Cassandra Daily: The hottest act at last month’s Coachella wasn’t one of the young artists who found neon-painted festival fame through the blogosphere, but an iconic rap star resurrected from the grave. Debates about whether the stunt was imaginative or exploitative persist, but so stirring was Hologram Tupac’s performance that rumors of other dead rock […]
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BusinessWeek: Weather Underground, a site that compiles local data collected by 24,000 weather geeks with sensors on their roofs, this week released a free tool for businesses to use to look for patterns in their sales related to the weather. Anyone can punch in a location and time period to download a spreadsheet with detailed
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Cornell Chronicle: Once you pop the top of a tube of potato chips, it can be hard to stop munching its contents. But Cornell researchers may have found a novel way to help: Add edible serving size markers that act as subconscious stop signs. As part of an experiment carried out on two groups of
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Brad Templeton: There’s a lot of excitement about the potential of autonomous drones, be they nimble quadcopters or longer-range fixed wing or hybrid aircraft. A group of students from Singularity University, for example, has a project called MatterNet working to provide transportation infrastructure for light cargo in regions of Africa where roads wash out for
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The first batch of Mariposa Fodder Business Opportunity kits went out priority mail this morning. If you’re expecting one, and haven’t received a tracking number, let me know and I’ll forward it to you. If you’re interested in finding out more about how you too can make money with fodder, without getting your hands dirty,
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Buying and running a franchise can be a great way to start you own business and become your own boss. By buying a franchise you get the benefit of using a business model that is a proven success, and you are also able to capitalise on existing brand awareness. But there can also be limitations
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The Salt Lake Tribune: Why do 80 percent of all new ventures fail within the first five years? The biggest reason is lack of proper financing. It is human nature to underestimate the amount of money that will be needed to start up and run a business. They also fail for other human reasons —the
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Cassandra Daily: A collaboration between Parisian industrial design firm Eliumstudio and German appliance company Rowenta, the Naturalis lets users make beauty products right at home, using all-natural, easily-accessible ingredients. Emulsion technology, which has been in the headlines a lot lately, is implemented to turn out creams, balms and other skincare products that one can apply
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JSOnline: Getz on Sunday is launching wantable.co, an e-commerce company that will develop style profiles for women, and then present them with cosmetic packages tailored to their look. Here’s how it works: A woman fills out a survey about her preferences and, based on the responses, is put into a style category such as “Rock
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