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From The Makers Of Orchestra Comes Mailbox, The Best Email Management App You’ll Ever Use Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com Every now and then, I get my hands on an application or a piece of technology that I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about. Something that is a joy to use, tackles a…
Concept Of “Purity” Makes Conservatives Care About Environmental Issues By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com Re-framing environmental rhetoric so it appeals to conservatives can really work, a study finds. It’s not that political conservatives don’t care about things like climate change, recycling and deforestation—it’s that they don’t care ab… RT @PopSci: Pro tip: Framing environmental issues in…
Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money By Colin Lecher, popsci.com People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly. Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced version of yourself, you’re more…
GoPro Camera Records Sky Divers and Surfers By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com There have been two major milestones in narcissistic photography in the last century. The first was the invention of the self-timer, which Kodak began selling during World War I. The second came a few years ago, as teenagers stood at… RT @nytimesbits: Disruptions: A…
Bits Blog: Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Jeff Hawkins got rich and famous as the brains behind Palm, an early power in mobile data. He has also developed a new model of how we think, which will now be used, he says, to revolutionize the data analysis…
Zensorium launches Tinké cardiorespiratory health and stress monitor for iOS devices (video) Jamie Rigg, engadget.com Planning a gluttonous holiday season and then a health kick in the New Year to balance it out? Well, when you start on the latter, you might want one of Zensorium’s Tinké cardiorespiratory monitors to track your progress. The… RT…
MetroMile launches pay-per-mile car insurance, trades a sliver of privacy for savings Jon Fingas, engadget.com The notion of tracking cars for insurance purposes tends to polarize us: it’s either a technical marvel that gives an honest appraisal of how we drive, or a dystopian nightmare that makes it impossible to have a little fun without…
WordPress.com Enterprise Offers Managed Hosting for Businesses Christina Warren, mashable.com Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, announced its WordPress.com Enterprise service Thursday as an option for customers who have outgrown the capabilities of WordPress.com’s services but don’t need the extra features and expense of WordPr… http://flip.it/qQwuZ
Get a no-contract mobile hot spot that ‘pays’ you for sharing Wi-Fi by Rick Broida, cnet.com The Karma hot spot earns you extra data when you share your 4G connection with strangers. Cool or just plain crazy? You’ve heard of FreedomPop, right? It’s the Clearwire-powered 4G service that gives you a “free” mobile hot spot…
Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmers Market Bonnie Cha, allthingsd.com The benefits of your local farmers markets are plenty. You’re getting fresh food, supporting local farms and helping to create a more sustainable food system. But with limited hours and locations, you probably can’t take advanta… RT @allthingsd: Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmer’s Market…
Still Seeking to Shake Up Mobile Market, FreedomPop Also Looks to Rattle Home Broadband Ina Fried, allthingsd.com FreedomPop, a start-up aiming to offer free and low-cost mobile broadband access, is now taking aim at the home Internet market as well. The company, backed by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, plans on Wednesday to start taking preord……
FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Wireless start-up FreedomPop is announcing plans on Tuesday to start selling an add-on that effectively gives an iPod touch many of the capabilities of an iPhone. The $99 add-on brings wireless data capabilities to a third-generat… http://flip.it/lw7Sl Related…
What Is 23andMe Really Selling: The Moral Quandary At The Center Of The Personalized Genomics Revolution Steven Kotler, forbes.com This week, 23andme, the personalized genomics company founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, got an influx of investment cash ($50 million). According to their press release, they are using the money to…
Is Google’s New Maps App Actually a Big Triumph for Apple? Frederick E. Allen, forbes.com Last September when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amazingly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so roundly denounced as a step backward and a weakening of the iPhone environment that chief execut……
Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com The advent of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud demonstrates the need for enterprises to develop new ways of harnessing the vast potential of big data. Yet these marketing clouds beg the question of who will help… RT @allthingsd:…
25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com Update: The petition has reached 25,000 signatures Almost immediately following the tragic school shooting in Connecticut, over 16,000 people have signed an official White House WeThePeople petition to “Immediately… RT @TechCrunch: Scores Flood White House With Online…
Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come December 18th, futurist extraordinaire Ray Kurzweil will be joining Google’s ranks as Director of Engineering to work on projects that involve machine learning and language processing. Specifics regarding those projects, howev… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…
Romney Ad Named ‘Lie of the Year’thedailybeast.com PANTS ON FIRE Well, at least he won something. Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign was awarded “Lie of the Year” on Wednesday by fact-checking website PolitiFact. The Pinocchio moment: the claim that Barack Obama “sold Chrysler to th… http://flip.it/ODboh
Michael V. Copeland, wired.com Analyst turned VC Mary Meeker sees a lot to be excited about in tech (mobile), and much to be worried about too. http://flip.it/sMiw8 Big Tech: Mary Meeker Says We’re Giving Up Our Possessions for the Internet Related articles Disrupt or Die. Are You Working With The Social Agency Of The…
Phil Plait, slate.com [Note from the author: This is not my first vaccine rodeo, and I expect some interesting remarks in the comments section. As always, I have copiously linked key phrases in this article to more information backing up my claims. Please read them… Congress Promotes Dangerous Anti-vaccine Quackery Related articles The “no compassion”…
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