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03/05/2015

Tim Ferriss explains how the 'DiSSS' system can be used to learn any skill http://ow.ly/2VtUMW

Tim Ferriss has spent much of his career dedicated to the study of learning. As he says in the intro to his podcast episodes, his mission is to uncover the tools and habits of the world's elite performers — whether they're hedge fund managers, entrepreneurs, athletes, or musicians — and share the...

02/21/2015

Working 24-7 To Bring a 747 To Burning Man - “It’s so intense. This city feels like New York now,” Ken Feldman said right as we sat down for coffee in the Mission. Feldman last lived in San Francisco in the early 1990s, well before the first dot-com bubble. Now he’s back at the height of another boom. This time he’s pulling together a fundraising campaign to bring the largest art car ever seen to the Burning Man playa — in the form of a Boeing 747. In its first incarnat... http://ow.ly/2UWVaV

“It’s so intense. This city feels like New York now,” Ken Feldman said right as we sat down for coffee in the Mission. Feldman last lived in San Francisco in the early 1990s, well before the first dot-com bubble. Now he’s back at the height of another boom. This time he’s pulling together a fundr...

02/12/2015

Apple’s iOS 9 Pegged As A Stability Update, Which Is Way Better Than A Feature Frenzy http://ow.ly/2UyQRt

Apple’s iOS 9 is going to be focused on improving stability and zapping bugs, according to a new report from the reliable 9to5Mac. The major update for Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch for 2015 is expected to take a step back from the rapid release of new features in favor of building on the e...

02/05/2015

Uber Opening Robotics Research Facility In Pittsburgh To Build Self-Driving Cars http://ow.ly/2UhcBg

Driver-on-demand service Uber is building a robotics research lab in Pittsburgh, PA to “kickstart autonomous taxi fleet development,” sources close to the decision have confirmed to TechCrunch. They say the company has hired talent from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, including l...

02/02/2015

Crunchbutton currently offers delivery from several places, such as Peanut Barrel, Five Guys Burgers and Fries and Starbucks.

01/28/2015

Snapchat Launches Discover - Snapchat now has a Discover feature, which will let you see content from brands like ESPN, CNN, Vice and Warner Music. According to the blog post and video (embedded below), users will be able to watch daily stories compiled by artists, publishers, and even Snapchat’s own editorial staff. These stories will feature “full screen photos and videos, awesome long form layouts, and gorgeous advertising,” reads the post. In other words, the new Di... http://ow.ly/2TWNbc

Snapchat now has a Discover feature, which will let you see content from brands like ESPN, CNN, Vice and Warner Music. According to the blog post and video (embedded below), users will be able to watch daily stories compiled by artists, publishers, and even Snapchat’s own editorial staff. These s...

01/24/2015

A Stanford Grad Got $2.1 Million To Make A More Elite Tinder — Here's What It Takes To Join http://ow.ly/2TN95q

Amanda Bradford doesn't think her dating app, The League, is elitist. She prefers the word "curated," the same way Ivy League schools and top employers select only the best candidates. The League, which just raised a $2.1 million seed round, is operating with 4,500 beta users in San Francisco. Th...

01/21/2015

SpaceX Raises $1 Billion In New Funding From Google And Fidelity http://ow.ly/2TEGa1

SpaceX, the space exploration startup helmed by ex-PayPal founder Elon Musk, has confirmed that it has raised $1 billion in new funding, in a round including Google and Fidelity, who join existing investors Founders Fund, Draper Fisher Jervetson, Valor Equity Partners and Capricorn. Google and Fi...

01/20/2015

New Chrome extension allows you to use Youtube as your own personal music service-- for free

http://www.techkinect.com/discover/streamus-youtube-music

While many of us use Youtube to listen to the occasional song, it's no match for a real music service like Spotify or Google Music since it doesn't offer backround listening or the ability to search for songs without using the site. A new third-party Chrome extension called Streamus is changing that…

01/20/2015

An experimental initiative being tested in Mexico. http://bit.ly/1CuPqCw

It’s a rare luxury to get to design your house, and rarer still if there’s a housing crisis. But that’s the promise of an experimental initiative...

01/20/2015

Google Is About To Make A Major Investment In Elon Musk's SpaceX http://ow.ly/2TBJxA

Google is interested in investing in Elon Musk's SpaceX. The Information's Jessica Lessin reports: "The purpose of a deal, which is still in the works, is to support the development of SpaceX satellites that could beam low-cost Internet around the globe to billions who don’t have it." A source cl...

01/18/2015

Ex-Googler: 'Tons Of Engineers' Want To Leave Google - Ex-Googler and Beeswax CEO Ari Paparo tweeted on Thursday night that "tons of engineers" were "looking to leave the goog after bonuses." "The goog" that Paparo is referring to is, of course, Google. Paparo was responding to a tweet from venture capitalist Hunter Walk, also an ex-Googler. Walk wrote that for his firm, Homebrew, and the startups in its portfolio, there had been a "seasonal January increase in big co... http://ow.ly/2TvNgN

Ex-Googler and Beeswax CEO Ari Paparo tweeted on Thursday night that "tons of engineers" were "looking to leave the goog after bonuses." "The goog" that Paparo is referring to is, of course, Google. Paparo was responding to a tweet from venture capitalist Hunter Walk, also an ex-Googler. Walk w...

01/17/2015

Google's New Language Translation App Is Astonishing - It's not often you download an app on your phone and — without understatement — it just blows you away. But Google Translate is the most astonishing piece of mobile software I've seen in months. It's one step away from Douglas Adams' "Babel Fish," the little creature from "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" that you stick into your ear to understand what aliens are saying. Google Translate lets you read anything ... http://ow.ly/2Ttim8

It's not often you download an app on your phone and — without understatement — it just blows you away. But Google Translate is the most astonishing piece of mobile software I've seen in months. It's one step away from Douglas Adams' "Babel Fish," the little creature from "The Hitchhiker's Guide To…

01/16/2015

Check out Apple's latest and greatest.

Developers are still going nuts for Apple’s new Swift programming language.

Since it was introduced last summer, Swift just jumped from number 68 to
number 22 in the language rankings from research and analyst firm RedMonk.
The rankings seeks to gauge how interested programmers are in different
languages.

01/13/2015

Want some meaningful revenge? Send your enemies glitter!

This morning, Twitter exploded when a link to a website called "Ship Your
Enemies Glitter" started getting passed around.

We first saw a link to the website posted to Reddit's r/InternetIsBeautiful
forum, and later on startup discovery website Product Hunt.

Ship Your Enemies Glitter was described by Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover
as "the ultimate troll product."

Quite literally, the expletive-laden Australian website lets you pay $9.99
to send glitter to your enemies. "Hint: the glitter will be mixed in with
the note thus increasing maximum spillage," the website reads.

01/13/2015

How to Be Totally Present and Productive - By: Joel Basgall, Contributor, Entrepreneur.com When you drive home from work today, force yourself to not think about anything else. Focus only on driving. I’ll bet you can’t, at least not for very long -- and that’s a symptom of a challenge most people face on a daily basis. In a perfect world you could be totally in the moment, regardless of the situation or pursuit: You'd be present, mindful and able to think, evaluate and ... http://ow.ly/2TfOav

In a perfect world you could be totally in the moment, regardless of the situation or pursuit: You'd be present, mindful and able to think, evaluate and decide with total focus and concentration. Being in the moment would let you consistently produce your best results.

01/12/2015

http://bit.ly/14N0KzI

In the avalanche of commentary that followed the Jan. 7 attack on Charlie Hebdo’s office, an old argument resurfaced, as it does every time a major...

01/12/2015

Need some light therapy?

During the month of January, Denmark only gets around seven hours of
daylight a day. A few years ago Kelton Ray Minor—a designer and one of the
three founders of new lighting company Sunn—was studying abroad there, and
saw firsthand what happens when people don’t get enough sunlight: They wind
up with seasonal affective disorder.