Sep 30
Staying organized and providing team members with an effective means of collaboration is integral to running a successful small business. Here is how cloud based web apps can improve efficiency and increase productivity.
Sep 30
It doesn’t matter what you’re buying, everyone wants to get as much bang for their buck as possible. And what looks like a set of three pieces of plastic cookware actually turns into six with nothing more than a gentle squeeze. It’s like having the Transformers in your kitchen, minus the epic Michael Bay level of destruction.
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Sep 30
Google’s BufferBox acquisition has spread to its second location, San Francisco, offering residents a place to have online shopping delivered when they can’t be at home. The next launch outside of BufferBox’s Toronto debut, BufferBox is still in its early roll-out in San Francisco, Google said today. That means locations are relatively limited, at least […]
Sep 30
A handful of neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Queens and the Bronx will have high-speed WiFi access available for businesses and residents by the end of this year. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an expansion today that’ll roll out over the next few months, lighting up parts of downtown Brooklyn, lower Manhattan, Harlem and other areas by December 2013. Companies have invested $3.4 million in the new infrastructure, and the city has contributed $900,000 to get the job done. We’re still a long way from having a city blanketed in completely free high-speed wireless internet, but with widespread availability in key areas, thousands of residents and smaller businesses should be able to drop their current internet providers before the ball drops to welcome 2014.
[Image source: AP/Frank Franklin II]
Filed under: Wireless
Source: Michael Bloomberg
Sep 30
I love Lego ships,
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Sep 30
Any potato gun or punkin’ chunkin’ fans can appreciate the awesomeness of launching one of these at the moon.
(Credit: NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office)
NASA has its eyes on lassoing and then studying a captive orbiting asteroid, but what happens to such a space rock when the space agency is all done with it?
“Once you’re finished with it and you have no further need of it, send it in to impact the moon,” Paul Chodas, scientist with the Near-Earth Object Program Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said at the recent Space 2013 conference, according to Space.com. “That makes sense to me.”
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Sep 30
Gravity looks pretty damn terrifying. Most philosophers would tell us that for a film to really be chilling to the bone, it must call to mind a real-life existential fear that’s buried within our souls. So Gravity is tugging at some deeply held fears we’ve got, then, right? Well, according to real astronaut Michael Massimino, the movie is a bunch of bull.
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Sep 30
The time has come: As announced earlier this summer, Microsoft is shuttering MSN TV, a service it’s operated since 1997. Originally known as WebTV, the box (naturally) brought the internet to many a living-room set — it was something of a pioneer back in the day, really. Nostalgic types can still turn to the Xbox 360 and the PS3 for their browser-on-the-big-screen needs, of course, and MSN TV holdouts will want to switch their email addresses to Outlook and copy saved content to SkyDrive, stat. For more details, hit up the ultra-comprehensive FAQ page via the link below.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, Microsoft
Via: GigaOm
Source: MSN TV
Sep 30
Tower of Babble: "The Confusion of Tongues," by Gustave Dore, reflects a top-down management approach.
(Credit: Wikimedia)
The Book of Genesis describes how humanity once spoke a single language. We didn’t need Google Translate, interpreters, or subtitles.
We all clicked together so awesomely that it was just natural for us to want to build a skyscraper that would reach heaven. It sounded great, especially the penthouse, but God didn’t like that and split our language into incomprehensible gibberish, according to the Bible.
So much for Babel. But the ancestors of more than 2 billion people alive today are believed to have spoken a common tongue, and a linguist has recorded what it might have sounded like.
Andrew Byrd of the University of Kentucky recorded short stories in Proto-Indo-European (PIE), a reconstructed tongue that may have been spoken by some of our forebears up to about 4,000 years ago.
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Sep 30
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