Following Apple’s education event in Chicago in March, I wrote about what the company’s announcements might mean for accessibility. After sitting in the audience covering the event, the big takeaway I had was Apple could “make serious inroads in furthering *special* education as well.” As I wrote, despite how well-designed the Classroom and Schoolwork apps seemingly are, Apple should do more to tailor their new tools to better serve students and educators in special education settings. After all, accessibility and special education are inextricably tied. It turns out, Apple has, unsurprisingly, considered this.
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Whitney Wolfe Herd doesn’t care what she’s supposed to do
It’s 4:55pm Central Time on a Tuesday at Bumble headquarters in Austin, Texas. Whitney Wolfe Herd, the 28-year-old founder and CEO of the woman-led dating app is showing me around the nearly four-year-old startup’s office before we sit down to talk. Our first stop is the standard startup watering hole, with a few twists. The fridges […]
View More Whitney Wolfe Herd doesn’t care what she’s supposed to doIn a bid to corner supply, Bird locks in exclusive deals with the biggest scooter vendors
It seems like all is fair in love and scooter wars. In the battle royal to become the last dock-less scooter startup standing (and un-besmirched by poop), Bird has inked what it is characterizing as exclusive deals with Ninebot (the parent company of Segway) and Xiaomi (yes, that Xiaomi), for rights to their supply of […]
View More In a bid to corner supply, Bird locks in exclusive deals with the biggest scooter vendorsToast launches a new handheld device and kitchen display system for restaurants
Toast, the Boston-based technology developer for the restaurant industry, has launched a new handheld point-of-sale device and a kitchen display system to integrate the front and back of any restaurant. Using the devices any waiter can become an expert on menu offerings at the touch of a button. The new device lets waitstaff know when […]
View More Toast launches a new handheld device and kitchen display system for restaurantsAustin is piloting blockchain to improve homeless services
While the vagaries of the cryptocurrency markets are keeping crypto traders glued to their CoinDesk graphs, the real potential of blockchain is its capability to solve real human challenges in a decentralized, private, and secure way. Government officials have increasingly investigated how blockchain might solve critical problems, but now one city intends to move forward […]
View More Austin is piloting blockchain to improve homeless servicesLet the good vibes roll: Mashable House at SXSW 2018
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During SXSW, thousands of creatives and techies alike descend onto Austin, Texas in search of the best way to induce FOMO in their friends back at home. In 2018, this meant saying they were in the room when Elon Musk crashed the Westworld panel. Or perhaps it was sharing out that GIF of Elon Musk doing, whatever it is he was doing…
But when one was looking to break from all that, they ventured over to the Mashable House, where the only things necessary for a good time were ballpits, arcade games, and puppies.
While much of SXSW looks toward “what’s coming next,” this year’s Mashable House invited guests to celebrate just how far we’ve come with a mix of the old, new and modern! Read more…
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Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor Where did venture capitalists go to college? ICOs delivered at least 3.5x more capital to blockchain startups than VC since 2017 The American South may not be the first region that comes to mind when […]
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As our fractured planet stumbles toward the end of the second decade of its new millennium it’s become de rigueur among a certain class of the super rich to create contingency plans for possible doomsday scenarios that will bring about the end of the world. In a long, fascinating, meandering interview at South by Southwest in Austin yesterday, Elon Musk — the serial entrepreneur… Read More
Why ride-hailing app Fasten couldn’t make it against the big players
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What a difference a year makes, especially for up and coming ride-hailing app Fasten.
Last year the tech, media, and music conference South by Southwest was a ride-hailing nightmare, with Uber and Lyft no longer operating in Austin, Texas, over issues with fingerprint background check requirements.
This gave smaller wannabe ride apps the perfect opportunity to show off different platforms and demonstrate what rides could be like in a Uber-less world. Fasten — which started in Boston in 2015 — swooped into the Austin opening.
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Why ride-hailing app Fasten couldn’t make it against the big players
What a difference a year makes, especially for up and coming ride-hailing app Fasten.
Last year the tech, media, and music conference South by Southwest was a ride-hailing nightmare, with Uber and Lyft no longer operating in Austin, Texas, over issues with fingerprint background check requirements.
This gave smaller wannabe ride apps the perfect opportunity to show off different platforms and demonstrate what rides could be like in a Uber-less world. Fasten — which started in Boston in 2015 — swooped into the Austin opening.
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