Averon closes $8.3M funding to make your smartphone the key to ID online

Because of the threat of cyber attacks, sign in and identity verification procedures are becoming utterly cumbersome. There’s no “identit...

Hacked Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex will reduce balances by 36% to distribute losses amongst all users

Late last week  we reported  that Bitfinex, a popular Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange was hacked, losing about $70M worth of customer’s b...

These Playing Cards Can Take A Bullet

Playing cards, just like anything else, are ripe for disruption. I’ve purchased cards in airports, a CVS and the supermarket…but never on...

Witness Wins The Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon Grand Prize, Picorico And MoolahMe Are Runners Up

It’s been a long night at the Manhattan Center. Yesterday, we welcomed hundreds of hackers for my favorite Spring tradition — the Disrupt ...

Croissant Lets You Reserve A Seat At A Co-Working Space Or Coffee Shop Using iBeacons

Three co-founders from a local deals startup Perqy , Dave Idell, Adam Chew, and Nisha Garigan, met up this weekend at the TechCrunch Disr...

Pager Turns Your Facebook Pages Into Full-Fledged Websites

Meet Pager , a neat little hack developed during our 24-hour Disrupt NY Hackathon by a team of three engineers. It’s the perfect idea for...

Piper Pied Imitates HBO’s Silicon Valley And Creates Lossless Compression For Online Images

Brother and sister team Peter Ma and Nancy Ghaly presented Piper Pied, a lossless compression algorithm for online images, at the Di...

My Citi Bike Is A Neat Little Hack That Displays All Your Citi Bike Rides On A Map

There are two things that Andrew Furman loves — riding a Citi Bike, and playing with maps. So when he participated in TechCrunch’s Disrupt...

For a Solid Financial Plan, Find Out Why Money Is Important To You

Sure, financial stability is important. But why? Obviously, it’s responsible and it gives you options, but that’s a pretty vague reason....

NASA, IBM Team For Worldwide Space App Hackathon

What happens when NASA gets together with IBM’s Bluemix cloud services and sponsors a worldwide hackathon? They hope to challenge partici...

The Cloud Could Be Your Best Security Bet

Conventional IT wisdom says that you’re safer and more secure when you control your own on-premises datacenter. Yet if you think about e...

Why Your Favorite Snapchat Apps No Longer Work

Outside of a mobile application’s official product, there tends to exist a broader ecosystem catering the wants and unmet desires of its ...

Money, dream jobs, a better brain: why everyone should learn a second language

With more online learning resources available than we know what to do with, there’s really no reason for you to not know a second language...

The secret science of shopping: Why we buy what we do

This article originally appeared on the Crew blog . I remember sitting in a McDonald’s as a kid and complaining that it was so cold. My...

Why leaving your comfort zone can be so rewarding

Ash Read is the founder of Nudge , a Twitter community management and customer service tool. This article first appeared on Medium. “...