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Off topic: Season of birth, diagramming love, naming the Edsel, words of 2013, terrible holiday songs
Does being born in the winter affect your mental and physical health? What Love Looks Like in diagrams. Correspondence between Ford, which was seeking a name for what would eventually […]
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Yahoo search trends in 2013: Less voting, more twerking
Yahoo has released its list of most popular search terms for the past year, and there’s no need to panic: Professional famous-person Kim Kardashian is still among the top ten, […]
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Drones (not Amazon’s) and robots in the news
Set aside your excitement — or skepticism — about Amazon.com’s drone-delivery plans and read about a couple of other pieces of drone and robot news: • First, special deliveries by […]
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More consumers head online for holiday shopping weekend
Today is Cyber Monday, but the holiday online shopping craze really started on Thanksgiving Day, and shoppers have been prowling websites and apps for bargains ever since the turkey was […]
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Elevator Pitch: Manuel Henriquez on becoming an ex-VC
Loyal readers know that Elevator Pitch features a different venture capitalist every week. But our latest guest is an ex-VC — though he still invests in venture-backed companies. Manuel Henriquez […]
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Google Glass and law enforcement – the flip side
It wasn’t long ago that we told you about the first known California motorist to be ticketed for driving while wearing Google Glass. Today we bring you another story about […]
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Quoted: Jeff Bezos on the Amazon drone-delivery project
“The hard part here is putting in all the redundancy, all the reliability, all the systems you need to say, ‘Look, this thing can’t land on somebody’s head while they’re […]
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Off topic: Humans and water, under the sea, taking away toys, ex-mortician, ranked reddits
Tun on the waterworks: “We humans are very moist, especially when we’re born.” Then we dry up. Speaking of water, Jacques Cousteau’s grandson will live under the sea for a […]
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Startup Culture Lite in San Francisco
Are the latest crop of entrepreneurs lacking ambition? I’m sure they are working hard. But as I discussed in a recent column, it appears the old entrepreneur ethos of creating […]
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Angela Ahrendts explains her departure from Burberry, the company she “always dreamed of working for”
For the first time since her hire as Apple’s new retail chief, Angela Ahrendts discussed her career move with a lengthy post on LinkedIn. Apple’s announcement last month that it […]
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