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Developer
reVIVE wins the Disrupt NY 2017 Hackathon Grand Prize
It’s been a long night at Pier 36, the site of the Disrupt NY Hackathon. Around 750 engineers and designers got together to come up with something cool… Read More
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Robotics
This robot helps kids with special needs to communicate
At the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York today, a team of sophomores from Rutgers University introduced a social robot, named Robota, to help teachers in… Read More
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Apps
Cradle is an app that makes it easier for you to find and donate to charities
Is your money burning a hole in your pocket, and you’d like to use some of it for good causes, but you don’t know where to begin? A new app called… Read More
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Apps
Confidant is an early alert system to help find missing people
Technology such as Facebook’s Safety Check has massively helped with the challenge of identifying and finding people when they go missing, but it is… Read More
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Education
Epigrammar uses student annotations to improve classroom discussions, tests and comprehension
Classroom collaboration software exists, but Epigrammar thinks its approach better tackles the issue of student grammar, test creation and comprehension. Read More
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Developer
CityConnect shows you how climate change will impact your own home
We’ve all seen the maps that show Florida being consumed by rising sea levels. But many of us still underestimate the impact of climate change because we… Read More
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Gadgets
EEG hardware hack uses blink detection and predictive text for hands-free typing
Hardware is hard at the best of times. But software developer Patrick Morris-Suzuki set himself the ambitious challenge of creating a blink-detecting system for… Read More
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Artificial Intelligence
Building a smarter Hacker News
With only 24 hours to build an app, it’s never easy to come up with a viable idea, nevermind build one that involves training a machine learning… Read More
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Startups
‘Elderly Alexa’ helps families care for their remote loved ones via voice
Last night on Saturday Night Live, a spoof advertisement for an “Alexa Silver” poked gentle fun at how an Alexa speaker could be used with the… Read More
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Apps
WEDJ lets bars and clubs create in-person social playlists in real time
WEDJ (that’s “We DJ,” not “Wedge,” for the record) is a collaborative music-playlist-building app that sprung out of this… Read More
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