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Bitcoin Brothers Aim To Disrupt Bitcoin Mining With New, More Powerful, Supercomputers

Nov 03, 2:56AM

Screen Shot 2014-11-02 at 9.40.58 PM After over two years in stealth mode, the bitcoin mining supercomputer manufacturer, Bitcoin Brothers is launching its hosted bitcoin mining services, powered by what the company claims are better, stronger machines to make the mining of bitcoin more efficient. Read More



ThriveTracker Gamifies Mood Tracking With Real World Rewards

Nov 03, 2:18AM

ThriveTracker ThriveTracker, a new app developed by Adrian Cunanan, who has bipolar disorder, wants to encourage people to keep tracking their mood with a points system that can earn them real world rewards like gift cards and MP3 downloads. Read More



So You Want To Fix The Housing Crisis

Nov 03, 1:23AM

So 15 of the 30 cities with the highest rents in the country are all in the San Francisco Bay Area, with Palo Alto topping the list, according to this lovely report from Lovely that came out last week. Part of this is cyclical. We don’t know where we are in the cycle or when it definitively turns. However, there are lots of structural forces at play that have accumulated over the last… Read More



This Device Could Make It Easier To Find Your Veins

Nov 03, 12:30AM

Image: Australian Red Cross Scientists have discovered a way to find your veins before poking around half a dozen times to find the spot. Now the Australian Red Cross Blood service is using the near infrared light device that locates blood to study whether being able to locate hard to find veins will result in reduced anxiety and thus make it more likely these types of donors will come back and donate again. The… Read More



Thoughtful.org Is Now A Crowdfunding Platform For Medical Costs And Emergencies

Nov 02, 11:24PM

derek rey As part of the founding team at Adly, Derek Rey helped build one of the first businesses focused on social media advertising. Now he’s doing something pretty different — his company Thoughtful.org recently relaunched as a crowdfunding platform for medical, memorial, and emergency costs. We wrote about the site two years ago, when it was a platform to connect brands and… Read More



How We See Google Glass Around The World

Nov 02, 10:02PM

Sophia Through Glass Google Glass is as common as a Tesla motoring down the 101 here in Silicon Valley, but it’s a novelty only read about through media outlets in most of the rest of the world. Sophia Dominiguez knew that novelty was wearing off fast in our city by the Bay, so the 22 year old recent NYU grad says she decided to take Glass where most people had never had a chance to see it up close –… Read More



Defakto Detail Struktur Review: A Watch Designed With Design In Mind

Nov 02, 6:47PM

defakto-struktur1 Defakto is a boutique German watchmaker that creates the cases for brands with more recognition and history, but which focuses on classic, modern designs for its own imprint. The case shapes themselves are largely traditional and without flourish, with smaller diameter faces that look good on most wrist sizes. Defakto’s watch faces are exercises in minimalism, but with enough detail put… Read More



Building A Better Version Of Capitalism Is A Massive Startup Opportunity

Nov 02, 6:00PM

8271084033_c56ced1cee_k Why, on a philosophical level, has Facebook been so staggeringly successful? A startup that swelled into a multi billion dollar revenue generating business in a relatively short span of years, one which continues to attract billions of users every month? Read More



Be Smarter Than That, Uber Users

Nov 02, 5:22PM

Screenshot 2014-11-02 12.12.38 Uber surprised a 26-year-old Baltimore woman with a spooky Halloween bill that hit $326 on a routine ride, resulting in her inability to pay her rent and general Internet outrage. Gabrielle Wathen posted to the site GoFund.me, saying that she went out for her 26th birthday on the night of Halloween and, after taking an Uber an approximately 22-minute ride home around 3am, was charged $326.… Read More



Fundraising Acceleration Is The New VC Investment Thesis

Nov 02, 4:00PM

2300190277_451883da3e_o There was a quite a jolt on Friday from the news that Slack, a company whose eponymous enterprise communications platform was first publicly launched this year, raised $120 million in new venture funding from KPCB and Google Ventures. Even more eye-popping was the valuation: $1.12 billion. Although Slack pivoted from an earlier incarnation as a games company called Tiny Speck, such a growth… Read More



Google's Copresence Looks Like A Cross-Platform AirDrop

Nov 02, 3:16PM

copresence2 Google has a new service in the works that could allow users of Android devices to share media with others nearby, even if those users are rocking iOS devices like iPhone and iPads instead of gadgets running Google’s mobile OS. The so-called Copresence feature, revealed by an Android Police source digging around in the latest Google Play Services APK, would allow devices to use… Read More



Salesforce's Service Cloud 1 Is A Wearable Technology Trojan Horse

Nov 02, 4:00AM

wearables trojan horse Imagine a scenario in which an oil rig worker suddenly hears an alarm sound from somewhere on the rig. The adrenaline rush begins and the worker knows he has to move fast. The sound of the siren is not a clear signal as to where the trouble is, but the smartwatch on his wrist indicates exactly where to go and what needs to be done to fix the problem. As he works to fix it, each step is… Read More



The Internet Archive Now Lets You Play 900+ Classic Arcade Games In Your Browser

Nov 02, 2:12AM

arcade Looking for a nice little burst of nostalgia on this fine Saturday evening? Don’t feel like going through the process of installing MAME and lurking for ROMs, but still want to get your classic arcade on? Back in December of last year, the Internet Archive (in their effort to backup the entire digital world, one bit at a time) launched a “Console Living Room” that offers… Read More



Two Worlds Colliding: How LinkedIn Could Take On Salesforce

Nov 02, 1:00AM

linkedin-salesforce-collide Today’s B2B sales and marketing folks struggle with the overwhelming number of channels for finding and reaching new leads. The customer “funnel” continues to expand as buyers do more of their own research before raising their hand to connect with a sales rep. But imagine if you could make the funnel taller by identifying leads when they’re just browsing your site… Read More



Talk Isn't Cheap As Investors Pour Cash Into Collaboration And Intelligence Tools

Nov 01, 11:31PM

3318600273_3ef4c48d0a_b Investors and innovators have been trying to develop better tools for groups to communicate, collaborate, and make decisions for the better part of a decade. As businesses become increasingly global and engage more remote workers, the need for collaboration tools becomes more pronounced. Read More



The Future Of French Robotics

Nov 01, 10:00PM

vintage robot French robotics can boast of several innovative robotics startups, entrepreneurs and researchers. But robots aren’t ubiquitous in the French industry, which has experienced steady decline in the past decades. Couldn’t robotics help? Read More



How To Reinvent A $38 Billion Company

Nov 01, 8:00PM

With its illustrious 138-year history, its 114,000 global workforce and its $38 billion dollar market cap, you’d think that the Swedish tech giant Ericsson would be secure as the world’s leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. But no. As Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg confesses, every morning while brushing his teeth, he thinks to himself: “Today I need… Read More



The Potential Of Beacon Technology

Nov 01, 6:00PM

lighthouse After indoor positioning with Wi-Fi, beacon technology is a massive step forward in ambient context identification, which is why this technology is all the buzz of late. Beacons allow for background positioning and detection, giving new power to a phone that can make it truly “smart.” Read More



Gillmor Gang: Eating the World

Nov 01, 5:00PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Thursday, October 30, 2014. A good news week, disguised as mobile, Facebook, and notifications eating the world. Just beneath the surface, the power of micro-communities lurking. Read More



The Challenge Of Connecting The Unconnected

Nov 01, 3:00PM

plug socket Every time we return to or sign up for an Internet service (e.g. Facebook, Google, Gmail, YouTube, etc.), we rely on what UX experts call a “mental model” for navigating through the choices. A mental model is essentially a person’s intuition of how something works based on past knowledge, similar experiences and common sense. So even when something is new, mental models help… Read More




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