Holy hell, a lot of crazy, incredible things happened in 2017. Donald Trump got promoted from his role of Irrelevant […]
SnapMunk’s Top 17 Tech, Business & Startup Articles of 2017
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The 5 Tech Trends That Will Affect Us All The Most
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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 […]
How Startups Can Jump-Start Product Growth
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The tech world is constantly evolving. Ideas that were once considered brilliant have now become obsolete. Some ideas for the […]
The Sex Robot Argument: What Everyone Is Ignoring
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Yep. We’re talking about sex robots. Because, apparently that’s the moral battleground of the future, what lonely folk do while […]
Can a AI Health Chat Bot Keep Patients from Going to the Doctor?
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Show of hands: How many of you have checked your symptoms online before? For those of you who have, how […]
Carnegie Mellon Project Turns Desks Into Interactive Augmented Reality Surfaces
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Could your desk ever be anything more than a cluttered mess of stationery, gadgets, cables and sundry other objects? Apparently, […]
This Smart Ring Is Also A Credit Card, Digital House & Car Key, Transit Card, and More
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Rings have become the form factor of choice for wearables that do all kinds of cool stuff. You can find […]
MIT Invites Skynet By Teaching Robots To Teach Other Robots
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You would think that years of science fiction would have stopped this. Sure we’ve embraced Big Data in a big […]
Caltech Researchers Develop “Lensless Camera”
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One of the great things you get to observe when working here at SnapMunk is seeing how a new technology is […]
AI-Powered Job Search, Google’s New Way To Look For Jobs
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Looking for work is hard. The job market is pretty crummy right now, and looking for a career in any […]
A New Form Of Stone Paper Offers Lighter, Economic, And Better Quality
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The concept of using stone as a source material for paper is not new. Back in 1998, Taiwan Lung Men […]
New Smartphone Case Makes Hot Coffee Fresh And On The Go
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You wake up late. Half asleep, you realize you’re running behind. It’s another Monday morning, and you probably shouldn’t have […]
Awesome Alert: MIT Researchers Develop A Biosensor Tattoo
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The field of medical science is continually making jumps forward. Despite individual attempts gaining controversy, the successes show us that […]
Intelligent Camera Assistant Takes Complete Control To Give Perfect Shots
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Photography is a great hobby, but for many, it can be expensive. The cost of lenses, filters, and the cameras […]
Crowdfunded Resin SLA 3D Printer Promises Cheaper and Sharper 3D Printing
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3D printing is all the rage today. However, one of the biggest hurdles to adoption is the high cost and […]
Yet Another Smart Home Hub, Is Pedigree and Added Security Enough?
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So…there’s yet another smart home assistant announced. The real question is, why is this important? There is already a myriad of […]
Craft Beer “Infused With Music” Is Going to LA and New York
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Have you ever wondered how different craft beer would taste if music were used as an ingredient in the brewing process? […]
5 Green Startups Working To Make Our World A Better Place
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We only have one world, and every year new green startups emerge to provide new technologies and services to help […]
Ohhhh, Snap Inc! Inflated User Numbers, Low Earnings & Big Cash Leaks
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As I’ve said before, I just don’t get Snapchat. I don’t like the app, I don’t know why anyone would […]
Artificial Intelligence Companies Continue to Help Cut Down Crime
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In the FBI’s Crime in the United States, 2015 report, the intelligence and security organization revealed some startling facts about […]
Wi-Fi Signals Can Be Used to Detect and Draw the Inside of a Room As A 3D Hologram
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As if 2017 hasn’t already given us enough to be ordained The Most Stressful Year Ever. Donald Trump is president, there […]
4 Business-Killing Things You’re Telling the World With Your Painfully Slow Website
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According to one survey from earlier this year, just over seventy percent of small businesses have a website, 79% of […]
MIT Researchers Develop A Text To Braille Scanner That’s Portable And Inexpensive
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We’ve talked about devices that aid the visually impaired in the past. As with much modern innovation, many tools are […]
Innovation in Recycling: Plaxx Creates Circular Economy For Plastic
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Plastic tends to get a bad rap for various reasons, but Recycling Technologies MD Adrian Griffiths thinks we should give it […]
University Researchers Develop New Technique To Turn Anything Into A Touch Sensor
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As our technology moves forward, we see many startups introducing and combining existing technology into their take on a […]
HIV Might Be DOA Thanks to CRISPR DNA-Editing Tech
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Step aside, odor-based diagnostics. There’s a new medical breakthrough ready to take center stage, with the potential to treat or […]
Awesome Alert: Doctors Are Developing Odor Sensors To Diagnose What’s Wrong
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Did you know that every person has an “odorprint”? Very much like a fingerprint, it is a unique aspect made […]
Fly Your Drone In First-Person With FPV Goggles
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What if I told you, you can experience flying without actually flying? No, you don’t need to choose between the […]
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Successfully Launches It’s First Classified Satellite
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If you haven’t heard about the continual successes of the Falcon 9 rocket boosters and the overall success of SpaceX […]
Kickstarter To Help Creators’ New Technology And Design Projects
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It wouldn’t be too untoward to say that we talk a lot about Kickstarter projects. The crowdfunding site has featured […]
Mankind Is One Step Closer To The Real life Iron Man Suit
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There are a lot of things that we wish were real from the glorious world of Marvel Comics. I mean, […]
Starship Technologies’ Self-Driving Robot Delivers Your Beer…No, We’re Not Joking
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A robot that delivers your pizza to your doorsteps? This is close to becoming a reality in California. Forget about […]
Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Is Creating A Better, Environmentally Friendly Battery
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Professor John B. Goodenough, apart from having an ironic name, is one of the great influential inventors of the 21st […]
Amper Raises $4M for AI That Makes Anyone a Music Composer
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It takes too much talent to compose good music and too much know-how to produce it. Thankfully, the musically challenged among […]
The SnapPower SwitchLight Is A New Take On Traditional Night Lights
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It’s a product everyone wishes they had when they were kids: a light switch that turns into a night light. […]
The Nokia 3310 is Back With Brand New Features
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There are certain things in this universe we believe to be unbeatable. The gravitational pull of a black hole, the […]
The World’s First Smart Turntable is Turning Heads on Kickstarter
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If you ask any audiophile today about sound quality, they’ll almost always say digital files don’t come close to the […]
MiiXR is a New Mixing Bottle That Does the Mixing for You
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Whether you work out or not, you’ve probably seen at least one person using a mixer bottle within the past […]
SELFY’s Smartphone Case Is Also A Camera Drone And Has Doubled Its Backing Goal
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Drones are one of the hottest things in the technology world today. However, despite gaining popularity over the past few […]
Bite It, IKEA: This Bed Can Be Assembled Without Tools In Minutes (And Has USB Ports)
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Technology is slowly invading the bedroom. This time, we’re not talking about anything that vibrates, pulsates, needs to be cleaned […]
7 Innovations That Would Make Flying More Tolerable
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There seems to be a lot of attention on travel grievances these days. Having recently endured some air-transit annoyances myself, […]
JotForm Isn’t Done With the Game-Changers: JotForm 4.0 Drops This Week
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Back in 1597, a fellow named Sir Francis Bacon saddled us with a sentiment that has more than held up […]
US Lawyers Are Bringing Virtual Reality To Courtrooms To Strengthen Their Cases
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The wheels of justice aren’t known for moving quickly. When civil and criminal cases go to trial, photos and oral […]
Jiobit’s New Child Location Tracker Just Raised $4.2 Million
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Since the dawn of time, raising children has been one of the most challenging and time-intensive tasks anyone took on. […]
NASA’s New Spacesuit Looks Like It’s From The Lego Movie
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Everyone is familiar with the classic NASA launch and entry spacesuit. It’s big, its orange, and it makes astronauts look […]
A New Poker AI Is Playing Pros And Winning
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As more companies implement AI into their various devices, the practice has undergone extensive criticism over the limitations of conventional […]
4 Alarm Clock Apps That Will Charge You Money For Sleeping In
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Even with advances in technology, waking up on time is something most people aren’t capable of. If motivation from major […]
DigiLens Raised $22M To Put Augmented Reality Glass On Everything, Starting With Cars
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We recently wrote about about the future of virtual reality and where the technology was likely to progress in the upcoming […]
Beyond the iPad: Startups Are Tackling Smart Tech for Parenting
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Jaganath “CJ” Swamy had always considered himself a diligent parent, but an experience playing at Golden Gate Park with his […]
ToolBox Genomics Helps You Make Sense Of Your DNA Testing
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Genetic testing is kind of a big deal these days. Companies can analyze your DNA to tell you your ancestry, […]
What Broke-Ass Stuart Thinks Of San Fran, Tech And All These F***ing Startups
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He’s been called the “the pimp daddy of budget travel,” and “editor in cheap.” Stuart Schuffman, popularly known as Broke-Ass […]
The US Army Is Developing Biodegradable Bullets That Can Plant Trees
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In a modern warfare twist on the age-old Parable of the Sower, the United States Department of Defence (DoD) has […]
Rocketbook’s Latest Smart Notebook Just Raised Almost $2M, Their First One Hit $1.3M
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Around this time last year, we were telling you about the Rocketbook Wave, a smart notebook that allowed you to […]
How Technology Is Fucking With, And Maybe Fixing Our Democracy
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Democracy may be dead. Either that, or it’s never been better. It all depends on your perspective. No matter how […]
Awesome Alert: Meet BliTab, A Braille Tablet For The Blind
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Recently there has been a spurt in technology that makes other technology accessible to people with various disabilities. In some […]
5 Huge Things That Will Happen For Virtual Reality In 2017: Chatting With Upload Inc.
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Upload Inc. is a San Francisco-based start-up focused on accelerating the growth of the AR/VR industry–not just to bring immersive […]
Amazon AI Will Be In Fords and Volkswagens This Month, With The Help Of A Startup
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If you were one of those folks gawking at the growing trend of AI-based wireless home assistants like Amazon Alexa, while simultaneously […]
End Of An Era: Are We Witnessing the Next Big Shift in Tech Companies Dominance?
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Companies get big by innovating–Kellog’s with its cornflakes, Ford with its assembly line, Top Ramen with their dehydrated noodles. But […]
9 Of The Coolest Startup Products Of 2016
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2016 was a tough year for a lot of people and many of us are glad that it is finally over. But […]
2017, The Year Of Waiting: Making Reality of Augmented Reality & Other Big Tech
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For many of us, 2016 will be remembered as the year of Pokémon GO, and the year that Augmented Reality […]
This Startup Offers Risk-Free Betting To Win Cash-Back From Shopping Sprees
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First you take something people really enjoy: shopping. Then you combine that with more things people enjoy, like sports and […]
How Technology Has Brought Us The Best Television Ever
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Aside from cable’s growth in the 1960s and 70s, the television industry has faced very little disruption since it first […]
Can b8Ta’s Try-Before-You-Buy Gadget Stores Redefine Retail & Even Product Strategy?
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Imagine you’re living la vida loca Silicon Valley style and can effortlessly afford to own a $700 cold press juicer; […]
Leaked: Itinerary for Obama Zuckerberg Chan Summit On Technology & Opportunity at Stanford
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Mark Zuckerberg’s charitable company, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, recently partnered with the Obama Administration to host an invitation-only Summit on […]
This Self-Moving 3.2oz Record Player Lets You Play Vinyl Anywhere
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If you thought vinyl records and record players had been relegated to relevance only in episodes of Pawn Stars, you were […]
5 Smart Mirrors Worth Looking Into
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Smart mirrors are a technology in their infancy. What that means is that the products in the segment are still […]
A Voice-Controlled Wearable Enabling Movement for the Paralyzed, Brought To You By High Schoolers
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Science fair projects and teenagers seem to have become solid sources of full-fledged tech progress. Uday Parshionikar told us how his […]
AT&T’s DirecTV NOW Won’t Kill Net Neutrality, But We Can Still Worry
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At a time when investments are drying up and VCs are “hiding under the table“, many blue collar jobs are […]
The Profitability Of Paperless: Interviewing Joseph Walla, CEO of HelloSign
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If you look at Joseph Walla’s history, you’ll notice a trend of trying to solve big problems. His early experience […]
The Regular-Looking Smart Glasses That Have Raised Over $1 Million On Kickstarter
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Smart and discreet don’t seem to go together a lot in wearable product design. Take Google Glass, for example; it […]
This Smart Balaclava Warms Oxygen To Prevent Chest Infections During Winter Exercise
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Whether you’re a high-performance athlete or just an exercise enthusiast, the winter months are rough. Not just because of the […]
A Heart Monitoring App Can Detect Arrhythmia By Looking At Your Face
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When you think of heart monitoring, often images of classic stethoscopes, finger-clip-booths-at-the-mall, or expensive and bulky medical equipment come to mind. […]
Where VCs & Angel Investors Think 2017 Investment Money Will Go
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Startups and entrepreneurs may feel that finding funding is difficult these days. That’s because it is; investment dollars have not exactly […]
Apps and Gadgets Designed To Induce Lucid Dreams
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A couple weeks backs, we took a look at The Lucid Dreamer, a wearable device that relies on administering current […]
Do We Need Artificial Intelligence In Our Alarm Clocks? Apparently, Yes
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Waking up, accepting that the day has begun and then quickly getting organized to attack it isn’t always easy. The […]
Finally, A Smartwatch That’s Also A Walkie Talkie
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Originally, the Apple Watch was supposed to come with a walkie-talkie messaging option, “for a fun alternative to a phone […]
New Bike Tires That Don’t Get Flat And Don’t Need Air
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When it comes to cycling, whether you have a high-end ride or cheap beater, bike tires are most often the […]
This 24-Inch Pop-Up Screen Collapses To The Size Of A Book And It’s Crushing On Kickstarter
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Whether it’s for work productivity of spontaneous entertainment, there are plenty of scenarios in which a second (or third) larger […]
Bright Future for Search: Find Anything Everywhere from Anywhere With Natural Language
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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.
An App Designed To Save Your Kids From Smartphone Addiction
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We live in an era where most people have become dependent on technology. We can’t help but to take out […]
Kathie Lee Gifford Interviews Microsoft AI
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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
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Season 4 of Silicon Valley is still months away, and the return of Game of Thrones is even farther off. […]
Finally Someone Patented A 100 Passenger Plane With Helicopter Take-Off
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File this one under, “It’s about bloody time” (and then file that comment under “As if we just criticized a […]
Xerox Made Technology To Catch HOV Lane Cheaters
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As traffic continues to worsen across the globe, many municipalities are turning to high occupancy vehicle and high occupancy toll […]
BMW Says Motorcycle Helmets Will Be “Superfluous” With Their Future Safety Technology
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Last week, BMW unveiled its latest concept at the BMW Group Future Experience event in Los Angeles. It was a […]
Tesla Will Now Build All Their Cars To Be Self-Driving Cars
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Well this might change everything forever (leave it to an eccentric engineer worth $11.7 billion to make that sort of […]
Toyota Is Making Robot Companions; Should We Bring Back Tamagotchi?
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Remember the days of the Tamagotchi, where children were introduced to companionship and parenting in the form of a handheld digital gadget? Now, […]
Jopwell Helps Minorities Land Tech Jobs, And Magic Johnson Loves Them
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It’s an established fact that the tech industry has a significant diversity problem. In 2014, the combined US workforces of […]
A Smart Digital Photo Frame That Automatically Picks Your Best Pics & Recognizes People
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Taking photos with our phones has become an almost reflex response to seeing something cool. While some of us have mastered […]
Will The Dr. Oz-Backed Life-Saving Smartwatch Survive Indiegogo?
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There are plenty of fitness wearables on the market today, however not too many are able to say they can […]
Should We Have a Universal Basic Income? Ask a Trucker in Ten Years
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It has been called many things; universal basic income, guaranteed minimum income, guaranteed basic income, etc. It all means the […]
The New GoPro Hero 5 4K Water-Resistant Cameras Are Worth A Look
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After nearly two years since announcing the Hero 4, GoPro has just launched the GoPro Hero 5 Black and the (smaller) GoPro […]
ZTE Tried Crowdsourcing Smartphone Features, And It’s Working
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It appears to be a time for courageous decisions in the world of consumer electronics. Apple led the charge by […]
Jumpcut Academy Produces Online Courses To Feel Like Binge-Worthy TV
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Some educators do their darndest to make learning fun (some just keep it boring), but is it possible to make […]
The Fall Of Lucy the Hominid & Anthony Weiner The Schmuck: The Humbling Irony of Tech
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This past week was a testament to both human genius and human frailty. In a single news cycle, we got compelling evidence […]
This Robotic Smart Suitcase Rolls Along Next To You Autonomously
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Meet the 1st generation of the smart suitcase, featuring CowaRobot R1, programmed to follow you like a dog on a leash, but without the leash. The robotic carry-on bag is more than just luggage; its smart design makes packing and security checkpoints easier, and it can be used to charge your electronic devices.
Tesla Autopilot Drove Man With Medical Emergency To Hospital, So It Can Save Lives Too
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The Tesla autopilot function may have been called into question due to two high-profile summer accidents but, here’s one story about a self-driving vehicle saving a life.
Five 360 Cameras That Cost Under $500
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Affordable 360 cameras are finally flooding the market, paving the way for more immersive storytelling. We profile five — and one bonus $60 camera. Which one would you buy?
The Third World is the Last Stop for Twenty-First Century Tech Profits
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From bulldozing poor neighborhoods, to fires at the unfinished Olympic Village dorms, to robberies during fire evacuations and robberies while […]
Double Dog Dare App Lets You Win Real Money By Completing Dares
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There’s something about hearing the words “I dare you” that brings out the fight in a lot of us. Now there’s […]
