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Even as Yahoo loses execs by the dozens, they continue to hire new blood. Blaine Cook, the controversial (and some say very talented) former chief architect at Twitter, is now a rails developer at Yahoo. A source at Yahoo confirms the hire and says he’s working on the Fire Eagle project in Yahoo’s Brickhouse early [...]

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Coming soon to Nolita: jewelry shop Metal Pointus Local · More stuff delivered to the Trader Joe’s Brooklyn site! [Brownstoner] · Swede designing “hipster” clothing out of his Gowanus studio [Pipeline] · Slope’s only butcher shop closing [The Gowanus Lounge] · Designer Rogan Gregory a “new kind of downtown creature” [...]

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Let’s face it. Every man wants to be a superhero. In the Park Cities, I’m betting a lot of men wish they were Batman — he’s mega-rich, has cool gadgets, and has a rockin’ car. E. Paul Zehr is a professor of kinesiology and neuroscience at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. His [...]

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BlogHer, an online network of female bloggers, has announced a partnership with iVillage and Women@NBCU, a new content and marketing intiative by NBC Universal. The partnership includes a million Series B round led by Peacock Equity (a fund run by NBC Universal and GE) along with previous investor Venrock Capital. iVillage, Oxygen.com, [...]

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National Public Radio (NPR) has introduced an API that it says will allow developers to serve up mashups that include audio, images, and full text articles from the non-profit media organization’s archives that go as far back as 1995. You can access an overview of the new API here. The blurb we received about [...]

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Jawbone Offering Off to Anyone Busted For Breaking the Hands-free Law Bravo to Aliph’s marketing team for finding a unique way to market their Jawbone Bluetooth headset. Given the fact that many states are now passing laws to prevent drivers from using their cellphones, Aliph decided to offer a discount on a [...]

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Jawbone Offering Off to Anyone Busted For Breaking the Hands Free Law Bravo to Aliph’s marketing team for finding a unique way to market their Jawbone Bluetooth headset. Given the fact that many states are now passing laws to prevent drivers from using their cellphones, Aliph decided to offer a discount on [...]

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Filed under: Teens & tweens, Money & work, Health & safety, Eating & nutrition, Life & style, In the news, Environment, Media, Gadgets & tech Every generation thinks they have it tougher than the one before. And, you know what? They probably do. Like the new iphone, every generation is expected to be [...]

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The Xbox 360 controllers are pretty bland to date, despite functioning perfectly fine, they aren’t the nicest things to look at in your living room as black and white colors rarely capture the eye’s attention at first glance. Good thing Microsoft has decided to introduce a little bit of color into Xbox 360 owners’ lives [...]

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets No, the blacked-out rear quarters of your ‘90 CRX aren’t going to start powering your hooptywoofer anytime soon, but a new window treatment developed at MIT that functions as a solar concentrator promises to finally bring solar windows to the masses. Based on similar work … Tech Talk
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