You Have A Second Brain [video]

Turns out you have TWO brains! 
Written by Annik Carson, Gregory Brown, Rachel Salt, and Mitchell Moffit

ASAPSCIENCE BOOK: http://asapscience.com/book/ 

The Incredible Technical Mastery Of Formula One Drivers, Illustrated

I love Formula 1 and am so proud of our new HAAS USA team and Track of The Americas in San Antonio. The skill these drivers maintain for 90 min each race is incredible. No other sport requires such mental concentration. With the recent purchase of F1 by Liberty Media we should start to see its popularity grow considerably here in the US. Drive on!

This POV video of top Formula One driver Nico Rosberg is annotated to show what his feet and hands are doing (a lot more than just steering). It’s really, really impressive — as is how close he comes to the wall on every turn.

Best of the First Half of 2016 from “People Are Awesome”

PEOPLE ARE AWESOME is a top destination for amazing, original videos and compilations of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. This compilation features some incredible feats of strength, skill fitness and cleverness. It’ll make you want to go out and do something awesome too. 

This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvJIfDy6CVQ

The oldest working nurse in the United States turns 90 and celebrates 60 years of nursing

Florence “SeeSee” Rigney is an operating room nurse in Tacoma, WA. She celebrated her 90th birthday last year with coworkers, who honored her 60+ years of nursing. 

SeSee hasn’t changed stations since 1946, when she began her career.

“She always knew she wanted to be a nurse,” explained Sheri Morris, assistant nurse manager, in a TODAY.com interview. “Over the past almost-century, she ended up in a few different places in the U.S., and at times drifted away from Tacoma General Hospital to spend time with her husband or kids for a year or two, but she always came back here.”

Maybe 90 is the new 60? 
This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JtriJkFmm0

Introducing Spectacles from Snap (fka Snapchat)

When the $130 Specs are released this fall, you might have to stick to barbecues and day-time music festivals when you want to tap the rim of your glasses to record 10 seconds of circular, first-person video.

Perhaps future iterations could come with clear lenses or photochromatic light-adaptive lenses that are dark in the sun and transparent at night or indoors. By ditching extra functionality to keep the price reasonable, Snapchat may be able to market the glasses as an aspirational buy for its teen user base. That will go smoother if it can align Spectacles with celebrities people want to emulate.

The first version of Spectacles might not be as transformational of a technology as some hoped. Yet it gives Snapchat more control of the image capture and saving experience. With time, engineering, and product finesse, Specs could evolve into something we see ourselves wearing whenever we go somewhere we want to share.

But if public perception lumps them in with geeky Google Glass or unnecessary Flipcams, Spiegel will have spent a lot of Snap’s $2 billion-plus in venture capital on something just for him to play with.

This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqkOFLBSJR8

Yep, Disney is in talks with bankers about possible Twitter acquisition

Disney has had talks about a potential acquisition of Twitter, we’ve confirmed. They’re working with bankers now to determine whether the deal makes sense, multiple sources have informed us.

While some reports have suggested that Twitter could fetch $30 billion, we are hearing that the price tag is much lower. Twitter stock is currently trending upward on the news, and Disney’s downward. At the end of last week, Twitter’s market cap was below $13 billion on Thursday, before rumors of a possible Salesforce acquisition broke. Twitter’s market cap is now almost $20b, suggesting that investors believe it could optimistically fetch that price.

Disney, which owns media properties like ESPN and ABC, is hoping that the social media platform could amplify their reach. Twitter has also been dabbling in content partnerships, including one with the NFL. Successful implementation of these partnerships could also prove to be beneficial to a media conglomerate like Disney.

Twitter’s live streaming efforts with companies like the NFL and its own Periscope platform have reportedly sparked interest from some acquirers. Disney’s ESPN, of course, has had its own struggles with revenue recently but still accounts for a huge portion of Disney’s value. Twitter’s streaming of NFL games on the web and in its apps are powered by BAMTech, the tech spinout of Major League Baseball’s MLBAM. So any acquisition would likely not be about hard tech in this arena but instead the combination of live streams and commentary shown off by Twitter’s Thursday Night Football experiment.

Because of the decline in cable viewership, companies like Disney are looking for new platforms to expand the reach of their leading brands. ESPN and ABC could benefit from greater digital video partnerships and social media integration.

Ultimately, this combination would be about re-imagining distribution platforms and building a long-term vision for a real-time content powerhouse.

News of the deal has been juiced a bit by the fact that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey serves on Disney’s board.

News of Disney’s interest was broken this morning by Bloomberg, and as far as we know the deal has been being worked on for a bit now.

There are plenty of roadblocks to a deal like this happening, not the least of which is Twitter’s major issues with abuse and its one-time stance as a bastion of free speech. Disney has had a mixed record with free speech issues in the past, having once essentially torpedoed the distribution of 1997’s Kundun, a movie about the Dalai Lama critical of China’s relations with Tibet. Disney’s not alone there, Universal dropped its bid to distribute Kundun so as not to offend the massive Chinese market. But the incident illustrates the rocky relationship media companies have with controversial free speech issues.

Twitter is also a bridge network that has attempted to court a variety of media-rich companies from the NFL to every major publisher. As a distributor of news and commentary platform, Twitter’s strengths lie in at least some amount of agnosticism when it comes to media companies. How having it owned by one of the largest content businesses on the planet would affect that efficacy is doubtless a part of these discussions.

This article originally appeared at: https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/26/yep-disney-is-in-talks-with-bankers-about-possible-twitter-acqisition/

Someone Made A Working Transformer Out Of A BMW

It may not have Optimus Prime’s voice or fighting capability, but this creation from Turkey has that classic “looks-and-drives-like-a-real-car-and-then-transforms-into-a-standing-robot” thing going on.

This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWx2viSOjAs

Stripe Announced a New Service to Pay People Immediately

Stripe is a six-year-old tech company on a mission to make digital payments as simple as possible for all businesses.

And yesterday, they made some serious headway with the launch of Instant Payouts — a service that allows marketplaces currently using Stripe’s payments API to pay contract workers “within minutes.”

This isn’t new, it’s just being unleashed

A few customers have been using a beta version of Instant Payouts for months now, including Lyft, Instacart, and Postmates.

In Lyft’s case, this technology enables its drivers to deposit earnings in the bank (and start making it rain) the second they finish a shift, as opposed to waiting the 2-3 business days payouts usually take.

Since integrating the service last November, the pink moustache has sent over $500m to drivers this way.

What makes this faster?

Almost all of today’s payment services use the automated clearing house network (ACH) to transfer money, a fairly outdated system where money is transferred from Bank #1, electronically sorted by the clearing house (the middle man), and then sent to Bank #2 (its intended destination).

Thanks to partnerships with Visa and MasterCard, Instant Payments allows companies to sidestep ACH entirely and quickly send funds using the established debit card networks.

But ACH won’t go down without a fight

In hopes of keeping up with the times, the ACH network is switching from one daily submission deadline to 2 (morning and afternoon) later this week… meaning payments sent in the morning can be settled by the evening, as opposed to the following business day.

Still, legacy payment systems and banks better be on notice because companies like Stripe, Square, and Venmo/Paypal are coming in hot and adding an extra shift isn’t good enough.

Fun facts: Stripe was founded by a couple of brothers brothers, Patrick and John Collison, born in 1988 and 1990, respectively. The company’s 6 years old with a $5B valuation.

This article originally appeared at: http://thehustle.co/stripe-instant-payments

Kid Obliterating His Rugby Opponents Is An Absolute Monster

Is it really a stiff arm anymore if you’re just throwing kids to the floor like ragdolls? Because that’s what this kid in Australia is doing to his poor opponents.