Day: May 2, 2014

Business Culture Random

High rollers: Las Vegas is poised to become the Disneyland of weed

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As reported on The Verge. By Lessley Anderson Cannabis entrepreneurs fight to stake their pot leaf in the world’s biggest tourist destination They won’t have neon signs, drive-thru windows, or 24-hour wedding chapels attached to them. But Las Vegas marijuana dispensaries will be massively profitable tourist attractions that could deepen the entire nation’s relationship with weed. At least that’s the hope of the 109 applicants who entered the heated competition for Vegas’ first medical marijuana dispensary…

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Flipt Wants To Help You Make Smarter Home Investment — And Flipping — Decisions

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois  Tells You How Much Milk Your Wee Bairn Slurped All Day While the U.S. real estate market is still experiencing its ups and downs, the number of online real estate startups continues to increase quickly. The latest entrant in this business is Flipt, which aims to take some of the emotion out of real estate purchase decisions and replace it with a more data-driven approach. Flipt analyzes available residential properties in an area and then…

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SmartPhone Social Networking Tech

Ambient Proximity Is The Next Phase Of Location Sharing

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Josh Constine  accidentally Pulls Popular Shows Off The Service It’s not where your friends are, but how close they are that matters. After years of exact coordinate checkins, both Foursquare and Facebook are now focusing on ambient proximity — constantly and automatically sharing your approximate distance from close friends. Ambient proximity lets you know if a friend is near enough to meet up with, yet without the creepiness of seeing their every…

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Mobile SmartPhone

Paperfold is a foldable, transformable smartphone prototype

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As reported on Engadget. BY EMILY PRICE If Kyrocera’s folding smartphone Echo didn’t have enough screens for you, try this on for size. The Human Media Lab at Canada’s Queen’s University has created a fully functional smartphone that uses not two, but three different snap-together e-ink displays. The result is a gigantic device called PaperFold, that can do some pretty awesome stuff, especially with maps. You can display driving directions over all of the screens for easy planning, or fold the displays together…

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Entertainment Games

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare trailer features futuristic action, Kevin Spacey

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As reported on Engadget. BY JAMIE RIGG With Call of Duty being one of the most successful game franchises out there, you know there’s always going to be a next one. Well, the first trailer for that game has dropped, revealing its full title of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and Kevin Spacey. The House of Cards actor appears to be cast in the role of a powerful, politically driven antihero (how original), but what we’re more interested in is the little hints…

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