It’s a plot that’s familiar to both authors and startup founders; the small band of passionate outsiders take on giants […]
The 5 Tech Trends That Will Affect Us All The Most
According to recent surveys, more Americans are using technology than ever before. This growth in technology has changed the way we […]
Curio Curates Journalism As Professionally Narrated Audio for $8 with Machine Learning
Anyone who follows Gary Vaynerchuk online knows that he’s a zealous proponent of voice technology–both audio content like podcasts as […]
Can a AI Health Chat Bot Keep Patients from Going to the Doctor?
Show of hands: How many of you have checked your symptoms online before? For those of you who have, how […]
Artificial Intelligence Companies Continue to Help Cut Down Crime
In the FBI’s Crime in the United States, 2015 report, the intelligence and security organization revealed some startling facts about […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s Solution To The Facebook Live Suicides? Hire More People
Despite its efforts, Facebook’s become the subject of recent controversy. For those that are otherwise unaware, since the release of […]
Learn A New Language While Waiting for the Elevator With MIT’s New App
What do you do while waiting for a reply to a chat message or your phone to connect to the […]
Duo, An AI-Powered, Voice-Commanded Mirror-Computer
A while back, Mark Zuckerberg showed off Jarvis, an AI personal assistant he had built to help around the home–his […]
A New Poker AI Is Playing Pros And Winning
As more companies implement AI into their various devices, the practice has undergone extensive criticism over the limitations of conventional […]
This Startup Offers Risk-Free Betting To Win Cash-Back From Shopping Sprees
First you take something people really enjoy: shopping. Then you combine that with more things people enjoy, like sports and […]
Harry Potter Books Written By Artificial Intelligence Are Terrible, But They’re Important
“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 […]
Westworld Episode 8 Recap: Trace Decay
After the revelations made in Episode 7 last week, it was clear that we were heading into the home stretch […]
Ghost In The Shell: Philosophy Far Beyond The Matrix
Steven Spielberg and Scarlett Johansson are teaming up to create a live-action version of The Ghost in the Shell, a […]
Where VCs & Angel Investors Think 2017 Investment Money Will Go
Startups and entrepreneurs may feel that finding funding is difficult these days. That’s because it is; investment dollars have not exactly […]
Do We Need Artificial Intelligence In Our Alarm Clocks? Apparently, Yes
Waking up, accepting that the day has begun and then quickly getting organized to attack it isn’t always easy. The […]
Bright Future for Search: Find Anything Everywhere from Anywhere With Natural Language
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.
Kathie Lee Gifford Interviews Microsoft AI
At last September’s Ignite, Microsoft’s annual technology conference, CEO Satya Nadella outlined his vision for deep learning and artificial intelligence. […]
Westworld: What You Should Know Now That Addiction Is Inevitable
Season 4 of Silicon Valley is still months away, and the return of Game of Thrones is even farther off. […]
This Chessboard Moves Pieces On Its Own So You Can Play Anybody In The World Or Nobody
If you’ve ever seen the movie Harry Potter, then you’re probably familiar with Wizard’s Chess; the game where the pieces […]
Here’s The Song IBM Watson Helped Write For Grammy-Winning Producer Alex Da Kid
Artificial intelligence is earning itself a seat in just about every faculty; it’s in mental health, it’s in productivity and office […]
SnapMunk Weekly Tech Feed October 21, 2016 Transcript
– Julian Assange; Google Deepmind; Fusion Plasma and facial recognition databases. That’s just a few of this week’s tech stories, […]
SnapMunk WTF: Julian Assange, DeepMind AI, Fusion Reactors, Face Recognition
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.
Xerox Made Technology To Catch HOV Lane Cheaters
As traffic continues to worsen across the globe, many municipalities are turning to high occupancy vehicle and high occupancy toll […]
Toyota Is Making Robot Companions; Should We Bring Back Tamagotchi?
Remember the days of the Tamagotchi, where children were introduced to companionship and parenting in the form of a handheld digital gadget? Now, […]
Amazon Music Unlimited Has Launched for $3.99, Focused On Home Listening & Voice Commands
Spotify and Apple Music certainly have a strong position in the streaming music market—they have collected around 30 million and […]
Amazon Will Give $2.5 Million Prize Money For AI That Holds The Best Natural Conversation
Artificial intelligence is pretty versatile. Many of us are already familiar with how the technology can be used to identify objects […]
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know Sep 24-30
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
You Can Now Listen to The First Ever Electronic Music, Invented by Alan Turing in 1951
Everyone who has children knows how important it is to record things like first steps, first words, and first musical performances. […]
Meet Clarke.ai, The AI That Automatically Takes Call Notes For You
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.”
Can Artificial Intelligence Outsmart The Racist, Shallow World That Feeds It?
If you haven’t been following tech news, you might have missed the fact that artificial intelligence has been insinuating itself into […]
The Fall Of Lucy the Hominid & Anthony Weiner The Schmuck: The Humbling Irony of Tech
This past week was a testament to both human genius and human frailty. In a single news cycle, we got compelling evidence […]
Website Builders Using Artificial Intelligence Could Be Big For Small Business
“My dream is to really create a small business revolution by empowering ordinary people to set up and run profitable […]
Our Favorite Tech From the 2016 Rio Olympics: The Cool, The Clever & The Ridiculous
Olympic athletes, coaches and brands, have a long history of generating new, exciting technology. For instance, the first Nike running shoes […]
Artificial Intelligence Could Cure Social Anxiety, If It’s Used Properly
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.
Lifebeam Vi Wraps Kickstarter As The Most Well-Funded Fitness Wearable Ever
Reaching a crowdfunding goal isn’t always easy, but there are some campaigns that do make their goals, and then some. Today […]
The Road To Robot Takeover: A Report On the Future of Automation
Last year, the worldwide management consulting firm McKinsey & Company issued preliminary findings on automation across all industries and most […]
Engineer Builds AI-Powered Sprinkler System to Keep Cats Off His Lawn
It turns out you don’t need a firearm and a mean mug to protect your turf. Robert Bond, a Systems […]
what3words Wants To Overhaul The Address System With Random Word Combinations
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.
AI Justice PHOEBE: The Future Of The Legal System
In 2015, an artificial intelligence program called, ROSS was created to perform legal research for overburdened law firms. ROSS was first […]
6 Chatbots To Check Out When You’ve Got Some Time To Kill
Back in the days of legacy instant messengers (AOL, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger) chatbots used to be great sounding boards […]
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know May 30 – June 3
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
Artificial Intelligence Will Now Be Doing Legal Research for Law Firms
It used to be that the term ‘artificial intelligence’ evoked images of anthropomorphic robots. The field of study has helped […]
5 Digital Assistant Apps To Simplify Your Daily Routine
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.
TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2016: The Highlights
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.
Google Is Using Trashy Romance Novels To Learn Natural Language, And It’s Working
She waited, breathless, her hands gripping the wheel in a desperate caress. Finally, her smartphone’s navigation system spoke. “Continue for […]
The Tuxedo Will.i.am Wore to The Met Gala Was an AI-Powered Wearable
Last night was the 2016 Met Gala. For those of you who don’t know, the Met Gala is a fundraising […]
FoxType Machine Learning Helps You Write More Polite Emails
Email has come a long way since its humble beginnings, but not all the modifications made to it along the […]
Facebook F8 Conference 2016: Virtual Reality, Virtual Selfie Sticks, Gigabit Speeds, Messenger and More
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.
EMIEW3 Robot Could Be the Future of Customer Service
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.
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know April 4-8
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know Mar 21-25
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
Prompt Could Be the Virtual Assistant We Actually Need
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, The First AI Powered Mobile Browser
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.
Weekly Snapshot: Tech News To Know Mar 7 – 11
Believe it or not, we don’t cover every piece of tech news here at SnapMunk. In an effort to keep […]
Aipoly Uses Artificial Intelligence to Help People See
According to a fact sheet released by the World Health Organization in 2014, 285 million people in the world are […]
The Day Twitter Came Alive Before It Died
On August 4, 2016, in response to shareholders’ demands for profitability and recovered growth, Twitter installs new AI software on […]
When You Wish Upon a Startup: Disney Accelerator Opens Applications for Third Summer Program
The Walt Disney Co. was a major media and entertainment innovator from its start, and it has successfully retained that […]
Democratizing the Personal Assistant with Artificial Intelligence
I’m not sure exactly why I hate scheduling meetings as much as I do, but they are, and have always […]
Why, Robot: Do Android Companions Really Have a Future?
There are loads of mind-blowing advancements being made in robotics and artificial intelligence, and they’re bringing us a whole lot […]
Jukedeck Wants To Replace Song Writers and Composers With AI
When it comes to producing a short video, finding the appropriate music is one of the most frustrating parts. You […]
ShopCo Has a One-Click Buy Button for Online Shopping, Anywhere
Wouldn’t it be great if when you wanted to purchase something, on any given website, you could click Buy Now […]
Digital Immortality and the End of Consumption-Based Capitalism
Science fiction doesn’t give us answers so much as it asks us questions. What if androids developed self-awareness? What if […]
Jibo Is the Social Robot Companion That Has Raised over $40 Million
For years we’ve dreamed of having robots in our lives. The Jetsons had Rosie the Robot to wait on them […]
Google Now Has to Make Its Autonomous Cars More Like Us; Dumber & More Dangerous
The autonomous car movement has its origins in the need to make roads safer by freeing them of a common […]
Toyota’s Car of the Near Future Is Intelligent, Not Autonomous
I’d hate to do it (not really), but I have a bubble to burst. That autonomous car thing? Not the […]
These 5 Technologies Will Change the World
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.
Meet Kono’s AI Scheduling App
Coordinating schedules for groups has always been challenging. With so many meetings to attend, the calendar can fill up rather […]
AI vs Genetic Enhancement
The stage has been set and the ultimate battle for superiority is heading our way like a freight train. In […]
500 Startups – Batch 14 Announced
Top startup accelerator, 500 Startups, recently unveiled its latest batch of startups in Silicon Valley. Batch 14 consists of 34 […]
The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence
We’ve seen many stories this year about how artificial intelligence systems are being developed for applications that benefit society, like […]
The Grid: Website Powered By AI
When The Grid first unveiled its grand vision of creating “websites that design themselves”, it caused quite a stir. Some […]
Will Machine Learning End Coding?
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…
What If? Tony Stark’s JARVIS
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
AMC’s New Hit Show, Humans is the latest in the line of Sci-Fi programming, a genre that has seen a […]
Startup Funding Roundup – 2/27/15
From Skully Helmets raising an $11 millions Series A round for smart technology motorcycle helmets to InMoji raising $1 million […]
