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The Wizarding World of Harry Potter was the name of the game for this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in London. Well…at least for us! We partnered with our good friends over at Mapbox and IBM Watson to host a Build a Harry Potter’s Marauder’s Map-inspired App using PubNub BLOCKS...

Matthew Young is a Boston based freelance writer. As an aspiring automotive journalist looking to make a name for himself in the industry, he is passionate about covering anything on four wheels. When Matthew is not busy writing about cars or new emerging tech, he usually spends time fiddling with his...

Data Streams are changing everything. The power to stream data at real-time speed, to anywhere on Earth, has become a staple of applications for every industry, and has found itself a fundamental feature for end users. As a result, we’re rethinking how we architect and build software and hardware, and...

“I’m setting you up to be dangerous,” declared Bear Douglas, a Twitter developer advocate who was the Android instructor for sixteen rising college juniors as part of Twitter’s inaugural Early Bird Camp. I had heard of her only weeks before from Tomomi, who knew her from events and meetups like...

In the previous article, I broke IoT down to simpler components like software, hardware and network, and went on to categorize the pain points in IoT. Moving forward, I will show you how to overcome these challenges when building a real-time IoT application. Whether you are building a home automation...

As hardware gets cheaper and devices get smarter, the world moves towards being always-on and forever connected. This means that more and more data is constantly being sent and received. Traditionally it was only mobile phones, computers, and servers talking to each other, but nowadays, that list...

Create real-time graphs without code! With PubNub’s Project EON you can create real-time graphs that update when you publish data over PubNub. EON works with any of the 70+ SDKs available. Check out our libraries for Javascript, Python, Ruby, and Arduino. If you need help getting started with EON, check...

As part of our new AngularJS series, we invited Katie Ginder-Vogel from Ionic to tell us about some of the cool things people have built with Ionic. Ionic is an open source mobile platform built on AngularJS, with a rich ecosystem of tools to help you quickly build and ship quality mobile apps.  –...