As reported on The Verge. By Noah Davis Last spring and summer, Kathryn Minshew, co-founder of The Muse and one of Inc’s“15 Women to Watch in Tech”, was trying to raise money for the female-focused job site that was growing 30 percent a month and reaching 250,000 dedicated active users every month by June of 2012. She pitched herself, her co-founders — whom she met while working at McKinsey & Company — and the Muse to any and every…
As reported on The Verge. by Jacob Kastrenakes The iPhone 5 came out less than six months ago, but rumors of Apple’s next phone are already swirling. There were signs in January that Apple may already be testing a new iPhone, and The Wall Street Journal reported that a low-cost version of the iPhonemay arrive this year. Though it’s never certain that rumors will add up, nearly everything about last year’s iPhone 5 was leaked in advance of the phone’s debut. Let’s take a…
As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE Don’t ever sit on the black balls at the kids table in Apple retail stores, recommends supposed former employee and Redditor Mister_Rabbit. It seems that as 370 million people visit an Apple Store each year, a few of the kids are leaving something behind when they go. Though we can’t verify if he really worked there, Mister_Rabbit writes: “Going through my old photos from when I worked in Apple retail…
As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN I was an unpaid blogger and I’m proud of that. After following the recent back and forth between an established journalist and The Atlantic over the depressingly low pay of freelance writers, I thought I’d explore what it meant to me to work for, essentially, free. Corporate health insurance and a moderate savings account are new additions to my life after spending five impoverished years as an underpaid freelance blogger, sleeping…
As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS There’s very little to be said about this viral video except that it’s a cute rendition of what will happen for maybe the first two weeks after Google Glass is launched. In fact, I suspect it will almost be impossible to get away with this stuff once Glass hits its tipping point as potential dates will be wary of your motives when you blurt out “Google Jennifer Swanson” before sipping your…
As reported on Engadget. By Joe Pollicino The payphone. Despite how connected our world has gotten in the last decade or so, the majority of the 11,000 payphones in NYC stem from a 1999 contract. Due to expire and renew in October 2014, the city’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) has been actively figuring out how and what type of modern solution it wants to replace roughly all 11,000 of them with. You’ve heard about…
As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg We were beginning to think the ASUS Transformer AiO was just a figment of a summer daydream after hearing nothing of it since our chance look many months ago. As it turns out, we were right about the furtive FCC filing last December, and with all that paperwork in order, we’ve now been granted a formal introduction. The Transformer AiO (all-in-one) is very true to its name, as like the Autobots, it has…
As reported on Wired. BY ROBERT MCMILLAN Is this the future of the data center? Photo by Ariel Zambelich/Wired A few years ago, Christos Kozyrakis was looking for something new. He’d been teaching computer science at Stanford for nearly a decade, and he thought that spending some time as a visiting professor at Microsoft might be fun. In 2010, he spent a few weeks at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington, and he continued to collaborated with…
As reported on Wired. BY CHRISTINA BONNINGTON Illustration: Alex Washburn/Wired. Photo: Kajojak/Flickr Matthew Stoltzfus could never get his students to see chemistry like he sees chemistry until he added an iPad to his lesson plan. Stoltzfus, a chemistry professor at Ohio State University, struggled for years to bring complex chemical equations to life on the blackboard, but always saw students’ eyes glaze over. Then he added animations and interactive media to his general chemistry curriculum. Suddenly,…
As reported on The Verge. By Adi Robertson An Alitalia jet pilot claims he saw a small unmanned aircraft flying over New York on Monday afternoon. According to CNN, the pilot was landing at JFK Airport when he saw the plane: “We saw a drone, a drone aircraft,” he’s quoted as saying in a broadcast picked up by LiveATC. Other pilots apparently did not see the plane, and the pilot was able to land safely. Now, the FAA tells CNN it’s…