. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back disrupt mc and techcrunch senior writer. >> hey, guys. we will work on it. san francisco is never very clappy. we will get right into vr. there is a pavilion in our startup alley, lots of cool gear to check out. we also have a panel. virtual reality is the new reality. joining us will be representatives from sony, htc, and our moderator. big round of applause. ♪ >> all right. i asked our boss if i could do this from my home in my boxers. no was the answer. here i am in the real, real reality. has anyone seen the time cover with the oculus guy? we will not talk about that. who has put on a pair of these vr headsets? a lot of you have an idea of the experiment. we were not talk about that -- we are not going to talk a lot about that. there are so many other uses. let's jump right in. we have seen this novelty thing. virtual reality, being other places. what is the reality of what it will be in three to five years? >> it is a great fast-moving industry. we are getting some early insight into it. the main thing is in the beginning, customers

joining us right now is jordan crook, she is senior writer at techcrunch. also is dana wollman, the manager editor at engadget. there is a new amazon entrant into the personal assistant, compete with sear refrom apple. >> it's meant to compete with a lot ofofdevices, it's a speaker that connects in your home through bluetooth and wifi, allows you to ask about questions, you can ask about the weather and also put orders on your amazon shopping list and place orders through the give vice. you can also control different smart electronics in your home. >> can you show us how she workrk >> the command word is alexa. i could say, alexa, tell me the weather. >> right now in new york it's 47 degrees with cloudy skies. >> it's a $179 deaf yiesvicedevice, not very expensive. right now there's a million different connected gadgets you can put into your home on your wrist and they are all speaking through wifi so you have to go to one app after another after another. devices like this or siri or google now allow you to have a i think isling interface where you can inte

joining us right now is jordan crook, she is senior writer at techcrunch. also dana coal man who is the managing editor at en dwajt. welcome. >> thanks for having us. >> there is a new amazon entrant into the personal assistant, this is to compete with is siri from apple. >> it is a speaker that sits in your home, connects via bluetooth and wifi, let's you ask questions the same way you would ask siri a question, ask about the wle, put orders on your amazon shopping list and you can also control different smart electric onks in our home. >> can you show us how she works. >> i can say, alexa, tell me the weather. >> right now in new york it's 47 degrees with cloudy skies. >> so i think what's important is this is a $179 device, it's not very expensive. what's important about it is right now there's a million different connected gadgets that you can put into your home on your wrist and they are all speaking to wifi, but they all require a different portal to use them or interact with them. you have to go to one an after another after another. devices like thi

my name is mike butcher an editor at large for techcrunch based out of london. telegram after creating the day, effectively aside for russia. but now you've got onto great telegram which is to some extent reminds me the health of what's out, really, and yet at the same stupid you've got over 60 million users. what are you sending, about 5 billion messages a day? >> last month 10 billion messages delivered daily. right now i checked earlier today it's over 12, 12 billion messages delivered daily. >> mac. that's breaking news to others today. 12 million messages a day. i think a lot of people would like to ask you what is the point of telegram in a world where there is so many other messaging platforms? >> it's a good question, but to put it simply, it doesn't matter how many other messaging apps are out there to all of them suck, right? spent which ones suck for you? >> for me after most of my team, what's at suck most speak with you say that sox? >> absolutely. i can't elaborate on that. >> please do. >> look. we are living in 2015. we are supposed to have flyin

. ♪ ♪ >> from the annual techcrunch disrupt in san francisco, a demonstration of ibm's artificial intelligenceputer system known as watson, the founder of the instant message service used by isis, and a conversation with rapper snoop doug about his new can -- snoop dogg. >> thank you for that unenthusiastic welcome back. [laughter] [applause] appreciate that. it's monday, so you guys are

apple was reality of what stu was a likely headed for martin billing but an online report from techcrunch claims the company no comment from apple. well this is amazon echo this is the wireless speaker and voice command device that controls smart devices around your home and now it can read to you. no joke you can tell it to resume pause resume we stopped even skip chapters having you read he was free but does sound a little robotic. speaking of robotic google is trading its most high tech robot helper on the house's name is in these six to three hundred and thirty pounds and walks on two legs. he has competed in the us military robot olympics but he's getting really good at rearranging furniture sweeping up and even vacuuming but you can use with these around the house. i mean let's get started. yeah stress of waiting i was telling the closer we get to robots taking out the trash the lesson last man are needed. oh please a women on the one that saw the giraffes were high and see the slide ride on the other hand i know but that didn't roll this morning the ladies i love you and within tha

. >> from the annual techcrunch disrupt, a demonstration of ibm artificial intelligence computer system known as watson, the founder of the instant message service and a conversation with snoop dogg. thank you for that unenthusiastic welcome back. we appreciate that. it's monday. very exciting is to have him join us on the stage. we talked a little bit about ai. either way, the future is here. please welcome dr. john kelly from ibm and our moderator alex wilhelm. ♪ >> we will try something a little different. we will do a live demo. we hope it will work. >> what you're about to see is something that no one else has seen. watson, theremember artificial intelligence machine on jeopardy. was an open domain question-and-answer system at the forefront of artificial intelligence. fast forward to today. what you will see it watson has ingested all of wikipedia. it answers questions and can inform opinions on any subject. >> watson? ?s it going to happen active >> watson, please start. today, we will demonstrate some of our capabilities generating arguments for or against specific topics. >> le

since i've left techcrunch, the amount of face time with just the general public has dropped significantlythere are other ways to help companies. >> vcs should be in the background. it's not our job to be in the limelight, and, you know, taking all the credit, because we really deserve almost no credit. >> yeah. >> we need to understand that tech founders today are leading the next industrial revolution x. investors should be honored that they get to be a part of that and knuckle down and help these companies be successful. >> yeah. so on that note, how isç sv doing? >> we're doing great. [laughter] we continue to invest in about one company a week. we've seen great success over last, you know, six years. currently, we're investors in 26 companies that are valued over a billion dollars, so we're pretty excited about that, companies like air bnb,w3 pinterest -- >> these are what people call unicorns. >> people do call them that. >> you're in 26 of them? how many unicorns are there now? >> just over 100 companies that are valued over a billion dollars. >> so what happened to the other 70% t

our next guest was with us at techcrunch in europe, the first one we did back in then.e was working on the content -- a russian world i can't say now. please welcome to the statement, pablo, and our moderator, mike butcher. >> he low, i'm mike butcher, i'm based out of london. possible pablo credited telegram after creating -- goes back to the site of russia. but now you have gone on to create telegram, which is to some extent reminds me of what's app, really, and not the same scale. you have over 60 million useres. what are you sending, 5 billion messages a day? >> actually, 10 billion last month, 10 billion messages delivered daily. right now i checked today, it's over 12. 12 billion messages daily. >> amazing. that's breaking news as of today. >> yes. >> 12 billion messages a day from telegram. i think a lot of people would like to ask you, what is the point of telegram? in a world where there are so many other messaging platforms. >> that's a good question. to put it simply, it does matter how much other messaging apps are out there if all of them suck. right? so, -

integrate mobile payment system apple pay into their atms according to technology web news sight techcrunchort. unclear how apple pay will work at atms. apple declined comment. wells fargo giving us hint, maria, chase calling contactless atms basically. got your phone, atm you don't touch. get your cash out. kind of thinking behind all of this. that is the speculation how this will work. they do it in spain and canada already. maria: you could do a lot with your phone. i don't know how that -- >> apple pay -- maria: would you use it that way? >> i haven't started using apple pay yet. maria: neither have i. >> it is limited. >> it is not taking at a lot of retailers. i'm guessing this will let you transfer cash from your checking account or safe eggs account on to the apple pay account? is that what it would do? right now it is linked to the credit card. >> if you have apple pay and debit card, credit card already stored. the problem with apple pay it is limited. you have only certain agreements. certain merchants only accept apple pay. but there is also android pay. there is not just a wide