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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Ben Horowitz’s Honest And Real Take On Entrepreneurship

By admin | March 4, 2014 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by Leena Rao Imagine your business is down to its last stretch of runway and your investors refuse to put more cash into it. Your friends and your most trusted advisers tell you that it’s probably time to throw in the towel, but as a last-ditch effort to find some capital, you decide to take the company public. You are half-certain that the company will go completely bankrupt during the actual roadshow,…

Against the Wind

By admin | March 3, 2014 by admin

As reported on WSJ. BY STU WOO One of the Greatest Comebacks in Sports History The winds on San Francisco Bay started kicking up in the late morning. Before long, they were blowing more than 20 miles an hour. Jimmy Spithill and his 10 teammates put on their crash helmets and flotation vests and climbed aboard the AC72, a menacing, 13-story black catamaran capable of near-highway speeds. As a powerboat pulled them into the bay…

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Know Thy Selfie

By admin | February 25, 2014February 25, 2014 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by Jordan Crook When you’re mad, or happy, or looking into the eyes of your sweetie, do you know what your face looks like? Probably not, according to Dr. James Kilner, neuroscientist at the University College London. Kilner holds that you know very little about what your face looks like most of the time, though you probably believe you look much more attractive and much younger than you actually are. Bummer, right? But,…

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FDA approves swallowable ‘PillCam’ after almost a decade (video)

By admin | February 5, 2014 by admin

As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA It’s been about nine years since we last heard from from Given Imaging, but the FDA has finally granted a version of the firm’s minuscule snapshooter its blessing. Not everyone has an easy time undergoing traditional colonoscopy procedures (due to drug allergies, for example), which is where the outfit’s PillCam Colon comes in. The camera takes a series of high-speed photos along its eight-hour tour through your digestive system, and transmits the snapshots to a device you mount…

Business Culture

The Next Big Thing You Missed: Online Grocery Shopping Is Back, and This Time It’ll Work

By admin | February 4, 2014 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY MARCUS WOHLSEN Instacart shopper Laura Barnum delivers groceries to a business in downtown San Francisco. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED Webvan is a name synonymous with dotcom failure. At the turn of the millennium, the heavily funded startup and its many investors bet that the time was right to sell groceries online. They were wrong. Very wrong. But more than a decade later, tech-savvy retailers and retail-savvy tech companies are ready to try…

Culture Security

PSA: Missed Call From A Mystery Number? Be Careful.

By admin | February 3, 2014 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by Greg Kumparak The people who read our site are a pretty savvy lot. You know not to accept checks from distant princes. You can spot a phisher from a mile away. But here’s one that might be new for you: scammers are apparently trying to exploit your “missed call” screen, now. The scam, simplified: They call you, but immediately hang up. You see a missed call. You call back. They charge you for the…

Application Culture

iCPooch Is A Remote Treat Dispenser & Pet Facetime Terminal For Absent Dog Owners

By admin | February 3, 2014 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by Natasha Lomas Last summer we covered Petzila’s answer to keeping a pet pooch happy when you’re not at home: a remote treat dispenser called PetziConnect which also let absent dog owners view and talk to their pooch while delivering treats from afar. Fast forward a few months and prepare to greet iCPooch: another gizmo aiming for the not-so-stay-at-home dog owner, but one which takes the remote petting to the next obvious level: doggy facetime. iCPooch,…

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Welcome To The French Tech Ecosystem

By admin | January 30, 2014 by admin

As reported on TechCrunch. by Romain Dillet This is the story of a city that keeps reinventing itself. Over the past three weeks, I’ve been walking around Paris to meet with the brightest minds of a tech ecosystem in the making. My experience is as personal as it is relevant about what makes a startup ecosystem work, and why Europe is the next frontier. When I first decided that I wanted to move to…

Culture Entertainment

Oculus Is Awesome for Games, But It’s the Future of Movies

By admin | January 29, 2014 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER Photo courtesy Oculus PARK CITY, Utah – I never thought I’d ever say this, but I’m onstage with Beck. He’s wearing his usual hat-and-blazer combo, and covering one of my favorite David Bowie songs. Out past the crowd is a full choir — a few faces I recognize because they played with Beck during last year’s Station to Station rolling art extravaganza — and a massive musical ensemble. People are…

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Forget Matadors, These Guys Wrestle Bulls With Their Bare Hands

By admin | January 28, 2014 by admin

As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT SIMILAR GALLERIES 30 Years of Amazing Sports Moments, Captured by a Master Photographer Meet the Coolest 84-Year-Old on the Internet Throwback Thursday: 100 Years Ago, Drone Cameras Soared on Kites 2,000 Feet High Powerful Photos Go Deep Inside America’s Fracking Boom Siamese Fighting Fish Show Off Their Fiercest Looks Haunting Photos of a Crumbling Post-Communist World 1 / 12 A forcado tries to hang on after the…

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