Breitbart: Shanley Kane Has A Colorful Past
Performance artist Shanley Kane (@shanley) agitates on behalf of women and demands greater diversity in the tech industry (good) but according to Breitbart, it turns out that in 2011 and 2012 she was...
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The NSA Saw Signs That the Sony Hacks Were Coming
When the FBI blamed North Korea for the Sony Pictures hacks , some wondered how that finding had been made so quickly. Now, new interviews and documents reveal that the NSA had tapped into North...
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Robots And AI Are Big At Davos This Year
Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking aren't the only ones freaked out about AI and robotics killing us off, apparently. That theme keeps bubbling up everywhere, including at Davos, where the agenda for this...
View ArticlePlaxo Cofounder Arrested, Charged With Murder
Minh Nguyen, a co-founder of Plaxo and a techie who was involved in several other startups, was arrested and charged with murder after allegedly shooting his ex-wife's new husband in Virginia. Police...
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Tech Investments Are Soaring, Let's All Dance And Sing!
First came news that more companies went public in 2014 than in any year since 2000. Today, a new report claims VCs invested more money in 2014 than in any year since 2000. Everyone is getting rich....
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What's Your Uber Score? Find Out, and Help Us See How Uber Works
We're fascinated by Uber. It's a hugely successful service that's reshaping urban transportation. But it's also kind of a black box. With your help, we want to take a look inside.Read more...
View ArticleSteve Jobs' Widow Snapped By Paps With Former DC Mayor
Laurene Powell Jobs has been linked before to Adrian Fenty, the former mayor of Washington, D.C. But now there are photos, courtesy of the Daily Mail. They are on a boat in the Caribbean, and appear to...
View ArticleFemale CEO About Davos And Diversity: Still Work To Do
Barri Rafferty is CEO of Ketchum North America, a PR firm. In 2012 and 2014 she attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, but this year she is staying home. She talked to Fortune about what it's like...
View ArticleThe New Atlas Robot: Now Even More Terrifying
Imagine a room full of these things. Like maybe a hundred of them. Now imagine you're going to tell them what to do, and they're going to listen to you, because they know about Asimov's Laws and of...
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World's Saddest Service Offers Make-Believe Boyfriend Or Girlfriend
The service is called Invisible Girlfriend, and the idea is that you sign up and pay $25 and they will send you text messages and photos and make you feel as if you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend...
View ArticleRussian Robots Are Total Shit
Just look at the video below of this pathetic Russian "combat" robot riding an ATV at about one tenth of one mile per hour. The look on Putin's face says it all. The ruble is collapsing; the rest of...
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Hilarious ad shows how Facebook would've been if it existed in the 90s
Comedian Brent Weinbach made this great fake commercial showing how The Facebook—as Mark Zuckerberg originally called it—would have been if it existed in 1995.Read more...
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Why You Should Care About the Silk Road Trial
Right now, a 30-year-old engineer is on trial for founding and operating an enormous online black market—the Amazon of drugs . The outcome of his trial could change the way we use the internet.Read...
View ArticleNew Version Of Windows Doesn't Suck, Supposedly
Early reviews of Windows 10 (like the one below from Gizmodo) have been incredibly positive. The new browser. The voice commands. The virtual reality HoloLens goggles. All so cool! Everyone loves...
View ArticleCrazy VCs Just Valued A Gift Card Company At Nearly $1 Billion
A company that makes online gift cards just raised $56 million at a valuation of just under $1 billion. The company's name, ironically, is Raise. I'm not making that up. Read more...
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Here Is The Hobbit As It Should Have Been: A Single 3-Hour Movie
Let's be honest: The Hobbit would have made a great three-hour movie. Now that's what it is, thanks to a dedicated video editor in Philadelphia who boiled down Peter Jackson's bloated, padded trilogy...
View ArticleUnicorn Bloodbath: VC Bill Gurley Sounds The Alarm, Again
"I think you're going to see a lot of failure in 2015," venture capitalist Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital tells Fortune for a cover story ("The Age of Unicorns") about how all these companies are now...
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White Rapper Jason Calacanis Don't Need You Now, Baby
Jason Calacanis is a smack-talking, poker-playing entrepreneur and angel investor. And he's been on a roll lately, thanks to some smart investments. He put money into Uber, which is now worth a...
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Vulture Capitalist: Avoid That Box IPO!
My friend the Vulture is a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He recently wrote a piece for us and I've been hoping he would do another one. I asked him what he thought of the Box IPO, which is...
View ArticleSeriously, Enough With The Je Suis Stuff
An analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch just put out a note with the title, Je Suis Bullish, and even Business Insider thinks it's a bit, well, in poor taste.Read more...
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