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Is this six year-old boy the next Mark Zuckerberg?
23 May
He’s been dubbed the next Mark Zuckerberg.
A six-year-old, gap-toothed entrepreneur impressed the crowds at Seattle Startup Weekend held May 18-20 with his business pitch: GapTooth Stickers.
The youngest person to ever present at the Seattle startup event, Ashwin Gowland explained that his stickers could be placed on anything from clothing to fruit to toys and dissolve off the products with water.
A Taste Of Vietnam
23 MaySweetened condensed milk is an essential ingredient in conventional Vietnamese coffee.
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Idaho Lake Cabin
23 May
Olson Kundig Architects founded this Idaho cabin on low maintenance materials — steel, concrete block, concrete floors and plywood— in harmony with the idea of a traditional cabin. Moreover, the architects integrated a massive window-wall (20′ x 30′), exposing the entire living space to the lake and forest.
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Commercially built SpaceX Falcon 9 hurtles toward International Space Station and ushers in new era
23 May
Reblogged from National Post | News:
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Opening a new, entrepreneurial era in spaceflight, a ship built by a billionaire businessman sped toward the International Space Station with a load of groceries and other supplies after a spectacular middle-of-the-night blastoff.
The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket and its unmanned Dragon capsule marked the first time a commercial spacecraft has been sent to the orbiting outpost.
The hunters become the hunted: Indian state sanctions shooting animal poachers
23 May Reblogged from National Post | News:
NEW DELHI — A western Indian state has declared war on animal poaching by sanctioning its forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks against tigers, elephants and other wildlife.
The government in Maharashtra says injuring or killing suspected poachers will no longer be considered a crime.
Forest guards should not be “booked for human rights violations when they have taken action against poachers,” Maharashtra Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam said Tuesday.
Shareholders sue Facebook, banks over botched IPO
23 May
The hype surrounding Facebook (s fb) has rapidly turned sour since the company went public in a media frenzy last Friday. Its share price is collapsing and regulators are investigating allegations that Facebook’s big bank partners withheld key insider information.
Now, Reuters reports that shareholders have filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court. The suit claims that Facebook and the banks wrongfully concealed weak growth forecasts, leading to shareholders over-paying for the stock when it debuted last Friday.
And Now, Fruit Shaped Like Juice Boxes
23 May
Just when we’d gotten used to the idea of square watermelons and bonsai kittens comes the latest in plant-life modification: fruit grown in the shape of a juice box.
It’s the masterstroke of a recent ad campaign for Brazilian juice company Camp Nectar, thought up by the creative agency AGE Isobar as a way to highlight the fact that the company’s juice is all natural.
Today's Google Doodle Is An Awesome, Playable Moog Synthesizer
23 May
While we don’t make a habit out of covering every iteration of the Google Doodle, today’s version is especially awesome. The doodle is celebrating the birth date of Dr. Robert Moog, the inventor of the electronic analog Moog Synthesizer. The what?, you may ask. The synthesizer was an instrument Moog created in the mid-1960′s, which took the music world by storm, and was picked up by artists like The Beatles, The Doors, Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk, and others.
The Great Gatsby – Official Trailer [2012]
23 MayThe maker of Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann, is currently directing The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s classic book of the same name. The film is set to be released to cinemas on December 25, 2012, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire. This undoubtedly looks promising!
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Video: Cuba's Internet stuck in the '90s
22 May
HAVANA, Cuba – It was all sunshine, smiles and celebratory speeches as officials marked the arrival of an undersea fiber-optic cable they promised would end Cuba’s Internet isolation and boost web capacity 3,000-fold. Even a retired Fidel Castro had hailed the dawn of a new cyber-age on the island.
More than a year after the February 2011 ceremony on Siboney Beach in eastern Cuba, and 10 months after the system was supposed to have gone online, the government never mentions the cable anymore, and Internet here remains the slowest in the hemisphere.
Good News Cliff Asness! Tickets Still Available for International Yoga Championship
22 May
Because really, who doesn’t want a hedge fund manager who’s both meditative and viciously competitive, and isn’t that why everyone from Ray Dalio to Process Driven Trading’s Peter Muller to Paul Tudor Jones is always touting their love for transcendental meditation or the new yoga studio they just opened in Greenwich. And to which end, we’d like to share the following advert with Cliff Asness, the AQR Capital founder who seems unaware of the awe-inducing (read: nauseating) activity known as competitive yoga.
Click! You can unlock that front door by text or NFC
22 May
My do-it-yourself smarthome system may be getting an upgrade with an Internet connected front door lock. Lockitron just caught my eye for a few reasons, but the main one is support for near-field communications or NFC. I already use the NFC chip in my Galaxy Nexus for wireless mobile payments and with the $295 Lockitron deadbolt system, I could wave my smartphone near the front door to unlock it.
Wooden light bulb is the most magical-looking LED bulb we've seen
22 May
There are all kinds of futuristic-looking energy-efficient light bulbs on the market — not just the traditional piggy-tail model, but liquid-cooled bulbs that look like glass jellyfish, and bulbs with gills like a mushroom or fins like a Cadillac. But for our money, this wooden bulb by artist Ryosuke Fukusada is the most beautiful energy-efficient light fixture going. (And yes, it really is a light fixture.)
Reagan's Blood to Be Sold at Auction
22 May
An online auction house is now accepting bids for a vial it claims contains drops of President Ronald Reagan’s blood drawn during his recovery from a 1981 assassination attempt.
As of Tuesday morning, bidding at PFCAuctions.com had already exceeded $10,000. The vial is being sold on behalf of an unidentified man who claims to have obtained it after his mother’s death.
South African President Jacob Zuma penis painting vandalized in gallery
22 May
Reblogged from National Post | News:
JOHANNESBURG — Two men on Tuesday vandalized a portrait of President Jacob Zuma posing as Vladimir Lenin with his genitals exposed in a Johannesburg gallery, prompting the curator to take down the painting.
The vandalism succeeded where a street protest, a court battle and a pornography probe had so far failed in making the Goodman Gallery remove the painting from an art exhibition about corruption.
Does A Ralph Lauren Dividend Double Matter To Peers?
22 May
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE: RL) has what would appear to be good news in most headline watching: the high-end apparel maker is doubling its dividend. Unfortunately this is getting lost in the shuffle after its earnings report showed gains of 29%. The company has now declared a quarterly dividend of $0.40 per share, or $1.60 when you take it on an annualized basis, from its prior level of $0.20 per share per quarter.
Incident Launches The gTar at Disrupt, An iPhone-Powered Electronic Teaching Guitar
21 May
The gTar by Incident is disruption defined. It takes the guitar, an instrument with a steep learning curve, and adds a bit of digital wizardry in the form of an embedded iPhone to make learning dramatically easier. The company brags that their modern take on the guitar allows for three levels of difficulty, rather than the traditional single really difficult one.
Check out the LEAP: control your Mac with gestures for only $69
21 May
We all know there will be a day when the mouse and keyboard will become obsolete, but many think that day is far off. However, that day just might be here with a new project called “LEAP.” As first noted by The Wall Street Journal, the LEAP, developed by parent company Leap Motion, allows you to control your computer by only using your hand.
After Walking Away From Acquisition Talks With Facebook, Ark Opens Its People Search Engine
21 May
Following a jam-packed beta test and a jaw-dropping $4.2 million seed round, Ark people search is open for sign ups…at least for the next three days. Ark lets you sift through profiles on Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other services to help you find out which of your high school classmates live in New York, see which friends are single, and connect with strangers who share your interests by layering up to 30 characteristic filters.
Foreign entrepreneurs: Friend or foe?
21 May
Editor’s note: The Millennials are a generation that are constantly plugged in and moving fast to make their mark on the world. CNN’s Quest Means Business is tracking four of them. Here, CNN contributor and Millennial David Lloyd – who in this week’s episode is in the running for an innovation award — asks if foreign entrepreneurs are friend or foe.
Sony releases 'Music Unlimited' Spotify competitor as iOS app
21 May
Looking to usurp rival competitors like Spotify and MOG, Sony today launched its Music Unlimited streaming service as an iOS app. We told you in January that it was coming, but today the free app officially hits the App Store with subscriptions starting at $3.99 a month for varying access to the service’s 15 million+ songs and playback features. There is also a 30-day free trial of the premium service.
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