FUNKY GREEN: 07/13/13

Saturday, 13 July 2013

It's Dumb Easy to Wreck a $20,000 Camera with Just a Couple Lasers

6 Apps You Don't Want To Miss

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Alt-week 7.13.13: cancer-smelling machines, singing synchronicity and the solar system's tail

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9 Robotic Inventions That Are Already Among Us

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The Digital Museum Where Outdated Apps Can Live Forever

Lernstift is the vibrating pen that critiques your spelling (video)

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Razer Blade: The Ultimate 14-Inch Laptop

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10 Websites We Miss From 1996

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Investigators: Latest Boeing 787 Dreamliner Fire Not Caused by Battery

Halo: Spartan Assault to be available first on Verizon's Windows Phone 8 devices

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6,500 Live Silkworms 3D Print an Incredible Dome

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Oculus explains the battles against latency and motion sickness in VR

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Watch All of Bladerunner Boiled Down to 60 Amazingly Animated Seconds

Moto X using Verizon's network surfaces in leaked photo

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Channel Master and Echostar working on new OTA DVR

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Intel may launch internet TV service using OnCue name

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Motes: The Wireless Helpers That Will Change Your Life

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Your Tinder Crush Might Be a Spambot

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Bloomberg: Time Warner Cable still in talks to buy stake in Hulu

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Crowdsourcing Startup CrowdFlower Says Its Contributors Have Completed 1 Billion ‘Judgments'

CrowdFlower, which helps businesses manage crowdsourced tasks, announced that contributors have completed 1 billion “judgments” (which is the basic unit of work on the platform).

The company says those judgments are “the crux of microtasking”, with businesses asking CrowdFlower contributors to do things like judge whether an image is appropriate or whether an address record in a marketing database is complete. The billionth judgment was made by someone in Cariacica, Brazil, who was verifying database details about an Australian small business for a US company.

CrowdFlower was co-founded by Chris Van Pelt and Lukas Biewald (Biewald is the company’s CEO, as well as a former college roommate of mine.), launching at the TechCrunch50 conference in 2009.

The company also says it now has more than 5 million contributors. Recently announced features include the ability to test users for certain skills, so that CrowdFlower can identify “higher value crowds” among its contributors.

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