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New Yorkers Get Free Power In The Parks

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ELIZA BROOKE Months after Hurricane Sandy left New York scrambling for power, the city is unveiling 25 solar powered charging stations in parks and public spaces throughout the five boroughs, starting today. The pilot project between AT&T and the city of New York is officially called AT&T Street Charge. (DUMBO firm Pensa handled design, and Goal Zero provided the solar technology, AT&T handled the cash.) The stations will move to new…

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Netflix Will Launch Multiple User Profiles This Summer To Keep Your Recommendations Pristine

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU It’s a nuisance many Netflix users are familiar with–you log-on to watch something from the Criterion Collection, only to find that your recommendations are now littered with “Dora The Explorer” or “Say Yes To The Dress” because someone in your household with less erudite tastes in streaming entertainment used your account. Fortunately, Netflix Vice President of Product Innovation Todd Yellinconfirmed at E3 that Netflix will launch separate profiles for people sharing one…

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The Battle To Be First App Opened

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER Competition is heating up in the on-demand transportation industry, but unlike other segments of the market, there’s no lock-in that keeps customers loyal to one service or another. Users looking for a way to get from one place to another seemingly only care about the cost, convenience and reliability of the service. With that in mind, services like Uber and Lyft aren’t fighting to be the only app people…

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How Samsung Got Big

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CHRIS VELAZCO The cellphones were stacked up high in the Gumi factory yard and more were coming out every minute. Phones, TVs, fax machines, and other gear shattered as it hit the concrete and Samsung CEO Kun-hee Lee and his board cracked the screens and cases with heavy hammers. Then they lit a bonfire and threw everything in. The 2,000 workers began to cry. And still the hardware kept coming. The…

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Remaking Rio: turning an urban dystopia into an Olympic playground

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor With the World Cup just 12 months away, Brazil is scrambling to put its best foot forward On March 22nd, police in Rio de Janeiro clashed with demonstrators outside the city’s Maracanã football stadium, where members of various indigenous groups had been squatting in protest. Earlier, the protesters had received eviction notices from the government, which planned to build a new parking lot where their homes then stood. Less than…

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Husband And Wife Architects Create The Sugar Lab, A Foundry For 3D Printed Sweets

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS Kyle and Liz von Hasseln aren’t your typical designers. Initially focused on architecture, the pair stumbled upon an interesting business idea when they wanted to make a special cake for a friend’s birthday: the Sugar Lab. “It was our friend Chelsea’s birthday, and we didn’t have an oven to bake her a cake, so we decided to try to 3D print a cake for her, instead. It took some trial…

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Size matters: how I went from an iPhone to a really big Android phone

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As reported on The Verge. By Laura June I thought I wanted something ‘iPhone-sized,’ but I was wrong Late on the night of September 9th, 2012, I was sitting at my kitchen table, going over notes for a piece I was writing about video game arcades. The next morning at 6AM I was bound for an Amtrak train which would take me to Pennsylvania, then to Baltimore, on a four-day trip of interviews for the piece. I…

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Art Culture

How Tennessee moonshine is becoming big business

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As reported on The Verge. By Andrew Webster Moonshine may be closely associated with prohibition and the illegal booze trade, but thanks to some new laws in states like Tennessee, it’s slowly becoming a big (and legal) business. As Time reports, moonshine — or unaged white whiskey — only represents one percent of all whiskey sales, but numbers are on the rise. Last year around 130,000 cases of moonshine were sold in the US, compared to just 50,000 in…

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Listening To The Future With A 3D-Printed Ear

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DAN SOLMON The campus of Washington State University in Southeast Washington’s agricultural region looks like a typical land-grant university. The connected mix of art-deco, modern, and post-modern buildings that collectively house the College of Engineering and Architecture hide a strange and incredible secret: that the researchers inside are close to making human-compatible ceramic bone grafts and custom-made prostheses and implants. In short, they’re building cyborgs in Palouse. Welcome to the…

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The New “Handmade”

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Amid grumblings of a “general fatigue” when it comes to software-based startups, a potentially transformative technology called 3D printing is poised to reach critical mass and mainstream awareness. Today’s news headlines about the technology tend to focus on the extreme possibilities in being able to print objects on demand – from the terrors of things like a homemade 3D-printed gun to heartwarming tales ofprinted robotic hands for children born without fingers. But the…

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