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Here's The Live Stream For 500 Startups' E-Commerce Conference
Mar 21, 3:55PM
If there's one thing 500 Startups knows pretty well, it's how to find companies that know how to sell. Over the course of the last few years, the seed-stage investment firm has made numerous bets on e-commerce companies. Today, it's brought together a lineup of speakers to help its portfolio companies and other entrepreneurs in the valley to better understand how e-commerce works today. Read More
Tappy Fit Channels Flappy Bird Addiction Into Fitness Motivation Using Fitbit Data
Mar 21, 3:35PM
A new game out now on the App Store features mechanics virtually identical to those found in viral hit Flappy Bird, but with a key twist – the game can be made easier through sheer physical effort. Using the Fitbit API, developer Aaron Coleman built-in a variable difficulty engine that allows you to redeem steps counted during a day in exchange for in-game rewards, like wider gaps between… Read More
Battle Of The "Reaction" Messengers
Mar 21, 1:53PM
If you build it, they will come? Half a dozen or so applications have launched in recent months, hoping to dominate what they all hope will be one of the next big trends in mobile messaging: the “reaction” messenger. That is, these apps utilize a smartphone’s camera to either photograph or record a video of a message’s recipient to see how they react to your text, or other… Read More
Hoop Tracker Basketball Smartwatch Provides Automatic, Real-Time Shot Tracking
Mar 21, 1:26PM
Playing basketball is fun, but I am bad at it. I might be less bad if I used the Hoop Tracker smartwatch, which is designed very specifically for basketball, unlike most wearables that aim at a more general audience. The new Kickstarter project promises instant analysis and tracking of your shots, including three-point, free throw and field goal percentage, as well as more standard stuff like time… Read More
Your Computer Knows Your Pain (Better Than Humans Do)
Mar 21, 1:19PM
In a fascinating project, researchers at University of California San Diego and the University of Toronto have found that computers are far better than humans at recognizing the difference between real and fake pain in the faces of test subjects. In fact, while humans could tell the difference 55 percent of the time, robots could tell it 85 percent of the time. Read More
iBeacons Aren't Just For Retail: Placed Lets You Use Them As iPhone Quick Launchers At Home
Mar 21, 12:37PM
There has been a lot of talk about iBeacons since they launched with iOS 7 last fall, but much of the focus has been on how they benefit retailers and add to the in-store shopping experience. They have a much broader range of potential use, however, and part of that is consumer-focused, too. Placed is a new app that shows you how iBeacons might benefit anyone at home, by tying iBeacons to specific… Read More
Weev Needs To Walk
Mar 21, 11:12AM
Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer is a troll, but he's not a criminal. This is clear. In his recent appearance in federal appellate court in Philadelphia, the ignorance surrounding his actions and the lack of proof that they are a felony, even according to the wide-open standards of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, makes it clear that the defendant should walk. Read More
Recipe-Finding App Gojee Quietly Gets Acquired by XO Group After Talks Stalled With Yahoo
Mar 21, 10:37AM
Some consolidation afoot in the world of food and lifestyle properties. Gojee, a recipe aggregation site organised around big pictures, specific ingredients and themes, has quietly been acquired by XO Group, the umbrella group for women-focused sites like The Knot, The Bump, The Nest and Wedding Channel. The move comes after Gojee explored sales to several other companies, including Yahoo. There… Read More
Microview Shrinks Arduino Into A Teeny, Weenie OLED Module
Mar 21, 10:27AM
Do you desire a teeny, tiny, little Arduino board with OLED display? You bet you do! Microview is a new "chip-sized" Arduino on Kickstarter that costs $45. What can it do? All kinds of stuff! Read More
Flazio, An Italian Web-Design Engine, Lets You Build A Site Through Your Facebook Page
Mar 21, 10:03AM
Website creation software is a dime-a-dozen. You press a button, type in some jazz, and come up with a one page website for you and yours. But what if I said there was something that could make it even easier? Flazio, a service made by Sicilian brother and sister team Elisa and Flavio Fazio, can presumably do just that. Read More
AirSnap Helps You Take Beautiful Group Selfies By Pairing Two iOS Devices
Mar 21, 5:16AM
How many times have you stepped out of the group to click pictures, feeling left out as others posed? Or have there been instances when you’re jostling to get back for a group picture after setting the timer of a camera shutter? While there is Samsung NX Mini, which comes with an LCD screen that flips 180 degrees for taking selfies, it still requires users to make adjustments in the frame.… Read More
Mt.Gox Finds 200,000 Bitcoin In An "Old-Format" Digital Wallet
Mar 21, 4:21AM
Mt.Gox, the bankrupt online currency exchange, said that it has located 200,000 bitcoin in a digital wallet. In a filing, CEO Mark Karpeles disclosed that the currency, which is worth about $118 million at current exchange rates, was discovered in one of the "old-format wallets" that Mt.Gox had used in the past and assumed no longer held any bitcoins. Read More
Microsoft Will Now Deploy Two Legal Teams, Outside Former Federal Judge To Approve User-Data Searches
Mar 21, 12:23AM
Following a court document revealing that Microsoft read the email of a third-party blogger to uncover an internal leak, the company this evening announced a policy change, effective immediately, regarding how it searches user data that is part of its own network of services. Noting that it couldn't, in its view, get a court order to search itself as none is needed, it will instead add layers of… Read More
PayPal Expands Its In-App Pay At Table And Order Ahead Services In UK
Mar 21, 12:21AM
It's still very early days for mobile payments, with the vast majority of consumers still not convinced that it really is a lot easier to pay for things using their phones instead of pulling out a payment card or even cash. But companies like PayPal continue to lay the groundwork with interesting implementations for how and where a mobile payment might come in handy -- the idea being, it seems,… Read More
Medium Launches Simple iPhone App That's Just For Reading
Mar 20, 11:31PM
Blogging platform Medium has released a simple app for the iPhone that allows users to read articles from the site. They're presented as a feed that's recommended for you automatically, though articles that have been recommended by people you follow feature their mug shot next to the title. Read More
Twitter Goes Dark In Turkey Hours After The Country's PM Threatened To "Wipe Out" The Service
Mar 20, 11:22PM
After the Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan promised that he would “wipe out” Twitter after it apparently ignored court orders asking the site to remove certain corruption allegations, the service has gone dark in the country. The situation is developing: a site that lets the public track decisions made by the courts over Internet communications indicates that today the… Read More
Netflix Blasts ISPs, Calls For "Strong" Net Neutrality And Explains Why It Pays Comcast
Mar 20, 10:19PM
When Netflix agreed to pay Comcast as part of a peering agreement in the wake of the legal demise of net neutrality, the landscape of the Internet changed. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings today published an extensive blog post explaining his and his company's views on net neutrality and why it now pays an ISP that it feels should be better regulated. The reason? Because it has to. Read More
Leap Motion Lays Off 10% Of Its Workforce After Missing On First Year Sales Estimates
Mar 20, 9:36PM
Leap Motion won a lot of buzz early on for its motion controller, which is designed to make it possible for users to interact with their computer through gestures alone. The early buzz and pre-order interest led to a lot of growth, with the company swelling to 120 employees at its peak. But disappointing reviews when the hardware actually shipped took some of the wind out of the startup’s… Read More
Google Wants Everyone To Stop Hating On Glass
Mar 20, 9:33PM
All social issues aside, Google Glass is an impressive kit of technology. However, that might not be enough to secure its future. The novel PR campaign that is the Google Glass Explorer program seems to be failing. So much so that Google has started firing back at Google Glass haters with a series of pro-Glass factoids. Read More
The Ember iPhone Case Improves Your Late-Night Selfies With 56 Built-In LEDs
Mar 20, 9:22PM
Model by model, the iPhone is getting better at taking photos at night without making everyone look like spooky-ass ghosts — but you can only go so far with one or two little LEDs. But what about 56 little LEDs? The Ember is an iPhone 5/5S case that adds a crazy bright panel of lights to the back of your handset, along with a battery to keep it all powered. Read More
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