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A VC: Video Of The Week: SNL's Take On Google Glass

avc.com 2 hours ago

This is pretty funny.

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Infographic: A Beautiful Cheat Sheet For Two Dozen Espresso-Based Drinks

fastcodesign.com 19 hours ago

Ugh. Just when you kinda sorta started to get a handle on the wide world of wine, along comes another new liquid metric for how cosmopolitan you really are (or aren’t): coffee. The variety is daunting...

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A Furniture Collection Made Entirely By Wind Power

fastcodesign.com 16 hours ago

Merel Karhof has been using the breeze as muse for years, finding new ways to spin airflow into creative gold...

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Never Show A Wolf Your Teeth, And More Illustrated Advice For When Animals Attack

fastcocreate.com 22 hours ago

Although far less fearsome when they wear clothes, plenty of wild animals have the capacity to kill...

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How to Have Better Conversations

inc.com 24 hours ago

Procter & Gamble's former CEO offers simple but useful tips for better discussions at work and elsewhere.

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Ex-McKinsey Consultant: 'Grit Is Living Life Like It's a Marathon'

inc.com 19 hours ago

The missing link between intelligence and performance is grit, says Angela Lee Duckworth.

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How Real People Make It Big

inc.com 21 hours ago

Forget shiny objects and distractions. How people who grew up with nothing, people like you and me, build big-time success.

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Watch: The Beastie Boys’ Album Covers, Explained By The Artists Who Made Them

fastcodesign.com 21 hours ago

The cover for the Beastie Boys’ debut album, License To Ill, perfectly encapsulated the group’s subversive M.O...

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This Hilariously Enormous Infographic Shows That Sharks Don’t Kill You, You Kill Sharks

fastcoexist.com 17 May

Despite their reputation as the ocean’s most deadly creature, sharks may have to cede that title to a creature that doesn’t even live there--humans...

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Firms ladle trips, car allowances on top of rich pay packages

ibj.com 8 hours ago

Senior executives at Indiana's public companies last year received, on average, more in perks than the typical Hoosier earned all year, IBJ found after reviewing Securities and Exchange Commission...

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Stockholm Pride Helps You Protest Russian Bigotry With Sneaky Twitter Campaign

fastcocreate.com 20 hours ago

Last August, citing fears of "public disorder," Russian courts banned gay pride parades in the Moscow for the next 100 years...

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield sore but in good spirits as he readjusts to gravity

siliconrepublic.com 16 May

Astronaut Chris Hadfield says he feels like an old man and has been bumping into corners after being weightless for five months aboard the International Space Station...

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Bad Surfing Is Just The Latest Injustice Of Climate Change

fastcoexist.com 20 hours ago

Bad news for surfers: Climate change could reduce wave heights in a quarter of the world’s ocean...

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Pinterest implements Send button to enable image sharing

siliconrepublic.com 7 hours ago

Users of online bulletin board Pinterest may soon find it easier to share images with others by using a new Send button on the site.

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20-20 vision Ireland is still only at the start of its fibre journey

siliconrepublic.com 22 hours ago

Irelands fibre journey is not a fait accompli and if anything time is of the essence if the Government is to reach its goal of having a minimum of 30Mbps for every home by 2015, says IrelandOffline,...

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The Smartphone Physical: You Can Now Get A Good Amateur Check-Up From Your Phone

fastcoexist.com 17 May

The consumerization of basic medical technology--from devices that take your pulse and glucose levels to gadgets that check for abnormal heart rhythms--could have profound consequences for healthcare...

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iOS Ghost Story “Haunting Melissa” Plays Out Across Your Devices On Its Own Schedule

fastcocreate.com 20 hours ago

Ordinarily, it’s the characters in scary movies who are being haunted, but with the latest from The Ring producer, Neal Edelstein, it’s the audience’s turn...

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6 Start-Ups Tackling the Student Loan Crisis

inc.com 16 hours ago

A group of community-minded start-ups hope to ease the burden of college tuition with the concept of crowdfunding.

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These Two Young Women Are Taking On Bribery In India

fastcoexist.com 22 hours ago

Bribe-Hackers founders Sreerupa Chowdhury, Namrata (no longer with the organization), and Monalisa SahaBribes are a way of life in India, where 54% of residents reported in 2009 that they had paid...

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How to expand your business while doing good

theglobeandmail.com 17 May

Through a strategic partnership in Uganda, Lunapads found a way to expand its business, while making a bigger difference in the world

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Top 5 Information Security Concerns of India [Report]

trak.in 8 hours ago

Here is a report that takes an in-depth look at the Top 5 Information Security Concerns of India as nation, Corporate India as well as Individuals!

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Levi’s-Backed “Station To Station” Revives The Music-On-Rails Magic Of “Festival Express”

fastcocreate.com 22 hours ago

In the summer of 1970, several of rock’s biggest names--The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band--set out on a tour across Canada aboard a train dubbed the Festival Express...

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Become a Better Leader by Studying Kim Kardashian's Marriage

inc.com 21 hours ago

Four simple, destructive behaviors that doom a marriage--and a business.

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Are These Dancing Figures The Future Of Digital Fabrication?

fastcodesign.com 20 hours ago

There seems to be no shortage to experiments with fresh building materials these days: algae buildings, homes built from shipping pallets, 3-D printed houses, and grow-as-you-go 3-D printed houses...

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WISH-TV rakes in bucks with city's only locally produced lifestyle show

ibj.com 8 hours ago

"Indy Style"--an hour’s worth of TV programming on everything from recipes to music to fitness to screen-door-repair tips--fills its show with guests who are a combination of invited guests, sponsors...

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3 Reasons Not to Crowdfund

inc.com 21 hours ago

Yes, crowdfunding is cool. It's democratic. It's disruptive. And it's a bad idea for a lot of start-ups.

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Lies Customers Tell and How to Use Them

inc.com 17 May

Customers lie because they secretly hope that you'll sell them something.

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Nintendo exerts its right to profit from user-generated videos on YouTube

siliconrepublic.com 17 May

Videos of gameplay on Nintendo video games uploaded by YouTube users will, in some cases, be accompanied by advertising that generates revenue for Nintendo only, with nothing going towards the content...

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New media arts festival Glitch returns with Run Computer, Run

siliconrepublic.com 17 May

Glitch, the annual festival that celebrates the intersection of art and technology, returns for a third time this year with a programme of four exhibitions, eight workshops, a symposium and a showcase...

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Irish start-ups head to New York for some digital networking

siliconrepublic.com 16 May

Four Irish start-ups will be in New York next week to present at a new networking event called New York Digital Irish...

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Apple names and rewards 50-billionth app downloader

siliconrepublic.com 16 May

Apple has revealed a Brandon Ashmore from Mentor in Ohio as the person who downloaded the 50 billionth app from the App Store. The 50 billionth app was Say the Same Thing by Space Inch.

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Facebook blocks social network-killing app Social Roulette

siliconrepublic.com 16 May

Facebook has blocked an app called Social Roulette that mimics the potentially lethal game of chance Russian Roulette by offering users a one-in-six chance of deleting their Facebook account

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