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The Story of Skout: From Deadpool’s Door to $22M Led By Andreessen Horowitz
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Eighteen months ago, it looked like the location wars were over. Foursquare had just closed a $20 million Series B round and rivals like Gowalla, Loopt and Brightkite weren’t having the same buzz or traction. Meanwhile, Christian Wiklund’s company Skout was down to a skeleton crew of three people after burning...
Subretinal implant uses light instead of batteries, shows promise in initial testing
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There's been significant progress in bringing sight to the blind in recent years, and this looks set to continue that miraculous trend. Scientists at Stanford University have invented a subretinal photodiode implant for people who have lost their vision due to degenerative retinal diseases. Existing tech involves batteries and...
What "The Chronicles of George" can teach us about technical support
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Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock Twelve years ago, while working at my very first real job right out of college, I created a website called The Chronicles of George in order to highlight the grammatically twisted help desk tickets produced by a coworker. I was a much younger and angrier...
Have You Or Someone You Know Ever Fake-Liked Something On Facebook?
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Our story about dead people liking stuff on Facebook really struck a nerve. For some people this phenomenon isn't just strange -- it is downright painful. Like this person who commented on Reddit: To help people avoid that situation, we're working on a post that will help you figure out how...
ReadWriteWeb Recommends: The Best Smartphone
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Best is a subjective term: What one person thinks is best, another person might declare hogwash. Asked to name the best smartphone, three people will give three answers. And none of them will be wrong. The top of the market has never been stronger, with great choices for every consumer. For...
Daily Report: A SXSW Stunt Backfires on Marketer
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A marketing agency, BBH, caused a stir when it hired homeless people to walk around carrying Wi-Fi devices, offering Internet access in exchange for donations. As word of the project spread on the ground and online, it hit a nerve among many who said that turning down-and-out people into wireless...
Betaworks' Giphy takes on Google in the red-hot market for GIF search
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Six weeks ago, Jace Cooke and Alex Chung, two of the hackers in residence at New York innovation lab betaworks, shared a fun little product they had cobbled together with about twenty friends. It was called Giphy, and it lets users search a database of around thousands of GIFs,...
TiVo Mini comes to the people for $99.99
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Remember the adage that good things "come to those who wait?" Well, if you managed to hold your nerve and resist signing up with Suddenlink, then your patience is ready to be rewarded. The TiVo Mini is finally ready to strike out on its own two feet four rubberized...
Payment Platform Dwolla Comes To New York, Hires First 2 East Coast Employees
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Dwolla, an Iowa-based payment startup that wants to get rid of credit card fees, has hired its first two New York City employees, Alex Taub and Michael Schonfeld. Taub is Dwolla's business development builder and formerly lead business development at Aviary. Schonfeld, formerly of Nerve Dating, is Dwolla's new developer...
Panasonic announces wireless bone conduction headphones, but they won't launch until fall of 2013
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Bone conduction technology is starting to make its way into more consumer devices, and Panasonic's piggybacking on the trend with its new RP-BTGS10 bone conduction headphones. Similar to the bone conduction phone we saw last CES, Panasonic's new headphones sit on the outside of your ear and vibrate the...
Google is a pay to play world, even with the best organic SEO
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New research out today from Google finds that even when a brand is ranked number one for search on an organic basis, they can get 50% more clicks on average by paying up for an accompanying ad. The report is a follow up to research from the same team that...
The Story Of An Internet Troll With A Surprising Twist
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You get a thick skin when messing around on the Internet and that can go either way. You can react, like a nerve burned raw, or you can become a troll. This is a story of both. I’ll paraphrase the story here, but go and read it yourself. It’s quite...
Legacy of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
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Fifty years after its publication, Rachel Carson's investigation into pesticides still divides opinion. Leo Hickman, with your help, examines its legacy. Post your views below, email leo.hickman@guardian.co.uk or tweet @LeoHickman9.00am: Today marks the 50th anniversary of the US publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.The book is often cited as an...
TL;DR: The Problem With Long-Form Publishing Plays
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Last week, our writer Devin Coldewey wrote a 3,000-word essay on Google+. It got 114 comments. Comment numbers are a wildly inaccurate metric for popularity in general – some posts get 100 comments because they’re poorly written, sensationalistic, and/or just strike a nerve – but in this case 114 is...
Samsung Galaxy Note II review
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Almost exactly eight months ago, I reviewed Samsung’s Galaxy Note “phablet” and called it the smartphone that “Samsunged” Samsung (005930). I very much enjoyed certain aspects of Samsung’s debut tablet-smartphone hybrid and I thought the company’s implementation of the S Pen stylus was unique and intriguing, but I wrote that...
Meet the 10 companies that are TNW's picks from Y Combinator's Demo Day
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You’re in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and you’re about to see 75 companies give it their best for two whole minutes. This might not sound like everyone’s cup of tea, but let me tell you, it’s pretty awesome. I’ve worked at a few startups, and preparing for...
Cybersecurity experts needed to meet growing demand
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Alec Ross, senior adviser for innovation at the State Department, has a piece of advice for students tasked with the nerve-rattling problem of choosing a college major. “If any college student asked me what career would most assure 30 years of steady, well-paying employment,” Ross said, “I would respond, ‘cybersecurity.’ ”...
Chrome creeps lower as IE9 surges, for the second straight month
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Well, what the heck. For the second straight month, according to the well-regarded NetMarketShare, Chrome lost global aggregate market share. Internet Explorer 9 surged, but IE as a whole eased, just like Chrome. Firefox, on the strength of its 10th version (which is quite good), eked minor gains. We watch this...
'The Best Amendment': NRA blowback spawns an irreverent game about guns
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Not long after the horrific shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association held a press conference where executive vice president Wayne LaPierre explained that video games — along with movies and music videos — "portray life as a joke, portray murder as a way of life, and then...
Late Labs selects Buggle Us, an 'Instagram for Chrome,' as first project (exclusive)
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Recently launched “crowdcoding” startup Late Labs has selected its first project. It’s an app called Buggle Us, and it will be a Google Chrome extension for simple photo editing and sharing. Late Labs, the brainchild of co-founders Justin Elof Johnson and Nathan Ross, takes a disruptive view on startup...
After series of pivots, Haiku Deck scores $3 million to make presentation tools fun
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Haiku Deck has reeled in $3 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle startup will use to continue to build out its easy-to-use presentation tools. Trilogy Partnership led the round, with Madrona Venture Group, Founder’s Co-op, entrepreneur Sarah Leary and others also participating. The TechStars Seattle grad, led by...
Google Kills Reader, Hits a Nerve
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Google announced late Thursday that it will kill its Reader tool, and people did not take it so well....
Unmanned Robot Ties Knots and Shaves Hair, Won't Cut Off Your Head
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If you think going to get your haircut by a human is nerve-wracking enough, imagine having a robot do it instead!...
Ex-Googler Agrees: These Are 14 Do's And Don'ts After You Get A New Job
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Taking a new job can be exciting, but also a bit nerve-wracking. You want to do well, stand out, but also be a team player. Back in 1995, Times Mirror Company President Al Casey shared some thoughts on what to do and what not to do after you take a...
Windows Phone's Canary in the Coal Mine
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[Editor's Note: Charlie Kindel is a former Windows Phone general manager who left Microsoft last year to join the startup world. He shares his thoughts on Windows Phone 8 in this guest post.] Few believe Nokia will survive as a company if Windows Phone 8 isn’t successful. How can we...
Want U.S. TV shows to succeed abroad? Take them online
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No question: The world loves U.S. television. Shows like House, Grey’s Anatomy or Mad Men have been a hit around the world. But for every House, there’s a Sons of Anarchy: An edgy cable show that doesn’t always translate well for the average European, which means it can be challenging...
Warner Bros. Lets Veronica Mars Crew Prove Demand For A Movie Via Kickstarter
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Just a few weeks ago, we wrote about how Kickstarter was incredibly valuable not only as a pre-sales tool but as a way to prove marketability for investors. It appears that even some in Hollywood are recognizing this. In a bit of a surprise move, Warner Bros. has allowed the...
AOL's patent sell-off: A failure of nerve
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AOL strikes a deal with Microsoft to sell and license hundreds of patents. The move gives AOL a nice injection of cash -- but now what, Tim Armstrong? [Read more]...
SpaceX Capsule Anchors Safely
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A privately owned Dragon capsule arrived safely at the international space station, delivering a ton of supplies, after a shaky, nerve-racking start to its mission....
Fab's lesson: 30-40% of its traffic is mobile, but 95% of its mobile sales come from iOS devices
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It’s exceptionally frustrating to hear tell of a new mobile application, only to fire up your Android or Windows Phone handset to learn that, too bad for you, the damn thing is iOS only. What nerve, you might think, to ignore the rest of us? However, as studies have intimated,...
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