America Benefits From a Higher Minimum Wage — Here's the Proof Image Credit: The minimum wage debate was a hotly contested political topic last year and will continue to be so in 2014. This year, low-wage employee strikes and President Obama’s recent proposal to raise minimum wage to $10.10, has put…
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An anecdote: I wanted to wear Google Glass during the birth of our second child. My wife was extremely unreceptive to this idea when I suggested it. Angry, even. But as we got a bit closer to the date
The morning of June 9, 2013, was surreal for the writers of "Person of Interest," the science-fictional CBS drama about government surveillance. Sixteen months earlier, they had written an episode about an N.S.A. whistle-blower-a fresh-faced, thirty-three-year-old analyst named Henry Peck.
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Email costs nothing more than the device we hold in our hand. As a result, we are deluged by messages. On Dec. 31, I had 46,315 unread emails in my inbox. On my first day back to work in the new year,
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A closer look at the iOS7 App Switcher Jan 10, 2014 Updates: If you want to play around, I’ve posted some code on Github . Adam Bell has some awesome details on how to add animations and keep cards up to date. Check out his blog post for more details. How do you know of incoming messages when you…
Dennis Crowley thought his 13-year dream might never come true. Crowley is the founder of Foursquare, the seminal social networking service that broadcasts your location across the net and serves you
1 / 18 blunderbuss-01 Independent security researcher Evan Booth wondered if it was possible for terrorists to craft deadly weapons using only items for sale at the duty free shops and newsstands beyo
or Why I am shorting AAPL Published in I. M. H. O. · 6 min read · Nov 26, 2013 -- While not an Apple devotee, I have used a fair share of products. I used my 3rd-generation iPod, an Xmas gift, until t
Steve Blank explains why accelerators should mimic "Moneyball" Steve Blank has given a lot of presentations in his day. But he says he's never experienced anything quite like what happened a few weeks
As the founder of a profitable software company , I happen to make more money than most office-goers of my age. There’s no shame or pride in admitting that. I don’t dislike money. Having quite a bit o
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The Congress has just ended one of the worst and least productive sessions in the history of our country. At a time when the problems facing us are monumental, Congress is dysfunctional and more and m
Been thinking about mobile push notifications a lot recently, so wrote down some thoughts … I may sound like a broken record when I consistently reference this phrase in my weekly column: “mobile is the only under-hyped thing in tech.” Yet, it is hard to argue with, and if we agree to agree, then…
If you still can’t figure out what the heck a bitcoin is… Published in We’ve moved to freeCodeCamp.org/news · 6 min read · Dec 12, 2013 -- We’re sitting on a park bench. It’s a great day. I have one a
Editorial Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower Seven months ago, the world began to learn the vast scope of the National Security Agency’s reach into the lives of hundreds of millions of people in the Unite
Sitting on the very bumpy flight back from New York to San Francisco, I finally had a chance to catch up on all the hullaballoo around the newly launched Color app. With the stunning amount of cash th
29 Dec 2013 The world is filled with inefficiencies, large and small. I just called my credit card company to activate a new credit card and had to sit through a 90-second prerecorded message about th
In the past, the various professions were organized as guilds. If you wanted to become a cabinet maker you’d enter into an apprenticeship arrangement with a ‘master’ cabinetmaker and you’d be taught t
Bica Jan 15, 2014 Is this just going to be Facebook paying for their content to be delivered more quickly across the board or are we going to start seeing things like Facebook is faster on one service
Dropbox went dark over the weekend. According to the company, the widespread outage was the result of a bug it introduced while updating the hundreds of computer servers that drive its massively popul
TODAY, the anniversary of the shooting in Tucson that put a bullet through my head and killed six of my constituents, is when I make my annual resolutions. Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost.
Today inMarket is beginning a huge rollout of iBeacons to grocery stores including Safeway and Giant Eagle locations in Seattle, San Francisco and Cleveland. The rollout will place the Bluetooth LE be
Wrote this yesterday as my column this week on TechCrunch, have been thinking about “cards” as an interface for mobile apps… —– This is a post about “cards” as an interface in mobile apps. I am not a designer. I am also unable to mention every single app that uses cards — feel free to mention others…
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Doing SEO, SEM or social media marketing isn’t “growth hacking.” It’s just marketing. Problem is some marketers & start-ups don’t get that. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 4, 2014 The phrase
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Bernard meisler / Dec 11, 2012 / Social Last month, while wasting a few moments on Facebook, my pal Brendan O’Malley was surprised to see that his old friend Alex Gomez had “liked” Discover. This was
The Cooper Union Board of Trustees today managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It was a depressing and yet entirely predictable vote, which resulted in a depressing and yet entirely predi
“God, body and mind, food for the soul When you feeding on hate, you empty, my n!*$a, it shows.” — Rick Ross “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to
1 / 12 20140109-CES-AZ-0293-edit A tour through Qualcomm's connected home. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED " This is just a phone. That is just a TV. They both have screens and buttons. Yawn. You’re exci
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19 Dec 2013 What’s the hardest bug you’ve ever debugged? Every programmer has their heroically exaggerated tales of death defying combatand daring beast slaying. Here’s my epic tale. Memory Corruption
Acting professionally and being a professional are different things. One year ago, we released Party Monster , our fun little DJ app for parties and road trips. We take our work seriously, but we incl
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