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July 23, 2014
GM Recalls Another 718,000 Vehicles
The automaker has recalled nearly 30 million vehicles worldwide this year.
General Motors is issuing another six recalls affecting 717,950 automobiles for various safety reasons. None of the recalls this time were related to the ignition switch.
How A Couple Bootstrapped Their Bakery By Living In A Bus For 18 Months
Bart Greenhut and his wife scraped together 19 years of savings and sold all their belongings to get their business off the ground.
How do you transform a passion for baking into a full-fledged business? In a Reddit Ask Me Anything thread Wednesday, Bart Greenhut of Los Angeles-based Bart's Bakery explained how he and his wife went from selling batches of homemade chocolate chip cookies in farmers' markets to producing about 1,000 pounds of cookies a day.
Why Does This Cooler Have Almost $7 Million In Kickstarter Funding?
Apparently, America has lots of pent-up demand for a battery-powered Inspector Gadget cooler.
The Coolest cooler has $6.8 million in Kickstarter funding with 37 days left to go, as of this writing, putting it on track to surpass the Pebble smartwatch as the most-funded project on the site of all time, ever. According to Kicktraq, Coolest could rake in more than $22 million by the end of its run. Pebble, the smartwatch of crowdfunding lore, snagged over $10 million in funds. It wouldn't seem like such an unreasonable achievement for Coolest, except for the fact that it's essentially a cooler with a battery.
More Than 1,000 StubHub Users Affected by Security Breach
Cyberthieves may be purchasing StubHub tickets on your dime.
The accounts of more than 1,000 StubHub users have been hacked by cyberthieves who have fraudulently made purchases on the online ticket reseller's site, which is owned by eBay. News of the security breach was reported last night by the Associated Press.
Foursquare's New Logo Is A Superhero Symbol
And it gets right what Airbnb got wrong.
Hot on the heels of Airbnb's wildly contentious new logo, social check-in and search service Foursquare has unveiled their own new branding identity. And good news! Far from being the sexual Rorschach test that Airbnb's branding proved to be, Foursquare's updated logo is a marked improvement over the social network's old identity.
When Wearable Tech Saves Your Life, You Won't Take It Off
Wearable health tech promises to save lives, so startups like MC10 are working to create something you'll never forget to put on.
The problem with wearables is that usually people stop wearing them. According to one recent report, one-third of users of activity-tracking wearables, like the Fitbit and the Jawbone, toss their devices aside after just six months.
Europe Wants To Turn The Iron Curtain Into A Bike Path
4,225 miles of memories, new and old
The Iron Curtain, once the ominous line dividing Cold War-era rivals, is being transformed into a 4,225-mile cycling trail for recreational travelers.
Internal Comcast Memo: Agent On That Painful Call Did What We Trained Him To Do
"That said, it was painful to listen to this call, and I am not surprised that we have been criticized for it."
An internal memo obtained by the Consumerist reveals what Comcast really thought about that excruciating customer service call earlier this month.
Wall Street Journal Computers Hacked
Your personal information on WSJ.com is being held for ransom.
The Wall Street Journal has taken some of its systems offline after a cybersecurity breach that has potentially compromised the personal information of wsj.com's users, as well as the credentials needed to control the site's servers.
William Shatner Does Not Like Facebook's Mentions App That Asked Him To Follow George Takei
The Star Trek legend posted a thorough review of Facebook's new celebs-only app on his blog.
When Facebook released its celebrity-only Mentions app last week, the goal was to rope in verified celebs and give them an apparatus to monitor what people are saying about them across the social network. Now we're getting our first glimpse of what it's like behind the velvet rope courtesy of a legendary fameball: Captain James Tiberius Kirk himself.
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