Why This Generation Needs To Realize The Worst Way To Get A Date Is To Look For One

Dating… woof. The term itself sounds tiring, overwhelming and even intimidating. I mean, we read and write millions of blog posts each day about how to manage it, scale it and hopefully, succeed at it. But, do we really have a f*cking clue about what it really entails? We pretend that if we act a […]
Why This Generation Needs To Realize The Worst Way To Get A Date Is To Look For One

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Venrock Closes $450 Million Seventh Fund To Invest In Tech And Healthcare Startups

 Long-running venture capital firm Venrock just closed its seventh fund, bringing in $450 million in new capital. The firm, which has been around since the ’60s and counts the Rockefeller family as one of its big LPs, will use the new money to continue investing in early-stage tech and healthcare companies. Read More

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Fotopedia Will Shut Down Its Apps And Website On August 10

 About six years ago, former Apple Application Division CTO Jean-Marie Hullot founded Fotopedia, a startup that in its early days tried to bring the coffee table book experience to the iPad (and later iPhone). It focused on travel-related apps and...

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The NFL Gets Quantified Intelligence, Courtesy Of Shoulder Pad-Mounted Motion Trackers

 The NFL is making a move to integrate RFID-based activity-tracking tech to give fans, coaches and players more information about what exactly athletes go through during each game. The Zebra Technologies tracker systems will mount to player shoulder pads and communicate with receivers installed in 17 stadiums during the 2014 season. They will provide information about each player’s… Read More

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Twitter Acquires Password Security Startup Mitro, Open Sources Its Product

 Twitter is acquiring a small password security startup called Mitro for its New York office. Mitro built a way that multiple people can share or control passwords to a single account. The most obvious use case would have been in the enterprise where team members need to share a single password for an account. Twitter isn’t keeping the product and we hear that the team will likely be… Read More

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Oculus Rift DK2 Gets Torn Apart, Revealing Its Samsung Innards

 You may not be able to get your hands on the very-much-backordered second generation Oculus Rift, but you know who did? iFixit — the guys who tear apart pretty much every device they can get their hands on to get a better look at the hamster wheels inside.
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Audi Tests Self-Driving Cars On Florida’s Roads

 Self-driving cars are making their way to Florida. Well, to “connected car” testbeds in Florida, that is. Automaker Audi was recently the first to try out a section of highway in Tampa, Florida which has been designated by the state as a testbed for automated driving. Here, Audi tested an initial version of “Piloted Driving” –  something it calls “Traffic… Read More

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