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Nomiku is a clip-on appliance that turns any pot in your home into a temperature controlled water bath that allows you to experiment with sous vide cooking. With hopes of building their own, more affordable sous vide appliance, Lisa Fetterman and husband/cofounder Abe launched the company in 2012 after two incredibly successful Kickstarter campaigns totaling more than $1.3 million which got them the traction they needed to make an impact....

Music is designed to engage your body and mind through your limbic system: “the part of your brain that is always on the lookout for danger, food, sex, or shiny things,” explains Focus@Will. It engages your emotions and urges you to dance, siphoning away mental resources. But Focus@Will has figured out a way to re-engineer music so it increases your focus and productivity. You can choose from seven different channels – from classical to electronica to ambient – that feature re-mastered tracks to help you get in the zone....

After working in product development for several years, Tim started his first company, Hungry Machine, with a team of former coworkers. Hungry Machine was a consulting and app development company. During their run they developed some of the most popular early Facebook apps such as “Pick Your 5” and “Virtual Bookshelf. They got in the Facebook app game at just the right time, or what O’Shaughnessy refers to as the “sheep throwing” days....

He talked about the disappearance of wood and metal shop classes in school curricula and how this change has affected students. “They don’t get to use their hands. They don’t get to make things,” he said. “One of the things that is on my agenda is to fix that – and put MakerBots in every school in America.” Today, MakerBot and key partners officially announced the initiative that will turn that dream into reality....

If you’re stuck using automatic settings when taking photos, you’re missing out on a whole world of possibilities. Learning manual photography can open up huge opportunity for creativity—you won’t just capture moments, you’ll create art. Through eight live online lessons (with an option to access recordings at your own convenience 24/7 in case you miss a course), this bundle will show you how to harness your newly developed photography skills into a hobby or career in graphic design....

Tampa Bay Wave is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and growing Tampa Bay startups into full-fledged tech companies. Their latest cohort consists of 13 startups, many of who are founded and led by women, minority, and veteran founders. And they’re pretty excited about it. After just four years, Tampa Bay Wave has supported 180 companies as an accelerator, growing the Tampa Bay scene at an exponential rate. If you want to learn about the companies involved in their newest cohort, take a look at them below:...

In the spirit of Tech Cocktail, however, we want your take. We ran a poll for each category (Education, Energy, Health, and Smart Cities), to see who you thought was the hottest of the group. The readers have spoken. Below are your Reader’s Choice winners. The Challenge Cup São Paulo’s Hottest Showcasing Startups Education Timokids — An app with 3-D stories for children of many themes and situations that reflect the day-by-day of the kids, with the objective to educate, entertain and pass positive messages....

“Hell yeah!” This is the second Kickstarter campaign for Romotive, to build the Romo 3: a personal robot that will be able to navigate by himself, recognize faces, and enable telepresence – you could play with your pets while at work, or play hide and seek with faraway relatives. He has 22 behaviors and expressions, from the excited yelp to a confused look to a loving gaze. Romotive also announced $5 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital today, which will help grow the team....

At the end of 2021, Facebook made the world-shattering announcement that it would be going through a massive rebrand. The new name — Meta Platforms — was supposed to better reflect the future aspirations of the company, which are largely focused on the metaverse. However, one immersive art company is taking issue with the name-change, mostly because it has completely upended the brand amidst confusion about their own name. The official complaint is also available on the site, providing some legal jargon to go along with the scathing message from the founders of Meta....

The Surface Duo’s Price Keeps Dropping If you’re not in the market for a new foldable phone, you might want to wait and see if the Surface Duo’s price hits a new low in a few months. The dual-screen Android device uses a 360-degree hinge between its two OLED displays, letting users view apps across two screens or just one. The battery life is decent, it runs on Android 10, and there’s nothing particularly wrong with the hardware, but you can definitely find better phones....

However, new leaks are showing that Microsoft has far from given up on developing a streaming platform to bridge the Xbox and PC divide. Microsoft xCloud may soon come to browsers, unlocking a new way to stream high definition games. Let’s take a look at the new leaks and get a sense of where game streaming is headed this year. Microsoft xCloud on Web Browsers Thanks to “sources familiar with Microsoft’s Xbox plans,” The Verge has learned that Microsoft employees are currently testing a web version of xCloud....

This comes just weeks after the serial CEO tells his workers that they will need to work “long hours at high intensity” if they want to remain working at Twitter, as part of his new “extremely hardcore” vision for the company. While Musk, who has been crashing at the office since the acquisition, justifies this action as a solution for “tired employees”, staffers themselves describe the move as “another unspoken sign of disrespect”, and it might even be illegal....

I sat down for a quick interview with rappers Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan and Sheek Louch at The Source and Muve Music Present Rhyme and Reason Concert at SXSW, which featured the artists, and asked about how music services like Muve are influencing their record sales and the music industry as a whole. I was pleasantly surprised at their take. Lindsey: Tell me about how the record industry has changed....

Worse, according to the report, is that Apple has known about the vulnerability since early 2020 and hasn’t yet acted to stop it. The news of the flaw was first revealed by VPN service ProtonVPN in March 2020. So, what does it all mean for security-minded iPhone users? What to Know According to ProtonVPN’s 2020 warning, which was focused on iOS 13, iPhones or iPads that turned on a VPN would not close and then re-open all their connections....

Nice Laundry wants men to start their day by opening up their sock drawer and seeing a full set of colorful and inspiring socks. They started by taking their favorite pair of $38 socks and redesigning them to maintain the same quality, but sell for $6 per pair (shipping is free). In order to make it easy for men to order, they have created hand-picked and unique packs of socks based on your personality....

The Pew Research Center talked to a huge number of experts in a study titled The Internet of Things Connectivity Binge: What Are The Implications? In part of the study, they focused specifically on the ability to opt out of technology as time goes on. And according to the experts, that ability will essentially disappear in the future. If you’re interested in what they had to say about the topic, take a look at what they had to say below and start planning your unplugged getaway now, before it’s too late....

But what if you were a merchant or small business, tried one of these social e-commerce sites, and were disappointed with the results? Could you offer your own daily deals on your own website? Neither Groupon nor LivingSocial currently offer a white label platform. Enter Privy, a product that enables small businesses to customize, deploy and track promotions across all online marketing channels. Privy was founded in Boston by Ben Jabbawy, one of the founders of GPush, a top selling iPhone app; Josh Gan from Viximo, a social gaming and currency platform; Vadim Revzin from Yodle, and one of the founding team members of venture-backed Oasys Water....

However, it appears that not all of the brands listed on Jet Anywhere site were aware of their affiliation with Jet. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) more than 100 brands owned by at least 70 different companies have been removed from the site between July 1st and Tuesday, August 4th. These included companies with multiple brands including Wal Mart Stores, Inc., Gap Inc., Walgreens, Williams-Sonoma Inc....

The same post found that one in ten people who found the job through their network went on to get it. You’ve Heard This Before. Do You Act on It? This isn’t rocket science: Anyone will tell you that networking is the best way to get a position. But what people think about far too rarely is that the network needs to exist before you are looking for a job....

The news is somewhat ironic considering the demand for VPNs among the Kremlin/Kremlin-linked organizations rests in the Russian government’s own, self-enforced censorship laws. VPNs have a multitude of uses for businesses and individuals – and in 2022, you should take any chance you get to enhance your security and privacy simultaneously. Info on Russian Spending Publicly Available According to a report published by Top10VPN, since the invasion of Ukraine commenced in late February, over 1,500 websites have been blocked by the Russian government....