Olafur Eliasson is an artist, but one who is well-versed in technology. While perhaps not quite a digital native, he has become fluent in the language and tools that technology offers to artists. Eliasson is ideally placed to straddle the divide between the arts and technology. At his studio in Berlin, he surrounds himself with anyone who might help him to realize his vision for an ambitious… Read More
StartX, the Stanford-funded and affiliated incubator, just held its demo day for the Fall 2014 batch of startups at its headquarters in Palo Alto. The companies presenting ran the gamut from bitcoin and cybersecurity to open source machine learning. Read More
LinkedIn today reported the results of its fourth financial quarter of 2014. The company handily beat Wall Street’s expectations with its revenue of $643, up 44% from the year-ago quarter, for non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.61. Wall Street expected earnings per share around $0.53 and revenue of just under $617 million. For the full year, LinkedIn reported revenue of $2.219… Read More
Measles killed Dr. Robert Pearl?s aunt Mary at age 6 ? before there was a vaccine to prevent it. Now, as the U.S. confronts its largest measles outbreak in two decades, Dr. Pearl explores whether it’s possible to prevent this disease from claiming more lives. … – Source
James Ward of Britain is beaten 7-5 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 at the Zagreb Indoors by Fifth-seeded Andreas Seppi of Italy. … – Source
There’s only one way to describe what’s going on in Europe right now: bizarre. … – Source
MIAMI (AP) — One of the few convictions at a military court at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appears to be on shaky ground…. … – Source
iOS: Mail Pilot was a handy email app
that allowed you to turn your emails into tasks so you could remember to deal with them. It was nice, but a little clunky to use. Mail Pilot 2 fixes most of those problems by adding a ton of gestures.
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Effect similar to that seen in the atmosphere … – Source
Underwater eruptions built mysterious marine hills … – Source
Commodities, foreign stocks and high fee illiquid investments won’t keep you safe in a financial hurricane. … – Source
