Monday, 9 December 2013
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R2D2 como cargador USB para coche
¡Oh, cómo nos hacen sufrir en ThinkGeek!
Ahora que por fin vuelven a enviar productos a España resulta que este cargador USB para coche no pueden enviarlo aquí. Ni de hecho fuera de los Estados Unidos ni Canadá.
Pero hay que reconocer que el R2-D2 USB Car Charger sería el accesorio perfecto, conectado al enchufe del encendedor del coche, pitando y silbando para alegrarnos el viaje.
(Vía Cheezburguer).
- Memorias y discos USB con estilo 8-bits mas nostalgia.
- A B C D E F Jii… El encendedor más loco que te puedas echar a la cara, pero USB.
- Avances en gadgets de limitados usos: la piedra USB… Y no vayas a pensar que es gratis.
via Microsiervos http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/gadgets/r2d2-como-cargador-usb-para-coche.html
Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 to bring LTE and 64-bit support to emerging markets
iPhone 5s and 5c come to Straight Talk and Net10 on December 13th
Deutsche Post shows off its Paketkopter drone delivery service in Germany
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¿Homeopatía? #NoSinEvidencia
Andan las cosas estos días un poco revueltas en España con el asunto de la homeopatía, esa fantasía inventada por Samuel Hahnemann en el siglo XVIII y que algunos quieren hace pasar com medicina, porque el gobierno ha puesto en marcha un proceso para adecuar a la legislación vigente los miles productos homeopáticos que están a la venta y que hasta ahora estaban en una especie de tierra de nadie legal, tal y como puede leerse en Sanidad abre el proceso para regularizar 19.000 productos homeopáticos .
Y eso a pesar de que hace unos años un informe encargado por el mismo ministerio concluía que el principal efecto de la homeopatía es placebo, algo que no va mucho más allá del consabido «¡A mí me funciona!», que realmente no funciona aunque nos queramos engañar a nosotros mismos.
De hecho los productos homeopáticos no es que estén en un vacío legal, sino que más bien están en una situación ilegal, ya que aunque allá por 1994 se inició un proceso para su regulación este quedo parado sine die, por lo que la misma Audiencia Nacional considera que cualquier tipo de licencia o situación provisional que se pudiera haber creado entonces ha expirado por silencio administrativo, por mucho que el ministerio y la Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios hagan la vista gorda.
Y desde luego permitirles regularizar su situación usando un procedimiento simplificado en el que no tienen que demostrar su eficacia como medicinas sino simplemente que son inocuos no parece desde luego la forma de aclarar las cosas.
En No sin evidencia hay un manifiesto que un grupo de profesionales sanitarios y de otras ramas de la ciencia, entre otros colectivos, está moviendo sobre este tema.
En mi opinión, como decía en A vivir que son dos días, si alguien quiere tomarse un producto homeopático porque tiene una gripe o cualquier cosilla menor, pues allá esa persona y su cartera; es como la gente que juega a la lotería, es una manera como cualquier otra de tirar el dinero.
Lo verdaderamente grave es cuando se usa este tipo de productos para tratar enfermedades y situaciones graves, pues no es la primera vez que esto desemboca en una muerte que en muchos casos se habría podido evitar.
De hecho, por mi, no deberían poder venderse productos homeopáticos en una farmacia, porque verlos al lado de medicinas de verdad les da un empaque que no tienen.
via Microsiervos http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ciencia/homeopatia-nosinevidencia.html
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Nokia intros Lumia-colored, Shuffle-sized Bluetooth headset
Snapchat Files For A Restraining Order, Accuses Ousted Founder Of Leaking Confidential Court Docs
Snapchat has filed for a temporary restraining order against Reggie Brown, the man who claims to have invented the idea for disappearing messages. According to court documents filed today, the ousted founder allegedly leaked confidential information to the press, prompting Snapchat to file a motion with the court.
Within the motion, Snapchat’s counsel Quinn Emanuel wrote that Brown has refused to comply with the Protective Order, which designates almost all of the information provided in the case as confidential.
Brown admitted to having leaked information (including these deposition videos on Business Insider) and he “reserves the right” to continue leaking court materials to the press, says the filing.
If the court grants the temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction request, Brown and his lawyers will be subject to fines, contempt sanctions, and a number of other punishments including reimbursement of resources and even dismissal of the lawsuit altogether.
The filing states that Snapchat would incur irreparable harm if more of its confidential information were to enter the public arena. Apparently, the company has submitted materials related to future business plans, sensitive personal information about the defendants, as well as thousands of pages worth of sensitive financial information in the discovery portion of the trial.
Here’s a direct excerpt from the filing:
The requested relief is necessary to prevent great or irreparable injury to Snapchat. Snapchat has produced substantial amounts of commercially sensitive and private information in this case, including among other things highly confidential financial and investment information related to Snapchat’s business, sensitive information regarding Snapchat’s business plans, and private, personal communications of individual third parties subject to rights of privacy under the California Constitution. Plaintiff and his counsel purport to reserve the right to disclose any and all such information to the public at any time. Indeed, plaintiff has apparently scheduled imminent “exclusive” interviews with additional media outlets to discuss this case. In the absence of the relief sought, it is highly likely that plaintiff and his counsel will commit additional violations of the Protective Order.
The motion mentions that Reggie Brown plans to give an “exclusive interview” to GQ magazine.
It’s also worth noting that Snapchat investors, who are named as defendants in the case, have changed their legal representation. As you may recall, there’s been some drama in the lawyer department during this never-ending legal battle.
Originally, Snapchat was represented by Cooley LLP, and then changed in April to Quinn Emanuel. Brown then filed a complaint with the court claiming that Quinn Emanuel had, for a very short time, represented him. After a few months, the court decided to deny Brown’s motion to disqualify Snapchat’s representation.
Now, Snapchat’s investors have switched legal representation, from Quinn Emanuel to Durie Tangri, LLP. We’ve reached out to both Quinn Emanuel and Durie Tangri, as well as some Snapchat investors to see why this switch was made.
Here’s the full text of the motion for a Restraining Order:
Snapchat Files Restraining Order
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Recipe Kit Subscription Service Gousto Raises $2M To Keep HelloFresh Out Of Its Kitchen
Gousto, the UK recipe kit subscription service that competes with Rocket Internet’s HelloFresh, and Housebites (post-pivot), has raised $2 million in new funding. The investment was led by London VC MMC Ventures, with participation from existing backers, including Angel CoFund.
Gousto says the additional capital will be used to further strengthen its product, and to “fast track” the business — a business that I would imagine is quite capital intensive. Subscribers are sent three recipes per-week along with the required fresh ingredients so that they can get busy in the kitchen. Scaling the delivery of perishable goods isn’t quite the same as moving around bits and bytes.
The startup first pitched for funding on the BBC show ‘Dragons Den’, only for the dragons to declare themselves out. Shortly afterwards, however, Gousto announced it had raised around £500,000 from unnamed food industry folk and Angel CoFund. With today’s new round, it says its total funding now sits at “over $2.5m” (the sums get slightly muddy when currencies keep switching with each announcement).
To add some context, last December HelloFresh announced new funding, which TechCrunch pegged at $10 million, followed by another $7.5 million this September, though the service isn’t just targeting the UK, but has also launched in the U.S. and a number of other, mainly, European countries, so it obviously needs more cash to fuel its international ambitions.
Meanwhile, UK competitor Housebites, which has reinvented itself several times, looks like it’s raised significantly less funding, too, though its backing from EC1 Capital, Michael Birch (founder of Bebo), and Steve Pankhurst (founder of FriendsReunited) remains undisclosed.
In a canned statement, James Carter, Gousto Co-Founder, sums up the scaling challenges of a recipe kit business like Gousto: “Whether you have 100 or 100,000 customers, you need to have great infrastructure in place – from sourcing, logistics, product development, tech, to fulfillment. Building this infrastructure now puts us in the pole position to grab a sizeable share of the £18bn online food market.”
To that end, Gousto says it’s currently delivering 26,000 meals per-month, and that part of the new funding will be used to “build up Gousto’s team of chefs and nutritionists; improve the recipes; and strengthen relationships with the farm suppliers and producers.”
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HealthLoop Lands $10M To Help Doctors Better Track And Engage Patients Between Visits
HealthLoop, the makers of a cloud-based platform that aims to automate the process by which doctors engage with their patients after visits, announced today that it has closed a $10 million round of Series A financing.
The round was led by Canvas Venture Fund, the new $175 million investment vehicle recently launched by three partners of Morgenthaler Ventures. The round is the first investment made by Canvas Venture Fund and includes participation from Subtraction capital, as well as others. As a result of the round, Canvas Venture Partner Rebecca Lynn will be joining the startup’s board of directors.
Founded by Dr. Jordan Shlain, a physician and commissioner of the San Francisco Health Service Systems Board, HealthLop was born out of the frustrations he witnessed every day from patients who experienced symptoms that went unnoticed and unreported between visits, often leading to emergency care.
To solve this problem, Shlain began methodically keeping track of patient visits via spreadsheets in order to help him remember to follow up between visits. Eventually, he hired a developer and turned his spreadsheet into a tool he could use for his practice, and from that, HealthLoop was born.
The idea is to both save doctors time and improve the quality of outcomes for patients by helping to extend the doctor-patient relationship outside the exam room and by keeping all parties involved connected between visits.
Through its automated follow-up patient engagement and communication tools, HealthLoop aims to improve patient care, track outcomes across care venues and increase loyalty for doctors and practices while reducing costs inherent to unnecessary documentation and follow-up, in-office visits. And while EHR and PHRs focus on patient data and visits that have already happened, HealthLoop wants to focus on the realtime aspect of care, offering actionable data that can help doctors respond to critical issues as they arise.
With its new funding in two, HealthLoop will ramp up its hiring efforts and plans to expand the development of further patient engagement and follow-up tools, while working to raise awareness among doctors.
For more, find HealthLoop at home here.
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El aumento del nivel del mar representado una manera muy visual
«En 2068, cuando la vida de Sarah llegue a su fin, el nivel del mar en Portland estará 66 cm más alto que hoy. Y lo estará casi un metro más alto en Nueva Orleans cuando Roy sea viejo en el año 2076.»
Las fotografías de la serie Sea Level Rise In Our Lifetime visualiza cuánto aumentará el nivel del mar, previsiblemente, a lo largo de la vida de diferentes personas, mostrando hasta dónde les llegaría el agua hoy.
Vía Fast Co.
via Microsiervos http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ecologia/el-aumento-del-nivel-del-mar-representado-una-manera-muy-visual.html