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WebLinc Raises $6M Series A To Expand Its Fast-Growing eCommerce Platform
4:30 am PDT • August 19, 2014
You may not be all that familiar with WebLinc, but the company’s e-commerce platform powers the online stores of popular retailers like Nasty Gal, Urban Outfitter’s Free People and New…
Hardware
Colour Blending 3D Printer Wants To Make Your Print-Outs Less Monotone
3:39 am PDT • August 19, 2014
The 3D4C is aiming to be the first four-colour blending 3D printer, which will let you print objects that aren’t monotone or two-tone but rather blend quad-colours to create multicoloured…
Media & Entertainment
Now On Kickstarter, Tickle Makes Learning To Code Fun With Scratch
2:50 am PDT • August 19, 2014
There are a lot of games and puzzles now that promise to teach kids how to code, but Tickle stands out. Now on Kickstarter, the iPad app was created in…
DataGravity Wants To Make Your Storage More Intelligent
12:01 am PDT • August 19, 2014
DataGravity, a flash storage startup with a data-driven twist, wants to change the way we interact with storage and give companies a more intelligent way to deal with storage information.…
Roku TVs From TCL And Hisense Start Shipping Soon
9:00 pm PDT • August 18, 2014
For the last several years, Roku has sold a series of devices that you connect to your TV to stream a wide range of content from thousands of different apps.…
Startups
Lean Hardware Strategy Lets Kickstarter Breakout Nomiku ‘In-Shore’ Manufacturing Back To The U.S.
5:56 pm PDT • August 18, 2014
In the 1980s, Silicon Valley’s hardware elite began outsourcing much of the semiconductor and hardware manufacturing work that gave the region its name to Asia. But now that the economics…
The price of litecoin and bitcoin, two of the most prominent cryptocurrencies, once saw their prices go up and down in something approaching a consistent ratio. That’s to say that bitcoin…
Like Voltron, robots will soon need to coordinate landings and docking with absolutely precision in difficult conditions. That’s what a group of researchers have solved by allowing a robot and…
David Gelles wrote in the New York Times this weekend about how large tech corporations have been conducting more M&A deals with less input from traditional investment banks. Because of…
Despite the promise of bountiful, cheap, and clean energy, nuclear energy didn’t completely overtake fossil fuels like everyone expected in the middle of the twentieth century. Among other things, fear…
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Women.com Is A Place Where Women Can Engage In Real Talk Online — No Men Allowed
3:22 pm PDT • August 18, 2014
From middle school girls’ sleepovers to more codified groups like the “Ladies’ Four O’Clock Club,” women have known for ages that there’s something special about the conversational dynamic that happens…
Media & Entertainment
From Westfield Labs Comes An App To Let Your Pre-Order Meals From The Food Court
2:00 pm PDT • August 18, 2014
One of the most recent applications from Westfield Labs is Dine On Time, an app that lets busy shoppers skip the line at restaurants in its food court and pay…
Startups
Y Combinator’s Doblet Plans To Be Everywhere Your Phone Charger Isn’t
1:48 pm PDT • August 18, 2014
We’ve all been there. You’ve been out all day and suddenly that low battery alert pops up on your phone. If you’re lucky, the bar you’re at might have the…
Media & Entertainment
Swing Copters Is The Latest Game From The Creator Of Flappy Bird
1:27 pm PDT • August 18, 2014
Take Flappy Bird, make the bird fly vertically and avoid swinging things, and you have Swing Copters, the next mobile game from Dong Nguyen. Because let’s burn more of our…
As we move swiftly into an era of ubiquitous computing, Internets of Things, and mind-machine connections via wetware, it’s important to step back and take a look at where we’ve…
Enterprise
Microsoft Azure’s Cloud Services And Virtual Machines Experience “Service Interruption”
1:05 pm PDT • August 18, 2014
Update 2: Here’s the latest from Azure, relating to its downtime: Starting at 18 Aug 2014 17:49 UTC, a small subset of customers are experiencing connectivity issues to some Azure…
Startups
Looksee Debuts A Tinder-Meets-Instagram For Connecting Around Shared Photos
12:25 pm PDT • August 18, 2014
A new “anonymish” app called Looksee has launched, combining mobile photography with a Tinder-like matching element that lets anonymous users connect with each other over their shared photos. The idea is…
Biotech & Health
uBiome Raises $4.5M From Angel Investors, Andreessen Horowitz To Crowdsource Microbiome Research
11:42 am PDT • August 18, 2014
Microbiome is the ecosystem of bacteria that lives within us, which outnumber the number of human cells 10-to-1. Microbes in the microbiome perform functions such as digesting food and synthesizing…
40 million Americans take three or more vitamins a day, yet both the pill bottles and the way we buy them haven’t changed in decades. Well they’re about to, thanks…
Media & Entertainment
This Real-Time Projected CGI Makeup Is Beautiful And Terrifying
10:57 am PDT • August 18, 2014
CGI has come a long way – from simulating Jar Jar Binks on the silver screen to replacing green screens with King’s Landing. Today, we should add this video to…
