1010Tech Talk archive
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January 25, 2017
There’s an app for everything these days, including attending college, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good app. Oohlala has changed that for hundreds of schools so far…
Read articleJanuary 12, 2017
Two years ago, Google bought Launchpad Toys, the company behind the popular Toontastic kids app for iOS that allows you — whether you are a kid or not…
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Google.org is donating $30 million to non-profits this holiday so that they can buy any tech and related services that they need including hardware, software, training and IT maintenance…
Read articleDecember 8, 2016
The education world has been transformed thanks to the power of technology. But not all communities have been privy to the benefits; low-income students are still shut out…
Read articleDecember 8, 2016
Hardware kits, internet-connected toys and robots that teach kids to code are now commonplace. But Osmo, an early entrant in IoT toys, is pulling ahead of the pack…
Read articleNovember 22, 2016
Welcome to the 2016 TechCrunch Holiday Gift Guide! We’ll be rolling out a bunch of guides leading up to Christmas, hopefully making your holiday shopping a little easier.…
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In Boston this weekend, software developers, hardware engineers, artists and entrepreneurs gathered for the Hacking Arts 2016 conference and hackathon at MIT. Of twelve finalists, the following teams…
Read articleNovember 18, 2016
Sesame Ventures, the venture fund formed by Sesame Workshop and New York-based Collaborative Fund in May, has made its first investment in a tutoring platform called Yup. Specifically,…
Read articleNovember 17, 2016
Speaking from experience, finding jobs outside of the region you went to college in is incredibly challenging. Sure, large Fortune 100 companies have programs in place to make it easy to…
Read articleNovember 8, 2016
In a speech today at Web Summit, Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer laid out a vision for the role artificial intelligence and machine learning will play in the company’s…
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