Now you can get the Windows next-word predicting keyboard on your iPhone. Check out Word Flow in this video!
Disney launches Marvel Battlegrounds, a new four-player superhero fighting game built on top of their Disney Infinity platform. TechCrunch got an early peek… and things got intense.
Watch us beat the heck out of each other in Marvel Battlegrounds here.
NASA announced that it will send its next lander to Mars, known as the InSight Mars lander, in May of 2018. InSight, which stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, is an international mission designed to help us understand how rocky planets, like Mars and the Earth, formed and evolved.
Find out more about why this mission got delayed here.
Technology destroying jobs is something most Americans accept will happen within their lifetimes, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, just not to their own jobs — which most believe won’t change significantly in the next 50 years.
“Drones are hard to use but they have potential, so we want to remove cost and friction from commercial use of drones,” says Airmada CEO Dan Danay, the ex-Israeli Naval Officer and Sloan School of Business grad. The solution is to use small drones to deliver small things at a fraction of the cost and let the launch boats continue to deliver larger items.
A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible security breach. Spotify says that it “has not been hacked” and its “user records are secure.”
According to many of the users we spoke to so far, this issue occurred last week.
University of Florida held the world’s first brain-controlled drone race. While the drones didn’t exactly zoom by, 16 pilots used their brainwaves to fly drones down a 10-yard indoor course.
We looked at the top 100 venture firms globally to study women in venture capital and their impact on female founders. We found that 7% of partners at top 100 venture firms are women. Between 2010 and 2015, 10 percent of venture dollars globally, a total of $31.5 billion, funded startups that reported at least one female founder.
Read the comprehensive study here and reblog if you know a female founder!
LeEco wheels out its own self-driving electric concept car. CEO Jia Yueting hailed it on his phone using voice recognition, a nod to the company’s plan to market the LeSEE as a sort of futuristic, autonomous taxi.
The company announced a top speed of 130 MPH, an exterior display on the front of the car, a foldaway steering wheel, back-of-seat displays and isolated music playback.
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