My exclusive run in the Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% made me feel like I was on wheels, not legs.
Daily Archives: March 9, 2017
Nike’s Controversial New Shoes Made Me Run Faster
Snap today took another step on its quest to truly become the “camera company” it says it is. Following the November 21st launch and subsequent February 2oth close of its NYC pop-up shop, it’s now opening a temporary store on the Venice boardwalk near its Los Angeles headquarters. Of course, would-be camera sunglasses buyers don’t have to trek to a physical location… Read MoreSnap opens second Spectacles pop-up shop in Venice, LA
Twitter confirmed it’s testing a new feature that flags users’ profiles as potentially including “sensitive content.” When you click on one of these profiles from a link on Twitter, or if you visit the profile’s web page directly, you won’t be immediately shown the users’ tweets. Instead, a warning message displays, reading “Caution: This… Read MoreTwitter tests a feature that warns users of profiles with ...
Facebook’s Instant Articles were always a bad deal for news outlets. While quick to load so they drove more readers, the hosted-on-Facebook mobile web format sterlized the design of publishers and severely limited how many ads and other business-critical units they could display. Publishers need paying subscribers, event attendees, and loyal daily readers, but they traded those for… Read MoreAt least Facebook’s unfair Instant Articles now let sites show ...
Facebook’s Instant Articles were always a bad deal for news outlets. While quick to load so they drove more readers, the hosted-on-Facebook mobile web format sterlized the design of publishers and severely limited how many ads and other business-critical units they could display. Publishers need paying subscribers, event attendees, and loyal daily readers, but they traded those for… Read MoreAt least Facebook’s unfair Instant Articles now let sites show ...
Kidizen, a marketplace for secondhand children’s apparel, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding, the company announced today. The funding was led by Chicago-based Origin Ventures, who backed the startup following its over 100 percent year-over-year growth in 2016, which has allowed the business to reach over a quarter million registered users across the U.S. Also participating in… Read MoreKidizen raises $3.2M for a kids’ clothes resale app with ...
Meet Hugging Face, a new chatbot app for bored teenagers. The New York-based startup is creating a fun and emotional bot. Hugging Face will generate a digital friend so that you can text back and forth and trade selfies. Playing with Hugging Face was a lot more engaging than talking with a customer support bot. Like other companies, Hugging Face doesn’t want to be useful. It wants to… Read MoreHugging Face wants to become your artificial BFF
Ready for some XTREME WRIST GAMING ACTION? Sure you are. But here’s the Gameband, a new smartwatch for gamers that lets you play simple games on a tiny, wrist-mounted screen. Founded by Feargal Mac Conuladh the watch has a MicroSD slot for storage of up to 256GB of games and it can play games like Terraria and Pong on a 1.63-inch screen. The watch runs Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 with a… Read MoreThe Gameband is the ultimate wrist gaming solution for playing ...
We tested Zepp's swing-analyzing gadget on a Little League team.