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December 19, 2013
Whole Foods Is Dropping Chobani Next Year
The grocery chain said it was making room for more organic and non-GMO options.
Whole Foods will drop Chobani's Greek yogurt products from its shelves early next year, as the organic grocery chain shifts away from genetically modified foods.
GE Actually Makes Shipping Freight Something You Can Dance To
The latest "Brilliant Machines" video adds a techno twist to intermodal transport.
During General Electric's ongoing "Brilliant Machines" campaign, the company has gone to great lengths to explain some of the large scale technology and innovation it works on and make it entertaining at the same time. From the industry nerd porn on its Instagram to robot rock bands and The Matrix, each element and project has done a great job making it all look pretty damn exciting.
5 Ways To Make Hotel Bathrooms Less Awful
In order to woo and keep customers, hotels are overhauling the design of the washroom.
For years now hotel chains have improved paltry bathroom amenities by partnering with beauty brands. Companies like Aveda and Paul Mitchell, for instance, have siphoned their shampoos and conditioners into tiny containers to give customers a dose of name-brand caché in the bathroom.
Nothing Beats The JBL Synchros S700 Headphones
Beats by Dre are massively popular. For everyone else and lovers of precision sound at a mid-range prices, there's these.
The JBL Synchros S700 ($350) over-ear headphones are a durable, booming, sparklingly clear piece of tech, the flagship model of JBL newest line. They're what you get when you put the sound, rather than the experience of wearing the headphones, first. In other words, this ain't Beats.
The JBL Synchros S700 headphones are some of the best headphones you'll buy at this price.
"Google Glass Meets 3-D": Atheer Opens Presale For Futuristic Goggles
The Mountain View, California, company plans to ship its developer kit early next year and a consumer version later in 2014.
Hailed as Google Glass meets 3-D, Atheer Labs' augmented reality glasses can be used by factory workers to manage inventory, gamers to play immersive first-person shooters, and more. Atheer first showed off its futuristic goggles at AllThingsD's conference to much fanfare in May, and on Thursday, the two-year-old startup announced it is turning to crowdfunding to collect feedback for its glasses.
With a Seed Round Under Her Belt, A Harvard Student Is Dropping Out
Dorm-room startup and movie-translation app myLINGO announces a $750,000 seed round.
19-year-old Olenka Polak plans to drop out of Harvard next semester. The winner of 2013's Harvard College Innovation Challenge has her sights on Hollywood and bringing her movie-translation app, myLINGO, to cinema fans. Like any smart student, Polak needed some reassurance, and that came in the form of a seed investment totaling $750,000 from undisclosed investors. In the larger scheme of things, this isn't an extraordinarily large amount of investment money--but it was enough to make Polak want to try her luck out West.
How Airbnb's Founder Conquered The "Trough Of Sorrow" With Enlightened Empathy
When they couldn't seem to get their idea off the ground, Airbnb's founders got close with their customers--really close.
In the early days of a new company there are problems. It's inevitable. Maybe there are no customers, you realize everything you thought they knew is completely wrong, or, everyone thinks your idea is crazy.
December 18, 2013
Building Momentum In China, Streaming Site Viki Inks Deal With Baidu
Viki has more than 26 million monthly viewers who provide crowdsourced translations for its titles.
Video-streaming service Viki is a sort of global Hulu, and it announced Wednesday that it has inked a multi-year deal with Chinese search company Baidu to feature full-length movies and TV shows from more than 15 countries to China.
The Footwear Of The Future Looks Totally Gross
These shoes are 3-D printed, can regenerate on their own, and definitely resemble slime.
London-born designer Shamees Aden has fashioned the footwear of the future. The protocell shoe is 3-D printed and made from a synthetic biological material that would function like a second skin and could repair itself. And ohmygod they make your feet look like they've been swallowed by swamp monsters.
Code Fellows Guarantees $100K Salaries For "Top Bootcamp Applicants"
But the definition of a "top" applicant is vague, and the hack school isn't listing a set of criteria for qualified candidates.
Hack schools aren't all they're cracked up to be. While some graduates of rigorous coding bootcamps successfully land software jobs, many students get left behind, far from the six-figure salaries they had hoped for.
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