Snap’s IPO last week was good to investors, but it was even better to the company’s employees. Cofounders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy each walked away with $272 million, in addition to each owning at least $5 billion worth of stock, and other early employees likely made themselves an extra comma in their bank account. But […]
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Airbus unveils Pop.Up: An autonomous transportation concept that uses drones to carry cars
Photos of the 11ft-diameter Hyperloop test track under construction in Nevada
Los Angeles-based startup Hyperloop One has made it its mission to build a rail system that levitates pods on magnetic skis and sends them through a low-pressure tube at 760mph. At a railway conference in Dubai on Tuesday, the startup showed the first images of the test track it has started building in southern Nevada, […]
Not just for Storage: Rectal Marijuana Is More Effective Than Smoking Joints
95 Experts Reveal Their 3 “Must-Do’s” for Solopreneur Success – Solo Build It! Blog – Proven Real-World Advice for Solopreneurs
Circus training for dogs
This Oakland California man has set up his backyard to be a dog school with a circus emphasis Francis Metcalf is the ringmaster of Oakland’s California Canine Circus School, a reward-based dog training course that encourages all dogs, and their two-legged sidekicks, to run off to the circus, or at least dream about it. Tricks […]
Amazon’s Alexa Takes 88% Of Global Intelligent Home Speaker Market
Over four million Intelligent Home Speakers were sold globally in Q4 2016 and the report finds that Google’s Assistant achieved ten percent share in the quarter following the launch of its”Home’ speaker in November. “Amazon has had a near two year head start over its rivals and has done an excellent job of building out […]
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Facebook Messenger bots are going to get a lot more verbose
Facebook announced a change to 640 characters, from 320, to allow longer responses. Will longer answer be better answers? Extra bits for the platform are mostly about letting others know that a bit of text originated from. That means from a shared bit of bot text will allow you to start a conversation with said bot from […]
Why I left Mac for Windows: Apple has given up on its computers
If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m probably the biggest Apple fan they know. Ask for a suggestion of what computer to get, and I’ll almost certainly either tell you the MacBook Pro, or to wait, because Apple is about to update its hardware finally. But recently, I realized I’d gotten tired of Apple’s […]