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June 27, 2014
Google Wants Developers Building Virtual-Reality Apps For A Piece Of Cardboard
A gimmick? Cardboard could be Google's ploy to launch Android as a platform for virtual-reality apps.
As usual, Google handed out an array of freebies to attendees of its I/O conference, hoping to entice developers to build applications for its devices. Among them: a square smatchwatch--their choice of the LG G Watch or Samsung Gear Live, the round Moto 360 watch, and a piece of cardboard.
SoundCloud's Dramatic New App Update Puts All The Focus On Listening
SoundCloud has totally redesigned their iPhone app to bring users a more simplified, intuitive experience.
Soundcloud has given its mobile apps a major overhaul to cater more to its growing army of millions of listeners, and less to the five people who actually use it to record and upload audio from their phone.
This Weekend, Uber A Wedding
San Franciscans looking to get hitched can call up Uber this Saturday--as long as supplies last.
As if serving up ice cream trucks, kitties, and Transformers weren't enough to grab your attention: For one day only, Uber will try to shake up the monolithic wedding industrial complex by delivering marriage licenses to couples too lazy to trek down to city hall. And they say the institution of marriage is a sham!
What Can Phil Jackson, Knicks President Learn from Phil Jackson, Leadership Guru?
Leadership lessons for the NBA legend straight from his own book, Sacred Hoops
When Phil Jackson's leadership book Sacred Hoops came out in 1995, he had already won three championships as the coach of the Chicago Bulls. The book was, in Jackson's own words, the introduction to an empathy-driven leadership system that could apply equally well to "an NBA champion or a record-setting sales force." The book's advice would seem to have only grown in credibility in the years since its publication, during which Jackson has won a staggering eight more NBA titles as a coach. He's considered a master of motivating players, through kindness rather than through fear. He's helped some of the most talented-but-headstrong basketball figures ever--Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant--break through via mindful attention to feelings and interests, and earn NBA titles through unselfish team play. Jackson believes (not controversially) that only teammates who care about each others' success on the court as much as their own can succeed in basketball--and business.
June 26, 2014
ESPN's New World Cup Livestreaming Record Proves No One Did Work Today
ESPN reported 1.7 million concurrent livestreams of Thursday's match between the U.S. and Germany.
Team USA might have lost Thursday's game against a stronger, faster, more talented, and better-rested German squad 1-0. But in the all-important war on not actually doing work so as to watch the World Cup, we managed to squeak out a tiny victory.
Is FIFA Really Investigating Neymar For Unapproved World Cup Underwear?
Soccer's governing body is reportedly throwing its crazy World Cup uniform rulebook at Brazil's star midfielder.
Remember FIFA's ludicrously strict rules for World Cup uniforms? Well it seems it applies to underwear, too. Brazilian star player Neymar has, according to Brazilian sports site UOL, become the subject of an investigation by FIFA after showing off a slender stripe of underwear after Brazil's win against Cameroon. Any showing of underwear made by an unofficial World Cup sponsor is hilariously forbidden, though this particular pair of undies appears to be patterned with nothing more than the Brazilian national colors.
New Yorkers Hack The Restaurant Experience
A NYC hackathon highlights the food world's growing obsession with startup culture.
This story contains interviews with Danielle Gould, founder and CEO of Food+Tech Connect; David Bloom, founder and CEO of Ordr.in; Eris Stassi, cofounder and product & experience at Ingredient1; Taryn Fixel, cofounder and business development & community at Ingredient1; Santiago Merea, CEO of The Orange Chef Co.; Justin Lee, cofounder and CEO of Mark One; and Jason Wang, CEO of Caviar.
Why This IT Guy Went Into 3-D Manufacturing
This custom-fabricated case turns your iPhone into a GoPro, but its creator was no hardware pro. Here's what he learned.
This article contains an interview with Matt Parrill, CEO of iXtreme.
A Photographer Let A Grizzly Bear Eat His Videocamera--The Footage Gives You A Glimpse Of Death
Glad we're on this side of the lens.
Wildlife photographer Chris Weston sacrificed his GoPro camera to a giant, scary-ass grizzly bear, and the result is somewhat terrifying. In the aptly named "Grizzly Bear Attempts to Eat GoPro" a big grizzly with big grizzly claws gnaws on a GoPro. Once he gets the camera in his mouth, we get a glimpse of what it might be like to get eaten by a bear, sharp teeth and all.
Meet The Woman Behind Hidden Innovations At Mario Batali's Restaurants
How Elizabeth Meltz is using technology to turn Batali hotspots like Babbo into some of the restaurant biz's most eco-friendly eateries.
When you eat at Babbo, Del Posto, or any of Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich's other celebrated restaurants, you can be sure that every aspect of the pasta and wine have been carefully considered. What you might not realize is that your meal's environmental impact has been just as closely thought through.
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