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Premise Pays App Users To Gather Real-World Economic Data
Imagine Uber and Waze had a baby, who grew up and married Foodspotting. Premise, which gathers real-world economic data by paying people to snap photos and record prices of products in their local markets using the company’s free Android app, … Continue reading
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In The Battle Against Startup Darling Slack, HipChat Throws a Punch
If you haven’t heard of group messaging services, you will soon, most likely because of massive hype about Slack—the current superstar of the tech world. Debuting in early 2014, Slack has eclipsed, at least in the public eye, the former … Continue reading
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CloudFlare’s Matthew Prince Challenges Amazon For Control Of The Net
Wearing jeans and a plaid shirt, the cofounder and CEO of CloudFlare, an Internet edge service provider (more on what that means later), describes a grand vision of sweeping changes in the Internet infrastructure market, with much of it sliding … Continue reading
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Meet the Hackers Who Are Decrypting Your Brainwaves
Conor Russomanno, a self-described neurohacker, asks me to close my eyes and relax. After a few seconds, he tells me later, the screen showed a slight spike at around 10 Hz—a rise in the alpha waves that indicates a restful … Continue reading
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Apple TV Just Ripped Off The Roku Player–Brilliantly
Apple just ripped off Roku as blatantly as Android ripped off iOS. But Apple has built by far the best Roku Player ever. Despite—or perhaps because of—being a copycat, Apple has a very good chance of winning the Internet-streaming box war. … Continue reading
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IBM And Chip Designer ARM Want To Monitor Every Device They Can
Today IBM and ARM (which licenses the designs used in billions of mobile device chips) announced an alliance to stake their claim to this new tech territory. ARM-based chips will be equipped to collect data from the devices they live … Continue reading
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Seeking Pitches – Cloud Tech Innovation & Consumer Tech Explainers
I’m freelancing for several great publications, including FastCompany.com and Yahoo Tech. I’m on the hunt for good story ideas – but in very specific areas. If you have something you really think will fit, please email me. Here are the … Continue reading
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Google News Lab Mashes Big Data With Old-School Reporting
[Fast Company] Google is no longer just a place to search for news stories; it’s a place to find raw news itself. Among the 432,000 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every day are user clips of important events—from police … Continue reading
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What Is Adobe Flash, and How Can You Get Rid of It?
[Yahoo Tech] Even if you don’t exactly know what Adobe Flash is, this is important news. Whether you know it or not, odds are pretty high that Adobe Flash is on your computer right now, possibly putting your system and … Continue reading
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My Retina Tracker Crowdsources Cures For Blindness
[Fast Company, Photo: Flickr user A Silly Person] My Retina Tracker hooks patients with a big, though long-shot, incentive: By uploading their medical records and answering questionnaires, patients may get the attention of researchers who may be doing clinical trials … Continue reading
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