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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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  • Better mail apps for the Mac

    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…

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  • Best of Apple App Store 2012

    Apple’s Best Of App Store 2012 Rewards Creativity, Google; Skype And Rovio Take Top App Spots Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com Apple has released its annu­al “Best Of” fea­ture for the iTunes and App Stores, and this year there are some apps at the top of the list that indi­cate Apple is inter­est­ed in reward­ing apps that…

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  • Move to the Cloud in the Least Expensive iPad Mini

    By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com Apple charges $100 more for storage when you buy the the 32- gigabyte iPad Mini over the 16-gigabyte model. But if you take the time to move your files and other material online, using a number of free or low-cost services, you will be able to buy… RT @nytimesbits: Move to…

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  • Field Notes in Ergonomic Diversity: Standup Workers Speak

    By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com Growing numbers of office workers are joining the ergonomic diversity movement. They are standing up, sometimes even walking at treadmill desks, while working. The health risks of sitting for hours are prompting workers to consider alternatives to… RT @nytimesbits: Field Notes in Ergonomic Diversity: Standup Workers Speak http://flip.it/GgQIC http://flip.it/ygsCd Field Notes…

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  • Artist visualizes his life online

    BigPic: Two And A Half Years Of Computer Use In One Incredible Image By Colin Lecher, popsci.com A map of when artist Marcin Ignac used his computer, when he didn’t, and what he was seeing For a project titled Every Day of My Life, artist/programmer/designer Marcin Ignac used soft­ware to track, mea­sure, and visu­al­ize his…

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  • How to describe environmental science to conservatives

    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…

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  • Visualizing aging via web app stimulates financial literacy

    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…

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  • DIY drone filmmaking replaces expensive Hollywood tech

    Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Skate­board­ers have been tap­ing their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of cam­corders, but the pro­duc­ers of short and beau­ti­ful video Fire­fly took the next log­i­cal step: using a cam­era mount­ed to a hexa­copte… Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a…

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  • GoPro camera used for stratospheric imaging

    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…

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  • Jeff Dawkins: Big data applied via cognitive science

      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…

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  • Zensorium cardio health monitor for iOS

    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…

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

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