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November 24, 2013

How The NBA's Big Data Strategy Will Change The Way You Watch Basketball

The NBA announced a new partnership with SAP that will change the game for fans and players alike.

Overwhelmed by fluid, fast-paced play, basketball fans have long thirsted for more: more statistics, more video replays, more analysis, more information. Now the NBA has partnered with SAP and STATS LLC to create a new, totally comprehensive statistical database that records everything that happens in every NBA game. And it's free for fans all over the world at NBA.com/STATS on Monday, November 25.

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Published on November 24, 2013 19:25

November 22, 2013

10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week: The Condom Of The Future, A Productive Personality Quiz, And Much More

Are you a procrastinator? If so, we've got you covered: Here's what you missed this week on the Fast Company network.

1. "10 Surprising Social Media Statistics That Will Make You Rethink Your Social Strategy"
Fast Company
Did you know that the fastest growing demographic on Twitter is the 55-64 year age bracket? Social media moves fast, and you need to keep up.

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Published on November 22, 2013 15:21

Today's Best Tumblr: Designers Touching Their Faces

It happens that designers have a thing for touching their own faces. But we assure you, it isn't coincidence.

Somewhere deep in Cupertino, Jony Ive is running his hands over an iPhone 8 prototype, fresh off the lathe. It's carved in reclaimed redwood, inset with ethical ivory accents. Its face is a new, old material that's caught his attention as of late: diamond. Of course he will have to redo the whole thing in aluminum and glass later, so some factory in Shenzhen can crap out a few hundred million of 'em for the tweens. But as he rubs his fingertips along his greatest creation to date, channeling the soft touch of lotus pruner as he inhales the intoxicating mix of endangered materials fit for an Aztec king, he's met not with the chest swell of triumph, but a tummy burn of failure.

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Published on November 22, 2013 13:30

Marketing iOS Apps Just Got A Lot Harder

The App Store quietly unveiled video app walk-throughs--but only for Featured apps, making it harder than ever for small-time devs to get noticed.

Apple's App Store allowed its first ever video in an app listing with the release of a new game titled Clumsy Ninja. While this is a feature app developers have spent years clamoring for to show how the heck their apps actually work, this isn't the liberation that app developers hope it to be--and might end up further entrenching the backdoor politics and favoritism that characterizes Apple's walled garden.

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Published on November 22, 2013 13:18

Your Next Password Might Be Your Eye

Log in to your email--with the blood vessels in your eyes.

You can use your phone to figure out your heart rate, track how much you walk, and even measure your sex life. But the powerful sensors inside smartphones can do more than keep you updated on your health: They can also turn your body into a password.

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Published on November 22, 2013 13:11

Someone Just Made A $147 Million Bitcoin Transaction

But since it's anonymous, we have no idea who.

Looks like someone's really bullish on Bitcoin. A transfer worth about $147 million was made Friday around 1 p.m. ET, making it the largest single Bitcoin transaction by value. Because the transaction is anonymous, it's unknown who's behind the transfer of 194,993.5 Bitcoins.

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Published on November 22, 2013 12:55

Scientists Have Developed A Way For Us To Taste The Internet

Turns out the web tastes salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.

If you could lick the Internet, what would it taste like? Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a simulator that uses electrodes to fool taste receptors by reproducing salty, sweet, sour, and bitter sensations.

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Published on November 22, 2013 12:22

British Airways Digital Billboards Know When A Plane Is Flying Overhead

Kids on the billboards stand up and point at the plane as it flies by.

British Airways has unveiled an assortment of "interactive" digital billboards that change when planes fly overhead. A child on the billboard stand ups and points at aircrafts as they pass, while the screen displays information about the aircraft, like what kind of plane it is and where it's coming from.

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Published on November 22, 2013 12:09

Giant System Of Waterfalls Would Cool This Futuristic Tower

Sou Fujimoto's concept for a commercial complex and tower would use waterfalls to beat away the heat in a Middle Eastern city.

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has unveiled the concept for his latest structure, an intricate cluster of stacked arches, cooled by a series of waterfalls, that make up a commercial complex and observatory towers set by the sea in an anonymous Middle Eastern city (Inhabitat points to Doha, Qatar, but a request for confirmation from Fujimoto's firm went unanswered).

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Published on November 22, 2013 12:00

Boss Your Kid Around By Making A Toy Pig Talk

These mobile messaging devices are cleverly disguised as adorable toys (and they are as much fun for adults as they are for kids).

It's hardly a surprise that mobile devices increasingly play a role in how children learn to communicate. One recent survey found that 38% of kids under the age of two know how to use a tablet before they know how to utter a complete sentence. This predilection for technology might be inevitable, but that doesn't banish the concern that the more we become captivated by screens, the less we connect to our surroundings.

So when Gauri Nanda and Audry Hill designed a 21st-century-appropriate kids toy, they stuck to an important maxim: "We didn't want to create another toy that puts a kid in front of a screen," Nanda says. Instead, they built Toymail, a cartoonish line of animal-mailbox hybrids that function like a messaging service for kids. The Mailmen sync to an app via Wi-Fi, where parents (or grandparents, or aunts and uncles, and so on) may send voice messages to the little ones. When a message is received, the Mailmen will oink or grunt to alert its owner, who can chat back through a built-in microphone.

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Published on November 22, 2013 11:30

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