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Why Google Is Investing In Deep Learning
Google's acquisition of DeepMind Technologies last month was a huge deal. By snatching up the artificial intelligence company, Google signified a growing interest in deep learning. But what does this...
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9 Reasons Being A Startup Founder Doesn't Suck
Over the last few years I've read a number of articles about why being a company founder sucks. While I can empathize, I think we need more public dialogue about why being a founder is worth it, not...
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The Fall Of Perl, The Web's Most Promising Language
I first heard of Perl when I was in middle school in the early 2000s. It was one of the world's most versatile programming languages, dubbed the Swiss army knife of the Internet. But compared to its...
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This Video Game Knows When You're Scared--And Gets Scarier
In the future, horror games will know when you're scared. And then they'll get scarier. Proof: the currently-in-development horror-adventure game Nevermind, which just launched a Kickstarter campaign...
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How The Founder Of WeTransfer Went From Blog To Startup
If one were to compare the Dutch tech entrepreneur Nalden (yes--he goes by just one name) to anyone in the States, it would probably be a hybrid of the serial entrepreneur Sean Parker and Jason Kottke,...
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Why "This Is My Jam" Stopped Overthinking Music Discovery
The question will likely be timeless: How do you discover new music? Some companies have bet on human editors, while others put their weight behind clever algorithms. One company thinks the solution is...
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The NBA's Development League Straps A Sensor Disc To Every Player
Your favorite basketball player is about to get one step closer to being a cyborg.The NBA's Development League (D-League) will soon begin experimenting with wearable technology on the court, the league...
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This Firefighter Built His Own Google Glass App And It's Saving Lives
Some of the veterans in the Rocky Mount, North Carolina fire department think he's crazy, but that's not stopping Patrick Jackson. The self-taught computer programmer and full-time firefighter isn't...
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How This Startup Designed A Printable Bluetooth Keyboard
The next time you need a new keyboard, you may be able to use one printed on paper. Novalia, a U.K.-based startup, recently announced a super-thin, Bluetooth-enabled keyboard that can be printed on...
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The Five Secrets To Running A Totally Distributed Company
Steven Schuurman is the CEO of Elasticsearch, which provides real-time search and analytics tools to developers based on the Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana open source projects. It was a...
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10 Steps To Pulling Off A Killer Hardware Hackathon
As anyone who has organized one will tell you, organizing hardware hackathons is notoriously hard to get right. In many ways hardware hackathons are more "advanced" from an organizational standpoint...
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Hacking House Plants To Make Music When They're Touched
All of our gadgets are glass, metal, and plastic. Wouldn't it be nicer to interact with a computing device that was alive and real?After watching this video we went to see a talk by Ivan Poupyrev,...
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Can These Consumer Apps Crack The Education Space?
Google Apps. Evernote. Dropbox. YouTube. You know them as technology products, but to millions of students and teachers they are platforms at the core of learning. A growing number of consumer-facing...
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Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
When Gabriel Weinberg launched a search engine in 2008, plenty of people thought he was insane. How could DuckDuckGo, a tiny, Philadelphia-based startup, go up against Google? One way, he wagered, was...
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Inside The Swedish Gaming Mafia That Produced Minecraft And Candy Crush Saga
Two of the world's most successful games--Candy Crush Saga (by King Games) and Minecraft (by Mojang)--were created in Stockholm by two very different companies. King Games just filed for an IPO which...
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Should You Major In Video Game Design?
Consumers spend over $20 billion on video games, so budding programmers are eager to dive into the field. Meanwhile, universities across the country, who offer degrees in video game design, are just as...
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The Search For Talented Writers In The Prison System Is Changing It, Too
Jack London, Ken Kesey, William Burroughs, Oscar Wilde, Malcolm X, Voltaire, Cervantes, E.E. Cummings, Martin Luther King, Mark Twain--all literary legends who spent time behind bars. Some only a few...
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Inside Erlang, The Rare Programming Language Behind WhatsApp's Success
How do you support 450 million users with only 32 engineers? For WhatsApp, acquired earlier this week by Facebook, the answer is Erlang, a programming language developed in the '80s that is finally...
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The British Are Streaming . . . For Free! So Why Isn't NBC?
In the U.S., NBC has a death grip on Olympics coverage, aggressively keeping clips off YouTube and monetizing its broadcast at every possible turn. But the BBC tells a much different story. This...
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An Open Source Library For Turning Journalism Into Podcasts
When Texas Senator Wendy Davis gave her 13-hour filibuster against an anti-abortion law last summer, journalists filled the web with a heap of multimedia: videos, tweets, GIFs, and Internet memes that...
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