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Sqwiggle Makes Working Remotely Less Lonely, More Awesome

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As reported in TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK Hey Marissa! Check this one out. Sqwiggle is browser-based group video chat built with work-from-homers in mind. It’s got the office-like immediacy that Skype lacks, but without the noise of a Google Hangout. I’m kind of in love with it. As someone who puts words on the Internet for a living, I’ve been lucky enough to spend most of the last 5 years working from my home. Awesome, right? Yeah, to…

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How a Hollywood effects studio builds the movie monsters from your nightmares

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As reported on The Verge. By Matt Brian In an age where movie studios can create almost anything using CGI, Hollywood’s special effects studios and their real-world creations are still in very high demand. In a behind-the-scenes interview, Venue takes a look at Spectral Motion — a special effects creature studio which has provided the prosthetics, animatronics, and costumes for hit movies including Hellboy & Hellboy II, Looper, Blade 2, X-Men: First Class and this summer’s upcoming blockbuster Pacific Rim. Spectral…

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Japanese mobile boss claims he’s already patented the tech inside Google Glass Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr Patent filings, we don’t take so seriously. One of Japan’s richest men, with the potential to call on an army of lawyers to defend what he claims is his invention, we probably ought to. Masayoshi Son, the billionaire (and philanthropic) CEO of SoftBank, has given a two-hour speech to his shareholders about his technological predictions for the next 30 years, and about halfway through he describes a familiar idea: augmented…

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HTC March 2013 Sales Halved To $530M As It Preps For Its Facebook Home Debut

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU HTC today posted their monthly revenue figures, covering March 2013, and it’s another sign of just how crucial it is for the company to hit a home run with either its new flagship HTC One handset, or the HTC First Facebook Home phone — and ideally both. The Taiwanese company reported sales in March 2013 of NT$15.88 billion (about $530 million USD). The figures are definitely an improvement on last month when…

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Android Application Business

Nearly 60K Low-Quality Apps Booted From Google Play Store In February, Points To Increased Spam-Fighting

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Google has stepped up its efforts to remove spammy or otherwise non-compliant applications from its mobile application marketplace, Google Play, in recent weeks. App deletions hit a record high in February, with 60,000 apps removed during the course of the month – the largest round of app deletions to date. The news of this massive app removal comes just ahead of therumored launch of a revamped version of Google Play…

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HP Moonshot server class leaves concept, to power commercial-grade internet of the future

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As reported on Engadget. By Ben Gilbert We’re all about the future of the internet here at Engadget, so you can imagine our excitement when HP today announced that it’s shooting for the moon with its latest server system, the HP Moonshot. Promising significantly reduced energy consumption and space requirements, the Moonshot is HP’s “second generation” server tech, and it’s intended for use with “social, cloud, mobile, and big data,” according to the company. In so many words,…

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Refurbished 27-inch iMacs hit the Apple store, thin profiles start at $1,529

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Lusting after Apple’s giant, yet shockingly thin 27-inch iMac? The object of your desire just got a little cheaper — well, as long as you don’t mind refurbished goods. The extra large all-in-one is the latest Apple product to hit the company’s certified refurbished store, offering as much as $270 the product’s regular price. The iMac’s 2.9GHz Core i5 base model can be had for $1,529, replete with 8GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD…

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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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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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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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