Here’s what went down at Brooklyn’s first NET/WORK career fair
More than 150 people and 14 companies, including Etsy, JPMorgan Chase and Dev Bootcamp met at coworking space CoLab-Factory Wednesday night for the Technical.ly-organized NET/WORK job fair. Billed as...
View ArticleThe AI boom: is it legit or just hype?
Last summer, NYU Tandon and ff Venture Capital announced the launch of their jointly run artificial intelligence incubator, AI NexusLab. The stated goal then, as ffVC founding partner John Frankel put...
View ArticleMeet the 5 startups handpicked for NYU Tandon’s first-ever AI incubator
Last week, NYU Tandon’s Future Labs held its AI Summit, an afternoon session devoted to the latest happenings in artificial intelligence — and what that actually means for businesses looking to use or...
View ArticleAt Brooklyn summit, a new world of 5G on display
When we move from 4G wireless to 5G wireless it will be like society having a “digital nervous system limited only by device physics, chemistry, materials and the speed of light.” So, at least, says...
View ArticleHere’s who was at the superfun Super Meetup 2017
For those looking to be involved in the Brooklyn tech scene, this was big. Wednesday night at Dumbo creative agency Work & Co, several of Brooklyn’s top meetup groups convened for a Super Meetup...
View ArticleThis Wonka-like scent machine wowed the crowd at Maker Faire
Mix up some lavender, almond extract, ripe fruit and nail polish remover. What do you get? Apparently, a sweet cherry smell. That’s just one possible scent combination out of more than 500,000 that can...
View Article‘Corporate industrial food sucks’: Highlights from NYC AgTech Week 2017
How can we grow more food in cities? That was the seemingly simple question tackled by innovators, developers, investors and thought-leaders in New York last week. And the proposed answers were...
View ArticleBrooklyn’s tech scene showed out for New Lab’s one-year anniversary
This past weekend, Brooklyn’s own cathedral of hardware, New Lab, celebrated its first anniversary in style. The Saturday evening event featured art installations, virtual-reality demos, tours inside...
View ArticleA toolkit for new medical devices wins $5,000 at Make It In BK
Tacos, beer and business opportunities. Just another night at City Point. The Downtown Brooklyn venue played host to the latest Make It In Brooklyn pitch competition on Tuesday evening. This...
View Article‘To what extent is a tweet a federal record?’
When the Obama White House joined Snapchat, it made sure that posts to that account would not be ephemeral, in accordance with presidential records rules, according to the Washington Post. It turns out...
View ArticleHow these artists hacked a museum and held their own show on visitors’ phones
Anti-gentrification protesters rallied outside the Brooklyn Museum as it hosted the Brooklyn Real Estate Summit in 2015. Afterward, museum staffers asked protesters if they could show some of their...
View ArticleFrom social media to scaling up, here’s what happened at Brooklyn Marketing Week
Last weekend, the second annual Brooklyn Marketing Week was held at the CoLab-Factory in Downtown Brooklyn. It was produced by digital marketing and events agency, Benchmark Creative Group. The...
View ArticleWe’re massively selecting for antibiotic resistance as a society and that...
The line that stuck out the most in Dr. Sandra Breum Andersen’s talk at Biotech Without Borders last week was: “Antibiotic resistance isn’t new but we are massively selecting for it.” The result is...
View ArticleFood Loves Tech expo showcases city’s abundance of food innovators
3D printers to decorate cookies, platforms to reduce waste of ugly produce, beer brewed with surplus bread, the Impossible Burger: these were among the dozens of exhibitors and panelists featured at...
View ArticleHere’s who won the Technical.ly Brooklyn Awards last night
The best and the brightest in the Brooklyn tech world came together Tuesday night for the Technical.ly Brooklyn Awards, held at WeWork Dumbo Heights. The night is always a good one to see what’s going...
View ArticleCan data make our cities better? Lessons from CARTO’s data conference
Central Park is most popular on Wednesday while Prospect Park is busiest on Sunday. This was one of many big-data insights shared at Bushwick mapping startup CARTO’s Spatial Data Science Conference...
View ArticleBlockchain solutions for the refugee crisis
Ever attend an event or watch a movie where you lose track of time only to emerge hours later to wonder, “Did that much time just fly by? That was mind expanding!” Tuesday’s Peace Innovation TechTalks...
View Article5 pitches from the Made in NY Media Center program turning creatives into...
“Now the work begins,” said Made in NY Media Center Programming Producer Bill Curran. The 2018 cohort of the media incubator’s Creative to Founder Lab had just pitched their projects Thursday night,...
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