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According to recent surveys, more Americans are using technology than ever before. This growth in technology has changed the way we…
Anyone who follows Gary Vaynerchuk online knows that he’s a zealous proponent of voice technology–both audio content like podcasts as…
Show of hands: How many of you have checked your symptoms online before? For those of you who have, how…
In the FBI’s Crime in the United States, 2015 report, the intelligence and security organization revealed some startling facts about…
Despite its efforts, Facebook’s become the subject of recent controversy. For those that are otherwise unaware, since the release of…
What do you do while waiting for a reply to a chat message or your phone to connect to the…
A while back, Mark Zuckerberg showed off Jarvis, an AI personal assistant he had built to help around the home–his…
As more companies implement AI into their various devices, the practice has undergone extensive criticism over the limitations of conventional…
First you take something people really enjoy: shopping. Then you combine that with more things people enjoy, like sports and…
“Ron didn’t even upset her little ingredients on the toilet, and a group of third-year girls last year. Highly bushy and then burst…
After the revelations made in Episode 7 last week, it was clear that we were heading into the home stretch…
Steven Spielberg and Scarlett Johansson are teaming up to create a live-action version of The Ghost in the Shell, a…
Startups and entrepreneurs may feel that finding funding is difficult these days. That’s because it is; investment dollars have not exactly…
Waking up, accepting that the day has begun and then quickly getting organized to attack it isn’t always easy. The…
Internet search has seen some great innovation. Local search of personal assets though? Still painful. Hopefully Findo represents the future with it’s artificial intelligence-based cross-platform search of all your files, emails, and more.
At last September’s Ignite, Microsoft’s annual technology conference, CEO Satya Nadella outlined his vision for deep learning and artificial intelligence.…
Season 4 of Silicon Valley is still months away, and the return of Game of Thrones is even farther off.…
If you’ve ever seen the movie Harry Potter, then you’re probably familiar with Wizard’s Chess; the game where the pieces…
Artificial intelligence is earning itself a seat in just about every faculty; it’s in mental health, it’s in productivity and office…
– Julian Assange; Google Deepmind; Fusion Plasma and facial recognition databases. That’s just a few of this week’s tech stories,…
Welcome to WTF, the new weekly tech news web series from SnapMunk. Join Eric & Devin as they take you through this week’s biggest stories.
As traffic continues to worsen across the globe, many municipalities are turning to high occupancy vehicle and high occupancy toll…
Remember the days of the Tamagotchi, where children were introduced to companionship and parenting in the form of a handheld digital gadget? Now,…
Spotify and Apple Music certainly have a strong position in the streaming music market—they have collected around 30 million and…
Artificial intelligence is pretty versatile. Many of us are already familiar with how the technology can be used to identify objects…
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
Everyone who has children knows how important it is to record things like first steps, first words, and first musical performances.…
You focus on the call. A new personal assistant system with artificial intelligence, Clarke.ai, will focus on taking the call notes. It turns out there actually is an AI in “team.”
If you haven’t been following tech news, you might have missed the fact that artificial intelligence has been insinuating itself into…
This past week was a testament to both human genius and human frailty. In a single news cycle, we got compelling evidence…
“My dream is to really create a small business revolution by empowering ordinary people to set up and run profitable…
Olympic athletes, coaches and brands, have a long history of generating new, exciting technology. For instance, the first Nike running shoes…
Artificial Intelligence has unique applications for treating social anxiety, but it isn’t the same AI you’re used to seeing in movies. In fact, in the new app AI-Therapy, it meets the definition but not the spirit. We’re hoping someone can take our idea for a simulated social anxiety app and build it instead.
Reaching a crowdfunding goal isn’t always easy, but there are some campaigns that do make their goals, and then some. Today…
Last year, the worldwide management consulting firm McKinsey & Company issued preliminary findings on automation across all industries and most…
It turns out you don’t need a firearm and a mean mug to protect your turf. Robert Bond, a Systems…
The startup what3words wants to change the world by changing one of its most established naming conventions: the address system. Rather than rely on house numbers, street names and zipcodes, the app provides a three-word “name” for every location on the planet and helps you navigate to it using a traditional map app and a compass. It addresses holes in the U.S.’s address system, but, perhaps more importantly, it can work really well in developing nations.
In 2015, an artificial intelligence program called, ROSS was created to perform legal research for overburdened law firms. ROSS was first…
Back in the days of legacy instant messengers (AOL, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger) chatbots used to be great sounding boards…
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
It used to be that the term ‘artificial intelligence’ evoked images of anthropomorphic robots. The field of study has helped…
Digital assistants can help make your daily routine easier by providing traffic updates, package tracking, event notifications, answers to your questions, and more. Here are 5 virtual assistant apps that break the mold.
From the Hackathon and its winning tool – a CMS with voice recognition – to the Battlefield and its winning startup – Beam and its SDK to integrate with Twitch – to the most interesting keynotes, here are all the highlights from 2016’s TechCrunch Disrupt in New York.
She waited, breathless, her hands gripping the wheel in a desperate caress. Finally, her smartphone’s navigation system spoke. “Continue for…
Last night was the 2016 Met Gala. For those of you who don’t know, the Met Gala is a fundraising…
Email has come a long way since its humble beginnings, but not all the modifications made to it along the…
Here’s everything you need to know about what happened and what was announced by Mark Zuckerberg at the Facebook F8 Conference 2016. There’s some exciting new tech here from virtual reality to artificial intelligence to new internet connectivity hardware.
Hitachi has revealed the EMIEW3, a robot designed to recognize when people need assistance and then automate customer service. With good mobility and inter-connected machine learning, the goal is that the EMIEW3 will work in many industries and environments, from hospitals, to airports, to shopping centers.
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
Life would be so much easier with a virtual assistant, and Siri just doesn’t do it for me. Prompt does, however, thanks to its artificial intelligence that integrates with key services like Wikipedia, Slack, HipChat, texting, search, and more.
Ulli, a mobile web browser from startup tech company Biggerpan, will use artificial intelligence to provide smart “searching” that doesn’t actually require search at all. The self-proclaimed “first intelligent browser” is in closed beta, but stands to create a new kind of AI at the intersection of vertical and horizontal services.
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep…
According to a fact sheet released by the World Health Organization in 2014, 285 million people in the world are…
On August 4, 2016, in response to shareholders’ demands for profitability and recovered growth, Twitter installs new AI software on…
The Walt Disney Co. was a major media and entertainment innovator from its start, and it has successfully retained that…
I’m not sure exactly why I hate scheduling meetings as much as I do, but they are, and have always…
There are loads of mind-blowing advancements being made in robotics and artificial intelligence, and they’re bringing us a whole lot…
When it comes to producing a short video, finding the appropriate music is one of the most frustrating parts. You…
Wouldn’t it be great if when you wanted to purchase something, on any given website, you could click Buy Now…
Science fiction doesn’t give us answers so much as it asks us questions. What if androids developed self-awareness? What if…
For years we’ve dreamed of having robots in our lives. The Jetsons had Rosie the Robot to wait on them…
The autonomous car movement has its origins in the need to make roads safer by freeing them of a common…
I’d hate to do it (not really), but I have a bubble to burst. That autonomous car thing? Not the…
A look at five technologies and their possible ramifications in the near-future. The technology discussed includes virtual reality like the Oculus Rift, Android Robots like ASIMO, 3D Printing, Self-Driving Cars like those developed by Google, and Killer AI.
Coordinating schedules for groups has always been challenging. With so many meetings to attend, the calendar can fill up rather…
The stage has been set and the ultimate battle for superiority is heading our way like a freight train. In…
Top startup accelerator, 500 Startups, recently unveiled its latest batch of startups in Silicon Valley. Batch 14 consists of 34…
We’ve seen many stories this year about how artificial intelligence systems are being developed for applications that benefit society, like…
When The Grid first unveiled its grand vision of creating “websites that design themselves”, it caused quite a stir. Some…
When procedural programming languages gave way to object-oriented programming languages, there was an uproar in the technological realm. Fear of change is natural though. After all, why fix it if it ain’t broke? However, it didn’t take long for the skeptics of OOP to come around as they no longer had to…
As the 2015 Comic-Con in San Diego, CA draws to a close, the SnapMunk team thought it would be fun…
AMC’s New Hit Show, Humans is the latest in the line of Sci-Fi programming, a genre that has seen a…
From Skully Helmets raising an $11 millions Series A round for smart technology motorcycle helmets to InMoji raising $1 million…