Some of the most beautiful products are the simplest. Take Radio.Garden, for example. This project by Golo Föllmer at Martin-Luther University Halle displays a photorealistic globe full of green dots. Swing your mouse over one of the dots – in Iran, Estonia, or the Faroe Islands – and you can …

If you live in San Francisco and know much about tech startups, you’ve likely heard of Founders Den, a shared office space and private club for startups and investors that leases 8,500 square feet on a nondescript block in San Francisco. Founders Den accommodates between 12 and 15 startups at a …

There are a plethora of companies in the “media monitoring” space, such as Cision, Factiva and Meltwater, but London-based Signal Media reckons that it can give them all a run for their money.By employing AI, the company claims to be able to offer more certainty that a news source can …

A few months ago I decided I wanted to start an email newsletter where I’d share links to everything I’ve written each week, reports from events I’d attended or had spoken at and other commentary and thoughts. However, when I researched the current state of email newsletter tools I found …

Say you’re just a small-town girl living in a lonely world and you took the midnight train going anywhere. How would you reconnect to your Raspberry Pi while on the road? You would go into a smoky room, fire up your laptop and try Dataplicity. Dataplicity is essentially a VPN …

Doppler Labs, makers of the Here One live audio tuning system, are today announcing a new campaign in conjunction with Global Citizen to build awareness around hearing health. Today, more than 1 billion young adults are at risk of losing their hearing, according to Doppler Labs’ Director of Accessibility and …

There should be a term for how, given long enough, every social app adds a chat feature. Maybe “Carson’s Law”, named after Johnny Carson, the king of chit-chat on late night TV. Well, Imgur’s time has come. The content discovery site where 150 million monthly users upvote the best memes, …

Food delivery startup Munchery is trying its hand at brick-and-mortar sales, opening a pop-up shop in San Francisco that we spotted this week. In the competitive and cluttered market for online food delivery, Munchery is distinct in that it sells chef-prepared meals that just need to be heated, or meal kits with recipes and pre-measured ingredients …

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey interviewed Edward Snowden today, and the big topic was technology. During the QA (which was broadcast live from the Pardon Snowden Periscope account) Snowden discussed the data that many online companies continue to collect about their users, creating a “quantified world” — and more opportunities for government surveillance. …

With the Trump administration looming a hazy, ominous shade of toxic creamsicle orange on the horizon, some in tech are lining up single file. Others won’t go so quietly, especially when it comes to the apparently hyperpartisan issue of facilitating genocide. After The Intercept’s Sam Biddle asked tech companies if they …