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VentureBeat

  • Do not despair: Facebook revenue — and its share price — are just at the beginning
    So, Facebook is now public, and it got off to the most unimaginable and inauspicious start, losing $4 between the NASDAQ’s opening and closing bells.But don’t go jumping out any windows just yet.There’s no question that the IPO …
    - 12 hours ago, 18 May 12, 9:28pm -
  • For Facebook, life ain’t nothin’ but glitches and IPOs
    In addition to being one of the largest initial public offerings ever, Facebook’s IPO drew so much interest that the system couldn’t keep up with demand.Facebook expected to make its public debut at 8 a.m. PT this morning, but …
    - 12 hours ago, 18 May 12, 9:25pm -
  • And now, here’s Zuckerberg riding the Wall Street bull, impaling investors
    Leave it up to Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese firm known for its wacky news videos, to create the only Facebook IPO wrap-up that’s actually worth watching.Sure, this Facebook wrap-up features a dead-eyed Zuckerberg riding the Wall Street bul…
    - 13 hours ago, 18 May 12, 9:00pm -
  • Facebook amends S-1 with share allotments for IPO underwriters
    Facebook released the amount of shares allocated to each of its underwriters today, following its less-than-stellar IPO day.The company went public on the Nasdaq to an EKG-like performance, ending in a .38 cent gain today. The update came in …
    - 13 hours ago, 18 May 12, 8:57pm -
  • Can you buy good Karma? Facebook just did
    Buying its way into social commerce, Facebook has acquired mobile gifting app Karma for an undisclosed sum.“We’re thrilled to announce that Karma has been acquired by Facebook. The service that Karma provides will continue to operate in full fo…
    - 13 hours ago, 18 May 12, 8:37pm -
  • Facebook disappoints on its opening day, closing down $4 from where it opened
    At the end of Facebook’s first day of public trading, its shares were selling for around 9.5 percent less than their opening price.By the time the closing bell rang, the stock ticker symbol FB sat at $38.37, according to …
    - 14 hours ago, 18 May 12, 8:02pm -
  • Amazeballs: This anti-gravity ball can remember your touch
    Is it just me, or does it feel like the “future” we all see in TV shows and movies is getting closer and closer to reality? A team of researchers at MIT have created a small atmosphere, the ZeroN, where …
    - 14 hours ago, 18 May 12, 7:54pm -
  • The road to IPO: Here’s how Facebook grew from $3.50 to $38 a share
    It’s official: Facebook is a public company.With all the hype around Facebook’s big day and the obsession with who’s-getting-rich numbers, its easy to forget to that we’ve had a front row view of Facebook’s ascendance to $38 a share, ……
    - 14 hours ago, 18 May 12, 7:50pm -
  • Facebook alumni startup funding up 137 percent over last year
    Mark Zuckerberg and his current employees aren’t the only ones making it big in Silicon Valley today. Former Facebook employees who have struck out on their own and started companies — referred to as the Facebook Mafia — have collectively …
    - 14 hours ago, 18 May 12, 7:48pm -
  • GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
    If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
    - 15 hours ago, 18 May 12, 6:59pm -

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Wired.com

Wired.com Video

Gadget Lab Podcast: The HTC One S, Cheap Gadgets and the Soundfreaq
This week, Nathan tells us what he thinks of the HTC One S Android phone, Robbie shows us some cheap gadgets we can buy with our paltry tax returns, and Michael raves about the Soundfreaq Sound Kick, a portable wireless speaker box.
- 29 days ago, 20 Apr 12, 7:42pm -
G-lab: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, Zombie Maps, and Free Stuff!
This week: A new 7-inch ICS tablet from Samsung, Robbie tells us how to use Google Maps to escape the zombie hoards, and we give away a fancy handmade iPad case from Pen & Quill!
- 35 days ago, 13 Apr 12, 10:18pm -
Flosstradamus Reveal Their Secrets
Flosstradamus shows Wired how to make electronic music.
- 39 days ago, 10 Apr 12, 7:50pm -
El-P Drops Cancer for Cure at SXSW
EL-P talks about his new album which features Killer Mike, Danny Brown, and Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire. Cancer for Cure comes out on May 22nd on Fat Possom Records.
- 39 days ago, 10 Apr 12, 7:50pm -
Danny Brown at SXSW 2012
Danny Brown at SXSW 2012.
- 39 days ago, 10 Apr 12, 7:49pm -
Telemedicine for the Front Lines
Wired.com reporter Katie Drummond tours the Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center.
- 39 days ago, 10 Apr 12, 7:48pm -

ZDNet

MIT

  • What's the Next Instagram?
    In the wake of Facebook's billion-dollar Instagram buyout, video-sharing apps are jostling to become the next big thing.Ever since Facebook announced its $1 billion acquisition of the company behind the popular photo-sharing app Instagram last month…
    - 6 hours ago, 19 May 12, 4:00am -
  • Facebook Seeks Political Ad Dollars
    Political advertisers are going to flock to FB this yearThere’s certainly money in politics, and Facebook knows it. The company, now under pressure to to justify its enormous $104 billion IPO, is trying to hire someone to maximize political advert…
    - 13 hours ago, 18 May 12, 8:41pm -
  • When Gadgets Get under Your Skin
    My interface... myself?New Scientist’s Jim Giles calls attention to this freaky fact: that in the future--the rather near future--our interfaces with our gadgets may be our own bodies. “Left your phone at home again?” he writes. “A solution…
    - 17 hours ago, 18 May 12, 4:15pm -
  • The Data-Driven Dog
    Combating canine complaints with a cloud-connected collar.Soon, your dog will be in the cloud.
    - 17 hours ago, 18 May 12, 4:08pm -
  • How Facebook Saved Us from Suburbia
    Research suggests social networks remedy the isolation of modern life.In 2009, the Pew Internet Trust published a survey worth resurfacing for what it says about the significance of Facebook. The study was inspired by earlier research that "argued t…
    - 1 day ago, 17 May 12, 11:39pm -
  • How Will Tariffs on Solar Panels Affect Innovation?
    A U.S. Commerce Department anti-dumping decision could help some U.S. companies and hurt others.The United States Commerce Department concluded today that Chinese solar panel manufacturers are dumping solar panels in the U.S., and is penalizing them…
    - 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:55pm -
  • Facebook's Technology Timeline
    A look back at the moments that have shaped Facebook's success.
    - 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:44pm -
  • Why Shutting Airports Is Not the Best Way to Halt a Global Flu Pandemic
    In a deadly flu outbreak, shutting airports should reduce the spread of the disease. But networks scientists have discovered a better approach that's just as effective.One of the nightmare scenarios for modern society is the possibility of a global…
    - 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 9:58am -
  • Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy by Half
    Delphi says its diesel-like engine runs cleanly on gasoline.Delphi, a major parts supplier to automakers, is developing an engine technology that could improve the fuel economy of gas-powered cars by 50 percent, potentially rivaling the performance…
    - 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:00am -
  • Is Mobile Computing Good For Productivity?
    Yes, of course, but things got out of hand. A quarter of executives admit to having slept with a smart phone. Consultant Deborah Lovich could be accomplishing the management feat of the mobile era. She's convinced hundreds of agile-thumbed, on-at-al…
    - 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 4:00am -

TechCrunch

  • ClarityRay Battles Ad Blockers With $500K In Funding
    Some of you are probably reading this post with ad blocker right now — and to be honest, I don't blame you. Sure, there's the occasional amusing or genuinely useful ad, but not terribly often, so why not install a plugin and avoid the whole mess? O…
    - 7 hours ago, 19 May 12, 2:06am -
  • From A Hackathon Win To A 650K Round And 10,000 Users, Docracy Tells All
    The tale of Docracy's year-long journey is a fun one. When Matt Hall and his partner John Watkinson first went into the Hackathon last year, the only goal was to get a prototype working for an idea they had, a GitHub for legal documents. Sure, a win…
    - 16 hours ago, 18 May 12, 6:00pm -
  • Tracks Releases Most Ambitious Update Yet: Custom Camera, New Filters, And Real-Time Video
    How timely. After launching a year ago at Disrupt NYC 2011, Tracks is today releasing one of its biggest updates to date. The service is much like Color, but without the creepy factor as any and all members of a specific photo-sharing group must be i…
    - 18 hours ago, 18 May 12, 4:00pm -
  • $FB Is Blowing Up On StockTwits, Too
    Another startup cashing in (figuratively speaking) on the FB IPO: StockTwits. Earlier this week, the social network for investors added Facebook to its StockTwits Social Heatmap, a feature on the site that provides a visualization of what the StockT…
    - 19 hours ago, 18 May 12, 2:36pm -
  • Ready To Talk FB? Social Finance Site TradingView Debuts Real-Time Chat
    Social finance site TradingView, which launched in September of last year, is rolling out a new feature just in time for the Facebook IPO (c'mon, you knew there would have to be at least one story about "just in time for the Facebook IPO" today, rig…
    - 20 hours ago, 18 May 12, 1:45pm -
  • XKCD: Punch Me In The Face If I Use Klout
    I don't understand Klout. I've convinced myself that it's best that way. I just avoid it, really. Grading a person's social media influence on a scale of 100 seems like something popular girls would do in high school.Like Alexia said last year, nob…
    - 21 hours ago, 18 May 12, 12:41pm -
  • Backed By Mark Cuban, WhiteyBoard Launches v2 Of Its Paint That Turns Walls Into Whiteboards
    Two years ago, WhiteyBoard founders Saachi Cywinski, Sherwin Kim and Jason Wilk set out to re-think those clunky, inflexible whiteboards found in classrooms and offices around the country. They developed a portable, flexible alternative: An inexpensi…
    - 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 6:56am -
  • Gasp! Thanks To These Startups, Teachers Are Making Money On The Web
    On the whole, teacher compensation in the U.S. is embarrassing. To pick on marketers, some might see the fact that the average marketing manager makes twice the average salary of just about every type of teacher as just a wee bit backwards.Luckily,…
    - 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 1:10am -
  • The Smart Si Thermostat Aims To Upset The Nest
    This is the age of thinking thermostats and, not to be outdone by a well-known circular model, hardware startup Ecobee has released the Smart Si. It is a smart thermostat with small color screen and a web interface so temperature wonks can update the…
    - 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 12:47am -
  • Twitter Wants An Interest Graph: Now Tracking Your Browsing To Make Follow Suggestions
    Twitter does a lot of things right, but it still hasn't solved the problem of turning its noise into signal. After joining Twitter, it can take a lot of following and unfollowing scores of accounts before you've curated a stream that makes sense for…
    - 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 9:19pm -

techcrunch - YouTube feed

Keen On... Insane Simplicity: The Obsession That Drives Appl
Andrew Keen Interviews Ken Segall, Author Of Insanely Simple
- 11 days ago, 8 May 12, 7:17pm -
In The Studio with John Zimmer
Semil Shah interviews John Zimmer, Co-Founder and COO at Zimride
- 24 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 6:36pm -
Tim Chang Managing Director at Mayfield Fund
Interviewed By Colleen Taylor
- 24 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 6:28pm -
Lytro Photo Walk
Devin Coldewey interviews the Lytro CEO and Director of Photography in San Francisco.
- 25 days ago, 24 Apr 12, 8:07pm -
Scott Raney of Redpoint Ventures
Interview by Kim-Mai Cutler
- 26 days ago, 23 Apr 12, 6:03pm -
NY Tech Day
John Biggs Interivews Digital Ocean
- 28 days ago, 20 Apr 12, 10:36pm -

IEET

  • ‪Robot Geminoid F‬

    - 24 hours ago, 18 May 12, 9:42am -
  • John Niman Musings On Robot Sex Dolls and Companions
    The currents of the internet work in odd ways; this past week the theme seems to be robot sex. Since I have had it on the brain, I figure I will contribute to the trendiness and throw my own 2c in.
    - 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 9:04am -
  • Hank Pellissier The Ukrainian “Human Barbie Doll” - Valeria Lukyanova - is this the future of cosmetic enhancement?
    Immaculate doll-face, globulous breasts, teeny waist, slender limbs, vacant ice-blue eyes, long platinum hair - Valeria Lukyanova of Odessa, Ukraine, has re-designed her physical form to resemble Barbie, the plastic Mattel toy. Is the result “beaut…
    - 1 day ago, 18 May 12, 8:21am -
  • Our Reborn Future in Space
    Mining Asteroids! Has the future finally arrived? Is this B.S. or not B.S.? Scientist and Sci-Fi author David Brin breaks down the idea into its fascinating ideas, taking a look at how Planetary Resources is planning to obtain metals and fuel by mini…
    - 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:42am -
  • David Brin Brain Preservation: Is Your Brain Worth the Bother?
    The Brain Preservation Foundation is an interesting enterprise co-developed by John Smart (Acceleration Studies Foundation) that’s offering a prize for researchers who manage to preserve animal brains in ways that would be suitable for humans and t…
    - 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:31am -
  • Rachel Armstrong Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature
    In Western cultures, nature is a cosmological, primal ordering force and a terrestrial condition that exists in the absence of human beings. Both meanings are freely implied in everyday conversation. We distinguish ourselves from the natural world by…
    - 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 10:15am -
  • Free Will?
    There’s no such thing as free will in the sense of a ghost in the machine; our behavior is the product of physical processes in the brain rather than some mysterious soul, says Pinker.
    - 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 9:14am -
  • piero scaruffi The Nonlinear Origins of Free Will
    paolo scaruffi is the author of The Nature of Consciousness: The Structure of Life and the Meaning of Matter, and A Brief History of Knowledge.
    - 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 9:01am -
  • Hank Pellissier “The Self” in the Future: Will it be Extinguished, by Neuroscience?
    Will “the self” survive because it can provide people with a greater sense of happiness? Or is it - perhaps along with the constructs “Free Will” and “Determinism” - doomed to the dustbin of history? Should cyborgs, avatars, and a rewired…
    - 3 days ago, 16 May 12, 8:49am -
  • “Flesh” is the Resurrection Choice of IEET Readers
    34.8% of IEET poll responders selected “Cryonics and Resurrection” in a recent survey that inquired about life-after-death preferences. 27.7% selected, instead, the category, “Uploaded in a Non-Biological Medium,” and 24.1% chose “Either is…
    - 4 days ago, 15 May 12, 4:27pm -

Gizmodo

engadget

  • Raspberry Pi team shows off pics of (and taken with) prototype camera add-on
    While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi's diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster, the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above. The add-on…
    - 1 hour ago, 19 May 12, 8:33am -
  • Apple files (again) for a preliminary ban against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
    If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple's filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside. It isn't the first one, either, Cuperti…
    - 3 hours ago, 19 May 12, 6:29am -
  • Parkmobile adds NFC to its parking payment repertoire
    Let's face it, whether you're down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need'em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC, that's what. And that tap-to-pay convenien…
    - 4 hours ago, 19 May 12, 5:21am -
  • FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012
    We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol' Federal Communications Commission's site. Since we couldn't possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes do…
    - 6 hours ago, 19 May 12, 3:52am -
  • Microsoft patent application outlines system to recommend and transfer apps across devices
    Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications? Well, dig in, because it's Microsoft's turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describe…
    - 7 hours ago, 19 May 12, 2:35am -
  • Samsung Galaxy S III for T-Mobile hits FCC, brings future-proofed HSPA+ for good measure
    There's been hints of it coming as early as February, but we now have a smoking gun at the FCC: the Galaxy S III is coming to T-Mobile. A Samsung SGH-T999 has popped up at the agency sporting newly added 1,700MHz AWS support that's the telltale sig…
    - 9 hours ago, 19 May 12, 12:14am -
  • Kiss Aero goodbye: Latest Windows 8 build reveals minimalistic desktop UI
    It's safe to say that anticipation is high for the upcoming Windows 8 Release Preview, which will become available in the first week of June. While we're still curious to see if Microsoft can better integrate the desktop and Metro environments of i…
    - 10 hours ago, 18 May 12, 11:28pm -
  • GameStop Mobile launches as AT&T virtual carrier, gives us rare bring-your-own GSM in US
    Here's an expansion of mobile competition in the US that comes out of left field, even for us: GameStop as a cellular provider. GameStop Mobile, as it's called, is that rare bird of an AT&T-based MVNO that relies on a bring-your-own-device strategy…
    - 10 hours ago, 18 May 12, 11:11pm -
  • The Engadget Show is live, here at 6:00PM ET!
    Man, what a show we've got for you this month. For starters, we popped by the Smithsonian, to check out the museum's Art of the Video Game exhibit. And while the awesome Fifth Avenue Frogger game didn't actually make it into those hallowed halls, w…
    - 12 hours ago, 18 May 12, 9:30pm -
  • ITC bans Motorola mobile devices for infringing Microsoft patent (updated: MMI responds)
    At the end of last year, an Administrative Law Judge issued an initial ruling that Motorola's mobile devices infringe a bit of Microsoft's IP. Now, the Commission has affirmed that decision and issued an exclusion order to ban Moto's offending devi…
    - 12 hours ago, 18 May 12, 9:21pm -