Blockchain is a digital ledger system that crowdsources transaction verifications.
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She went on Waze, a popular navigation app that crowdsources traffic information.
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Pawboost, an app that crowdsources help for lost pets, is working with weather.
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Chariot crowdsources its routes as well as its pickup and drop-off locations.
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Mighty AI gamifies the training of the artificial intelligence brains, and then crowdsources it.
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It crowdsources screenshots of shitty texts from shitty exes and posts them with a rating.
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Waze, which crowdsources traffic and navigation data, is perhaps one of the biggest and most successful.
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Called the #100IndianTinderTales, the project crowdsources candid and intimate stories of love, desire and fleeting encounters.
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It was originally suggested through Lego's Ideas platform, which crowdsources ideas from the Lego fan community.
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It has hired 200 data scientists and trained over 100 experts internally, and crowdsources ideas from staff.
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Cosmetics start-up Julep crowdsources product feedback from its community of customers to co-create beauty products.
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HKMap Live crowdsources information — locations of police and ambulance presence, tear gas, water cannons, illegal protests, etc.
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It crowdsources 3D designs which it can tweak into different styles, colors, and sizes to fit your home.
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But unlike with services like Uber where drivers are vetted, the carpooling app crowdsources rides from everyday commuters.
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It also provides educational video and crowdsources extra help from fellow classmates for those that need additional support.
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Amazon also crowdsources images to train its AI systems—but will pay you a few cents for each photo.
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The non-profit organization crowdsources fact-checks from scientists with relevant experience, which are then reviewed by a staff editor.
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He created Access Earth, a web platform and app that crowdsources data on accessible buildings and locations to help people with disabilities.
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One of these features, which crowdsources data like Waze to give insights and ratings on Tesla Supercharger stations, is rolling out now.
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Nexar's application crowdsources road footage to enhance safety and navigation, and just raised a $2510 million Series A led by Mosaic Ventures.
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These experiences led him to start Musallah, a mobile app launching later this year on iOS that crowdsources prayer locations across the globe.
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A viral Twitter game called "Game of Consequences" crowdsources death by asking users to choose the bees' next victim with the hashtag #DeathTo.
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Swiftmoji crowdsources its suggestions based on data from the Swiftkey keyboard, and tweaks individual recommendations based on which emoji each user frequently uses.
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For certain hard-to-find pieces, like a chef's-kiss-perfect set of plastic grapes, the production crowdsources contributions from the HGTV audience.
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Local Motors, the Arizona-based automaker that crowdsources vehicle design, has introduced a 3D-printed, autonomous, electric shuttle bus that is partially recyclable called Olli.
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Functionally, the Public Evidence Product is the same as "See Something, Say Something," the anonymous tipline in New York City that crowdsources information from the public.
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Andrew Frame, who launched Citizen, in 2017, sees the app as "a global safety network" that crowdsources the 911 emergency system to anyone with a smartphone.
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"Sorry Not Sorry, My Parents Paid For My Coachella Trip," boldly declared a post on the Odyssey, a popular publication that crowdsources articles from unpaid college students.
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"Wisdom of the Crowd" features "Entourage" star Jeremy Piven as a tech inventor who crowdsources an app that solves his daughter's murder and can revolutionize crime solving.
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Chariot, the Ford-owned van commuter service that crowdsources its routes from passengers, is the subject of some controversy in San Francisco, the city where it was born.
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Peloton crowdsources improvements to its services constantly, often via two Facebook pages it moderates, the Official Peloton Members Page (115,000) and the Official Peloton Mom Group (almost 17,000).
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Kumaraguru and his team have worked on developing tech solutions to the problem, including Saftie, an app that crowdsources data from users who flag locations they consider dangerous.
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The Air Force's "Hack the Air Force" program, which crowdsources cybersecurity testing on its public-facing systems, uncovered 207 patchable security flaws in a little under a month.
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Volition Beauty is an innovation-driven company that crowdsources its products, taking recommendations from real women who feel there's a gap in the market for their particular skin concern.
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Tony is a private security consultant who's worked for Citrix, SilverTail Systems, RSA Security and, most recently, he was at Synack, a Silicon Valley firm that crowdsources vulnerability testing.
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The company crowdsources work from independent illustrators, textile designers, painters and other artists, then lets its customers vote on the designs they like best to determine what is sold on Minted.
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To stay informed on where and when roundups take place, migrants are turning to grassroots groups like Bouchbouk Mon Village, a migrant-led online community that crowdsources updates via social media.
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Waze is best known for its navigation app, which crowdsources traffic information, but a few years ago it ventured into a new line of business when it rolled out a carpooling app.
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Waze, the Google-owned GPS navigation app that crowdsources user data to help drivers plot their trips, features an alert to remind users of a child's presence in the backseat of a car.
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In hopes of making cities safer for women, D'Silva and a group of friends developed Safecity — an app that crowdsources and documents incidents of sexual harassment and assault that occur in public spaces.
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The difference with the new AI is that it crowdsources insights based on how other people use it, based on the idea that different users will ask different questions of the same data.
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In the article headed, "How Egypt Crowdsources Censorship" it expresses the government's ban on anything that may contradict the state, its leaders or the religion that is sought out by its very people.
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This underpins Bass's The Department of Local Affairs, which crowdsources information about specific neighborhoods from people who actually live in them; the result is a delightful amalgamation of Yelp, travel guides, and community message boards.
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Mobileye's REM mapping system essentially crowdsources data — by tapping into the millions of vehicles equipped with its tech — to build high-definition maps that can be used to support in ADAS and autonomous driving systems.
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The service from provider Mobileye crowdsources real-time road condition reports from vehicles equipped with the product to help provide intelligent fleet features for use in autonomous vehicles, making sure networked smart cars can better navigate real roads.
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In addition, the company said it crowdsources data regarding vehicle-road dynamics from vehicles equipped with its software to create a representation of each vehicle's characteristics that can help maximize vehicle longevity, and a road conditions and hazards map layer.
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BeMyEye, a start-up that crowdsources people to carry out mystery shopping and data collection tasks for major brands like Coca Cola in exchange for money, has raised 6.5 million euros ($7.2 million)and announced an acquisition as it eyes international expansion.
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But as you can probably guess, this is just the tip of the iceberg for what is out there and what can be covered… and what Google has tracked through its own Street View investments and those images that Google itself crowdsources.
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OpenZika, a project on IBM's World Community Grid, crowdsources the spare computing power of thousands of devices to help scientists look for possible treatments to combat Zika, a dangerous mosquito-borne disease spreading at unprecedented rates in the Americas and Caribbean islands.
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ActBlue, a fundraising platform that crowdsources small-dollar donations for progressive Democratic candidates, was the highest recipient of tech workers' donations during 2018 — other than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's $10 million donation to the With Honor PAC, a nonpartisan group that works to elect veterans to public office.
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Some of this app-enabled tech has been around for a while, and Braigo is launching itself into a market that has quite a few companies in it already, including the KNFB reader app that can help read pretty much any text out loud, LookTel's Money Reader that helps identify currency, the open-source TapTapSee app, which can identify objects and, of course, the Be My Eyes initiative, which crowdsources able-visioned people to help blind people see.
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Hotels.ng employs 49 locally-working staff in it's Yaba office and outsources and crowdsources its data collection to freelance workers.
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Nattr is a social application that crowdsources responses to messages. It is commonly used to source icebreakers and replies to sensitive text messages. Nattr was founded by Melanie Mercier and Laura Russell. Nattr was launched in beta March 2015.
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Yoodlee films is the film division of Saregama India Ltd. through which it plans to produce 100 films by 2022. Besides traditional script sourcing by the studio, the company also uses Crowdingit platform, which crowdsources scripts for this project.
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Erin Ralph is an American entrepreneur, writer and producer of Irish and English descent. She is founder of CoCre.org, a platform that crowdsources resources for nonprofits and for-good missions. She is a founding partner of SERENE, a community for women built around consciousness and well being.
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Owler is an American Internet company headquartered in San Mateo, California. It crowdsources competitive insights by providing news alerts, company profiles, and polls and allows members to follow, track, and research companies in real time. The company was founded in 2011 and has over 3.5 million active users.
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MMOWGLI was launched by ONR and the Naval Postgraduate School in order to blend gaming and social media tools and to crowdsource solutions. It was initially launched with an application addressing a piracy scenario off the coast of Somalia. The idea received coverage from national news media.Navy Crowdsources Pirate Fight To Online Gamers, wired.
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The app's servers were under denial-of-service attacks on 12 June. The app's founder Pavel Durov identified the origin of the attack as China, and stated that it "coincided in time with protests in Hong Kong." Protesters have also developed a mobile app named "HKmap.live", which crowdsources the location of police and anti-government protesters.
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Sensorly is a free app that crowdsources cellular network performance to provide coverage mapping worldwide and mobile speed data to help consumers make informed decisions when choosing a cellular carrier. In February 2017, Sensorly launched Map Trip, a feature that allows users to map their routes and share with others their signal data at a particular point in real time.
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HKmap.live is a web mapping service which crowdsources and tracks the location of protesters and police in Hong Kong. The service was launched during the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests and gathers reports on police patrols and tear gas deployments via Telegram. The service is available in an Android version via the Google Play Store and in a web version, while the iOS version was removed by Apple.
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For example, most APC-free journals in Latin America are funded by higher education institutions and are not conditional on institutional affiliation for publication. Conversely, Knowledge Unlatched crowdsources funding in order to make monographs available open access. Estimates of prevalence vary, but approximately 10,000 journals without APC are listed in DOAJ and the Free Journal Network. APC-free journals tend to be smaller and more local-regional in scope.
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Artificial lights showing the locations of light pollution in October 2012. Globe at Night is an international scientific research program that crowdsources measurements of light pollution in the night sky. At set time periods within each year, the project asks people to count the number of stars that they can see from their location and report it to the project's website. The coordinating researchers compile this information to produce a public, freely available map of global light pollution.
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TestPAC crowdsources its mission, goals and campaigns from its member-base on the PAC's discussion forum on Reddit. Although most decisions are made among PAC members, major decisions are put to an official vote on the PAC's website. So far, the organization has held two official votes: one asking members whether to campaign against Lamar Smith and one to decide on a concept for a billboard advertisement. TestPAC primarily relies on crowdfunding as a means of fundraising and solicits donations on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit.
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The Universal Typeface Experiment is a promotional website funded by Société Bic, the maker of the Bic pen. The website crowdsources a typeface with mobile users who enter their handwriting on the website using a touchpad and the newly updated BIC pen called the Crystal Stylus, which includes a touchpad- friendly rubber tip. Though possible to participate using one's fingers, writing with a pen is significantly easier. Notwithstanding this difference, the website offers the contributor the opportunity to sign in and answer some demographic questions, enabling automatic aggregation of statistics about handwriting that sparked an article in the Smithsonian magazine.
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Shulkind frequently speaks on technology and entertainment panels and forums about the future of cinematography and content, the vital importance of gender, cultural, and geographical diversity, and how to responsibly use data acquisition and machine learning to model efficiencies and equality in the new system of content. In 2016 he served as a panelist at the International Cinematographer's Guild CineGear Expo panel Shooting Live Action VR Content. Shulkind serves as an advisor for SpaceCraft VR, a NASA-sponsored interactive infrastructure which crowdsources the future of space exploration. In 2017, he was the keynote speaker for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Technical Conference.
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Jade Magnet was an online Crowdsourcing platform for creative and marketing support services. It was founded in 2009 by Sitashwa Srivastava and Manik Kinra. The company is headquartered in Bangalore, India and has white label partnerships in Qatar as Mixilion and in Singapore as id8on. Jade Magnet crowdsources design requirements for marketing campaigns (logos, websites, brochures, print ads, animation videos) to freelancers, professionals, small agencies and technology from teams across the world. Initially established as an open crowdsourcing platform, Jade Magnet moved to a "managed crowdsourcing" model in 2013 wherein the company curates teams of designers from the crowd to provide solutions to its clients’.
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Rob Wiesenthal incubated Blade in early 2014 as the first digitally powered short-distance aviation company. It launched in May 2014, servicing the New York resort communities of the Southampton and East Hampton from New York City by helicopter. Since its inception, the company has remained asset light (Not owning aircraft) and utilizes a business model that crowdsources flights enabling fliers to set the departure point, time, destination and type of aircraft, and selling remaining seats to the Blade user community. In the fall of 2014, the company raised $5 million in a seed round with principal investors of David Zaslav, the CEO of Discovery Communication, Barry Diller, Chairman of IAC, Inc.
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Mosaik Solutions (formerly American Roamer) was a company that specializes in wireless coverage data and wireless coverage maps, based in Memphis, Tennessee before being acquired by Ookla. The company collects and crowdsources carrier signal quality from major telecommunications providers or users who have its consumer or enterprise mobile application installed. The data is used to provide insights into places around the world without access to cellular coverage and the development of new coverage patterns, as well as to provide maps showing what provider offers the best service in an area. In 2011, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), recognized Mosaik Solutions as the "industry standard" for the presence of wireless service at the census-block level.
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