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  • Scoop.it lets you create your own digital magazines

    Content Curation Startup, Scoop.it, Rolls Out Big New Redesign To Help Businesses & Pros Increase Their Visibility Online Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Scoop.it launched last Novem­ber to give any­one and every­one the abil­i­ty to cre­ate their own dig­i­tal mag­a­zines — to aggre­gate and dis­trib­ute con­tent from across ye olde Inter­nets accord­ing to their par­tic­u­lar inter­ests —…

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  • Best of Apple App Store 2012

    Apple’s Best Of App Store 2012 Rewards Creativity, Google; Skype And Rovio Take Top App Spots Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com Apple has released its annu­al “Best Of” fea­ture for the iTunes and App Stores, and this year there are some apps at the top of the list that indi­cate Apple is inter­est­ed in reward­ing apps that…

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  • Artist visualizes his life online

    BigPic: Two And A Half Years Of Computer Use In One Incredible Image By Colin Lecher, popsci.com A map of when artist Marcin Ignac used his computer, when he didn’t, and what he was seeing For a project titled Every Day of My Life, artist/programmer/designer Marcin Ignac used soft­ware to track, mea­sure, and visu­al­ize his…

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  • DIY drone filmmaking replaces expensive Hollywood tech

    Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Skate­board­ers have been tap­ing their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of cam­corders, but the pro­duc­ers of short and beau­ti­ful video Fire­fly took the next log­i­cal step: using a cam­era mount­ed to a hexa­copte… Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a…

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  • GoPro camera used for stratospheric imaging

    GoPro Camera Records Sky Divers and Surfers By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com There have been two major mile­stones in nar­cis­sis­tic pho­tog­ra­phy in the last cen­tu­ry. The first was the inven­tion of the self-timer, which Kodak began sell­ing dur­ing World War I. The sec­ond came a few years ago, as teenagers stood at… RT @nytimesbits: Disruptions: A…

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  • Zensorium cardio health monitor for iOS

    Zensorium launches Tinké cardiorespiratory health and stress monitor for iOS devices (video) Jamie Rigg, engadget.com Plan­ning a glut­to­nous hol­i­day sea­son and then a health kick in the New Year to bal­ance it out? Well, when you start on the lat­ter, you might want one of Zen­so­ri­um’s Tinké car­diores­pi­ra­to­ry mon­i­tors to track your progress. The… RT…

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  • Adobe creative cloud, Muse empower digital designers

    Adobe announces Creative Cloud updates to Muse and Photoshop, team subscriptions and more Billy Steele, engadget.com If you jumped on the Cre­ative Cloud band­wag­on, you’re about to cash in one of the major perks of tak­ing said leap. Keep­ing its promise to roll out new fea­tures to the afore­men­tioned mem­bers first, Adobe has announced updates…

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  • Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

    Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come Decem­ber 18th, futur­ist extra­or­di­naire Ray Kurzweil will be join­ing Google’s ranks as Direc­tor of Engi­neer­ing to work on projects that involve machine learn­ing and lan­guage pro­cess­ing. Specifics regard­ing those projects, how­ev­… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…

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  • NASA shows that earth looks like one big disco ball at night

    Satellite images of Earth, city lights at night Posted By: Bryan Chan, latimes.com Photography NASA has released images of Earth at night from the Suomi Nation­al Polar-Orbiting Part­ner­ship satel­lite that is orbit­ing 512 miles above the Earth’s sur­face. The agency stitched some of these images togeth­er to cre­ate a… http://flip.it/qaOMz Related articles This gorgeous video…

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  • Strum makes your clips into appealing videos

    This App Turns Your Video Clips Into Instant Music Videos Emily Price, mashable.com Videos you shoot on your iPhone are about to get a lot cooler, with Strum, a new video app that instantly turns 15-second video clips into rock masterpieces.Similar to how you might put a filter on a photo with Instagram, Strum offers…

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  • Rebooting medicine info graphic

    Digital Health Infographic wirelesshealthstrategies.com 6 Char­ac­ters (0,1,A,C,G,T) Reboot­ing Med­i­cine & Health I cre­at­ed this con­cep­tu­al info­graph­ic with the great team at Mis­fit Wear­ables. It’s based on the work of Dr. Eric Topol, author of “The Cre­ative Destruc­tion of… http://flip.it/ZfjsN Related articles What Digital Health Is (and Isn’t) (rockhealth.com) The Creative Destruction of Medicine (canadacloud.net)

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  • Ginger.io behavioral health IT startup

    Smartphone app that assesses behavioral health raises $6.5M Stephanie Baum, medcitynews.com A health IT startup that got its start evaluating college students behavior based on their smartphone use has raised $6.5 million, according to a company statement.The San Francisco behavior analytics firm Ginger.io co-founder and CEO Anmol Madan… http://flip.it/vRhhX Related articles Guest Post: The Ginger.io…

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