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It’s easy to tell when an earthquake hits an area full of Twitter users — there’s frequently a rush of panicked tweets within seconds of the ground shaking. If Twitter and Stanford University have their way, though, those posts could be useful for more than just alerting friends. T
The dream of producing hydrocarbon fuels from carbon dioxide and sunlight is one step closer thanks to chemists in Europe who have made jet fuel from scratch in a solar reactor for the first time. Although the chemists only produced enough kerosene to fill a glass jar, they believe a full-scale sola
Tom Weiland, Amazon’s head of global customer service, has been put in charge of managing Amazon Fresh, according to his LinkedIn profile. Amazon is currently in the midst of rapidly expanding its Fresh service across the country. Last year, the company started delivering groceries to interested cus
Snapchat has just confirmed its first acquisition, a big step for the Santa Monica, California-based startup. As part of its update yesterday, the company rolled out two major new features in its app: instant messaging and video calling. The video-calling feature is particularly impressive. It’s mea
Comcast is planning to stream games from publisher Electronic Arts to cable TV customers via set-top boxes. After two years of testing, Comcast and EA, one of the largest companies in gaming, are reportedly working to provide games on the cloud-connected X1 cable box system, according to a report ci
Asking 100 people to smash their current smartphones in exchange for the new OnePlus One may have seemed like marketing gold at one point, but the contest quickly hit a speed bump when critics noted that destroying all those perfectly good phones was pretty wasteful. In response, the Chinese company
Phablets – a cross between a phone and tablet – have typically divided gadget fans, either they’re too big, too small or not powerful enough. A team of researchers in Canada have created a potential solution with a device that changes from a phone to a tablet and a notebook, using a set
The idea of using a device as wireless headphones isn’t really anything new. Some Roku boxes have a headphone port on their remotes, allowing for a private viewing experience. The Xbox One has a similar deal with the stereo headset adapter, which I use frequently. And now, developer Koush has announ
Orbotix, the company that makes fast-moving, robotic toys that you control with smartphone apps, has raised another $20 million in funding. This brings the total raised by maker of the popular Sphero ball to $35 million, as it gears up to start selling its next product, the cylindrical Ollie, later
SupportPay, the first and only platform to automate child support payments and related expenses, announced that it has closed a heavily oversubscribed seed round. The startup raised over $1,100,000 from many of Silicon Valley’s most well-respected Angel and corporate investment groups. Draper
The Mars candy company, in partnership with Sumitomo Corporation of Americas, announced an agreement on a new 200 MW wind farm that will generate 100% of the electricity needs of Mars’ U.S. operations, which is comprised of 70 sites, including 37 factories and 25,000 associates. Mesquite Creek Wind,
Billboards of the world, you can aspire to be more than signs pointing to cheap motels and sleazy roadside attractions. An engineering team in Peru has created a billboard that they say can purify 100,000 cubic meters of air everyday—taking in pollution and spewing out sweet, fresh air for the city.
