Lai Tran April 18, 2012 0 Comments

Australian startup incentivizing chores grabs $1.5M funding 2…

Australian startup incentivizing chores grabs $1.5M funding 2 months after launch
Jon Russell, thenextweb.com
An Aus­tralian start­up that incen­tivis­es and mon­e­tizes errands has launched its iPhone app hav­ing raised $1.5 mil­lion, just two…

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Lai Tran April 17, 2012 0 Comments

Physicist uses math to get out of a traffic ticket, publishes…

Physicist uses math to get out of a traffic ticket, publishes findings
Sean Buckley, engadget.com
When most folks get tick­et­ed for run­ning a stop sign, most peo­ple wind up writ­ing the court a check. UC San Diego physi­cist Dmitri Kri­oukov …

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Lai Tran April 17, 2012 0 Comments

Pebble smartwatch raises a record $3.6 million through…

Pebble smartwatch raises a record $3.6 million through Kickstarter
Dan Graziano, bgr.com
Kick­starter is filled with some bril­liant, some not-so-brilliant and some very strange ideas, and if user inter­est is any indi­ca­tion, the Peb­ble ePa­p…

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Lai Tran April 16, 2012 0 Comments

FCC fines Google $25,000 for unauthorized data collection and…

FCC fines Google $25,000 for unauthorized data collection and impeding investigation
Dan Graziano, bgr.com
The Fed­er­al Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Com­mis­sion has fined Google $25,000 for imped­ing a U.S. inves­ti­ga­tion into the data col­lec­…

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Lai Tran April 15, 2012 0 Comments

Twitter Weekly Tweets for 2012-04-15

I get that it's a personal assistance program. But how does it actually who I (@YouTube http://t.co/yr8tFh6N) #

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