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Hoverboards are real, right now, not just in Back To The Future. Today Arx Pax showed off version 2 of its magnetic levitation Hendo Hoverboard that glides above copper flooring. The big advancement is that the mag-lev motors are tilted in towards the board to give it traction so you can shift your weight to somewhat steer its direction. Version 2 has better battery life and eliminates the… Read More... →

Apple is pushing for green in China, announcing Thursday that its new clean energy programs in the country between now and 2020 will be the equivalent to taking nearly 4 million passenger vehicles off the road for one year. It means that Apple now powers 100 percent of its China operations with renewable energy. Apple will also […]... →

Apple announced Thursday that its China operations are now 100 percent powered by renewable energy, leaving it carbon neutral in the country. That brings them in line with its U.S. operations, which are likewise run off 100 percent renewable energy. Worldwide, Apple says its operations are now 87 percent green. Apple’s new solar projects in China […]... →

For the past couple of hours, Airbnb has been getting slammed on social media for a San Francisco bus stop ad that was shared on Facebook. How bad was it? People (including Martha Kenney, who first shared the ad) started speculating that it may have been hoax, perhaps posted by someone who wanted to make Airbnb look bad. But nope, it looks like this is a real Airbnb ad. Here’s what… Read More... →

As varied as the quirky spectrum of people dressed from t-shirts and shorts to suits and ties at SXSW Eco in Austin was the spectrum of sustainability topics covered — from improving fashion’s supply chain to building transportation hyperloops. For the first time ever, though, the workhorse of energy sustainability, the electric grid, was also tackled as a focal point. Read More... →

A hacker who goes by the name of Amped Attacks specializes in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). Unlike some hackers who take out websites and services that many rely on, Amped Attacks prefers to target racist and homophobic bullshit. A DDoS attack is a common method for taking down a server by overloading it with requests. The […]... →

Posted by MarkTraphagenRecently, Google Webmaster Trends analyst Gary Illyes surprised many of us with a remark he made during his keynote Q&A with Danny Sullivan at SMX East in New York City. Illyes said that he recommended webmasters not remove the rel=author tag from their site content. Google had used rel=author as part of its Google Authorship feature that (potentially) displayed a special author rich snippet in search results for content using the tag. Google ended support of this feature in August 20... →

Egnyte, a company that provides hybrid-cloud data management services, today released a new method for companies to track and manage content in their control. Egnyte’s CEO Vineet Jain also spoke to TechCrunch concerning Egnyte’s individual financial performance. Egnyte’s new tool, called ‘Smart Reporting & Auditing File Service,’ is a dashboard environment… Read More... →

San Francisco-based fashion label Betabrand, the startup that brings to you the Dress Pant Yoga Pants, announced today that it has closed $15 million in funding from Morgan Stanley and Foundry Group. Betabrand is not your usual clothing brand; the startup crowdsources designs and then jumps into production, creating items like the Best Travel Pants and […]... →

GUEST: Consumer video consumption continues to grow, dominating social network feed and reaching to every corner of the Web on both mobile and desktop. But how are brands using video as a part of their website strategy? Crayon (full disclosure, I work for Crayon) recently analyzed 50,000 industry-leading brands to understand how they are incorporating video into […]... →

HP today announced that on Jan. 31, 2016, it will stop offering its public cloud for running companies’ applications. Some people thought HP was ditching the public cloud, which currently goes by the brand name Helion, a few months ago, as a result of a confusing statement in a New York Times article. Now it […]... →

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Nike has been teasing the idea of releasing self-lacing shoes — a la Back To The Future — for years. Seriously — heres an article we wrote on them back in 2011. Word around the rumor mill is that they’ll finally announce some details of the shoes on the Jimmy Kimmel show this evening. As you’ve likely been reminded by basically every website on the entire… Read More... →

WikiLeaks on Wednesday posted documents allegedly from CIA director John Brennan’s email account, including Brennan’s application for security clearance and papers about U.S. torture policy. The documents come after a teenage hacker says he breached Brennan’s AOL email account. The hacker told Wired that he did so by pretending to be a Verizon worker and tricking another… Read More... →

We’ve abandoned time-honored valuation techniques from the past because they didn’t work for new rapid-growth, tech-driven businesses. But what if the new rule book was equally inept? As a lover of technology, creativity and great business ideas, I should feel more optimistic about the near-term future than I do. I worry that the current valuations of companies reflects dubious… Read More... →

SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has just wrapped up its keynote event at its second annual Flight developer conference. There was quite a bit of updates announced, starting with a quick note from new Chief Executive Jack Dorsey to moving the discussion forward with developers on how Twitter’s tools can help build mobile apps faster. Approximately […]... →

eBay reported its third-quarter earnings today — its first as a separate company from PayPal — and beat investor expectations with earnings of 43 cents per share and $2.1 billion in revenue. Investors were looking for $2.09 billion in revenue and earnings of 40 cents per share. Read More... →

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Now that eBay is officially separated from PayPal, investors want to see that the auction site still has room to grow. This quarter eBay posted revenue of $2.1 billion and earnings of $0.43. Analysts were anticipating earnings of $0.48 on revenue of $2.09 billion. Gross merchandise volumes saw a six percent uptick quarter over quarter. The company also […]... →