10 Hidden Gems In iOS 7
When Instagram launched its big update adding video, it was a giant call to action: Dedicated users had to go to the App Store and update the app manually to participate in the fun. When automatic app...
View ArticleCould Apple’s “Magic Wand” Be The Next Universal Remote?
Many of us probably take for granted that we can pick up an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook and begin using it right away. But for millions of people around the globe computers and other technology have...
View ArticleThe Memory Hack That Got Me Through Med School--And Inspired A Startup
As a medical student with a background in neuroscience, I’m constantly searching for brain hacks that will help me learn and retain information more efficiently. These range from well-established...
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This Super-Secure Messaging System Is The NSA's Worst Nightmare
Peter Sunde, who cofounded controversial torrent directory site ThePirateBay, has a new app that may bother governments just as much, if not more than his earlier efforts: It's a secure messaging app...
View ArticleThink Differently About Banner Ads In Your App: No One Clicks 'Em
Sticking a banner ad or a display ad into your website or your app is now boilerplate procedure for raising money from the general public. It's easy, and quick--so easy that many an Android developer...
View ArticleWhat You Missed: July 11, 2013 Edition
What Running Has Taught Me About EntrepreneurshipAdii Pienaar found parallels between exercise and enterprise. Here's a gameplan to help you achieve your personal best.IFTTT: A Different Kind Of iOS...
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Your Startup Sold For Hundreds Of Millions--Now Do It Again
What do you do after you have resigned from the ground-breaking company you founded? If you are Martin Stiksel and Felix Miller, the founders of Last.fm, you decide to do it all over again on an even...
View ArticleThe Key To Automated Manufacturing Is 3-D Printing--With Metals
The advances in 3-D printing have focused on miniaturization for the commercial sector and synthesizing cheaper, stronger plastic polymers--but what about innovating methods to print metal? Researchers...
View ArticleCan MySpace Pull Off A Digg-Like Revival?
With companies from Apple to Spotify jostling for control of the online music marketplace, there'd seem to be little room for the site most known for being crushed by Facebook. But MySpace may have a...
View ArticleShould Every iPhone App Work On iPad?
I own a health tech startup and currently I have two sets of engineering teams. One set consists of my hardware engineers: the guys hacking together the prototype that will eventually go to...
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How To (Really) Get The Word Out About Your Startup
Have you ever asked, "How do I get people other than my Mom to visit my site?" I have. I've asked it a lot.Most books on marketing all say the same thing: get out and network, go do speeches, go to...
View ArticleThe LED-Powered Dress That’s Disrupting Swedish Politics
If the country’s premier conference won’t let you in the door, what’s a social media-savvy generation of young Swedes to do? Wear their voice on their sleeve--with a sleek LED-powered dress streaming...
View ArticleUpTo Reinvented The Calendar By Setting Out To Build Something Else
The biggest problem with calendars is that you have to fill them in. What if there were a calendar that helped figure out what you were going to be doing?That's the idea behind UpTo, which released a...
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Inside Google's Infinite Music Intelligence Machine
The Beatles have a way of keeping Doug Eck up at night. Specifically, the research scientist at Google grapples with one of the core problems of automated music discovery: With a band whose catalog is...
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A Look Back At The Finalists Of The Co.Labs And Target Retail Accelerator
Astounded by the quality and sophistication of the entries, our judges took until the very last moment to narrow down the field. In the end, there were many apps that qualified. The best of the bunch...
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Plug, A Personal Cloud Storage System Designed To Dodge PRISM
The notion of cloud storage of your documents may unsettle you nowadays, when considered in the light of the PRISM Internet surveillance scandal. That makes the new Kickstarter project from The CGC...
View ArticleThis May Be The Most Vital Use Of "Big Data" We've Ever Seen
Unlike the Vietnam days, veterans today search for information (or vent their troubles) about suicide on Google and Facebook. A new project, newly launched by DARPA and Dartmouth University, is trying...
View ArticleApparently, Wearable Fitness Devices Can Reveal If She’s Faking Orgasm
Clip-on fitness trackers and bracelets are already becoming the norm among the tech savvy, and soon eyewear like Google Glass will come to consumers, followed by (and perhaps swallowed by) the first...
View ArticleThe Politics Behind The New Winklevoss Bitcoin Fund
The Winklevoss twins recently applied to the SEC to create a $20 million Exchange-traded Fund (ETF) backed by Bitcoin. Like their more famous project, ConnectU, this ETF might seem democratic (little...
View ArticleYour Gambling Addiction Is Gonna Love This Bitcoin Betting Site
With the rise of a new currency comes the temptation to speculate with it, and Bitcoin is no differnet. The e-currency’s underworldly appeal, owing to its heavy encryption, has made it ideal for...
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