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  • Transcriptic biotech startup funded by Google Ventures

    Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com Start­up biotech com­pa­ny Tran­scrip­tic has raised $1.2 mil­lion in a seed fund­ing round from a wide group of investors led by Google Ven­tures and FF Angel (Founders Fund‘s seed stage arm), and pri­vate investors Mark Cuban and…

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  • Better mail apps for the Mac

    From The Makers Of Orchestra Comes Mailbox, The Best Email Management App You’ll Ever Use Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com Every now and then, I get my hands on an appli­ca­tion or a piece of tech­nol­o­gy that I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about. Some­thing that is a joy to use, tack­les a…

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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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  • Move to the Cloud in the Least Expensive iPad Mini

    By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com Apple charges $100 more for storage when you buy the the 32- gigabyte iPad Mini over the 16-gigabyte model. But if you take the time to move your files and other material online, using a number of free or low-cost services, you will be able to buy… RT @nytimesbits: Move to…

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  • Field Notes in Ergonomic Diversity: Standup Workers Speak

    By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com Growing numbers of office workers are joining the ergonomic diversity movement. They are standing up, sometimes even walking at treadmill desks, while working. The health risks of sitting for hours are prompting workers to consider alternatives to… RT @nytimesbits: Field Notes in Ergonomic Diversity: Standup Workers Speak http://flip.it/GgQIC http://flip.it/ygsCd Field Notes…

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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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  • How to describe environmental science to conservatives

    Concept Of “Purity” Makes Conservatives Care About Environmental Issues By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com Re-framing environmental rhetoric so it appeals to conservatives can really work, a study finds. It’s not that polit­i­cal con­ser­v­a­tives don’t care about things like cli­mate change, recy­cling and deforestation—it’s that they don’t care ab… RT @PopSci: Pro tip: Framing environmental issues in…

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  • Visualizing aging via web app stimulates financial literacy

    Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money By Colin Lecher, popsci.com People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly. Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced ver­sion of your­self, you’re more…

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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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  • Jeff Dawkins: Big data applied via cognitive science

      Bits Blog: Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com Jeff Hawkins got rich and famous as the brains behind Palm, an early power in mobile data. He has also developed a new model of how we think, which will now be used, he says, to revolutionize the data analysis…

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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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