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Dana Stalder Contributor Dana Stalder is a general partner at Matrix Partners and invests in fintech, consumer marketplaces and enterprise software. More posts by this contributor Financial technology startups emerged as serious challengers to financial services in 2017 New rules for hiring executive candidates Allen Miller Contributor Allen Miller is a venture captialist at Matrix […]

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I thought the worst thing about Popsugar’s Twinning tool was that it matched me with James Corden. Turns out, the hundreds of thousands of selfies uploaded to the tool can be downloaded by anyone who knows where to look. The popular photo matching tool taking the web by storm is fairly simple. “It analyzes a selfie […]

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Popular streaming sites like and Hulu have an incredible amount of content. With a single click, you can dial up most of your favorite shows and movies without having to deal with an increasingly antiquated cable connection — making it easy to binge-watch content any time, any place. But when it comes to documentaries, these […]

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We may look back one day on 2018 as the year the great cryptocurrency dream died. And the case of banking startup may serve as a cautionary tale of the risks that were always inherent in this relatively unregulated sector. Founded in my backyard of Toulouse, France, Hush was a “neo-bank” that claimed it wanted […]

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While the thought of a machine that can squirt out endless ropes of molten glass is a bit frightening, the folks at MIT have just about perfected the process. In a paper published in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, researchers Chikara Inamura, Michael Stern, Daniel Lizardo, Peter Houk, and Neri Oxman describe a system for […]

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One of the tallest buildings in the world, Taipei 101’s New Year’s Eve fireworks have become an iconic celebration since the first show at the end of 2004. But despite being a major tourism draw, the fireworks haven’t been immune from criticism. Over the past couple of years, as poor air quality becomes an increasingly […]

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After almost two years of development, FlyInside Flight Simulator has launched . FlyInside is a made-for-VR flight sim which supports Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows MR heasdsets. Virtual reality is well suited for cockpit sims, providing a sense of depth and scale monitors simply can’t match. Even from a practical perspective, looking around a cockpit […]

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If you’ve gone down the rabbit hole with Netflix’s latest Black Mirror release, there’s (at least) one more easter egg out there. As some intrepid Reddit users discovered, you can actually visit two different versions of fictional software company Tuckersoft’s website and… spoilers ahead. On the regular Tuckersoft site, discovered through a QR code embedded […]

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Jake Chapman Contributor More posts by this contributor Driving the new American century Specialization, Polymaths And The Pareto Principle In A Convergence Economy Colin Kroll, was the co-founder of Vine and HQ Trivia, both consumer sensations that brought joy to millions; Anthony Bourdain, had been a chef, journalist and philosopher, who brought understanding and connectedness […]

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I stopped wearing my Apple Watch a few months back. The notifications had become overwhelming, and I just needed a break from the constant pull for my attention. But I did worry about how would it look to my clients — online retailers — when I admitted that even I had started to reject marketers’ attempts […]

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