Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

OK Go's new music video features a wall of printers – CNET

A total of 567 printers were used for the video.
Source: CNET

Shopify’s live streaming the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales frenzy

 Ever wonder what Black Friday’s consumerist rush looks like in real time? Now you can see it visualized in the stream above, which is a visualization of sales occurring on Shopify’s platform across its many merchants globally. Those dots represent sales in actual merchant stores, and the lines indicate where the buyers are coming from relative to where the shops are based. As you… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Push your PC to the max with the best graphics cards for gaming

Hunting down the best graphics card for gaming is a difficult process. We provide a starting point to help you determine the best investment for years to come in all sorts of price brackets.

The post Push your PC to the max with the best graphics cards for gaming appeared first on Digital Trends.

Source: Digital trends

Equity podcast: Stitch Fix and Sailpoint get their IPOs done

 Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we assembled the full crew — Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof and Alex Wilhelm — along with Stephanie Palmeri from Uncork Capital. Palmeri has invested in Poshmark, Chariot, and ClassDojo, for context. Her investment in Poshmark made her a… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Oral History: How Marvel’s Creative Head Helped Bring Nintendo to America

It all started at FAO Schwarz in New York City.
Source: Wired

Twitter testing a feature that shows how many are ‘talking about’ tweets

 Twitter is experimenting with a new feature that will show how many people are “talking about” individual, popular tweets. The metric shows up under some embedded tweets when they appear elsewhere on the web, and seems to replace both the retweet and replies totals with one, cumulative total. The new look for embeds as seen above is just a small experiment according to Dan Jackson,… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Can a cryptocurrency be used to fight hate speech, fake news and divisive politics?

 Effectively, they want to fight radicalization by “mapping ideologies”, providing a compass to navigate belief systems and using cryptocurrency to reward contributors.
The UK-based new charitable foundation plans to create a platform which works by creating an infrastructure that allows members of an ideology to piece together the elements that best represent them on top of a… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Amazon reveals Cyber Monday deals – CNET

Never mind Black Friday. The retail giant will offer savings on even more gadgets, hit video games, toys from brands such as Lego, Nerf and more.
Source: CNET

Your 2017 Black Friday Booklist: Eight Essential Science Reads

Your body is already full of empty calories—don’t let your brain suffer, too.
Source: Wired

Galactic Glow, Thought to Be Dark Matter, Now Hints at Hidden Pulsars

A number of high-energy anomalies raised hopes that astrophysicists had seen their first direct glimpses of dark matter. New studies suggest a different source may be responsible.
Source: Wired