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Amazon Reviews: Cat 3.0 – New Version Meow Available!

Look, a comment section! It’s a fun opportunity to provide relevant product feedback and suggestions! If you have recently purchased, used, barely used, thought about using, never used, met someone who has used, or have a general problem with using our products or services please log in and provide a review ...

Tumblr and Quora Challenge Reddit AMA Monopoly But Might Not Pass Go

Reddit has long held a monopoly on Q&A – or at least asking questions to well-known people, companies and professions in an open environment. Their AMA and IAMA subreddits are unadulterated madness, with people from Bill Murray to Tim Berners-Lee taking questions from anyone on the Internet and providing surprisingly honest answers ...

Digital Immortality and the End of Consumption-Based Capitalism

Science fiction doesn’t give us answers so much as it asks us questions. What if androids developed self-awareness? What if we couldn’t communicate with an alien race innocently trying to kill us What if Scott Bakula could time travel within his lifetime, connected to his own time only through the cigar-smoking, adorably womanizing hologram of Dean Stockwell? ...

By Tinkering With Cars, Elon Musk Is Trying to Stop a Trainwreck

In the last century, humanity has achieved incredible advancements from widespread adoption of the automobile, to splitting the atom, to travelling to the moon and back. Despite the numerous accomplishments in so many facets of our existence, some concepts have stagnated in development. For one example, nearly all internal combustion engines used today are descendants of a design over a hundred years old ...

Gadget Junkies and Gift Shoppers May Want to Check Out GadgetFlow

With the holiday season finally upon us and no sign of a real (or sober) Santa, the stress of gifting is quickly starting to swirl around us with the cool breezes of winter. While the unscrooged among us are always looking to be thoughtful with our presents, sometimes we just have to go with the slam-dunk crowd-pleasers: booze, gift cards, framed selfies, lingerie, embroidered hand towels and electronics ...

Workfrom Helps You Find Workspace In Coffee Shops and Other Venues

Shared office space might be the biggest trend in Startupland since cargo shorts. It’s everywhere. According toreports, the number of co-working spaces in the US went from one in 2005 to almost 800 in 2013. That numbers is probably well over 1,000 by now and some forecasts predict that there will be 12,000 fully operational co-working spaces around the world by 2018 ...

Li-Fi Speeds and Batman v Superman: Mind Blown Yet Again

Last week was “American Thanksgiving”; the time when everyone in the United States comes together, farts out a few notes of gratitude, watches football, and then against all scientific odds, gets even fatter. It’s a glorious holiday ...

The 4 Best Podcasts For Startup Entrepreneurs

If you’re hoping to become a more successful entrepreneur, it is imperative that you continue to build your skill set throughout your career. From learning life lessons when you make mistakes to surrounding yourself with people who inspire you, a savvy entrepreneur never stops learning. One way to keep your mind in motion is listening to podcasts ...

Jibo Is the Social Robot Companion That Has Raised over $40 Million

For years we’ve dreamed of having robots in our lives.The Jetsons had Rosie the Robot to wait on them hand and foot. Rocky Balboa received a robot as a present from Paulie. Wall-E won our hearts with his delightful innocence, and R2-D2 and C3PO are definitely a few droids we’d all love to have by our side ...

How Oddup Might Save You From Investing In The Next Pets.com

Investing in a startup can be scary business. The truth is, about 90% of startups fail. For every massive success, such as Dropbox or Slack, there are thousands of failures, like Webvan and Pets.com. There are so many factors that contribute to the gargantuan success or colossal failure of a startup. Is the market ready? Are the founders young morons with too much money? Is their enough media buzz around it? Who are the investors? ...