Barista's edition for Sat 27 September 2014
Derek Jeter's Hollywood Ending: His Final Yankee Stadium Moments
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Derek Jeter played the final home game of his 20-year Major League Baseball career at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night. After months of relentless hype, fans were finally treated to the one moment they'd been waiting for: Jeter's final exit from the field where he became a baseball legend, 14-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion after first cracking the Yankees' big-league squad as a 20-year-old way back in 1995.
Digital Telepathy Is The Future Of The Human Species
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Editor's note: Dan Kaplan helps startups tell their stories. He's done marketing for Twilio, Asana, and Salesforce and blogs about marketing, growth, and storytelling at Threadling. The story of life on Earth thus far has had an unmistakable direction, and it has moved toward greater complexity.Sure, evolution has seen lots of fits and starts and collapses and mass extinctions.
Mashable on Twitter: "Derek Jeter's Adorable Nephew Is the Real MVP http://t.co/2Uvkhtcl29 http://t.co/w0Y6TSmmRL"
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Derek Jeter's Adorable Nephew Is the Real MVP http://on.mash.to/1t1aDOw http://twitter.com/mashable/status/515349160380596224/photo/1pic.twitter.com/w0Y6TSmmRL
BlackBerry CEO: 200,000 Passports ordered since launch - CNET
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The device is already sold out on its own website and Amazon. The BlackBerry Passport is off to a decent start. The unusually shaped smartphone garnered 200,000 orders since its launch on Wednesday, according to CEO John Chen. The smartphone sold out in six hours on its own website, and sold out in 10 hours on Amazon, he said.
3D Printing With Sand Using The Power Of The Sun
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"So what are you doing this weekend, Markus?" "Oh, you know. Heading out to the desert and harnessing the power of the sun to make a 3D printer that can print objects out of sand. You?" "... catching up on Breaking Bad."
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo calls out the President of Iran; on Twitter, of course
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo dropped the burn heard around the world on Thursday. After Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sent a series of tweets about the significance of negotiating a nuclear agreement with "the West," Costolo replied chastising him for censoring his people from the platform he was using to communicate his thoughts.
Frogs captivated by video of worms on smartphone - CNET
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Even frogs can't resist technology, especially when their dinner is the feature attraction. Considering how much humans like to stare at smartphone screens, to the point of addiction, it's not too far fetched that amphibians could be just as interested in phones, with a little familiar bait.
The mechanical leech, the anti-crime bowtie, and seven other preposterous Victorian inventions
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A new book, Inventions That Didn't Change the World, published next month by Thames & Hudson, looks at the forgotten side of the Victorian age of invention-not the steam engine or the lightbulb but the Improved Sausage Machine, the Epanalepsian Advertizing Vehicle, and the Moustache Protector.
A Wearable Camera That Turns Into a Drone and Flies Off Your Wrist
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Meet Nixie, a wearable camera that flies off your wrist and turns into a remote-controlled quadcopter. It's the bizarre-yet-appealing wearable camera drone nobody asked for... and now I kind of want it. Intel is holding a competition to encourage new wearable technology ideas, and the Nixie is one of the finalists.
Say Ello to the anti-Facebook
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Ello seems to have come out of nowhere. The creators are designers and artists. Its CEO, Paul Budnitz, makes toys. There's no big marketing push and no obvious ties to Silicon Valley. These are not the typical building blocks of a hot new social network. Yet, people are joining it in droves.
Apple mops up iOS mess with new update - CNET
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It's iOS 8.0.2 to the rescue, Apple hopes, after a software upgrade the day before had a rough landing on thousands of iPhones. One day after a bungled iOS update disrupted key features on thousands of iPhones, Apple on Thursday issued a follow-on version of the software to set things right.