Author: timbatchelder
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Automatic: Fitbit for cars
Track Fuel Economy, Kill Check-Engine Lights With the Fitbit for Cars Damon Lavrinc, wired.com Everyone knows that mashing the gas, slamming on the brakes and cruising at high speeds kills fuel economy. And considering the average driver spends upwards of $3,000 a year on gas, you’d think people would be more inclined to change ……
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App academy: free tuition until you get a job
Startups | Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free — Until You Get a Job Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com One school in one of the hottest hiring markets in the country is flipping the script on student loans: Until you get a job, you don’t pay. Marcus Wohlsen Tuition at Learn-to-Code Boot Camp Is Free —…
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Your FB likes become your demographic profile
What Your Likes On Facebook Betray About You By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Another nail in the coffin for Facebook privacy: An algorithm can accurately predict your demographic info, political preferences, and more, just by looking at your “likes.” Think of all the pages you’ve “liked” on Facebook. Perhaps a favorite… RT @PopSci: An algorithm can…
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Nanotechnology heater and cooling body wear
How Winter Woes Inspired A Nanotech Fix For Everything From Cold Necks To Knee Pain By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Kranthi Kiran Vistakula developed technology that can keep your body comfortable in outside temperatures that range from -50 to 50 degrees Celsius. With the exception of Russian novelists, not many people can say their big break…
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Industries that lose the most data
The Companies and Countries Losing Their Data Our Editors, hbr.org With China hacking the US, the US hacking China, and LinkedIn and Facebook and credit card companies and Google and who knows who else all vomiting our data all over the web, I was intrigued when a new report on data loss ran across my…
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Don’t eat Fukushima fish
Fish Near Fukushima Reportedly Contains High Cesium Level AP, huffingtonpost.com TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese utility that owns the tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant says it has detected a record 740,000 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium in a fish caught close to the plant. That’s 7,400 times the governme… RT @HuffingtonPost: Record level of radioactive…
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Learn to code with these online resources
Learn to Code for Free With These 10 Online Resources Zoe Fox, mashable.com Click here to view this galleryIf Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates say so, it must be true: Understanding how to code is the new literacyTake Zuck and Gates’ advice — learn to code. Understanding computer programming will open doors to new jobs…
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Context app for presentations
From An Apple Alum, An App That Makes Design Presentations A Cinch By Shonquis Moreno, fastcodesign.com Called Context, the software allows designers to mock up backgrounds and settings, without resorting to photoshop or outside photography. Context, a new app created by a designer for designers, is poised to make it vastly easier and fast… From…
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How to sign an email
Digital etiquette: What your email sign-off says about you The Week, theweek.com In descending order of our favorites…10. “Cordially,” What it means: Cordial comes from the Latin cordialis, and means “of or for the heart.” Some etymology manuals suggest it means something closer to “sincere.” Pr… http://flip.it/tAeYk Related articles Etymological Oxymorons (eternalthegod.wordpress.com)
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Sony RX 100: less filling, tastes great
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Panasonic GH3 review
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Solavei iPhone 5 no contract
Solavei, the T-Mobile MVNO with the interesting affiliate program now carries iPhone 5 nano SIMs on its unlimited $49/m plan Jordan Kahn, 9to5mac.com Solavei, the T-Mobile MVNO offering $49-per-month unlimited on the carrier’s newly enhanced HSPA+ network, today announced the availability of nano SIM cards for unlocked iPhone 5 owners. That means iPhone 5 customers…
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Virgin carries iPhone 5,contract free
With opening of LTE on Virgin, the pre-paid wireless company is now ready for the iPhone 5 Élyse Betters, 9to5mac.com Virgin Mobile USA, a subsidiary of Sprint Nextel Corporation, began offering LTE today, which significantly means the carrier could now carry the iPhone 5 along with its parent company. Virgin now carries the iPhone 4…
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Switch from Mint to Pageonce?
I Switched from Mint.com to Pageonce. Maybe You Should Too. Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushFor more than a decade, I was a faithful user of Quicken, Intuit’s desktop personal finance program. I stopped using it in 2008 after Mint.com came along, giving me the ability to monitor all my accounts from one simple, attractiv… http://flip.it/Up8PU…
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Reinvent your quantified self for the tech economy
The Quantified Man: How an Obsolete Tech Guy Rebuilt Himself for the Future By Klint Finley, wired.com Tesco — the company that runs a chain of grocery stores across Great Britain — uses digital armbands to track the performance of its warehouse staff. A former Tesco employee told The Independent newspaper that the armbands… http://flip.it/2DAD7…
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Good Eggs Aims to Be the Amazon of Local Food By Alexandra Chang, wired.com Good Eggs, which launched last summer as the Etsy of local food, is expanding in a bid to become the Amazon of local food. The San Francisco-based company launched a new web platform Thursday that lets users select items from local…
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Good Eggs: the Amazon of local food
Good Eggs Aims to Be the Amazon of Local Food By Alexandra Chang, wired.com Good Eggs, which launched last summer as the Etsy of local food, is expanding in a bid to become the Amazon of local food. The San Francisco-based company launched a new web platform Thursday that lets users select items from local…
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Facebook killed my blog
Facebook Killed My Blog Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushTravels With Rhody has reached the end of the road.Don’t worry, Rhody himself is fine—he’ll turn 16 in a couple of months and his only problem in life is a touch of arthritis. I’m talking about my blog, not my dog.Since 2004 I’ve… http://flip.it/GEyz7 Related articles Don’t…
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Verticulture: plastic bottles into glowing walls
Verti-Cult: Miniwiz Unveils Glowing Green Wall Made From Recycled Bottles Helen Morgan, inhabitat.com Taipei-based Miniwiz just unveiled a brand new system that transforms old bottles into gorgeous glowing green walls! Dubbed Verti-Cult, the system is made from 100% recycled Polyethylene milk and juice bottles collected from local schools in Hsinc… http://flip.it/1U84H Related articles Self watering…
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Humanity’s deep future
Omens Ross Andersen, aeonmagazine.com Sometimes, when you dig into the Earth, past its surface and into the crustal layers, omens appear. In 1676, Oxford professor Robert Plot was putting the final touches on his masterwork, The Natural History of Oxfordshire, when he received a stran… Ross Andersen – Humanity’s deep future http://flip.it/aTaRu http://flip.it/hRIts
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The human body is the next interface
Why The Human Body Will Be The Next Computer Interface By Fjord, fastcodesign.com Fjord charts the major innovations of the past, and predicts a future of totally intuitive “micro gestures and expressions” that will control our devices. By now you’ve probably heard a lot about wearables, living services, the Internet of… Why The Human Body…
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The data science of chores
The Difference Between a Happy Marriage and Miserable One: Chores Wendy Klein, Carolina Izquierdo, & Thomas N. Bradbury, theatlantic.com Couples who don’t have a system for household tasks can get really resentful, really quickly. A look at the results of an in-depth study of middle-class families. Between 2001 and 2004, a team of UCLA researchers…
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Chemistry makes healthy foods more appealing
Can Chemistry Make Healthy Foods More Appealing? Rachel Nuwer, smithsonianmag.com Photo: holtmiGive a baby her first spoonful of mashed spinach or blended brussell sprouts and you can likely watch her face pucker up in shocked torment. Veggies tend to be a dreaded childhood bane for many youngsters, yet there are exceptions to … Can Chemistry…
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