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November 18, 2014
Uber's Trust Problem
A damning new report casts Uber executives in a less-than-friendly light.
Uber is in hot water. Again.
Ruling Brings Drones Under FAA Regulation, Could Lead To Sweeping Bans
The FAA appealed to the National Transportation Safety Board to get the power to crack down on unmanned aircraft.
A decision handed down by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today may have many drone aficionados poised to fly off the handle.
When Tiny Burritos Aren't Enough: Welcome To A Tiny Hamster Thanksgiving With Tiny Pumpkin Pies
What we're thankful for this year: the best sequel to date in the tiny hamster series. Hypnotic.
From the people who brought you a tiny hamster stuffing its cheeks to max capacity with teeny burritos, comes a new video just in time for the holidays. Presenting, for your procrastinating viewing pleasure, "A Tiny Hamster Thanksgiving."
Now Square Lets Its Merchants Sell Gift Cards
This latest offering is an utterly logical extension of the company's original small-business payment service.
Over the past year, Square has been busy staking its future on an ever-growing, ever more far-flung portfolio of small-business services—everything from cash advances to customer surveys to a better way to order coffee. Now Jack Dorsey's commerce startup is rolling out something which is just a straightforward and sensible extension of its original mobile payment service: the ability for any merchant that uses the Square Register point-of-sale app to sell gift cards to its customers.
The World's Best Dogs, According To Math
Sorry bulldogs.
London-based data journalist and information designer David McCandless has created some of the most thought-provoking data visualizations of the past few years. Now, he turns his hand to a decidedly more lighthearted (but every bit as important) topic: What dog breed is quantitatively the best?
A Travel Kit For Boozing On The Plane
No bartender at 30,000 feet? No problem.
On most domestic flights, the best drink you can get is a can of Mr. & Mrs. T tomato juice spiked with vodka, or maybe a mini bottle of Glenfiddich. But say you're a connoisseur of mixology. Can't you do better?
Move Over, Air Jordan: Celebrity-Branded Weed Is Here
Bob Marley's family is seeing green.
Come this time next year, dispensary shelves will have to make way for a new line of celebrity-branded marijuana strains.
Minted CEO Mariam Naficy On The Lost Art Of Memorization
Want your next brainstorming session to be more creative and efficient? Try memorizing a couple of poems.
Mariam Naficy remembers enough to know how little she remembers. The CEO of Minted remembers growing up in Iran, and then (after the revolution) in a number of other countries. She remembers that she was a quite serious piano player—but she can't quite remember if she memorized all of Beethoven's "Pathétique," or just some of the sonata's movements. She remembers that she used to know by heart the phone numbers of many friends—maybe it was 20 of them, maybe it was 25. What she became sure of, a few years ago, as she began to raise her second child, was that her memory was not as sharp as it used to be. "I started noticing I was really falling off," she says.
November 17, 2014
The Ultimate Motivator: Adding Your Own Death To Your Calendar
Brooke Siem of Prohibition Bakery, a dissatisfied, lifelong realist, found an odd hack that gave her new appreciation for life and work.
In her Google calendar, Brooke Siem, the co-owner of New York's Prohibition Bakery, has an appointment scheduled for the very distant future: November 6th, 2069. DEAD, it says on that date, in big block letters. "It's a Wednesday," says Siem.
Would You Pay $500 For Intel's Snakeskin-Wrapped Smart Bracelet?
A new wearable device from Intel and Opening Ceremony will cost you $495.
Back in September, Opening Ceremony and Intel took the wraps off MICA, their collaborative snakeskin-wrapped smart bracelet. But they left many details hanging in the air—most glaringly of all, how much this high-fashion, high-tech accessory would cost. But now that we're on the verge of the holiday shopping season, the two companies have released more details of MICA, short for My Intelligent Communication Accessory. For starters, the bracelet will retail for $495 and come with two years of AT&T data.
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