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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... →

Money transfers are a crooked racket. They’re designed to hide just how much cash they steal from immigrant workers sending funds to family back home. Western Union, Moneygram, even PayPal’s Xoom trumpet that they only charge around $5, but quietly pocket people’s money by setting their own unfair exchange rate. TransferWise wants to put an end to all this bullsh*t. Today the… Read More... →

Yahoo today announced that it has released the source code for its Anthelion web crawler designed for parsing structured data from HTML pages under an open-source license. Web crawling is at the very core of Yahoo, even though it have many other applications, including Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Messenger, Flickr, and Tumblr. For Yahoo […]... →

NEW YORK (Reuters, Andrew Chung) – Samsung took to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a last-ditch effort to pare back the more than $548 million in damages it must pay Apple for infringing the patents and designs of the iPhone. Samsung’s petition must first be accepted for review by the Supreme Court. It […]... →

Most security services today give you virtual private networks that encrypt your connections (if you work for any sizable company, you probably use some kind of VPN client to log in to your intranet). New York-based Dispel, which is now coming out of stealth after more than two years of development, offers all of these features but then layers a number of other security tactics on top of… Read More... →

If you’ve been using third-party apps or the mobile version of Reddit on your Android device, you’ll be happy to know that the company is finally going to offer an official app for the platform. Over on Reddit last week, the team shared the news: Hi everyone! I’m the product manager for native mobile here at Reddit. As many of you know, the team here has been working hard… Read More... →

I’ve always founder that the weirder gifts, no matter how much they cost, are the ones that people appreciate the most. Sure, you could send someone a boring gift card or a basic-ass iPhone case, but why? Spend some extra time on the always awesome Etsy and give back to the community while gifting some of the funniest and weirdest stuff you’ll find. And a lot of it is customizable. Read More... →

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Facebook says it has improved the way we embed public videos and posts from the social network. The company has released an API that now gives developers support for embedding video players into their applications and websites. The move comes nine months after Facebook unveiled a way for users to share content onto third party […]... →

Inbox by Gmail, Google’s next-gen email client for mobile and the web, has its fair share of marquee features, but one of its most useful is its ability to bundles emails about a trip you have coming up into a single Trip Bundle. Read More... →

Eschewing partnerships altogether may turn out to be overly naive. Read More... →

Российский фонд Titanium Investments повторно инвестировал в израильский стартап Cloudyn, который разработал сервис мониторинга облачной инфраструктуры. Объём раунда составил $11 млн. Возглавил сделку Carmel Ventures, текущими инвесторы RDseed и Titanium Investments также приняли участие. Всего компания привлекла $16,5 млн. Средства пойдут на расширение в другие регионы. В 2016 году компания планирует открыть офис в США. В сентябре Cloudyn привлек $4 млн в рамках инвестиционного раунда серии А. Раунд возгла... →

SocialRank has launched an enterprise product that will give brands, agencies, and organizations more information about who follows them on social media. Called SocialRank for Teams, it’s a collaborative team product that lets individual employees conduct research and gather intelligence on the customers interested in the company’s social media presence. It has also publicly launched […]... →

The rush to develop apps for Apple’s two newest products has kicked into high gear, as platform providers roll out tools to facilitate this trend. The latest entry comes from Parse, which today has launched two new SDKs for devices built around Apple’s watchOS 2 and tvOS systems — the Apple Watch and TV, respectively. […]... →

It’s been pretty quiet around Facebook’s Parse developer platform this year. The team launched its Internet of Things service in March and open-sourced its SDKs in August, but otherwise, we haven’t heard much about it. It looks like Facebook is putting a bit more emphasis on the service. The company today announced two new SDKs for Parse. The service now supports both… Read More... →

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Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Cloud-cost monitoring startup Cloudyn raises $11M Cloudyn, a startup with a cloud service that shows how much money you’re spending on cloud infrastructure, is announcing today that it has taken on an $11 million […]... →

Just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping plans, Google has rolled out an updated version of its Google Maps iOS application which will now show you when stores are the busiest. Armed with this information, you can better plan when to visit the location in question in order to avoid the crowds. The feature is available not only for retail stores, but for any business where customers… Read More... →