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After a mostly boring 2015, bitcoin is making waves as the year ends by reaching new price heights. Bitcoin is north of the $400 mark, once again, for the second time since 2014. This time, it has surpassed a prior boomlet, reaching price points not seen since late summer last year. Read More... →

Posted by MackenzieFogelsonIn 1989, I was conquering the eighth grade with a pair of Hammer pants, big bangs, and a stockpile of Aqua Net hairspray. During class, notes would be passed so friends could arrange to drink Dr. Pepper, eat Skor Bars, and play Debbie Gibson’s Electric Youth album on a ghetto blaster after school. On a real good day, there’d be a message from the guy I was “going with” on the answering machine when I got home. Source: Antique and Retro Shoppers Map Luckily for us, since the late 8... →

According to a tweet from Mike Davidson, Twitter is about to lose its Vice President of Design: Personal news: After 3+ years leading Design @Twitter, I'm leaving in Feb to take the 1st break from work in my life. Thank you & GO TEAM ✌️ — Mike Davidson (@mikeindustries) December 15, 2015 It’s a pretty high-profile loss for the company, that is hoping to pick up the… Read More... →

The Seattle City Council has voted to allow Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize. The move is intended to protect these for-hire workers and provide protections against unfair wages and working conditions. What makes this significant is that this is the first time either on-demand car service company has faced the potential of having unionized […]... →

Listia started out as a way for people to swap free stuff, but now its users can actually make money. The new feature takes advantage of Listia’s existing system, where users give away their stuff in exchange for credits. Those credits, in turn, can be redeemed for other products on the marketplace, or for goods available through the Listia Rewards Program. Want to just take cash instead? Read More... →

Gilt.com, the New York-based fashion discount site, is in talks to be acquired for $250 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The prospective buyer is Hudson’s Bay, which owns Saks Fifth Avenue. An early pioneer in “flash sales,” Gilt sells heavily discounted items from high-end brands. It has been marketed as an avenue for online sample sales and showcases… Read More... →

Show you’re down with The Force this week then hide your Jedi ways with Facebook’s new Star Wars temporary profile pictures. Just in time for the release of The Force Awakens, click here then hit the Try It button and Facebook will let you add a scary red Dark Side cross-guard lightsaber or a benevolent blue over one of your photos. Then you can make it your profile pic and set… Read More... →

The latest Xprize offers a total of $7 million for teams that advance ocean mapping technology. This is part of Xprize’s broader ocean initiative, but Jyotika Virmani, senior director of ocean discovery, noted that the previous prizes focused on ocean cleanup and health. The initiative’s overall goal is to ensure that the oceans remain “unhealthy, valued and… Read More... →

Whether it’s 3D printing, a Kinect robotics hack or a drone, Star Wars enthusiasts have found ways to emulate their favorite gadgets from the series into functional, real-life apparatuses. These are just a few of them. Read More... →

In the U.S. and in the Bay Area particularly, the tech community is widely known as a place where people are quick to celebrate each another and one another’s companies in a virtuous circle of constant back-patting. Read More... →

Управляющий партнер Russian Ventures Евгений Гордеев запустил iOS-версию своего блокировщика рекламы AdStop. Сервис позволяет удалять рекламу не только из Safari, но и из других приложений системы, рассказал он vc.ru.... →

Microsoft today announced a new private preview of the Custom Recognition Intelligence Service (CRIS), a highly customizable tool that can give applications Siri-like speech-to-text functionality. Also today, Microsoft is opening up public previews for two sets of application programming interfaces (APIs) that offer developers technology that can understand who’s talking in audio recordings and what […]... →

Smart cities. Teletopia. Quantified communities. Whatever label you prefer, the concept of cities utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT) to create connected communities is an increasingly popular one, gaining more and more attention from city planners and urban developers. Read More... →

Hey, it’s great that you’re trying to get more followers, but what about understanding the followers already have? That’s what New York City starutp SocialRank aims to provide, and today it launched a new feature called SocialRank for Teams. If you haven’t used it, SocialRank analyzes your Twitter and Instagram accounts to help you identify things like your most… Read More... →

A lot of local discovery apps are great at telling you what’s been popular in an area for years, but they aren’t so great at helping you find the cool speakeasy that opened up last Tuesday. Membo is a bit of a fusion between neighborhood social networking apps like Nextdoor and local discussion apps like Yik Yak. The service has been letting users chat about their… Read More... →

VB WEBINAR: Nancy Nardin, David Brierley, Mike Weinberg and Donal Daly are talking how you can take your sales team performance from meh to WOW.  Hit this webinar on demand and learn essential secrets on maximizing sales performance for your team. Access the webinar on demand right here. Far too many sales managers spend too much time doing […]... →

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Professor Ioannis Ieropoulos of the Bristol BioEnergy Centre at the University of the West of England has created a bioenergy system that uses urine circulated by your footsteps to power wearable electronics. The system uses energy generators called a microbial fuel cells. They use microbe growth in waste fluids to power small devices like cellphones and lights. A mechanical pump moves urine… Read More... →

Основатель инвестиционного фонда Ironfire Capital LLC и инвестор Yahoo Эрик Джексон прислал совету директоров компании презентацию из 99 страниц, в которой объяснил, почему нужно как можно скорее снять с поста гендиректора Мариссу Майер и найти нового руководителя. Об этом сообщил Business Insider.... →

Ah, nothing goes easy with that $67 billion Dell-EMC deal, does it? Today the plot thickened a bit more when VMware announced in a filing with the SEC that it was walking away from the agreement with EMC to form Virtustream as a jointly owned company. Re/code first reported this news. This whole deal has from the start been a fairly complex tale, and like the movie Groundhog Day one we… Read More... →