CrowdOptic, a startup with technology for identifying where people are pointing their smartphone cameras, has raised another $ 1 million in funding. When I’ve spoken to the team in the past, they’ve emphasized the ways this could be used to create new types of social interactions — if people are attending a live event and [...]
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NVIDIA brought its new Shield handheld gaming system to Google I/O this year and showed off a near-production device. The Shield made its debut at CES this year, surprising most since it’s a consumer handheld device from a company that generally makes internal components. But it has some neat tricks up its sleeve, including a [...]
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Infamous hacker and Internet troll Andrew Auernheimer, better known as Weev, said he wasn’t afraid of going to prison. But he is now being held in “administrative segregation,” which is a euphemism for solitary confinment His lawyer and supporters claim he’s being punished for tweeting and posting messages to SoundCloud from behind bars. But, is [...]
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MessageMe — a messaging app that launched in March with a little Facebook controversy thrown in — has raised another $ 10 million, according to an SEC filing earlier today. The Series A round was led by Greylock Partners; and as part of it, John Lilly, the ex-CEO of Mozilla who is now a partner at Greylock, [...]
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If you think Google Glass looks a little weird now, take a look at how it got its start During a Fireside chat at Google I/O Thursday Senior Industrial Designer at Google on the Glass team Isabelle Olsson showed off how Glass looked originally: a scuba mask with a computer board attached to it. She [...]
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Attention Trekkies: vaj Date Hov trek vaj DartlhneSS vIlegh DurIngh Hogh openIngh vIvut legh vIvoqHa’ qaStaHvIS paQDI’norgh luchenmoHmeH law’ De’wI’ pagh mobIle jan In tlhront otlh ghewmey vaj mangghomDajDaq bImejnIS. If you could understand that Klingon, you’ll definitely want to read on. (English translation for all other fans of the Starship Enterprise: If you’d like [...]
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Thanks to a recent stock surge, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is once again the world’s richest man, a title he hasn’t held since 2007, according to Bloomberg. Gates’ fortune is now worth $ 72.1 billion, according to Bloomberg, putting him about $ 550 million ahead of the former No. 1, Mexico’s Carlos Slim. Gates’ wealth [...]
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Yahoo and Twitter have partnered to bring tweets directly into Yahoo homepage’s newsfeed on web and mobile, the company announced this morning. The move follows the February relaunch of the front page. At the time, the company debuted a redesigned site with an increased emphasis on personalization, as well as a more modern design. The Twitter partnership expands [...]
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Kai the hitchhiker, who captivated the Internet in February with an act of heroism and a contagiously entertaining local TV interview, is reportedly now a murder suspect in New Jersey Union County law enforcement has issued an arrest warrant for him for the murder of Joseph Galfy, Jr., in Clark, N.J., according to a WABC [...]
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FixYa, a Q&A site where consumers can seek advice from product experts, is launching a new feature today called the FixBoard, which should make the site more useful to big consumer brands. As the name suggests, the FixBoard is basically a dashboard of FixYa data. It shows, over time, the number of FixYa owners who [...]
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