OMG On March 3, 2014, Kickstarter passed $1 BILLION in pledges. That’s $1,000,000,000 pledged by 5.7 million people to creative projects. KICKSTARTER More than half was pledged in the last 12 months a
A simple Google search will reveal varying opinions on lunch time best practices. You should go out to grow rapport with colleagues . You should stay in to have better cognitive control and error moni
Here is the full White House statement. Readout of President Obama's Call with President Putin President Obama spoke for 90 minutes this afternoon with President Putin of Russia about the situation in Ukraine.
Modern pop singers lack humanity, says Elton: Musician attacks today's artists as 'processed performers' Elton said autotune had lead to a lack of humanity in songs Criticised modern pop songs for bei
“Betaworks is…” “Betaworks is a holding company slash studio that’s building internet stuff in a different way, based in the Meatpacking District of New York.” Advertisement “Betaworks, I would say we
Allen was photographed on June 3 at his office in Manhattan. His forty-eight picture as a director, Blue Jasmine , is now in theaters. Interviewed June 4, 2013 My two teenage girls think of me as anci
Consumption of online media has changed significantly with the increasing popularity of Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks. We’re exposed to interesting pieces all day, but it’s not always the best time to sit down and read them. A common “solution” for most people is to repost the link to…
Photo: Graham MacIndoe Most documentary projects about addiction expose someone else’s self-destructive behavior, but Graham MacIndoe took a very different approach: He photographed himself during the
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A nineteenth-century bilboes for an adult, typically found on slave ships. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com . To stay on top of important articles lik
My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. I applied to hundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies. I got rejected from every single one. Big companies rejected me outright or gave…
Walking around Silicon Valley with an augmented reality display on your face makes you a glasshole . On the battlefield, though, similar technology will soon turn U.S. soldiers into a lethal cross bet
Image: IAA It's the scourge of futurists everywhere: The space elevator can't seem to shake its image as something that's just ridiculous, laughed off as the stuff of sci-fi novels and overactive imaginations. But there are plenty of scientists who take the idea quite seriously, and they’re trying…
February 11, 2014 Defeating Email Before Kim and I got married, my afterwork routine was generally: Come home. Check work email. Cook dinner. Check work email. Relax and watch a movie or an episode of television. Check work email. Get ready for bed. Check work email. Sound familiar? I’d unlock my…
Quantifying informal learning 2 min read · Nov 16, 2013 -- I’m in the midst of this profile of Sebastian Thrun, founder of Google X (driverless cars, etc.), and most recently, Udacity, the MOOC he sta
3D Printing Helps Fix Child’s Heart, Save Life by Brian Krassenstein 3D Printing Share this Article 3D printing has been creeping its way into the healthcare industry, slowly but surely, over the last
Porn is leading us into the future once again. The ubiquitous GIF, a 27-year-old image format that has grown into an Internet artform, is becoming obsolete. For proof, one only has to look at the impr
One of the many things I do that proves that I need to get out more is collect examples of placeholder text that ends up in a final interface. But I’ve also noticed that the issue happens more and mor
What can 1000 homescreens tell us about the way people use their phones. Excerpted from the betaworks shareholder book Published in [in beta] · 12 min read · Feb 23, 2014 -- At betaworks we aim to bui
Drop the ego and prove “I could make that so much better” I mow lawns for a living, what do you do? Well, if you’re working on a startup it probably sounds a helluva lot cooler than that. Whether it w
Like many of us, Eric Jarosinski first started tweeting as a way of avoiding work. It was January of 2012, and Jarosinski, an assistant professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, was strug
Oh dear. The Republican Party’s worst nightmare is coming true. Obamacare is working. The news that nearly 1.2 million people signed up last month for insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchang
To access one of Google Maps' best hidden features, you have to know the magic word. Well, it's a phrase, really, and that phrase is: "OK Maps." Enter this phrase into the Google Maps app and the portion of the map that's currently visible on your screen will be saved directly to your device.
I write The Digital Life, a monthly tech column in our sister Conde Nast magazine, GQ . This is my column from last month's issue (dated January). To subscribe to GQ, click here . At this time of year
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the deets on my next career adventure Published in Ice Breaking · 2 min read · Feb 21, 2014 -- A little over one year ago, I accepted an offer to come work at betaworks . Today, it feels bittersweet t
Facebook just bought WhatsApp, paying $16bn in cash and stock ($4bn cash, $12bn stock at current prices) and $3bn in RSUs. WhatsApp has 450m active users, of which 72% are active every day. It has jus
This morning I had a meeting with a couple entrepreneurs whose company was recently acquired. It was just a general catch up session, no real agenda. Still, it seemed quite random when a good third of
For more than two decades, Tai Altman knew exactly how his parents' lives would end. When the moment came to say goodbye, knowing they were about to kill themselves, he felt surprisingly calm. They had prepared him in every possible way, he says: he knew only that he respected their decision and…
The Google campus has numerous Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images When you conduct a search on Google , your query goes across the Internet, hits a server, gets processed and is sent back to you in mic
Instapaper is an original. It’s one of those apps that has always been there — greater than all and challenged by few. Instapaper is one of the oldest apps on the App Store and has introduced many new buyers to the power of the iPhone. Pocket is an equally great app that supports more platforms than…
One of California’s largest firearm stores recently added a peculiar new gun to its shelves. It requires an accessory: a black waterproof watch. The watch’s primary purpose is not to provide accurate
Driving Under the Influence, of Marijuana A billboard in Newark. A highway safety official in Colorado, where marijuana is legal, said that “a lot of people don’t think D.U.I. laws apply.” Credit... C
Photo Cameron Winklevoss, left, and his brother, Tyler, are planning to start a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Credit Lucas Jackson/Reuters Updated, 11:03 p.m. | Stock traders have the Standard & Poor’
Four Numbers That Explain Why Facebook Acquired WhatsApp WhatsApp Co-Founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton Earlier today, Facebook announced its acquisition of WhatsApp for $16 billion. It’s a spectacular
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