Calling all European developers! It’s time to show the tech world your crazy-mad skills at the TechCrunch Hackathon in Paris on May 25-26 at VivaTech. It’s one thing to create amazing new apps back in the comfort of your home or office; try doing it while competing against hundreds of top-notch hackers racing against a […]
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Calling all EU based hackers: Sign up for the TC Hackathon at VivaTech
Calling all European developers! It’s time to show the tech world your crazy-mad skills at the TechCrunch Hackathon in Paris on May 25-26 at VivaTech. It’s one thing to create amazing new apps back in the comfort of your home or office; try doing it while competing against hundreds of top-notch hackers racing against a […]
All your questions answered at Disrupt SF’s Q&A Sessions
TechCrunch Disrupt’s Main Stage always features interviews with the best and brightest tech founders, innovators and investors from around the world. As good as those interviews are, past attendees tell us that they’d love even more opportunities to address their burning questions around emerging trends and technologies. So we created Q&A Sessions for Disrupt San Francisco 2018. Read More
Announcing the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech in Paris
Where do savvy developers, hackers, tech builders and makers go to test their mettle and push the very limits of their creativity and endurance? To a Hackathon, where else? We’re psyched to announce that the next TechCrunch Hackathon takes place at VivaTech on May 25-26 at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. It’s a perfect match in the City of Love as thousands of founders,… Read More
Registration is now open for Disrupt SF 2018
Hey startup world, get ready for the biggest, most ambitious TechCrunch Disrupt event ever. Disrupt, the world’s top technology and startup event, will take place in San Francisco on September 5-7, 2018, and it’s about to level-up in a big way. This is the one tech event you do not want to miss, and tickets are on sale now. For starters, as we mentioned late last year,… Read More
Polish hackers create an indoor location system for disabled students
A group of students from the Warsaw University of Technology and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow built an indoor location system for disabled students. They’re rolling out the app, created during a local Campus App Challenge/hackathon, at the Warsaw University of Technology. The creators, Łukasz Ławniczak, Jakub Kmiotek, Tomasz Urbaszek, Miron Marczuk, and Szymon Stankiewicz, used… Read More
WannaDrink is the hack that will finally destroy my liver
WannaDrink is a hack that somehow manages to combine the amazing mission of providing tech education for recent immigrants to Germany and the promotion of anonymous drinking with complete strangers. Read More
Home.me turns your 2D floorplan drawings into 3D renderings
It’s easy enough to draw a basic floorplan of your home, but turning that floorplan into 3D rendering typically falls into the realm of professional designers. With home.me,TechCrunch Berlin Hackathon hackers Charles Wong and Aravind Kandiah, who are both students at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, built a tool that can easily turn your 2D drawings into 3D… Read More
Unicorn Battle uses buzzwords to measure a startup’s ‘unicornibility’
When startup founders pitch at a TechCrunch event, they usually don’t just get on-stage and starting shouting out buzzwords. Today, however, one of the teams at the Disrupt Berlin hackathon really did begin their presentation by rattling off words and phrases like “Internet of Things!” and “bitcoin!!” As they did, a unicorn puppet would pop up on their screen… Read More
Cheer My Friend lets you motivate runners with voice messages
Another neat hack idea being demoed here at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin is an app for helping support runners during races by sending personal voice messages to keep them feeling motivated. Read More
View More Cheer My Friend lets you motivate runners with voice messagesQuick Insurance wins the Disrupt Berlin 2017 Hackathon Grand Prize
Hundreds of engineers and designers got together to come up with something cool, something neat, something awesome. The only condition was that they only had 24 hours to work on their projects. Some of them were participating in our event for the first time, while others were regulars. Some of them slept on the floor in a corner, while others drank too much Red Bull.
We could all feel the… Read More
Bitcoin Bubble Burst will warn you if the bitcoin dream is about to crash down
Whether you’re a bitcoin believer or a vulture waiting to have your bubble predictions proved right, you’re probably keeping one nervous eye on the charts in anticipation of the crash everyone seems to expect any second now. Bitcoin Bubble Burst lets you you focus on other things, while it watches for major price changes and news events that could affect prices and alerts you in… Read More