Finally, A Hackathon That Doesn't Destroy Your Brain And Body
This might be the world's healthiest hackathon. Unlike normal all–day code events, in which teams end up sleep–deprived, over–caffeinated, and engorged on junk food, this event was meant to give...
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Apple's iPhone Fingerprint Sensor May Use This Unconventional Technology
Fingerprint sensors and the iPhone 5S are two pieces of technology that have been dancing in and out of the headlines for months. Some commenters think the pairing is likely, others say it's silly.But...
View ArticleHow This Brain Scientist Used Video Game Tech To Break New Ground
You might call University of Pennsylvania researcher Michael Kahana a navigator of the mind. By pushing the limits of technology and research, he finds maps of the world in the brain that no one has...
View ArticleGenomic Vending Machines Coming To University Campuses
As college students make their way back to campus this week, they might find a peculiar vending machine posted up around the biology department. A Palo Alto company is doing university pilots with a...
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Starbucks Could Use Your Social Data To Find New Locations
Deciding where to build a new coffee shop or fast food outlet is an expensive and risky business. Traditionally, planners use data on demographics, revenue, nearby businesses, and aggregated human flow,...
View ArticleGoogle Wants Your Location Data To Go Public––Here's Why
Where are you standing or sitting right now––do you know exactly? Your smartphone does, down to a meter or two, even if it's snuggled in the depths of a bag or stuck way down in a jeans pocket. And...
View ArticleWhat You Missed: August 21, 2013 Edition
The Perils of Shiny New ObjectsIt's easy to get caught up in the cool new thing, but don't lose focus. Sudden shifts in direction can derail your startup. When Apps Modify BehaviorWish you could have...
View ArticleUnblocked: A Guide To Making Things People Love (Part 1)
"There are myriad great ideas, but great execution is a rarity." ––EveryoneIf you've ever tried to start a company, you've heard a thousand variations on this admonition––because it's true. While you...
View ArticleThis Open Source Twitter Replacement Is Absolutely Brilliant
We're living in a post–Snowden era, which means you should assume that everybody, including the social networks you use every day, are always looking over your digital shoulder. So how do you take back...
View Article$20 Million Short, What's Next For Ubuntu?
Ubuntu fans argue that the Edge crowdfunding campaign is already a game changer, despite reaching less than half of its funding goal. After all, it has brought to the forefront the concept of...
View ArticleIf You Want To Sell Digital Products, Bundle Them With Physical Ones
Digital products have many benefits––frictionless buying, immediate delivery, and no shipping. But marketing isn't one of them. Digital products have no glossy product shots, no features in gift...
View ArticleWhat Hackers Should Know About Machine Learning
Drew Conway is the co–author of Machine Learning for Hackers and must be one of the few data scientists out there who started his career working on counter–terrorism at the Department of Defense....
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Oh, If The Walls Could Compute...
Small isn't always beautiful in electronics, it turns out...and neither is newer always better: An innovation from Princeton University takes ideas from an invention of 1920s vintage and combines it...
View ArticleIs The Web Our Path To Immortality?
This is a News Scrum, which is where we all read one of the morning's top stories and add something to it––context, research, related links, data, explanation. Not opinion––although obviously our...
View ArticleHow Al Jazeera Botched Its American Network Launch
With its promise to counter–program the shallow infotainment–based American TV news landscape with in–depth, quality news, Al Jazeera America (AJAM), which launched yesterday, was supposed to answer...
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The Total Cost Of TiVo's New DVRs Is Insane
Remember when TiVo was the future of television, an example of disruptive technology at its finest? It made video watching different––it gave us all independence from broadcast schedules and...
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Could This New Set–Top Box Kill The Smart TV?
Gilles BianRosa is the cofounder and CEO of Fan, a company that originally launched two years ago (under the name Fanhatten). Their first product was an iOS app, which allowed users to search and...
View ArticleWhy Your Startup's Culture Is Secretly Awful
Startups love to talk about their culture and use it as a selling point, but product manager Shanley Kane contends that "culture is made primarily of the things no one will say." Every team's culture...
View ArticleWeather News Sucks, Can Researchers Crowdsource Something Better?
Are you curious about your neighborhood's weather and tired of receiving general citywide reports that don't apply to your exact location? It turns out there's an app for that, and it uses the guts of...
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The One Thing That Could Stop The Internet Of Things
Remember the quick–to–run–out batteries that powered the toys of your youth? The ones that eventually leaked and wrecked your precious stuff? They've largely been banished by years of battery tech...
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