Las aplicaciones de software accesibles en la web se han ido abriendo paso sobre los programas instalados mediante disco físico. Lo que empezó como una solución para instalar programas en los smartphones ha conquistado al resto de pantallas gracias a la comodidad e inmediatez del sistema.
The European Commission is pushing local authorities to digitise cities and make them more efficient—one radical plan bubbling up could minimise the number of cars on city streets.
The EU executive has funded research projects and set up a working group to pin down strategies that will help boost so-called smart cities in Europe, a term used to describe the move towards digital city infrastructure.
The Commission is especially encouraging cities to use technology to make energy and transport services more efficient.
Apple wants to put its devices at the center of health care by figuring out how to solve medicine’s version of the last-mile problem. Today, Apple launched software to help hospitals and others more easily create apps that let patients manage their own conditions, such as by following a digital version of doctors’ orders, recording and tracking symptoms (with medical selfies, among other methods), using dashboards to check their progress against recovery goals, and uploading reports to hospital medical records systems.
You’re ready to kick back for the weekend and do something mindless. No one will ever know if you watch five episodes of “Zombie House Flipping” instead of the PBS NewsHour, right?
Maybe for now.
Could be, there’s already an app on your smartphone or tablet capable of finding out what you’re watching by picking up audio signals transmitted from TV ads. Human ears can’t hear the audio beacons, but an app may have hijacked your device’s microphone to do the job.
The Industrial Internet is leading to the development of an industrial app economy that has the potential to have a bigger impact than consumer apps. Here’s how.
Thanks to disruptive technology, the world is changing more quickly than ever before. As a result, many industries — manufacturing, energy, healthcare, transportation — face an important mandate: identify as tech companies or become obsolete.
The Boston area has become a hotbed for companies testing new ways to merge software with fields like healthcare, rehabilitation, and education. One of the more interesting areas of activity is assessing and treating brain health and cognitive disorders.
Those elements have come together in a startup called Constant Therapy, which today announced it raised a $2 million Series A funding round led by Golden Seeds. Other investors in the round include Kapor Capital, Launchpad Venture Group, Pond Capital, and Community Health Network of Connecticut. The three-year-old company has raised a total of about $2.8 million to date.
Zendrive today announced that it has raised $13.5 million in funding for its technology to make transportation safer. The investment was led by Sherpa Capital and will be used to improve technology and add more talent to the team.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave its 501(k) approval to Reflexion Health for its Vera system. What makes this so noteworthy is that the company is using Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor-and-camera to aid in physical therapy.
The sensors in smartphones can accurately detect the changes in mood that are indicative of bipolar disorder, according to a new study. That could lead to faster treatment and better outcomes for sufferers.
It’s fall, and to a segment of Michigan’s population, that means one thing: The start of hunting season. A Grand Rapids, MI-based hunting-tech startup, Sportsman Tracker, unveiled a new mobile app late last month at San Francisco’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in anticipation of the season, and company CEO Jeff Courter says the app’s algorithm is “the most accurate and advanced prediction formula available.”
