third picks, respectively -- were hot topics before the draft, during its first day and even after the 253rd and final pick was made on Saturday. mRank monitors conversations across Twitter, Facebook and blogs, then aggregates them to produce scores between one and 100. Who were the most buzzed-about prospects th

It took 238 takes to make this video, which features video on four synchronized iPhones. We think it was worth the effort. The iPhones are coordinated to a guitar version of Fun's "We Are Young" by YouTube user MysteryGuitarMan. Among the cool images: The moon passing by, the Earth and the sun and MGM himself starting and ending the tune. All of the images are very impressive. But as the comments

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Freedom Tower: 11 Beautiful Instagrams of NYC's Tallest Building A steel beam was secured to One World Trade Center Monday, making it officially the tallest building in New York City. The tower now stands at 1,271 feet, and users on Instagram have been sharing their view of the building from all over New York, using the hashtags #WTC1 and #FreedomTower. Once finished, the building will be 1,776 fe

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Google / PayPal Sales Exec Tyler Hoffman Joins Virtual Currency Rewards Startup ifeelgoods ifeelgoods has a brilliant idea — letting you earn Facebook Credits for ecommerce purchases or following a brand on Twitter — but now it has to convince big companies and shopping sites to adopt its tech. That’s why it’s hired former Google Managing Director of Commerce Sales and leader of PayPal’s enterpris

Facebook Timeline Changed the Way We See Brand Pages; Here's How The new format also changed the way consumers experience brands on Facebook. In a webcam eye-tracking study for Mashable by EyeTrackShop, participants spent less time looking at Wall posts and ads and more time looking at the cover photo on brands' timelines than they did on their old Facebook Walls. "The new Facebook Timeline limits

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[nggallery id=5333] For the past eight years, Mean Girls has provided us with endlessly quotable lines and introduced new words to the lexicon. (Not least of which: "that is so fetch"). The Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams film, written by Tina Fey, was released eight years ago Monday, on April 30, 2004. It grossed $86 million at the US box office, and went on to become a lasting hit that firmly s

Folding Smartphone Charger Saves Space, Prevents Damage [REVIEW] Product: The Mu Folding USB Adapter Price: £25 (approx. $40) What It's Good For: Slimline smartphone charging. Who It's Good For: Anyone who wants a compact charging solution on the go. Bottom Line: The Mu improves the traditional British plug with its innovative folding design. A Look at The Mu After its clever concept product desig

At the SF New Tech Japan Night IV event held on April 25th, 2012 at a bar in San Francisco, the web creative agency btrax introduced six Japanese Internet related startups to Silicon Valley. One of the more ambitions ones was Fenrir Inc.’s Sleipnir web browser. Yes, a Japanese startup has joined Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Opera in the browser business. They’re making a decent start of i