The Google Play Store will not require you to have a Google+ account to write reviews anymore.
In an email to TechCrunch, Google confirmed the news that “a G+ profile is no longer needed to post a review.” Rumors that the change was happening were first reported by Android Police, which quoted several tips from its readers.
As of today, the roll out appears to be continuing. Read More
This week, reports hinted at what could be the most impactful MacBook Pro update in years, Walmart leveled up in the ecommerce space with its $3 billion purchase of Jet.com, and the Facebook adblocking war raged on. These are the top stories of the week. Want to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox? Sign up here. 1. Get ready for the biggest MacBook Pro update yet. According to… Read More
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a super low-power camera designed to never shut off. The system was designed specifically as a method for waking up devices, never turning off, while running off of ambient power. In order to do so, the camera had to be capable of detecting specific patterns, rather than just waking up any time if noticed motion. The camera, which… Read More
Microsoft Flow, the company’s workflow management tool, has now arrived on Android. The app, a competitor of sorts of IFTTT and Zapier, offers an interface where you can mash up two or more services in order to create workflows – like getting a text when you receive an important email, or copying images from Instagram to Dropbox, saving a Twitter search to an Excel file, among… Read More
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.
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With an incredibly important national election coming up, it’s more critical than ever that everyone who can vote does — and is able to. Election tech firm Free and Fair is hoping to help avoid overflowing voting locations with a simple, open source device that automatically monitors waiting times and keeps voters and officials informed. Read More
The Olympics are a testament to the human spirit, physical greatness, nation pride and, of course, swag. So, so much swag. Because let’s be real, if you train your entire life for a once-every-four-years event, you’d damn well better get a nice goodie bag. Samsung certainly did its part at this year’s games. As the Official Smartphone Partner for the Summer Olympics, the… Read More
What happens when you mix sound bites from French artists and politicians with eclectic music ranging from electro swing, nu-disco, remixes of classical French hits, lounge music and more? You get more than ten million plays on SoundCloud, play your music on a yacht near the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy and become a popular music brand in France. Read More
Your next tattoo could be functional as well as aesthetic. A new MIT Media Lab product called DuoSkin created in partnership with Microsoft Research turns temporary tattoos into connected interfaces, letting them act as input for smartphones or computers, display output based on changes in body temperature and transmit data to other devices via NFC. Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, PhD Student at the MIT… Read More
On the heels of a recent White House initiative announced after its first “Workshop on Drones and The Future of Aviation,” San Francisco based robotics startup Zipline will test drone delivery of medical supplies to remote U.S. communities. Read More
Pay attention, would-be Disrupt SF 2016 attendees. You’ve procrastinated long enough. Today is the final day to save $1,000 on tickets to Disrupt SF 2016. So if you’re planning to check out the best startup show in the Bay Area and make your wallet a little happier in the process, you should drop what you’re doing right now and get on over to our ticketing page and buy… Read More
Quick! What’s your gym locker combination? Your girlfriend’s favorite Starbucks order? The type of ink your printer uses? Can’t remember? Gotta look it up? There’s a lot of information that we can’t access via a Google search, but instead tend to make a mental note of in order to recall. Sometimes, we might jot these things down in Notepad, but often we forget to… Read More
Minecraft in virtual reality: It’s a dream for fans of the immersive crafting and world building sim, and it’s going to be a reality for Oculus Rift owners starting next week.
The VR version of the popular Microsoft-owned game was tipped for launch in “the next few weeks” on Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta late last month, and was supposed to arrive with the 0.15.6… Read More
Happy birthday, you old rascal, you. Thirty-five years ago today you came into world with a compact design and a $1,565 price tag, at time when IBM’s entry-level “microcomputer” run $90,000 and looked more like a washer and dryer set.
Of course, not everyone was excited about you. As the company notes in its own online history, one of the company’s senior execs asked… Read More
Not many startups have spent a decade fine-tuning their tech platform prior to launch. But not many startups are trying to radically rethink the structure of the Internet… Read More
We’ve already written extensively about “Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World“, the new Werner Herzog documentary/tone poem on the Internet. The new feature is less an exhaustive review of the history of the technology that has transformed modern society, then a sort of meditative look at its past, present and future. It’s an excellent work on a subject… Read More
Artificial intelligence originally aspired to replace doctors. Researchers imagined robots that could ask you questions, run the answers through an algorithm that would learn with experience and tell whether you had the flu or a cold. However, those promises largely failed, as artificial intelligent algorithms were too rudimentary to perform those functions. Read More
After twelve months, eight patients and 2,052 sessions spread over 1,958 hours, Duke University is publishing some promising results from a study seeking to demonstrate the ability for brain-machine interfaces to help restore mobility in humans. The study, which appeared this week in Scientific Reports, looked at a group of paraplegic patients suffering from a chronic spinal cord injury.… Read More
David Sacks has pulled off a number of impressive feats during his career. Part of the early team at PayPal, where he was COO for several years, Sacks went on to create a couple of other software companies, including the family history site Geni, which was snapped up for undisclosed terms by rival MyHeritage in 2012, and the workplace chat service Yammer, scooped up by Microsoft for $1.2… Read More
Everyone loves a good plant in their home, but few have the time and dedication to keep it healthy over the course of the year. Changing temperatures and humidity levels paired with vacations or business trips can limit the variety of plant-life that most people can sustain in their homes. That’s where the Grow Box comes in. Developed by former Apple engineer Andrew Pletenetskyy, the… Read More
