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DietSensor Scans Your Food For Calories

Jan 06, 12:41AM

For those of you who count your carbs and calories, DietSensor is looking to make your life easier. The French-based startup has created a tool that scans your food and determines its nutritional value. The idea is that you can go out to eat at a restaurant or at someone’s home and still keep tabs on your diet…if you don’t mind holding up this gadget. A CES Innovation… Read More



Kodak Is Bringing Back Super 8

Jan 06, 12:17AM

kodak-camera-yves-behar If you’ve always wanted to shoot video using the tools your parents probably used to film each other naked then Yves Behar and Kodak have a product for you. Super 8 was a cartridge-based film standard that became surprisingly popular after its release in 1965. It has remained popular with vintage film buffs and now Eastman Kodak is working on a $400 to $750 Super 8 camera for the… Read More



Here's Why Samsung's New Frankenstein Fridge Is Actually Dumb

Jan 06, 12:07AM

Samsung Fridge Is it a fridge? Is it a tablet? No, it’s a fridge-tablet hybrid, coming straight from Samsung’s brainstorming sessions. Samsung’s new Family Hub fridge features a giant tablet on the front. The Internet made fun of the new fridge. But there are tangible reasons why this fridge innovation is a bad thing. Read More



Porsche Design Revs Up A Drive That Powers Your MacBook

Jan 05, 11:57PM

v1yca1td4kturvfri6vz CES is a time of bad photoshopping and the above image is a perfect example. That said, the product it hopes to sell is quite compelling. It’s basically a USB-C desktop hard drive that connects to and powers USB-C devices – primarily the new MacBook. Called the LaCie Porsche Design Desktop Drive, the drive has a single USB-C port and a power port. The USB-C simultaneously powers… Read More



Sling TV, Dish's Internet TV Service For Cord Cutters, Unveils A More Personalized Interface

Jan 05, 11:29PM

learnhowtogetpersonal Sling TV, Dish Network’s streaming TV service aimed at cord cutters, has been helping to stem subscriber loss for the pay TV provider, but its user interface has needed some work. Today, the company attempted to address this problem with the unveiling of a new interface focused on a more personalized experience for its users and improved navigation. Core to this upgraded interface is… Read More



Samsung Gear S2 Follows In Apple's Footsteps With iOS Support, Gold And Platinum Variants

Jan 05, 10:57PM

GearS2_Classic_Platinum_Rosegold_Main When Samsung unveiled the Gear S2, it looked lot like Samsung’s answer to the Apple Watch. And the company announced another move in this direction today by unveiling a new 18-karat rose gold and platinum Gear S2. Like the Apple Watch, it’s made of real gold and it’s not just gold-colored. Read More



In A Crowded Market, A VC Uses Its Office As A Hook

Jan 05, 10:56PM

Aspect You might be hearing talk of depressed valuations, but that message certainly isn’t reaching commercial real estate owners in the Bay Area. The median price per square foot to rent office space in the city has shot up 33.7 percent in just the last three months alone, says Loopnet, an online real estate resource. Over the last 12 months, San Francisco rents have soared 106 percent.… Read More



Make Magic's Assistants Do Almost Anything With $100/Hour And A Text Message

Jan 05, 10:32PM

digital butler assistant Magic Assistant, an SMS-based personal assistant service, is rolling out a new plan that provides a more premium service for $100 an hour. Magic’s new service, Magic+, is built around getting anything done rather than accomplishing simple tasks for free. Read More



Why Obama's Smart Gun Push Will Misfire

Jan 05, 10:30PM

Screen Shot 2016-01-05 at 4.37.56 PM President Obama recently made funding for smart gun research part of his end-of-term gun control push, and it’s easy to see the idea’s appeal. The smart gun promises a technological fix for gun violence by keeping firearms out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them — thieves, children, and anyone else who isn’t the authorized user. Unfortunately for the… Read More



Jack Dorsey Thinks Adding More Text To Tweets Is A Swell Idea

Jan 05, 10:18PM

jack dorsey As you know, reports are surfacing about Twitter’s interest in potentially monkeying around with the number of characters you can tweet…or share along with a tweet. 5,000? 10,000? Well, certainly more than the current 140 characters. As the day went on, Twitter’s stock hit an all-time low ($21.89) on the news that this change might be coming along, and its CEO Jack Dorsey took… Read More



Oracle Buys Audience Tracking Firm AddThis For Around $200M

Jan 05, 10:16PM

maze Oracle continues to ramp up its business in the area of marketing tech. Today the enterprise software giant announced that it has acquired AddThis, which makes sharing features (i.e., those buttons on web pages that let you share stories or follow accounts on Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and audience tracking technology for online publishers and marketers. AddThis says it currently… Read More



Female-Focused E-Commerce Sites Moxy And Bilna Team Up In Southeast Asia Merger

Jan 05, 10:00PM

MOXYBilna We’re only in the first week of January, but already Southeast Asia has seen its first merger of significance. Female-focused e-commerce players Moxy, which is present in Thailand and Indonesia, and Bilna, an Indonesian startup from ex-Groupon Indonesia founders, have joined forces. Read More



Fitbit Takes 18% Stock Hit For Invading Apple's Personal Smartwatch Space

Jan 05, 9:12PM

fitbit-earnings So much for the holiday bump for Fitbit shares. After seeing a huge boost following the holiday shopping season — when the app topped the App Store, indicating that the device seemed to be a popular gift — Fitbit shares tumbled more than 18 percent in trading today. Previously, Fitbit had gained 38 percent on the year after going public in 2015, and bumped an extra 5 percent… Read More



Why STEM's Future Rests In The Hands Of 12-Year-Old Girls

Jan 05, 9:00PM

girlscientist A recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) took a comprehensive look at gender differences in student performance based on an exam taken by 15-year-olds. The report found that, although girls often perform better than their male peers — staying in school longer and out-performing them in reading — the top-performing girls continue to lag… Read More



Aptoide Lands $4M To Grow Its Alternative Android App Store In Emerging Markets

Jan 05, 8:02PM

Screenshot 2016-01-06 02.46.29 Aptoide, a third-party app store with a focus on emerging markets, has raised $4 million to offer an alternative for Android, undoubtedly the world’s most popular mobile operating system with nearly 70 marketshare, according to Statcounter. Read More



HERE Launches Cloud-Based Maps For Automated Driving

Jan 05, 7:08PM

hdmap3 HERE, the mapping service now owned by Audi, BMW and Daimler, today announced a new cloud-based mapping service for enhancing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving features in cars. In the future, these maps could also form the core of the mapping system for self-driving cars as well. Even though features like automated driving on a highway are only possible because of… Read More



This Is Why You Got That Weird Tinder Push Notification This Week

Jan 05, 6:57PM

lit match On January 3, three sad days after folks celebrated the New Year by sharing a kiss with a lover, Tinder had its biggest growth day in its history, recording the most downloads in a single day ever and the most growth of active users in a single day. Which explains why you might have received a push notification promising 2x or 3x the likelihood of a match in your area this week. The… Read More



Here's What 10,000 Characters Looks Like

Jan 05, 6:27PM

IMG_7629 So, Recode reported today that Twitter was tinkering around with the idea of expanding its 140 character limit to a number a bit higher….10,000 characters. But what, you ask (and I’m glad you did), does 10,000 characters look like? Well, hey. Let’s find out. Soooo, did you see the Warriors game last night? Crazy, right? It was nice to see Harrison Barnes back and the entire… Read More



Twitter May Increase Tweets To 10,000 Characters, But Hide All Past 140

Jan 05, 6:18PM

ezgif.com-crop No, you’re not going to have article-length tweets overwhelming your timeline, but Twitter is looking to let you write more without leaving the service. The company is mulling a new option that would let you write up to 10,000 characters, but only show the first 140 in the timeline with a button to reveal the rest. Re/Code reports the feature might launch in late Q1. Read More



Google And Huawei Bring Gold-Colored Nexus 6P To US

Jan 05, 6:12PM

goldnexus Have you been waiting to buy your Nexus 6P but held back because it wasn’t available in gold in the U.S. yet? Your long and agonizing wait is now over. As Google and Huawei announced at CES today, a matte gold-colored version of the 6P is now available in the Google Store and should be available at Best Buy and on BestBuy.com later today as well. Other color options still include… Read More




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