Over the course of the last few years, more and more “clickers” have found their way into college classrooms. These little devices allow teachers to request real-time feedback from their students through short quizzes and surveys. Toronto-based developer Liam Kaufman, however, thinks that a simpler application that just tells teachers whether their students are confused or not could help... 

It’s not too difficult to find locally grown fruits and vegetables in most markets — but start searching for beef, chicken or pork and your food’s origins become a lot more murky. That’s what the Kansas City-based startup AgLocal aims to change. The mobile-based app functions as a network to benefit three sides of the carnivorous human food chain. Consumers will be... 

BrandYourself, a startup offering a cheap and easy approach to managing your Google results, has added a new feature to answer one of those burning questions: Who are the people Googling me? To be clear, it’s not actually plugging in to Google and sending you an alert every single time someone enters your name. Instead, it’s revealing data about who’s visiting your BrandYourself... 

Gmail‘s automated message translation is no longer an experiment. Now Google’s popular email platform can automatically translate emails from one language to another. So, for example, you can get an email in Japanese and have it translated instantly into English, or communicate with a friend in French without ever knowing the language. Automatic Message translation was originally introduced... 

Y Combinator might be best known for software plays like Dropbox and Airbnb. But it’s also harbored a few hardware companies, notably the one that blew out Kickstarter funding records with Pebble Watch this month. There’s actually one more waiting in the wings. Per Vices is a startup from the latest class that’s looking to disrupt how wireless communications are sent. They’ve... 

This past weekend, The White House Correspondents’ Dinner was the linchpin in a series of star-studded events bringing together politics, media, Hollywood and, especially in 2012, tech. Here’s a look inside this year’s extravaganza. Mayor of Nerdprom Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley and his girlfriend, stylist and fashion writer Chelsa Skees, lead the WHCD tech invasion... 

Editor’s note: Patrick Moran is an executive at New Relic, a SaaS web app performance company with over 21,000 active customers. Follow him on Twitter @patrickmoran. With all the chatter about Billion dollar valuations — like Instagram, Evernote, Splunk —  combined with recent S1 filings and IPOs, the topic of tech company valuation is coming to the forefront of people’s minds. Specifically... 

A night out dancing is always so much better when you don’t have to hang on to a clunky purse. College girls want to avoid carrying items to parties at all costs. Two Washington college students have created a pushup bra specifically for carrying a smartphone, credit cards, IDs, money and keys. The JoeyBra features a pouch on the left side of the bra underneath a woman’s left armpit....