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This Chocolate Drone Will Fly Directly Into Your Distended Belly

Jun 16, 8:09PM

Screen Shot 2014-06-16 at 9.58.05 PM Look: you and I both know what’s going on here. This is either a viral ad for Milka or a riff on Ãœter Zörker at the Springfield Chocolate Factory but let’s retract our marketing antennae for a moment and just revel in the idea: this is video of a quadcopter made of chocolate. The body is made of chocolate. The motors, obviously, are metal and the propellers plastic, but the rest… Read More



MakerBot Now Shipping Massive Z18 3D Printer

Jun 16, 7:58PM

z18 When MakerBot announced the Z18 printer last January at CES, there wasn’t much of a shipping date. Now, however, the company has begun shipping the massive 3D printer to customers who have pre-ordered thus far and expect to ship from their Brooklyn factory in six to eight weeks for new orders. Read More



Secret Finally Lets All Your Freaky Friends Have Their Own Feeds

Jun 16, 7:44PM

secret No more “I love my wife” or “I love my husband” posts from Montana for those of us using Secret on iOS. iPhone users can finally separate the hum-drum secrets of Midwestern life from their freaky friends involved in the Silicon Valley tech scene. Read More



Dropbox Has Quietly Acquired Parastructure, A Big Data Startup In Stealth

Jun 16, 7:18PM

parastructure screenshot Dropbox has been acquiring companies to help it expand the services that it can offer to consumers and enterprises beyond cloud storage. But the company — which has raised $1.1 billion and is among the larger tech startups tipped for an IPO — is also making strategic acquisitions to help keep its own house in order. We have found out that Dropbox has quietly acquired a company… Read More



Yahoo Drops 5% After Alibaba's Updated F-1 Filing Indicates Slipping Margins

Jun 16, 6:53PM

2067062407_c0ebf2204e_o Yahoo’s stock, behaving as a proxy to Alibaba’s valuation, is down 5 percent today in midday regular trading, after the Alibaba’s updated F-1 filing indicated that its operating margins are declining. According to the company, for its most recently ended fiscal quarter, its operating margin “declined from 51.3% to 45.3%,” when compared to the comparable… Read More



Facebook Paper's New Trending Section Makes It A Better Softcore News Reader

Jun 16, 6:23PM

Paper Trending Facebook Paper is pretty, but sluggish when it comes to news. Its human curated sections take a while to ingest the latest world events and gossip. But today’s 1.2 update adds a “Trending” section that highlights news stories and photos that capture the essence of the most mentioned topics on Facebook. Those aren’t always hard-hitting news, but are things people care… Read More



GHash Looks To Quell Bitcoin Market Worries In Wake Of "51%" Scare

Jun 16, 6:12PM

banker-bitcoin The bitcoin community was rattled recently when it became known that GHash, a mining pool, had crossed the 51 percent mark, indicating that it was powering more than half of the computing heft that undergirds the cryptocurrency’s foundation. At issue is the general consensus that any party that controls 51 percent or more of that computational power can do unkind things with bitcoin at… Read More



Earshot Raises $1.7M To Help Companies Connect With New Customers On Social Media

Jun 16, 6:09PM

earshot Social marketing startup Earshot is announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in new funding. Founder and CEO David Rush told me that unlike most social listening and marketing tools, Earshot is less focused on helping businesses interact with people who are already fans and customers, and more on helping them find new customers, even if “they’re not using the right handle or… Read More



Guesty, A Property Management Service For Airbnb Hosts (And Soon, More), Raises $1.5M

Jun 16, 5:56PM

airbnb Guesty (formerly SuperHost) wants to take the hassle out of vacation rentals, and now it has $1.5 million in seed funding to help it with that goal. The Y Combinator-backed startup is a software-based property management service that helps individuals renting out rooms, apartments, or other listings on Airbnb (and soon, elsewhere), by screening guests, handling key drops, cleaning, guest… Read More



BitGo Raises $12M Led By Redpoint For Multi-Signature Bitcoin Wallets, Services

Jun 16, 5:40PM

bitgo-screenshot For a long time, there’s been a philosophical split in the Bitcoin community about how to store crypto-currency on behalf of users. Do you do it on the web, with something that resembles an e-mail or Paypal-like interface? Or should consumers held more responsible for storing their own Bitcoin offline? Do you make them handle their own public and private keys? Or do you take that… Read More



Box Acquires YC-Backed Streem

Jun 16, 5:33PM

Screen Shot 2014-06-16 at 10.17.25 AM This morning Box, a cloud-based file-management service, announced that it has acquired Streem, a Y Combinator-backed company that allows customers to “stream” files to their desktop environments. Box declined to share terms of the agreement, but did note in an email that it bought the company using a blend of cash and stock. The four members of Streem will join Box.… Read More



Accompani Wants To Be The Relationship Manager To Rule Them All

Jun 16, 5:01PM

accompani-phone Many of us suffer the same problem–as our professional networks grow, we can’t keep track of each person’s details, including jobs, personal interests, kids, news and more. Amy Chang, the former global of head of product for Google Analytics and measurement, has spent a lot of time thinking about this problem. And she, and her former colleague at Google, Matthias Ruhl,… Read More



Timeshel Ships You iPhone Photos In A Stackable, Keepsake Box

Jun 16, 4:29PM

timeshel With the rise of smartphones, a photograph’s value has changed. While some high-quality photos will always be viewed as art, the everyday photos we take of ourselves, our friends and family, and the world around us are viewed differently. Some are so meaningless, we’ve made them disposable – as with apps like Snapchat. Others we want to remember for longer, so we slow down… Read More



Google Cloud Platform Gets SSD Persistent Disks And HTTP Load Balancing

Jun 16, 4:24PM

2014-06-16_0902 Google’s I/O developer conference may just be a few days away, but that hasn’t stopped the company from launching a couple of new features for its Cloud Platform ahead of the event. As Google announced today, the Cloud Platform is getting two features that have long been on developers’ wish lists: HTTP load balancing and SSD-based persistent storage. Both of these features… Read More



Facebook's iPad App Becomes An Entertainment Hub With Game Discovery And Trending Videos Sidebar

Jun 16, 3:00PM

updated iPad screenshot Over 70 percent of people who use Facebook for iPad played a Facebook-connected game in the past 90 days, so the company is helping them discover or re-engage with games through a new homepage sidebar it starts testing today on its iPad app. It includes social notifications for native mobile and Facebook web games you already play, video trailers for games you don’t, plus Trending… Read More



Beats Is Using World Cup Fever To Promote Exclusive Early Access To Tracks

Jun 16, 2:53PM

Screen Shot 2014-06-16 at 10.51.27 AM Apple acquired a streaming music service with Beats, but how do you distinguish yourself in a market where one of the earliest movers still has an overwhelming percentage of mindshare? The key might be the unique advantages Beats has in terms of industry partnerships thanks to its deep recording scene roots, which could help it procure exclusives that listeners can only get in a single… Read More



Google Names Its First "Glass At Work" Certified Partners To Focus On Business And Medical Use Cases

Jun 16, 2:36PM

google-glass Google Glass is quickly turning into the butt of a joke in the consumer market, where it’s being parodied on The Daily Show and elsewhere, and where the term “glasshole” is now a common way to refer to what someone people call “those face computers.” Today, Google is looking to rehab that image a bit by focusing on more practical applications designed for businesses. Read More



Microsoft Announces Azure ML, Cloud-based Machine Learning Platform That Can Predict Future Events

Jun 16, 2:01PM

Girl with machine head Microsoft has been on quite a cloud roll lately and today it announced a new cloud-based machine learning platform called Azure ML, which enables companies to use the power of the cloud to build applications and APIs based on big data and predict future events instead of looking backwards at what happened. The product is built on the machine learning capabilities already available in… Read More



Microsoft Launches Internet Explorer Dev Channel For Developers And Early Adopters

Jun 16, 2:00PM

ie_pins While most popular browsers offer numerous release channels, Microsoft has always held back from this idea and instead launched preview versions of its upcoming releases a few weeks or months before the actual launch. That’s changing. Now, developers and early adopters can install a developer version of IE that can run alongside their existing IE11 installs on Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1. Read More



Transportation Department Looks To Regulate Navigation Apps

Jun 16, 1:41PM

maps The Transportation Department is angling for regulatory control over navigational apps as a part of the Obama administration’s proposed transportation bill, which is expected to pass later this year. This particular part of the bill would give the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration the ability to enforce a set of rules for navigation apps on smartphones, which many drivers… Read More




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