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Steve Jobs Did Not Liberate Us. Tim Berners-Lee Did, By Freeing Ones and Zeros To Eat the World

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30 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. More accurately, The Great Magician took it out of a bag and let it talk to us. The Macintosh, as I learned from first-hand experience in 1984,...

Startup Silentium is on to a Billion Dollar Opportunity

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From the thrum of heating and ventilation units to the thump of home theaters, the noise of fellow humans at work and play is increasingly hard to escape. Even in remote areas, such as the wilderness...

Contact Lenses to Measure Glucose Levels

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With the refined diet and packaged unnatural foods of today’s supermarket culture, diabetes is a menace. It plagues about one out of every 20 people on the planet. Like its twin disease of obesity,...

Butterfinger Super Bowl 2014 Ad Teaser Video Released

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Nestle USA will for the first time run a Super Bowl ad in the Super Bowl 2014. The Butterfinger Super Bowl 2014 ad will promote the Butterfinger Peanut Butter Cups. The company has now released a...

Will Tim Cook Be the Next Steve Ballmer?

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History tells us “Yes.” Wearables will be his Rubicon. Apple CEO Tim Cook is already one of the most successful managers in the history of business. Yet one must wonder whether Cook will ultimately...
    






FDA Advisory Panel Votes In Favor Of Approval For Merck’s Vorapaxar

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The FDA’s Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee voted 10-1 in favor of approval for vorapaxar, Merck's novel thrombin receptor antagonist. The “roller coaster ride” cliché might have...
    






Jellyfish Aircraft Hovers

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Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress have just managed to create a unique aircraft on a small scale. The machine applies the principles of movement that a jellyfish uses to navigate underwater. The...