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Insert Coin: GPS Cookie leaves a trail of breadcrumbs wherever you go (video) Daniel Cooper, engadget.com In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line. Richard…
FBI seizes black market website Silk Road, arrests its founder Jon Fingas, engadget.com Light just reached one of the darker corners of the web: the FBI has seized Silk Road, a site infamous for hosting anonymized, Bitcoin-based drug and gun sales. The move follows a sting operation that also led to the arrest of site…
Target’s Brightspot mobile service launches Sunday, starts at $35 per month Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Ever tenacious retailer Target is once again nipping at Walmart’s heels. Following the introduction of its Target Ticket video-on-demand service — a direct competitor to Vudu — the big box chain is now looking to get into the… http://flip.it/AakID Related articles…
Numerate Trains Its Drug Design Platform On Huntington’s Disease Bernadette Tansey, xconomy.com Bernadette TanseyThe path toward a breakthrough drug often starts with a new insight about the molecular cause of an illness, but only a few of these discoveries lead to new treatments. Steven Finkbeiner at the Gladstone Institutes in San… http://flip.it/Ivquf Related articles Drug…
Reimagining Work: Scott Berkun’s Year Without Pants at Automattic Wade Roush, xconomy.com Wade RoushFrom my desk at Xconomy San Francisco—aka my Potrero Hill apartment—I can look out the window at Highway 280, watch the traffic that crawls into the city every morning and back out every evening, and chuckle smugly. There’s never … http://flip.it/6DRoG
The Pharma Bureaucracy Index: Who’s Nimble, and Who’s Sloooowww? xconomy.com (Page 2 of 2) the respondents that their answers would remain anonymous, but that I’d used their scores to put together a composite index of pharma bureaucracy. By the end of business on Thurs … http://flip.it/GlS4k Related articles The Biotech Startup Class of 2013: Don’t…
TellSpec identifies food ingredients and calories using science, magic Zach Honig, engadget.com Some of us can’t eat gluten, while others need to stay away from certain fats. Mealtime can be incredibly stressful for people with dietary restrictions — especially when dining out — since manufacturers aren’t always required to… http://flip.it/j7t0R
Where the City Meets the Wild Adrian Kinloch, slate.com Car and chair, Marine Park, BrooklynPhoto by Adrian KinlochWe’ve been to the moon and just about everywhere on Earth. So what’s left to discover? In September, Future Tense is publishing a series of articles in response to the question, “Is… http://flip.it/fHg9B
Laura Spinney, slate.com Corona is thought of as a lighter beer than it really is because it’s yellow and comes in a clear bottle.Photo by Mark Sinderson/Flickr via Creative Commons (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marksinderson/7192206584/) With ever more pressure to vie… http://flip.it/ZT83L Synesthesia Sells
Passionate About 3D? Become an Evangelist for Lagoa in Boston core77.com wants a 3D Evangelist in Boston, Massachusetts Who are they? Lagoa is the world’s first web-based platform for photoreal 3D visualization and rendering. They provide both designers and artists an exciting and innovative interface t… http://flip.it/whcnw Related articles Montreal’s 3D Photoreal Rendering Startup Lagoa…
What is the Best American State for an Industrial Designer? core77.com If you’re an industrial designer in the U.S. and want to live someplace with a lot of job opportunities, where should you go? According to Michigan Live, the top five American states with the most industrial designers include Rhode Island,… http://flip.it/ebYjM Related articles Be…
Mobile Pop-Up Shop Kit Transforms Vacant Storefronts Into Instant Community Hubs inhabitat.com An eclectic team of architects, designers, urban planners and filmmakers are giving new life to vacant storefronts on the Lower East Side with their ready-made kit of furnishings stored in a … http://flip.it/tJzAZ Related articles What Tech Hasn’t Learned From Urban Planning (nytimes.com)
BY Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, inc.com If you’ve been to business school, this definition likely means something to you: “Taking a product and making it simpler and more affordable, so many more people have access to it.” Yes, that’s Harvard Business School professor… http://flip.it/UYuMF Clay Christensen: The Wrong Kind of Innovation
The Surprising Identity of Each Social Network Cooper Smith, inc.com Each social media platform has cultivated a unique identity thanks to the demographics of the people who participate in the network. Some platforms are preferred by young adults, who are most active in the evening, others by… http://flip.it/j6B9e Related articles Social Media is About Relationship…
Think You’re Special? A Robot Could Do Your Job fastcoexist.com Technology is advancing so fast that half of all jobs that exist today might be taken over by bots and computers in the next 20 years. Find out if your job is on the list. Is your job safe from our new computer-programmed overlords? A…
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Twitter Founder Reveals Secret Formula for Getting Rich Online Ryan Tate, wired.com The co-creator of Twitter and Blogger has decided that “the internet is simply a giant machine designed to give people what they want.” Here’s what this grand unified theory means and where it came from. http://flip.it/noY5p Related articles A Grand Unified Economic Theory?…
FDA to start reining in the Wild West of medical apps by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, cnet.com The FDA says it is only regulating products that turn smartphones into medical devices it already oversees, such as apps that let your phone act as an electronic stethoscope or give feedback on CPR. The Wild West of mobile…
From spooky to sublime, these Street View pics are hard to forget by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com Montreal artist Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes project collects some of the craziest Google Street View images you’ve ever seen. If you’ve never taken a random walk through Google Street View, the experience can feel like a dream in slow……
Expect Labs’ anticipatory computing platform gets backing from Liberty Global, IDG — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles Expect Labs Anticipates a Day when the Computer Is Always Listening (xconomy.com)
Tired of long lines at the pharmacy? ZappRx tests ‘mobile boarding pass’ for prescriptions — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles We Like: ZappRX, Kinect the Docs, and Wearable Thermometers (portal.lillycoi.com) ZappRx raises $1M, looks to the future of e-prescriptions (pandodaily.com) ZappRx gets $1M for its e-prescription app (venturebeat.com) ZappRx Lands $1M To Rethink Prescription…
Daniel Lieberman: ‘Dieting is a disaster for everyone’ Interview by Ian Tucker, theguardian.com Harvard’s professor of human evolutionary biology explains why obesity is the major 21st-century problem – and why we are ill-equipped to deal with it Daniel Lieberman is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard and has published… http://flip.it/F9R8p Related articles Making…
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