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Wednesday, 17 July 2013
3D-Printed Surfboards Are Custom Designed for Each Surfer
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Logitech's new Z600 Bluetooth speakers cost $150, let you connect up to three devices at once
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HTC teases a 'little' phone launch tomorrow
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Curiosity ya lleva recorrido un kilómetro en Marte
1 kilómetro y mirando adelante
Ha pasado casi un año desde su aterrizaje en Marte pero por fin Curiosity ha superado la barrera –psicológica, obviamente– de un kilómetro recorrido sobre la superficie de nuestro vecino, tal y como se puede leer en Curiosity Mars Rover Passes Kilometer of Driving .
En concreto su cuentakilómetros marca 1,029 kilómetros tras los 38 metros que recorrió el 17 de julio de 2013.
Su próximo destino son las primeras estribaciones de Aeolis Mons, al que la NASA llama Monte Sharp, que aún están a unos 7,5 kilómetros de distancia.
No hay una fecha fijada para llegar allí, y los planes son flexibles para ir decidiendo por el camino si merece la pena parar más o menos durante este según lo que vayan encontrando.
Recuerda que se le puede seguir en @MarsCuriosity.
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Twitter for Android update brings in-line replies, sharing through direct messages
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Indie Game: The Movie Special Edition coming July 24, brings fans over 300 minutes of new material
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New Nexus 7 coming to retail outlets next week, according to documents
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Intel posts Q2 2013 earnings: revenue of $12.8 billion, net profit of $2 billlion
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Audiodraft, The Crowdsourcing Platform For Sound And Music, Raises $400K From 500 Startups, Promus
Audiodraft, a platform where brands or anybody else can commissions custom music or sounds, just closed $400,000 in a funding round led by 500 Startups and Promus Ventures.
The best analogy for what the startup does is 99Designs for sound. Founded three years ago, the company has grown a community of about 20,000 sound designers and music composers who are available to create music or sounds for different advertising agencies and clients on commission. There’s also a library on-hand tracks so that customers can drop by and buy licenses for music for anywhere from $400 to $2,000.
Then there’s also a way to host contests. (Here’s an example one from “Four Hour Work Week” author Tim Ferriss, who was looking for music to pair with a teaser video for the “Four Hour Chef.”) Audiodraft charges 10 percent of the prize money and a $99 listing fee.
With the round, the company is also bringing on a few advisors including Trulia co-founder Sami Inkinen and TaskRabbit vice president of engineering Yee Lee. They’ll use the funding to make a few additional hires in San Francisco and Helsinki and build out a new Agency Studios service. That product is really built for brand and advertising agencies globally that want to have more control over managing current productions and who they work with on the platform. That product will eventually cost $99 per month.
The company has grown to about 1,000 registered customers and the average amount they end up charging clientele is about $1,200 with $1,000 going toward the sound designer and the rest going to Audiodraft.
CEO Teemu Yli-Hollo, who is also a Finnish rapper, says that there are artists on the platform who are making enough money to pay for their living costs. The company’s now looking for a product manager, business manager and community manager in San Francisco and a product engineer in Helsinki.
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WhatsApp pasa a ser de pago en todas las plataformas, pero no cobrarán por mensaje
¿Dónde están esos mensajes avisando de que WhatsApp va a ser de pago cuando se les necesita?
Vale, no iban a servir de nada, y en cualquier caso lo que decían de que WhatSapp iba a empezar a cobrar por los mensajes era y es falso.
Pero a partir de hoy, con la publicación de la versión 2.10.1 de WhatsApp para iOS, habrá que pagar una cuota anual para usar el servicio en todas las plataformas en las que está disponible a partir del primer año, tal y como se puede leer en iPhone v2.10.1 release notes .
Es decir, la descarga de la aplicación y su uso durante el primer año es gratuita, y a partir de ahí habrá que pagar 0,89 euros al año para seguir usándolo, lo que comparado con los precios de los SMS sigue siendo el chollo del milenio.
Eso sí, los que en su momento pagamos por la aplicación para iOS dispondremos del servicio gratis de por vida, o al menos tan de por vida como hasta que en WhatsApp cambien de opinión.
Esta versión incorpora además la capacidad de hacer copias de seguridad de los mensajes en iCloud, con lo que estos no se pierden si cambias de dispositivo, e incorpora una API para que terceras partes puedan empezar a integrar WhatsApp con sus propias aplicaciones.
- No, WhatsApp no indica si un mensaje ha sido leído o no, a pesar de lo que muchos se creen.
- «Queledenporculo al doble check», un corto sobre Whatsapp y ciertas encerronas sociales, más sobre este conflictivo tema.
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Cricket's Muve Music 4.0 moves music onto internal storage, sports redesigned look
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Planta energética abandonada + altas chimenas + 200 kg de dinamita = … (¡Adivina!)
Desde el departamento de vídeos de demoliciones espectaculares nos llega esta gran obra de ingeniería «estilo dinamita» de una vieja planta energética de Fort Lauderdale (Florida). Tras más de 50 años en funcionamiento había de ser retirada, por suerte para los aficionados de la forma más espectacular posible: con unos 200 kilos de dinamita perfectamente sincronizados para acabar con la construcción paso a paso, como mandan los cánones.
Para disfrutarlo bien, bien: Full HD, pantalla completa y volumen con graves a tope.
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Liquor.com Raises $3.1 million In Series B Funding
If you ask me you don’t mess around with people like that you get out of the room and then you get into the car and go home you don’t call nobody you know or whatever, right? So I’m talking with Suffolk Equity Partners, some people out of Cambridge, and they got some investments, right and they invest in Liquor.com and it’s a site for liquor and news about liquor and recipes and whatever, you know?
Right. Dot com. What else, right? Everybody’s a genius.
And I said I said no, it’s not going to be just liquor, right? Because these kids can’t drink liquor anymore because they want craft beers and wines and stuff and they says liquor dot com, l-i-q-u-o-r, right? Is a great domain name or whatever and was expensive so it’s mixology is what they call it now so it’s a whole site dedicated to liquor. Right. Crazy.
So they raise $3.1 million from these Suffolk guys and some other guys out of Cambridge, too, called Typha, and some folks who are got “influential roles in the beverage alcohol industry,” you hear me? It goes all the way to the top. So they got all this money and now they gotta do something with it, right? They got a James Beard award, which is some fancy thing, and they go some money in the bank but they got to expand, see? Right?
And this is series B so the money is going to platform “expansion” and ” extending audience reach online across social media and mobile platforms” like them Facebooks or whatever. What’re you drinking? Manhattan? Make it two, please. Yeah, Maker’s Mark or whatever is closest. And some of those nuts over there. Thanks.
So they got 1.3 million visitors a month, which isn’t shabby for a booze vertical, and I guess they’re going to use the money to get more drunker and see what happens, right? Boombedoom, right? Drinky uppy. So that’s the story of liquor dot com. I don’t know why we didn’t think of that junk when we had the chance. I could tell them a little about booze.
Anyway, how’s your Dad. He was fly fishing or whatever. Oh. Yeah, not your Dad, Edith’s Dad. He’s not dead, right?
No, didn’t think so. I’ll get this round. You get next.
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2014 Mazda6: A Smart Marriage of Design and Tech
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Weathermob App Crowdsources Weather Forecasts
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Evernote and Skitch for Android updated with new annotation features
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Chrome for iOS gets better integration with Google apps, fullscreen on iPad, access to full browser history
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Microsoft and Polar demo Companion Web concept through a TV app (video)
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Papel electrónico más que digno tamaño A4
No había visto pasar este prototipo en su día pero me pareció muy interesante: lo fabrica Sony con el nombre E Ink y tiene 13 pulgadas y un peso de poco más de 25 gramos: se puede arrojar al suelo que revoloteará como si fuera una hoja de papel, sin sufrir daño alguno.
(Vía Engadget.)
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¿Cómo funciona un transistor?
En nuestros ordenadores hay 1.000 millones de ellos, unos 100 millones en el interior de un teléfono inteligente. Como pequeños «interruptores» almacenan ceros y unos, información que se utiliza para guardar datos y programas con los que funciona nuestro mundo.
Lo llaman el milagro La ciencia de los semiconductores, y en este documental se explica cómo funcionan estas pequeñas maravillas de la tecnología.
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This Electric Skateboard Can Dominate Any Terrain
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GlassUp Takes On Google Glass at Fraction of the Cost
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Sony to Offer 4K Movie Downloads This Fall
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WhatsApp expands its business model to iOS, will cost users 99 cents per year
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YC-Backed RealCrowd Rides The Crowdfunding Wave To Pool Capital For Real Estate Investments
Hardware projects. T-shirts. People. Scientific research. Crowdfunding is getting applied to every possible niche vertical.
Now a Y Combinator-backed team is looking to bring crowdfunding to real estate, with big-ticket projects that often start at around a $10 million range.
Called RealCrowd, the startup is the brainchild of Adam Hooper and Roman Rosario, two longstanding real estate investors who worked for a Sacramento-based brokerage called Palmer Capital. At Palmer, Hooper helped closed on more than $20 billion in investment transactions and was involved in managing investments in buildings like the ones on 625 Market St. or 260 California St. in San Francisco.
“There have been very few actual technology improvements with real estate investments over the last few decades, so the opportunity to change that only happens once in a life time,” Hooper said.
RealCrowd is aiming to give accredited investors the chance to put in as little as $5,000 to $10,000 to participate in larger commercial real estate transactions.
Each property on the site is vetted and features a business plan, detailing any kinds of improvements or maintenance that may be needed over the life of the investment. RealCrowd clients become minority stakeholders that entrust the operations and maintenance of the property to a real estate operator vetted by RealCrowd. Because Hooper and Rosario have been in the business for so long, they say they’ve accumulated enough relationships to know trustworthy operators, that will have profiles with their track records on the site.
“Going into it, you’ll know if the plan is for a 25-year lease to Walgreens with no capital improvements — which is a very straightforward deal, or whether it’s to buy a building in SOMA and renovate it,” Hooper said.
While every deal is totally unique, each RealCrowd investor would ideally receive rental cashflow or returns in proportion to their stake in the property. RealCrowd takes a small transaction fee and an asset management fee to cover their administrative expenses, which would probably be in the 2 to 4 percent range of total equity committed upfront and then a 0.5 to 1 percent annual asset management fee.
Hooper says this is less than the fees an investor would pay to participate in a REIT, or real estate investment trust, where 15 percent might go toward fees before investing in the property.
While every deal is different, RealCrowd’s investments will likely be in a preferred position before the operators, who manage the deal — meaning RealCrowd and its clients would take their capital out before the operators in a sale.
While there are a ton of other real estate crowdfunding startups, Hooper says many are focused on residential real estate, not much larger and more high-profile commercial deals.
For now, accredited investors have to sign-up to browse the site. But in 60 days, once the SEC’s ban on open solicitation finally lifts, RealCrowd will be able to publicly show off properties in its portfolio.
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