Ryan Carson: “Developers Aren’t Monkeys In A Cage”
May 25, 2012Treehouse founder and CEO Ryan Carson is angry about the commodification and appropriation of hacker culture for the benefit of business interests.
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In True Web 2.0 Form, HP CEO Dumps 8 Percent Of Staff Via Video Message
May 24, 2012Breaking up is hard to do, unless you’re Meg Whitman. The former eBay CEO continues her reign of tyranny at HP by announcing massive job cuts via video message.
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TopBooksFor And The Power Of Crowd Content
May 24, 2012TopBooksFor is a new site featuring content that is entirely crowd-created, allowing users to create and vote on lists of their favorite books.
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This Isn’t The First Time Google Has Fought Malware User-By-User
May 24, 2012Google is embarking on a quest to notify the owners of 500,000 infected computers that, unless they take action, their internet will be shut off on July 19th.
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Write Code On The Fly With New Worqshop for iPad
May 24, 2012Worqshop, created by Australian-based Worqbench, allows developers to import projects and commit code easily while on the go directly from their iPad.
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Is That Avocado Ripe? Scan It With Your Smartphone
May 24, 2012According to German researchers, savvy grocery shoppers will use their smartphones at the supermarket not to check pricing or nutritional information but to scan the interior of actual fruits, vegetables, and meats to detect freshness and chemical balance.
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Author Douglas Coupland Debuts A Utility Pole For The Wireless Age
May 24, 2012Douglas Coupland has created a new urban landmark that will provide wireless internet access and green charging services using the smallest possible environmental footprint.
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Kinect SDK Update Adds Face Tracking, Language Support, Overall Improvements
May 24, 2012This week the Kinect for Windows team released a blog post detailing many new features available to developers in a new 1.5 software development kit update.
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New Tiny Computer Is Almost As Cheap, Almost As Small As Raspberry Pi
May 24, 2012Taiwanese hardware manufacturer VIA announced a $49, Android-powered PC system Tuesday that invites comparison to the diminutive Raspberry Pi.
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Accelerator Scorecard Part II
May 24, 2012Excelerate has been very successful in finding, funding and supporting young Chicago companies. But as successful as Excelerate has been on that front, there haven’t yet been any grand slam successes.
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