Day: April 8, 2013

Business

The American Manufacturing Renaissance Is A Flop

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Sam Ro REUTERS / Brian Snyder Labor costs are rising overseas and energy costs are falling in America.  These trends have everyone excited that an American manufacturing renaissance is at hand. Unfortunately, there is no good evidence to suggest this is happening.  In fact, some data suggest the opposite is happening. “Evidence for a structural renaissance is scant so far,” writes Goldman Sachs’ Jan Hatzius. And even if we could bring manufacturing…

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Entertainment Story

One more time: can Daft Punk make albums matter again?

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As reported on The Verge. By Trent Wolbe Pop’s mystery men return for another futuristic gaze into the past If you are old enough think back to a time before Napster, before music taxonomy became a full-time job for hashtaggers and your record store had only four categories to guide your music discovery: rock / pop, hip hop / R&B, classical, and country. You were dialing into local BBS’s at 28.8k tops and WAVs and MODs…

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Business Culture

Iterations: The Tension Between Transparency And Privacy In The Startup Ecosystem

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SEMIL SHAH Everyone wants more transparency. It is part of a deep, fundamental trend. In government. In the workplace. Inside large systems like health care. And, more recently, around early-stage startup metrics and investment data. The crowd wants more transparency. They want to know more about metrics, revenues, and stats, and they want to know more about how investment dollars are allocated. Yet, the result of this shift raises concerns about…

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The App Is Not Enough: Why We Might See More Companies Try Mobile Land Grabs After Facebook Home

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON An app on a smartphone is a limited vessel, one that can provide content and information for your audience, but within bounds set out by the operating system. People still have to navigate to your app, and therefore there’s a time when they’re “in” your product or service, and a time when they’re “out” of said product or service. Facebook clearly demonstrated last week that it wants to own that…

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The Power And Weakness That Come With Being The Default

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DREW OLANOFF Facebook had its big coming-out party for mobile on Wednesday, and its Home launcher will soon start shipping exclusively on an HTC device. This is the social network’s first crack at being the default experience on any device. Until now, using Facebook has been a completely optional and background experience, meaning you’d have to visit its website or download one of its apps. After nine years, that approach worked rather well, to…

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The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video]

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As reported on TechCrunch. by COLLEEN TAYLOR On Friday, veteran journalist Bill Moyers did a segment on Silicon Valley that gives a very different perspective than we get from most mainstream media coverage of the world-renowned tech industry hub, and it’s been fueling some good conversations this weekend. Called “Homeless in High Tech’s Shadow,” it’s a very interesting look at the growing homeless problem in the South Bay of San Francisco that’s happening in stark contrast to the growing wealth in…

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3D printed speakers give you a custom light show to go with your tunes (video) Hands-on

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As reported on Engadget. By Michael Gorman 3D printing is still in its relative infancy, but more and more folks are using machines like the MakerBot Replicator and Formlab’s Form 1 to turn digital plans into physical reality. An Autodesk engineer named Evan Atherton has access to a much more capable (and expensive) 3D printer, an Objet Connex 500, and as a design exercise decided to use that printer to create a finished product. You see, a lot of…

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Phantom Flex4K camera unveiled, blasts through 1000 4K frames per second (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Vision Systems just upped the 4k speed barrier by a near order of magnitude with the launch of its Phantom Flex4K cinema camera at NAB. Starting at $110k, it builds on its Phantom Flex predecessor with up to 1,000 fps in 5 second bursts at 4k, 2,000 fps in 2k and 3,000 fps at 720p resolution — speeds that’ll net you almost three minutes of 4k video when played back at 24…

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