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Thursday, 17 October 2013
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ZTE Nubia 5 hands-on (video)
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Army of Robot Baristas Could Mean the End of Starbucks as We Know It
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Insert Coin semifinalist: DIWire Bender
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Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander lands with mostly minor tweaks
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A stable version of Ubuntu's mobile OS is available now... if you own a Nexus 4
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Un grupo de estudiantes españoles gana un concurso de robótica de la Agencia Espacial Europea
Formado por los alumnos de tercero de la ESO Sergio Baleirón, Andrea Conde, Sandra Conde, Sara Iglesias, Alba Sorribas y Fabián Vázquez, bajo la dirección del profesor de Tecnología Javier Méndez Zunzunegui.
El objetivo de la competición era desarrollar un robot manejado a distancia que pudiera ayudar a los astronautas de la Estación Espacial Internacional a transportar carga de un ATV atracado en la Estación al módulo Columbus, evitando los obstáculos que se pudiera encontrar –astronautas incluidos– o cortes de la conexión de la señal de vídeo de hasta 15 segundos.
Para ello tenían total libertad a la hora de escoger componentes, ya fueran comerciales o desarrollados por ellos, y tampoco había ningún tipo de instrucciones especiales, aunque parte del concurso pasaba por coordinarse expertos de la Agencia Espacial Europea durante el proceso de desarrollo.
La final se llevó a cabo en una reproducción de la EEI que está en el ESTEC, el Centro Europeo de Investigación y Tecnología Espacial en Noordwijk, en los Países Bajos, y durante ella los participantes tuvieron que demostrar hasta en tres ocasiones el funcionamiento de su robot desde una sala de control situada a veinte metros de este.
El equipo ganador consiguió más de 200 puntos en la final, quedando claramente por delante de los otros seis grupos competidores, pues ninguno de ellos llegó a superar los 100 puntos.
No es la primera vez que el CPI de Rois es noticia por un tema similar, pues en el curso 2008-2009 el equipo TecnoRois fue el ganador de la First Lego League en España y en 2012 un experimento propuesto por dos alumnas del centro fue finalista en el concurso YouTube Space Lab.
Enhorabuena a todos los implicados; viendo resultados como este es una pena que la asignatura de Tecnología salga tan mal parada de la última reforma educativa.
(Vía La Voz de Galicia).
- Meteotek08, Limasat e Izar Galaktik, otras tres interesantes iniciativas desarrolladas dentro de la asignatura de tecnología.
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Insert Coin semifinalist: BlinkScan lets you scan multiple objects in a single go
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Eclipse penumbral de Luna de octubre de 2013
Visibilidad del eclipse - Vía NASA
Durante la noche del 18 al 19 de octubre de 2013 se producirá el último eclipse de Luna del año, aunque en este caso se trata de un eclipse penumbral, así que no se notará demasiado, pues la sombra de la Tierra no llegará a caer sobre ella.
La Luna toma contacto con la penumbra a las 21:50:41 UTC, el eclipse alcanza el máximo a las 23:50:16 UTC, con una cobertura del 76,5% del disco lunar, y termina a las 01:49:47 UTC del 19.
Será visible en toda su duración desde África y Europa, Brasil, la parte este de Canadá, y oriente medio.
Desde casi toda Asia se perderán el final, mientras desde el resto de América del Sur, Centroamérica, Estados Unidos, y el resto de Canadá se perderán el principio.
Puedes probar a hacer unas fotos a la Luna, algo que no es excesivamente complicado, pero asegúrate de que usas la misma exposición para tomar varias fotos a lo largo del eclipse para que se aprecie la diferencia de iluminación entre unas y otras.
Si en tu esquina del planeta no se ve, o hay nubes, la Slooh Space Camera lo retransmitirá en directo.
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Growing Up Geek: Julie Uhrman
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15 Ideas That Would Make Travel Better
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Hands-on with the Lenovo Miix2 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet
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Insert Coin semifinalist: GrowCubes help your produce flourish indoors
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The Facebook App for Windows 8.1 Is Finally Here
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T-Mobile CEO's Tweet Foreshadows Carrier's iPad Plans
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Hasselblad slaps some wood, $10,000 price tag on Sony's new A7
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SwiftKey 4.3 update offers keyboard layouts you can resize, move and split
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HMV finally understands this 'internet' thing, launches UK music store app
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Glow, The Fertility App Founded By Max Levchin, Partners With MyFitnessPal To Add BMI Data Into Babymaking
Glow, the fertility tracking app co-founded by Max Levchin, is announcing today that it’s inked a partnership with MyFitnessPal, the popular diet and exercise tracking app.
Starting today, users of Glow and MyFitnessPal will be able to connect their accounts. At first, Glow is only incorporating MyFitnessPal data about users’ body mass index (BMI), which is calculated from height and weight, Glow CEO Mike Huang said in a phone call from the company’s Shanghai office this week.
“We did our research on this, and according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, BMI is a big factor in one’s chance to get pregnant. If you are too high, or too low below the established norm, it can cause you to have more irregular menstrual cycles and have more difficulty conceiving.”
But eventually, the goal of this partnership and others that could be established in the future is to incorporate as much relevant health data possible to give the full personalized picture of a woman’s fertility on a day-to-day basis through Glow’s ‘Genius’ feature. He said:
“Our core mission is around data. Eventually, this could allow us to incorporate all sorts of data — how users eat, drink, and exercise — into our machine learning algorithm.”
Glow, which launched its app on iOS in August and plans to launch on Android in the future, has raised $6 million from investors including Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz. Huang declined to provide specific user growth numbers, but said “we are seeing very exciting adoption not only in the U.S., but also all across the world. And the number of people who have been telling us they got pregnant within a very short amount of time [since the app launched] is very exciting to us, too.”
I sat down with Huang in Glow’s San Francisco office this past summer to see the app in person when it launched. You can watch that in the video below.
I also talked a bit with Levchin about where the concept for Glow came from and why he decided to first target the fertility space. Watch that in the video embedded below.
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Future Google Glass Features and Other News You Need to Know
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Yup, Nokia's designing a watch too
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Stitch Fix, The Online Personal Shopping Startup, Sews Up $12 Million Series B Led By Benchmark
San Francisco startup Stitch Fix has closed on $12 million in a new funding round led by Benchmark as it looks to scale its tech-powered personal shopping and delivery service for women.
The funding, which is Stitch Fix’s Series B, brings the total amount invested in Stitch Fix to nearly $16.75 million.
Of course, the old stereotype is that women love to shop. But the truth is that with so many apparel and accessory options out there, sometimes it can be pretty darn nice to have someone else do the shopping for you. That’s why personal stylists at the luxury level can fetch such high fees. The idea behind Stitch Fix is that it can deliver a comparable experience at a more accessible level, and on a wider scale, thanks to — you guessed it — technology.
As I’ve written before, Stitch Fix operates like a clothing version of Pandora, the personalized radio app, in that it’s meant to get better the longer you use it. Through Stitch Fix’s website, new users provide basic information such as their body shape, size, personal tastes, and budget. Then, a human Stitch Fix stylist uses that data to select and ship a box of five items for the user to try on. The user keeps and pays for only the things she likes, and sends back the ones she doesn’t. Stitch Fix charges a $20 per box styling fee, which goes toward any purchase that the user ends up making. The company keeps track of what each user keeps and sends back to further personalize her profile.
According to founder and CEO Katrina Lake, who as you can see in the video embedded above stopped by TechCrunch HQ this week to talk about the new raise, Stitch Fix has seen some pretty incredible growth in recent months. Its customer base and revenue has grown 500 percent since its $4.75 million Series A funding back in February 2013 (at that time the company had more than 10,000 clients, so today it has at least 50,000), and its staff has grown from 50 employees to nearly 200. So far, Lake says, all that growth has been organic — and the new funding is primarily to help keep up.
“We have been very pleasantly surprised with how much women are loving the service, and how much they’re continuing to tell their friends, and how many bloggers are talking about the service as well. So really for us, raising being able to raise capital is part of being able to meet that demand and really foster that community of women we have talking about Stitch Fix… the organic growth that we’ve seen has far exceeded what we dreamed it would be.”
It’s not just money that Stitch Fix is taking on to help go to the next level. Today also brings news of some heavyweight human resources additions too. Benchmark partner Bill Gurley is joining Stitch Fix’s board of directors, as is former Gap executive Marka Hansen and former Walmart.com CEO John Fleming. Stitch Fix has also brought on three new hires at the executive level: former Nike exec Lisa Bougie is joining as chief merchandising officer, former Crate & Barrell CMO as chief marketing officer, and former Stella & Dot exec Meredith Dunn as VP of styling.
The idea is that these people can bring a mix of both old school retail experience and technology know-how to bring Stitch Fix to the next level by keeping its current customers happy and deepening its customer base in the United States even further. The growth Stitch Fix has seen thus far shows that it’s really on to something — now, the challenge is to make sure it can be the go-to service in a space that’s bound to attract more competition.
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LG G Pad 8.3 available now for $350
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MotoMaker scores iPhone transfer tool, ships Moto X with your data inside
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11 Easy Tech-Inspired Halloween Costumes
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Amazon opens pre-orders for Kindle Fire HD and Fire HDX in the UK and Canada
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Verizon nets $30.3 billion in revenue for Q3, $7.1 billion in profit
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Mobile Games Marketing Platform AppLift Raises Further $7M, Poaches Two Rocket Internet MDs
The HitFox-incubated mobile games marketing platform AppLift has raised a further $7 million in funding. Citing ‘over performance’ since its $13 million Series A round in June, once again the investment comes from Prime Ventures, bringing total external funding raised by the Berlin-headquartered startup to a cool $20 million.
However, follow-on funding aside, AppLift is also announcing that it’s poached two extremely seasoned Rocket Internet MDs to fill the positions of MD and COO, and MD Asia, respectively. That’s likely testament to the speed at which the startup is growing, but also speaks to a trend that’s seen a number of Rocket execs jump ship as the German startup factory focusses on supercharging international growth for its established e-commerce properties in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, perhaps at the expense of hatching new startups. Or, as one insider argued to me recently, the Samwer brothers haven’t started up anything “substantial or interesting” in Berlin for quite some time, narrowing the career opportunities for its top talent.
Founded in 2012 by HitFox Group, Kaya Taner and Tim Koschella, AppLift’s marketing and monetization platform helps games publishers acquire more users for its games, and in turn generates revenue for affiliates who want to monetize their mobile sites and apps by sending qualified leads AppLift’s way. Its platform is able to track, measure and benchmark the quality of players delivered with regards to retention, virality and, of course, monetization, such as in-app purchases. Or to use games industry speak, AppLift is able to optimise the “Customer Lifetime Value” of the users it delivers.
Growth, both in terms of the games publishers using its platform, and media partners, seems to be on a decent trajectory. The company currently works with over 100 major game publishers, such as King, Wooga and EA, and 1000+ media partners, up from 80 and 500+ respectively since June this year. As well as its Berlin HQ, since launch, AppLift has also added offices in San Francisco and Seoul. In total, the startup now employs over 65 people across its three offices.
Today’s follow-on funding will be used to “execute further on the company’s global expansion and hire additional top talent in tech, product and business development,” according to the press release. Interestingly, part of the investment comes as a secondary towards AppLift’s majority shareholder HitFox Group (in other words, HitFox has disposed of some of its shares in AppLift). The incubator says it will use the funds raised from the partial sale to co-found further “synergetic” ventures. What those new ventures are, HitFox isn’t saying, though I’d speculate that given its original remit to establish or acquire two new startups per year it wouldn’t be surprising if these were already in the pipeline.
More on those two ex-Rocket hires. New AppLift MD and COO, Dr. Hendrik Harren, has previously co-founded six companies from the Samwer brothers’ incubator, including African e-commerce venture, Jumia Nigeria. Meanwhile, Stephen Chung, who takes up the position of MD Asia for AppLift, was formerly Managing Director for Rocket Internet in Hong Kong and, among others, built up the e-commerce fashion company Zalora.
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Acer Already Has a Second-Gen 8-Inch Windows Tablet, the Iconia W4
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Samsung proposes five-year patent lawsuit hiatus to escape EU antitrust warnings
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PSA: Windows 8.1 update is now available as a free download for Windows 8 users
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Acer intros the Iconia W4, its second 8-inch Windows 8.1 tablet: brings a sharper screen for $330 (hands-on)
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Puedes visitar el interior del Museo Lamborghini desde Google
Desde la página Museo Lamborghini en Google+.
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