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One Hour Translation's Patented Tech Enables Speedy And Accurate Real-Time Translation Of Online Content
Aug 12, 4:44AM
Founded in 2008, One Hour Translation is one of the oldest and largest online translation companies, with more than 15,000 active translators in 100 countries who cover more than 75 languages. The Cyprus-based company processes 100,000 projects a month for customers ranging from large corporations (including Toyota and Shell) that need enterprise-grade multilingual content management systems to smaller companies in search of a more polished alternative to cutting-and-pasting content into Google Translate.After Years Of Bootstrapping, MyFitnessPal Raises $18M Round From Kleiner Perkins And Accel
Aug 12, 4:00AM
MyFitnessPal, a service that allows users to track their calories and share that information with friends, has raised $18 million in its first round of funding. This seems like one of those stories where a company goes years without raising any funding (MyFitnessPal launched in September 2005) before raising money from top-tier venture firms. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers with participation from Accel Partners, and Kleiner's John Doerr and Accel's Andrew Braccia are joining the board.Ride Easier With The Rubbee Easy Electric Bike Conversion Gadget On Kickstarter
Aug 12, 2:00AM
Electric bikes are becoming more popular as the cost to own one goes down, and the cost to own a gas-powered vehicle goes up. If you ask a true cyclist what they think of an electric bike, you might get your head bitten off, but there's no doubt that there's a market out there for them. Rubbee wants to appeal to that market with an easy conversion device that turns your existing bike into an electric one in just a few seconds.ActiveNotifications Lets You Bring The Moto X's Best Feature To Other Android Devices
Aug 12, 12:00AM
I've been spending a lot of time with the Moto X lately (full review coming shortly), and while the spec sheet isn't to everyone's liking, it packs some smart features that I'd love to wind up on other devices. Motorola's motion-sensitive Active Display notifications are currently sitting at the top of that transplant list, and a developer over on the XDA forums has already cooked up a pretty solid approximation with an app called ActiveNotifications.
Four Online Brands That Are Building Their Reputations Offline, Because It's Called Street Cred For A Reason
Aug 11, 11:00PM
As a consumer, online-native luxury brands mess with my feelings. On the one hand I tell myself, "Hey, I'm a modern woman. I believe in the power of minimizing overhead!" But when push comes to shove, I want to feel the quality of that leather or wool in your hands. Check the stability of the heel. Because as with OkCupid, true love happens in person, and even Forever21 photographs well in advertisements.Backed By Social + Captial, Brilliant.org Is Finding And Challenging The Brightest, Technical Talent In The World
Aug 11, 10:00PM
Pharrell Wu began doing math at age one and was trading stocks at age three. Living in the Philippines, Wu became bored with the math curriculum at his school and started Googling for hard math problems on the one computer his parents owned at home. He came upon Brilliant.org, a recently launched online community that challenges and brings together technical minds to colve math and analytics problems, and started completing problems. Brilliant’s founder Sue Khim saw that Wu was crushing college students in some of the math exams and immediately matched the young boy with a mathematics professor from the University of Michigan for private tutoring sessions to study undergraduate level linear algebra. According to his now mentor, Wu is already at the level of an exceptional undergraduate math major, and is scoring better on tests than almost all of the professor’s college students. There are brilliant technical minds like Wu across the world, and the internet is bringing these minds together, explains Khim. Brilliant.org is hoping to be the community where these individuals (both young and old) come together to challenge themselves, find like-minded talent, and find opportunities to use their skills. Khim says the inspiration for Brilliant came in the realization that the current model to find technical talent who will become leaders in science, medicine and technology is broken. In many countries, high school students are encouraged to focus on studying for one national exam, which will determine where they go to college. In university, these students are measured on rote learning skills which are irrelevant to how they will be using skills to solve real problems. “There is a mismatch between nurturing intellectual skills in top students vs. what they actually have to spend time on to be successful in the system,” she says. But unfortunately, she explains, there is no way to get noticed if you don’t succeed in this system. So Khim decided to create a place where these students can succeed and challenge themselves, and realize their true potential. She has enlisted a number of math professors, scientists and other technical minds to create difficult problems on the site. Brilliant features weekly olympiad-style challenges offer rigorous problem sets in math and physics. Users can not only solve problems but share your solutions and your process in solving the sets. In March of this year, Khim presented Brilliant at the Launch Festival and caughtThe Science Of Reddit: Why Some Ideas Dominate The Net
Aug 11, 9:00PM
The Internet is not a perfect meritocracy, where the best ideas naturally rise to the forefront of the national conversation. It is easy to game the popularity of some ideas by exploiting the fact that Internet users are overly optimistic sheep who blindly rate the value of stories positively if they first see that others already liked it. In a brand-new study, one of my favorite researchers, New York University's Sinan Aral, found that he could experimentally boost the popularity of articles 32 percent on a news aggregator, like Reddit.com, by posting them with an initial few likes.Systematic Surveillance Will Eat Itself
Aug 11, 8:00PM
As the digitally connected world grapples with the dystopic reality that our overreaching governments are using tech tools ostensibly designed to increase our convenience to up their own, it's worth taking a step back from snowballing concerns about technology eroding privacy. That's not to say there are no reasons to be concerned; there absolutely are. But there is reason for positivity too.Prior Knowledge Goes From TechCrunch Disrupt Finalist To Salesforce.com Skunkworks Project
Aug 11, 7:20PM
Prior Knowledge made it to the finals last year at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. They did not "wow" the judges but their predictive database technology for developers certainly turned attention to what they do.Come Build At The Disrupt SF Hackathon! More Tickets Just Released
Aug 11, 7:00PM
Fame. Riches. A colossal mountain of pizza. A room full of coders who have 24 hours to build the most mind-blowing thing they can. Sound like your kind of night? Come to the Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon. We've just released another batch of tickets. (The last batch sold out so fast that I thought something technical had gone wrong — it hadn't. So don't delay.)New Rule: Congressmen Who Thought Iraq Had WMDs Can't Talk About NSA Effectiveness
Aug 11, 5:30PM
Senator Saxby Chambliss is either a blind war hawk or is deliberately misleading the public. Last week, after the National Security Agency had intercepted an al-Qaida conference call plotting attacks against U.S. embassies, Chambliss claimed it was proof that mass surveillance programs were effective. But the AP reports that the NSA's controversial phone and Internet monitoring programs "played no part in detecting the initial tip."Harry Houdini, Lock Picking, And Entrepreneurship
Aug 11, 5:00PM
It's summer here in Silicon Valley, and for my column this month, I'll try to finally polish and publish some of the old posts that have been collecting dust in my "drafts" folder. Usually, I try to make the column timely, but not this time. Almost two years ago now, my wife and I visited a museum in San Francisco to an exhibit called "Art of Magic," honoring Harry Houdini. I dragged my wife to the museum to see this because I had been watching "Pawn Stars" on the History Channel and was obsessed with the show. In one episode, a customer came in with original handcuffs and a straightjacket used by Houdini. The show's characters all marveled at the legend of Houdini, the nostalgia, the myths. While all this information is available on Wikipedia, the art exhibit highlighted an interesting theme: Houdini's masterful command of new mediums and platforms to manipulate and leverage his audience's deepest hopes and fears.30 New Franchises
Aug 11, 3:00PM
There is a perfect storm of three distinct disruptive forces that has the potential to topple nearly every major enterprise software incumbent. And the traditional approach of dealing with technology shifts -- through acquisition -- looks like it's headed towards failure. As such, there is an unprecedented opportunity to create many, new multi-billion dollar enterprise franchises that are on the right side of these forces and are willing to go the distance in the face of ridiculously high acquisition offers.E-Cig Companies Will Never Promise To Help You Quit Smoking
Aug 11, 1:09PM
Two or three years ago, e-cigarattes were exotic. These strange sticks, their ends LED-lit and their owners expelling odorless smoke - "It's vapor!" - would look as futuristic as a Replicant's food injector. They gave the smoker nebulous powers, namely the ability to smoke on a plane, and they were expensive and hard to find. Now, they're everywhere. Even Leonardo DiCaprio was caught sucking on one on set. But are they safe? And what will they really do for the hard-core smoker?StartupEquality.org: Remove Restrictions On Gay Investors
Aug 11, 4:00AM
Something is amiss with the SEC rules about who is eligible to invest in startups. It doesn't look deliberate -- it is just an artifact of changing times and changing rules. But it's a bad artifact, and we've got to set it right. The SEC treats gay and lesbian couples differently than straight ones.Apple Will Reportedly Unveil The Next iPhone On September 10
Aug 11, 12:31AM
It's about time for a new iPhone and with the rumors about an iPhone 5S and maybe even a cheaper version getting louder, AllThingsD now reports that the next iPhone will launch on September 10. Apple introduced the iPhone 5 on September 12, 2012, so there is a good chance AllThingsD's sources are correct, though we haven't heard anything from our usual sources yet (and earlier rumors of a June launch definitely didn't pan out).CrunchWeek: Jeff Bezos Buys WaPo; Max Levchin Tackles Fertility With Glow And FailWeek
Aug 10, 10:00PM
Welcome to a new episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunch writers together to talk about the most interesting tech news stories from the past week.Casio Updates G-Shock Bluetooth Line With Added Functionality
Aug 10, 9:38PM
Don't call it a smart watch. The Casio GB line appeared in 2011 with little fanfare - it was up against devices like the Pebble in the public imagination and so an underpowered smartwatch was of little interest. However, Casio has updated their Bluetooth line with the GB-6900B And GB-X6900B, improved versions of their iconic G-Shock watches that allow you to control your phone from your watch and, more important, control your watch from your phone.The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 10th Birthday By Launching A Tor-Based Anti-Censorship Browser
Aug 10, 8:30PM
The Pirate Bay (TPB), the torrent site that really doesn't need an introduction anymore, celebrates its 10th birthday today. To mark the day, TPB launched PirateBrowser, "a bundle package of the Tor client (Vidalia), Firefox Portable browser (with foxyproxy addon)."Your Miyagi Moment
Aug 10, 8:00PM
There's a scene in the 80s movie The Karate Kid when Daniel LaRusso discovers that he's actually learned how to fight. I'm willing to bet you've experienced a similar breakthrough. Here's the problem: we expect learning to be linear. When we invest 10 hours of effort into learning a new programming language, we expect to feel 10 hours smarter. In reality, we could actually feel less smart than before we started.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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