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  • Case study of ditching the DSLR for a mirror less

    Sony NEX-5R review: can the best mirrorless camera get even better? By Dan Seifert, theverge.com Ear­li­er this year, I made a pret­ty dras­tic change in my cam­era set up. I left behind my trusty Canon DSLR, and the lens­es and acces­sories that had served me well for six years, and I picked up a Sony…

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  • Benchmarking cloud sync and storage

    Google Drive vs. Dropbox, SkyDrive, SugarSync, and others: a cloud sync storage face-off By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com Does Drive stand a chance against sync and backup veterans? Google’s very own “Loch Ness monster,” also known as Google Drive, has final­ly launched. It’s the new face of Google Doc­u­ments, and it’s also Google’s oft-rumored Dropbox-killer. It……

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  • Lapka turns your iPhone into a biolab

    Lapka for iPhone: five sensors to measure the world, inspired by NASA and Yves Saint Laurent By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com A small Russian hardware startup brings ‘luxury tools’ to your phone Lapka’s tagline may be the “Per­son­al Envi­ron­ment Monitor,” but its name is root­ed in the Russ­ian word for paw. “We want to be the…

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  • ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ is a middling return to Middle-earth By Bryan Bishop, theverge.com Peter Jackson ditches romance and charm for high frame rates and 3D A decade ago, Peter Jack­son pulled off what many thought was impos­si­ble: adapt­ing J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings into an epic big-screen tril­o­gy. The movies… RT…

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  • The Evernote clipping obsession

    The Verge at work: backing up your brain By Thomas Houston, theverge.com How I use Evernote as a memory tool for deep reading, writing, and research The Verge at Work is a series about process. We’re not sci­en­tists, and we’re not gurus, we’re just try­ing to get some work done. The solu­tions pre­sent­ed here ar……

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  • Netflix is a good place to see how fast your Internet service is

    Netflix launches monthly ISP speed rankings, praises Google Fiber, and calls out AT&T By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Net­flix is wide­ly acknowl­edged to make up a large chunk of down­stream inter­net traf­fic, and the com­pa­ny is now using that posi­tion to start chart­ing how fast ISPs can stream movies to cus­tomers. Every month, it’s announced, it…

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  • Ambient electricity sounds and forensic digital anthropology

    Electricity’s ‘hum’ helps forensic experts detect manipulated audio recordings By Chris Welch, theverge.com An aver­age per­son on the street may find it hard to tell the dif­fer­ence between an unal­tered record­ing and one that’s been edit­ed or tam­pered with in some way, but foren­sic experts are often tasked with just that respon­si­bil­i­ty.… RT @verge: Electricity’s…

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  • Why the iPad shall replace your ugly black television

    The future of television has arrived: it’s called the iPad By Nilay Patel, theverge.com Why owning the second screen is Apple’s game to lose The future of the tele­vi­sion is the iPad. That was the over­whelm­ing mes­sage at the TV of Tomor­row con­fer­ence in New York, which saw exec­u­tives and deci­sion mak­ers from across the……

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  • Transcendence: a new film about AI

    Johnny Depp assumes the role of artificial intelligence in new sci-fi flick ‘Transcendence’ By Kimber Streams, theverge.com John­ny Depp will play a sci­en­tist whose con­scious­ness is uploaded to a super­com­put­er in the upcom­ing sci­ence fic­tion film Tran­scen­dence, TheWrap reports. Incep­tion direc­tor Christo­pher Nolan is exec­u­tive… http://flip.it/GwUjo Related articles Johnny Depp’s ‘Transcendence’ Adds Paul Bettany, Gets…

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  • Pacific Rim: robots battle monsters as usual

    Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ features robots battling giant monsters By Ben Kersey, theverge.com Complete with the familiar tones of Portal’s GLaDOS Hol­ly­wood seems keen to turn 2013 into the year of the sci-fi block­buster, with trail­ers released so far for films such as Obliv­ion and After Earth. The indus­try has yet… RT @verge: Watch…

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  • T-mobile eyes Metro PCS with iPhone 5

    (via Can you say MetroPCS iPhone? T-Mobile sure can — Apple News, Tips and Reviews)</p Related articles MetroPCS recommends amended T-Mobile deal (seattlepi.com) T-Mobile says first day Apple iPhone 5 sales were huge; device sold like “Gangbusters” (phonearena.com) MetroPCS encourages shareholders again to vote for T-Mobile deal (geekwire.com) MetroPCS delays vote after T-Mobile beefs up…

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  • iPhone 5 on cricket

    (via iPhone 5 to debut on Cricket Wireless on Sept. 28 | TechHive) Related articles Cricket’s iPhone 5 play stumbles amid half the predicted demand (slashgear.com) Apple to Release a New A1428 iPhone 5 Starting April 12th With AWS Support! (applios.wordpress.com)

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  • Mailbox app for iPhone replaces Apple mail

    Mailbox for iPhone: a next-generation email app inspired by Sparrow and Clear By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com Cloud to-do list com­pa­ny Orches­tra today announced Mail­box, an email client for the iPhone it’s been build­ing for the last year. I’ve been test­ing Mail­box for the last few weeks and it’s noth­ing short of spec­tac­tu­lar. It’s the best…

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  • ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox

    Alex Williams, techcrunch.com Y Com­bi­na­tor com­pa­ny Zen­Pay­roll launched its cloud-based pay­roll ser­vice today with $6.1 mil­lion in seed fund­ing from Google Ven­tures and invest­ments from the CEOs at Yam­mer, Box, Yelp and Drop­box. It is the largest seed round ever … RT @TechCrunch: ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs…

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  • Food Discovery App Burpple Savors $500K In Seed Funding Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com Burp­ple, a mobile app that seeks to con­nect food lovers around the world, today announced that it has received $500,000 in seed fund­ing from Neote­ny Labs and QuestVC. The Singapore-based com­pa­ny was also named one of the top 10 star­tups in… RT @TechCrunch:…

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  • With $46M Now In The Bank, textPlus Looks To Go Big Abroad, Launches Cheap International Calling On Android Rip Empson, techcrunch.com It’s been a big year for the artist for­mer­ly known as GOGII. Back in Octo­ber, the South­ern California-based start­up raised $18 mil­lion in series D financ­ing from The Raine Group, Klein­er Perkins, Matrix Part­ners…

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  • Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air

    Phil Plait, slate.com I was thinking of writing a lengthy post about climate change denial being completely unscientific nonsense, but then geochemist and National Science Board member James Lawrence Powell wrote a post that is basically a slam-dunk of debunking. His… http://flip.it/ag9vG Why Climate Change Denial Is Just Hot Air Related articles Two Documentaries on…

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  • Alfred workflow creation tool

    Upcoming Alfred 2.0 app adding Workflows, a simple visual tool for creating strings of actions By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Ver­sion 2 of pop­u­lar OS X launch­er app Alfred was announced last week, and we’re now see­ing one of the big­ger new fea­tures that’s set to come with it. Called Work­flows, it’s a set of trig­gers,…

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  • Apps for iPad that let anyone watch cable channels for free

    History, A&E, and Lifetime Channel apps for iPad let anyone watch current episodes for free By Dante D’Orazio, theverge.com It may con­tin­ue to be a pain for cable sub­scribers to watch tele­vi­sion when mobile, but the sit­u­a­tion should be a bit improved now that apps for the His­to­ry Chan­nel, A&E, and Life­time are avail­able for…

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  • Copyright law on the digital frontier

    Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Use of Google’s take­down tool for search results has grown ten­fold in the past six months, the com­pa­ny reports. When it start­ed pub­licly post­ing take­down notices in late May, around 250,000 requests a week went…

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  • Adobe finally gives up on desktop software, embraces the creative cloud

    With 326K Paid Of 1M Total Members, Adobe Adds Teams To Creative Cloud, Subscriber-Exclusive Updates To Photoshop CS6 Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com Adobe is host­ing an event today to show off some new updates it’s mak­ing for its Cre­ative Cloud offer­ings, but here’s an advance look: The ser­vice is get­ting a num­ber of exclu­sive updates that…

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  • Diabetes prevention goes digital

    NEA-Backed Omada Health Launches Its 16-Week Digital Health Program To Bring Diabetes Prevention Online Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Last Decem­ber, Omada Health raised $800K in seed fund­ing from a host of angel and ven­ture investors, includ­ing NEA, Aber­dare, Kapor Cap­i­tal, Triple­Point Ven­tures and Esther Dyson — to name a few. A grad­u­ate of Rock Health’s first…

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  • Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

    With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com Buffer, the social media man­ag­er that allows you to sched­ule posts to Twit­ter, Face­book and LinkedIn, is today launch­ing a redesign of its ser­vice on both web and mobile. The…

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  • Check this online posters

    Checkthis Updates Its Social Posters: Share Visually Compelling Content Without Setting Up A Blog Romain Dillet, techcrunch.com Check­this received a major update today, mak­ing it more than ever a visu­al com­ple­ment to the text-only updates on social net­works. The ser­vice enables users to cre­ate com­pelling posters and share them with their friends. But users now…

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  • Loccit converts your Facebook media into physical stuff

    UK Startup Loccit Sells 8k Facebook ‘Memory Books’ In 48 Hours, Wants To Turn Your Digital Media Footprint Into Physical Stuff Natasha Lomas, techcrunch.com There’s a cot­tage indus­try of star­tups that want to sell your social net­work­ing con­tent back to you in a new form, such as Past­Book and Mem­olane. Loc­c­it, a UK-based ecom­merce start­up…

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  • Scoop.it lets you create your own digital magazines

    Content Curation Startup, Scoop.it, Rolls Out Big New Redesign To Help Businesses & Pros Increase Their Visibility Online Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Scoop.it launched last Novem­ber to give any­one and every­one the abil­i­ty to cre­ate their own dig­i­tal mag­a­zines — to aggre­gate and dis­trib­ute con­tent from across ye olde Inter­nets accord­ing to their par­tic­u­lar inter­ests —…

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  • Transcriptic biotech startup funded by Google Ventures

    Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com Start­up biotech com­pa­ny Tran­scrip­tic has raised $1.2 mil­lion in a seed fund­ing round from a wide group of investors led by Google Ven­tures and FF Angel (Founders Fund‘s seed stage arm), and pri­vate investors Mark Cuban and…

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