What were you doing when you were 14? I bet you weren’t busy warning your fellow countrymen about imminent natural disasters. But that’s exactly what 14-year old Chilean Sebastian Alegria is doing. You’ll recall the terrible earthquake that struck Chile in2010. Although he wasn’t hurt,Alegria, a high school student from Santiago, Chile experienced it first hand. When Japan was severely hit by an earthquake and tsunami nearly a year later, Sebastian was watching the news with great interest....

Meet the designer that made a chatbot to flag workplace racism How to do it I started by researching my chatbot options. There are quite a few options out there, but I went withDialogFlow, which is free and has more advanced NLP capabilities. They have very detaileddocumentationon how to get started. I wrote out all the questions that I’ve been frequently getting in my UX design interviews and organized it in an Excel spreadsheet so that I could keep track of what answers I still needed to add to the bot....

Meet the electrophone, the Victorian version of live-streaming Shock of the new The Electrophone worked by sending information through telephone wires into a central receiver in the home where one or more headsets could be installed (each additional headset came with an extra cost). The sound listeners heard would be from small microphones secreted behind the footlights at the front of the stage. In church services the microphones were hidden in fake wooden bibles....

The Vienna basedStartup Week 2011is in full swing after a day packed full of notable presentations and panels from the likes ofErik Bovee,Lars Hinrichs, andTariq Krim. However, the knowledge and networking isn’t the only thing happening in the Haus der Industrie this week. Beginning on Monday, and continuing into Tuesday of this week, 50 selected startup teams were put through the wringer and provided with workshops on topics ranging from meeting the lawyer, to meeting the investor, to pitching essentials....

When you think of the pioneers of geosocial services, who do you think of?Loopt,Foursquare, andGowallawere certainly very early to launch mobile, social, location aware services. Some of you old timers probably remember Dodgeball (2003), the SMS precursor to Foursquare, or even Meetro (2005), the location based IM service. But if you really want to get to the roots of the modern geosocial app, you probably have to go back a little farther....