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Xbox Music To Launch Apps For iOS And Android
Sep 09, 6:15AM
Xbox Music will be available for iOS and Android today, as Microsoft furthers its bid to take on streaming music services like Spotify. Xbox Music is the first entertainment service from the Microsoft to launch on iOS and Android, and follows its Web version, which now offers free streaming to all browsers.CrowdStrike Raises $30M For Data Security Platform Built To Put Adversaries On The Defensive
Sep 09, 6:03AM
CrowdStrike has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Accel Venture Partners for its security technology to identify advanced threats and put adversaries more on the defensive. Founding investor Warbug Pincus also participated in the funding. The company was founded by former McAffee CTO George Kurtz and Dimitri Alperovitch, who was previously vice president of advanced threat research, also at McAfee.Adobe Makes Life Easier For Web Designers, Adds Easy Export From Photoshop To Edge Reflow
Sep 09, 4:05AM
Adobe is launching the latest update for Photoshop CC today. Besides numerous smaller feature additions, this new version adds a tool called "Adobe Generator" that is, among other things, deeply integrated with Edge Reflow, the company's tools for creating responsive web designs. Using Generator, which is also available as an open source tool, designers can now easily take assets from Photoshop - and even complete websites they mocked up in Adobe's flagship tool - and turn them into responsive sites. Any changes in Photoshop are automatically synced to Reflow in real-time.Topping 150M Users, Instagram Promises Ads Within The Next Year
Sep 09, 12:47AM
Instagram Director of Business Operations Emily White told the Wall Street Journal that Instagram will begin selling ads within the next year. Are we ready? White comes to Instagram from Facebook, and has been tasked with turning the revenue-free Instagram into a money maker for Facebook, which purchased the photo-sharing app in April of 2012. She said that Instagram's future ads could potentially include the Discover tab, where the Popular page and the Search page reside.Spruce Crowned The Disrupt SF 2013 Hackathon Grand Prize Winner, Cloudiverse And AdFree Take Second And Third
Sep 09, 12:13AM
TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013's Hackathon wrapped up today, with a demo session that spanned around five hours, after 24 hours of actually building hacks. We had a record 264 registered entrants this time around, beating the previous record of 164 at Disrupt NY earlier this year by a wide margin. As a result the 60 second presentation time limit was pretty strictly enforced, but teams still had plenty of chance to wow the judges and the audience.Use Google Glass And New App Glashion To Buy Fashion Items You Spot On The Go
Sep 09, 12:08AM
These days, there is more taking place at the intersection of fashion and tech than there ever has been. Of late, some of these synergies involve Google Glass. At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 hackathon today, Glashion made it's debut, providing a way for Google Glass wearers and users to buy fashion items they spot on the go.300ft Drone-Powered Hack Foresees A Future Stuffed With Eye-In-The-Sky All-Seeing Apps
Sep 09, 12:08AM
Hackathon hacks can lead to fully fledged apps and companies. Other times they are intended to be nothing more than a great hack. 300ft is certainly that: a neat hack, built overnight at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF hackathon, which pulls in "close to live" aerial imaging from UAVs (aka drones) so the user can check how busy a prospective outdoor leisure location is before heading out.Introducing Disrupt Daily, TC's Daily Flipboard Magazine Covering The Best Of Disrupt SF 2013
Sep 08, 11:56PM
There's a lot happening at Disrupt SF. So much so that it cannot be consumed on just one site. Produced daily at 6:00pm PDT (right after the last panel of the day) a new Flipboard magazine will be released to showcase the best of the day's panels, interviews, and videos. Between all the stories and videos from Disrupt, (not to mention all the social channels we run) it can be a little overwhelming to keep tabs on all the important news coming out of the conference. But Disrupt Daily is something special -- it's just an easy way to peruse the day's highlights.Trance Wants To Make It Easy For Great Dancers To Show Off Their Moves
Sep 08, 11:46PM
Dance is a creative art that has always had real mainstream appeal. But while big general platforms like YouTube and Twitter are decent for showcasing dancers, they're not ideal. Dance could certainly benefit from having a service that's made especially for their art. That's the idea behind Trance, a mobile app developed this weekend at the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. Trance is built to let dancers create and share minute-long video clips of their work with a dance-focused audience. The Trance platform is aimed at letting dancers show off their unique styles, and enabling dance fans to see the latest work from their favorite artists -- and discover new artists to love.For The Rhythmically Challenged, Strumbot Will Strum Your Guitar For You
Sep 08, 11:42PM
Yu Jiang Tham may not have rhythm, but that didn’t stop him from getting up on the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon stage and singing “Country Roads,” thanks to his self-strumming guitar, Strumbot. For the first three hours of the hackathon on Saturday, Tham had no idea what he wanted to do and didn’t want to use any of the available APIs. At about 4 p.m., he made a trip to the hardware store and borrowed his dad’s guitar to create Strumbot. ”I’m actually really bad at guitar. Rhythm mostly,” Tham tells me. “So I wanted to create a robot that would help me strum in rhythm.” Covered in velcro and black tape (since he couldn’t use a drill), the Strumbot enables you, with one hand, to play the chords while a metal lever moves a guitar pick across the strings. Still, it alleviates the problem of having to manage both, and makes it easier to concentrate on chords and lyrics. Tham uses a node.js application to enter strumming patterns using JavaScript, which then sends signals through an Arduino board to a motor attached to the guitar. The motor then controls when the guitar pick moves, following each pattern. From the computer, you can press the button for each pattern and the Strumbot will take care of the rest. The Strumbot application is going online, but Tham wants to improve the strumming ability with a better motor for quicker movements. The pick also currently has to go both up and down, which makes a chord echo and isn’t ideal for sound quality. Tham has participated in other hackathons. He was part of a winning team that developed a lost-and-found app at the Outside Lands Hackathon. However, he says he’s looking to get into more hardware projects, with Strumbot as his second undertaking in hardware. Watch his performance below:An App For Social Change, Hot Mess Anonymously Tells Your Friends That They Have Gunk In Their Teeth
Sep 08, 11:38PM
Neil Mansilla and Rob Zazueta got a lot of laughs this afternoon for their Disrupt Hackathon submission, Hot Mess. The app aims to solve the universal nightmare of unwittingly walking around with a piece of crud in your teeth by allowing people to send anonymous texts alerting you to the situation. Users can choose from a variety of common scenarios, like “eye boogers”, “nose nuggets”, “teeth gunk”, and “dragon breath”. (Their phrasing.) Hot Mess sends a discreet text message letting a person know that “An angel has sent you a hint” and that they should read it in a private place. The text includes a link to a description of the problem accompanied by a very flattering photo of Zazueta demonstrating the issue. Zazueta clarified that he created the images using gum for nose goop, Red Vines for tooth gunk, and cake as an eye booger. Importantly, all messages and images are pre-programmed so that users can’t use it to bully others and keep Hot Mess helpful and positive. The presentation got the audience laughing — who hasn’t walked around with their fly unzipped at some point? — but as the team explained, the hack is meant to serve a broader social purpose. “This is intended to break a social taboo,” Mansilla said backstage. “If someone is a close talker and has halitosis, or is too loud, it’s hard to share that without offending them. Why? You’re doing them a disservice by not telling them.” The goal is that apps like Hot Mess will make themselves obsolete by creating a social climate in which people are happy to tell each other to go blow their nose. The app would be particularly useful in professional situations, Zazueta and Mansilla said, where looking like a slob seriously affects people’s perception of you and co-workers might not feel comfortable making a comment. “The giver gets good karma and the recipient won’t feel bad because they think the intent is genuine. I think everyone can completely relate to this, which is why it was funny.” Mansilla and Zazueta said that they were interested in building other verticals for Hot Mess, like sending a message to someone in a bar when they’re hitting on someone too hard or need to talk less. Another potential feature is time delay between sending and receiving the message, which would help protect the sender’s anonymity and could be especiallySARAH Lets You Request Information From 21 Government Agencies At The Same Time
Sep 08, 11:26PM
The federal government collects gobs and gobs of data on people, and thanks to a little something called the Freedom of Information Act, people can make requests to liberate some of it. It sounds simple enough, but navigating the labyrinthine process and drafting the request is no easy thing. That's where SARAH comes in.An Apology From TechCrunch
Sep 08, 10:32PM
Normally our hackathons are a showcase for developers of all stripes to create and share something cool. But earlier today, the spirit of our event was marred by two misogynistic presentations. Sexism is a major problem in the tech industry, and we’ve worked hard to counteract it in our coverage and in our own hiring. Today’s issues resulted from a failure to properly screen our hackathons for inappropriate content ahead of time and establish clear guidelines for these submissions. Trust us, that changed as soon as we saw what happened at our show. Every presentation is getting a thorough screening from this hackathon onward. Any type of sexism or other discriminatory and/or derogatory speech will not be allowed. You expect more from us, and we expect more from ourselves. We are sorry.
Context Lets You Search Across Dropbox, Evernote, Spotify & More, All From Google.com
Sep 08, 10:20PM
For some time, Google has been experimenting with augmenting search results using personal data through its Search "field trials", but that's been limited to data stored only in Google's own services. Most users have their data stored elsewhere, too. At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 hackathon today, a browser add-on, called simply "Context," aims to add more options for personalized search using the APIs from Evernote, Dropbox, Spotify, and Trakt - the latter for searching for info about your favorite movies and TV shows.Missing Disrupt? Follow The Action On These Social Channels
Sep 08, 10:03PM
Disrupt SF is bigger than one site can handle. Our Instagram, Flickr, Flipboard and Facebook accounts are packed with the happenings from Disrupt. If that’s not enough, we have accounts just for Disrupt that have even more content. Because Disrupt is that big.An App For Kids, By A Kid: Meet The 9-Year-Old Co-Creator Of 'Super Fun Kid Time'
Sep 08, 10:03PM
The best way to build a great product is to really understand the problem it is trying to solve. The latest awesome example of this is Super Fun Kid Time, an app made for scheduling kids' playdates that was created at the Disrupt Hackathon by nine-year-old programmer Alexandra Jordan. Super Fun Kid Time quickly emerged as an audience favorite during Jordan's spirited minute long on-stage presentation, which you can view in the video embedded above. And while Alexandra's father (and role model) Richard was along at the Hackathon this weekend to lend a helping hand, he's made it very clear that she is the one who led the app's vision and development:The Hackathon Hackers Code Straight On 'Til Morning
Sep 08, 9:58PM
The TC Disrupt Hackathon is just as much about the journey as it is the destination. More than 1,200 coders showed up in the SF Design Center to build something awesome, make some new friends, and present their wares to a panel of amazing judges.Kovert Is A GPS That Lets You Keep Your Phone In Your Pocket To Foil Would-Be Muggers
Sep 08, 9:13PM
When walking through a sketchy neighborhood that you don't know well, it doesn't always feel like a good idea to have your phone out. Disrupt Hackathon entrant Kovert is an app that allows you to keep your phone tucked away out of sight while giving you walking directions through buzz signals. As makers Scott Jones and Andrew Askedall pointed out onstage, following a GPS app with your phone in hand says a few things: I have no idea where I am, and I have money and expensive electronics.SmartDrive Hack Creates A Real HUD For Your Car Via Google Glass
Sep 08, 8:59PM
Today at the Disrupt SF Hackathon, Brent Bovenzi presented SmartDrive, a neat Google Glass app. Thanks to this hack, you get a true heads-up display to see how your car is doing — a kid’s dream come true. Moreover, you can unlock the car with your voice. “You’ll see fuel mileage, how much gas you have left and tire pressure before even getting in the car” Bovenzi said. It works with recent GM cars that support the GM remote API. This was Bovenzi’s first large-scale hackathon and he enjoyed the experience a lot. While the project started off as a team, they all moved on to do other hacks, except Bovenzi. He carried the project until the end and presented it on stage. As Bovenzi only recently became a startup engineer at SocialRadar, he enjoys attending coding events to learn more. “It’s a great opportunity to force us to do and to learn something,” he said. “You’re not part of a big team, you’re not taking months to do it, and because of that, you have to force yourself,” he continued. In fact, it was Bovenzi’s first time that he coded in Python. He came from Washington DC specifically to attend the Disrupt Hackathon. Now he can leave town by saying “OK Glass, unlock my car.”Kiwi Wearables Shows Off A Way To Use Its Personal Tracker Device To Make Music
Sep 08, 8:56PM
Single-function wearable devices are old-school and a massive waste of potential, according to a new Toronto-based startup called Kiwi Wearable Tech that's building a hardware device as well as a cloud-based platform for leveraging data gathered from their wearable to build a wide variety of different experiences. The Kiwi team was at the Disrupt Hackathon this year, and built a demo app to show the power of its platform, which translates motion captured by its device into music using cloud-stored MIDI files.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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