The Game London-based Snatch, the augmented reality and geo-location virtual treasure hunt gaming platform with real-life environments and obstacles that allow players to find cash prizes and products from big brands is launching at SXSW. As part of the US launch, one of the biggest prizes they’re offering is specifically for startups headed to the festival, allowing them to “game their way” to their first seed round of capital. The game works like this: players, also known as Snatchers, find parcels around their community that contain real prizes....

But any rapid growth is plagued with challenges. One of the biggest, second only to thinning educational budgets, is security. Here’s Larry Johnson, CEO of New Media Consortium, in a 2015 statement on the issue: Has the security problem been resolved in the years since this statement? A new survey doesn’t look great. Only 52 Percent of Vendor Websites Encrypt Their Data Common Sense Education’s Privacy Evaluation Institute surveyed more than 1,000 ed tech vendors....

The small study is unlikely to put the brakes on the tech industry’s unrelenting drive to get us all working virtually, but it should certainly serve as a warning that there are many issues to iron out before the likes of Meta and Microsoft take VR working mainstream. With the increase in working from home, meeting your colleagues in a virtual space without the need to commute is likely to be appealing for many, but we’d suggest checking out the report’s highlights before you commit to strapping on that headset....

The problem is that dieting is more than just choosing to lose weight. Eating healthy takes commitment, self control, and a breadth of knowledge on what kind of foods the grocery stores and restaurants in your area have on their shelves and plates. Unfortunately, that kind of information is impossible to find and even harder to remember. Fortunately, one app is making it easy with some of the most impressive tech you’ve ever seen in the health sector....

In between catching waves in sunny South Florida and planning what turned out to be an extremely successful Startup Weekend West Palm Beach in November 2013, Surfr App co-founders Chris Callahan and Nicholas Mohnacky launched their mobile iOS app into the App Store recently and have had great success in their first couple months of being “live.” Surfr allows surfers to log their surf sessions with an easy-to-use interface that allows them to document and share their wave-riding adventures....

The SYNAVOLT provides up to 100W of power to a plethora of modular attachments including: 5 port USB adapterBluetooth 4.1 speaker12v car adapterQi wireless charging pad110V AC inverter With my SYNAVOLT Beta Media Sample, I was sent the light attachment (What do I need that for…? Camping, I suppose!) and 110 wall plug inverter, and the prototype power bank unit. The attachments snap into the unit sliding from opposite directions, as the connections for all of the mods are identical, just oriented in opposite directions on either end....

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Use the following tech tools to help you prepare your taxes. It is a guarantee that you will instantly figure out why they are so useful. MileBug You can deduct miles that are driven for charitable endeavours, business meetings and medical appointments in some cases. If this is your case, you need to write down details. MileBug is one of the unique apps to help you improve tax returns. It works on Windows Phone, Android and iOS....

The two entities of Dallas and Tech Wildcatters play off of each other and have experience tremendous growth because of it. To that end, Tech Wildcatters recently announced that they would be hiring Molly Cain as the new Executive Director of the accelerator. When Draney started Tech Wildcatters a few years back, there was largely nothing happening in the Dallas tech ecosystem. There were plenty of people telling her to move to the Bay Area, but she didn’t want to abandon Dallas that quickly....

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Why is AR’s star rising so quickly and what should we expect to see in the near future of this particular tech space? The answers reveal the constraints in how consumers adapt to new technologies. AR Works on Our Current Infrastructure Smartphones, laptops, and internet connections are what the modern world runs on. VR headsets, Snapchat spectacles, and wearables are in a different tech bucket: They’re curiosities that early adapters love but that will take forever to trickle down to the average layperson....

Recently Google continued to narrow the smartphone divide between Android and iOS users by releasing an incredibly user-friendly, iOS-only keyboard: Gboard. What Is Gboard Exactly? The stock iOS keyboard is admired by most iPhone and iPad users. They are proud of the basic yet functional nature of the keyboard; the touch sensitivity is spot-on and glitches are few and far between. But as more third party keyboard apps such as Swype have become increasingly popular, iPhone users are starting to open up to the idea of a new smartphone keyboard....

When people think about the Internet of Things (IoT) they sometimes forget one of the most important ‘things’ in our lives: the automobile. Even if you don’t drive a car, I can almost guarantee that you interact with a car at least once a day; the car is central to us as humans in many ways. And now with the added context of the connected car, we’re beginning to see that the automobile isn’t just a central hub for transportation anymore....

Fortunately, transparency is here to save the day! That is, of course, as long as tech companies and government agencies comply. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. While trust has become a valuable commodity in business, the tech world is still trying to catch up to the honesty needs of their customers. Sure, companies like Uber and Apple have been able to skirt the unwritten rules of transparency without condemning their business to the corporate graveyard....

It’s Aimed at Developer Newbies The announcement blog post highlights the biggest benefit of this service: The fact that it’s so readily available: You can check out the preview version of the service now on any browser that supports WebGL or WebVR graphics rendering. And since it’s free, it’s an example of how the tech community can help everyone learn. It’s not quite the Star Trek utopia that the post namechecks, but it’s not nothing....

From established health organizations to prominent universities, studying the potentially negative effects of technology on the human body has become a popular endeavor. And it’s unfortunate news for everyday users. Doctors, psychologists, and technology experts are arguing that all of these devices are affecting our bodies and mental well-being for the worse. Technology and Physical Health The human body has evolved over thousands of years to accomplish a vast array of unimaginable feats....

Online education has never looked more promising. In May, Harvard University and MIT launched edX, a $60 million not-for-profit venture in online education. Joined by the University of California, Berkeley, these prestigious universities are offering free online courses to students worldwide, with certificates of completion. It prompted a Forbes writer to ask: “Will edX put Harvard and MIT out of business?” With tuition and student debt uncomfortably high, and video publishing and digital collaboration on the rise, online learning appears to be the Way of the Future....

Africa is now the world’s second largest mobile phone market and is setting the worldwide pace for mobile-based product innovation. The fastest-growing African companies tend to operate in the information and communications technology space, and they cater to an increasing demand for mobile services, digital entertainment, and cloud computing. Here are five tech companies leading Africa’s economic renaissance: PesaPal: PesaPal is a Kenyan company that enables users to shop, pay bills, buy mobile phone credit, and complete school fee transactions online....