WASHINGTON — Government safety rules are changing to let airline passengers use most electronic devices from gate-to-gate.
The change will let passengers read, work, play games, watch movies and listen to music — but not make cellphone calls.
The Federal Aviation Administration says airlines can…
October 15, 2013 I know none of my passwords. I tweeted the other day that I no longer know any of my passwords. People seemed to think it was a joke, so I decided I’ll go into a little more depth on exactly how I’m doing it. Okay I think I’ve finally configured by internets for maximum security. I…
Imagine: After months of saving, you fly to Vegas for a little gambling at a new casino. You're not into anything serious: Just some slots, diverting and not too risky. So you play for a few hours, dr
YouTube is preparing a premium on-demand music service — akin to a Spotify, but with video — to launch later this year, according to several sources familiar with the plans. The service, designed with
Last year, when a divided U.S. Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit challenging federal secret surveillance provisions, the court relied on assurance by the U.S. Solicitor General that defendants who were prosecuted based on this sort of surveillance evidence would have their own distinct opportunity to…
Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief, on Tuesday. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Apple’s much-hyped product demonstrations used to end with an emphatic “wow!” I’m not just talking about the entertainment, lik
As a freelancer or small business owner, you probably know that one of the most pressing issues is late payments and chasing customers months after a job was done. Meet Satago , the online platform wh
If you’ve read my “About Me” section, you may or may not have seen these two little sentences that I squeezed in there:
“I have also been living a sober life for 8 months. Alcohol was playing a huge role in my battle with depression and although it has been tough, especially since I’m in college, I…
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington kicked off his interview with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong at Disrupt Europe with the obligatory ragging on Armstrong for firing him, but eventually, he moved on to ask i
Get Your Business Listed Where It Can Be Found Make the best first impression by being found everywhere Ensure your business is found everywhere Localworks puts you in control of your business across
Don't make the mistake of thinking you're [the] customer, you're not – you're the product. – Bruce Schneier LinkedIn released a new product today called Intro . They call it “doing the impossible”, bu
Liam said he wanted to learn about money Fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in your kids 9 min read · Jul 31, 2013 -- What did your parents teach you about money? If you’re anything like me, you wer
Something felt a bit off about this week’s Apple event. Part of it was the lack of surprises, which isn’t Apple’s fault. All of the product upgrades, while nice, were incremental and predictable. None
PayPal has today scored another deal to bring its technology to more point-of-sale platforms via an integration with iPad POS solution provider, Revel Systems , a company whose business has grown by 4
I just updated my utility belt . Well, metaphorically speaking – every self-respecting geek has one. Lately I've been trying to minimize what I carry around even further. After having children I've co
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 8 min read · Oct 21, 2013 -- Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be
Distributed Personal Wiki 3 min read For as long as I can remember I've been trying to find a good way to keep personal text notes. Recipes, notes, ideas, that kind of thing. Things that aren't really
Published 17 October 2013 Share page About sharing By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News The brain uses sleep to wash away the waste toxins built up during a hard day's thinking, re
Update: Somehow, I managed to remove the middle section of this post and most of the code example when I was updating labels, or adding a link, or something. It read like nonsense because of that, but
karen_e Oct 16, 2013 For related and timely reading on this topic, I am working through “Bay Watched” in the October 14th New Yorker. “How San Francisco’s new entrepreneurial culture is changing the c
Lerer Ventures’ Investment in Soylent I’m excited to announce that Lerer Ventures has invested in Soylent , a startup that’s working on nutritionally complete beverages. I mentioned Soylent in my second blog post: I’d much rather talk about Bitcoin, Soylent , and Drones than I would the next…
It’s not engagement. Engagement, (time-on-site, page views, number of sessions per day) is the wrong concept because it doesn’t apply to most products. The best metric is share of habit. Engagement fa
Governments at all levels have been using GitHub for some time now to build better, more accessible websites , publish laws and data , and even collaborate on policies themselves . Today we’re proud t
Post-mortem of a Dead-on-Arrival SaaS Product 3 min read A little over a year ago I announced the launch of my latest (at the time) product named Marginalia. The idea was to be a sort of online journa
ts general terms were mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, which imposed numerous regulatory changes on corporate and banking behavior in the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown.
Congress, however, asked the SEC to figure out how to put it into practice. The SEC voted in September to open its proposed…
Instapaper has a new Chrome extension to help users save interesting web pages to their Kindle, PC, Mac, iOS or Android device. It works almost identically to the Instapaper bookmarklet – just click o
The Cold War had plenty of disadvantages for the world as a whole, true, but there was never a better time to be a mad scientist with crazy doomsday devices. No longer limited to freelance work delive
As countries around the world gradually lift regulations on the use of commercial drones, a new startup called Flirtey hopes to turn Australia into a worldwide industry leader for the use of UAVs (unm
" The context in which makes possible an underlying sense of the way it all fits together despite our collective tendency not to conceive of it as such " - The Books, "Smells Like Content" I was with
The room-renting startup rumored to be worth $2.5 billion is facing eviction from New York. Airbnb is under attack from the state, and countering by begging for grassroots support—won't you help this company go public someday? Attorney General Subpoenaed Data on 15,000 Airbnb Hosts in New York…
Last year, Foursquare was said to be on the verge of bankruptcy, unable to turn its social media star into a sustainable business . Since then, however, the startup has raised a $41 million round of f
A week into the partial government shutdown, and there’s still no end in sight to America’s latest self-inflicted fiscal crisis. The two sides, in particular the House Republicans, appear to be gettin
JVM Languages Permalink The odd, but popular, assertion that Java is dying can be made only in spite of the evidence, not because of it. Related Reading Parallels Supports Docker Apps Xamarin Editions
The Remarkably Relaxed Terence Tao is one of the world’s best mathematicians. He won a Fields Medal when he was 31. He is, we can agree, remarkable. He is not, however, busy . I should be careful abou
Zurich: Global wealth has risen by 68 per cent over the past 10 years to reach a new all-time high of $241 trillion and the United States accounts for nearly three quarters of the increase, Credit Sui
I'm sure there are plenty more out there, but I look for these: No demonstrated user need. For example, consider 3D movies and TV. If you ask people why they sometimes prefer stage to screen, nobody ever says, "Oh, movies are only 2D." 3D tech has novelty value , but even a little user testing would…
A man reads morning newspapers from around the U.S. at the Newseum in Washington, Oct. 1, 2013. Gary Cameron/Reuters U.S. news reports are largely blaming the government shutdown on the inability of b
[Note: In response to the interest generated by this post I have also posted No, You Cannot be a Professor--the Reactions and For New Readers: Northwest History's Greatest Hits .] [2014 Update: So wha
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