Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

What It’s Like Living in the Land of Natural Disasters

Indonesia is a gorgeous archipelago of 13,700 islands. And home to 289 natural disasters a year.
Source: Wired

Australia’s Expert360 raises $10M for its freelance consultant marketplace

 Freelance workers and consultants make up a third of the US workforce, but that figure is expected to approach 40 per cent according to some studies. And we know how big the overall gig economy is going to become. Thus, marketplaces which meet that need are going to continue to grow. Hence, this is probably why Expert360, an online marketplace to access and manage freelance consultant talent… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Fairphone ends support for first repairable-by-design smartphone

 Fairphone, the European mobile phone maker and social enterprise that has made it its mission is to build and sell fairer smartphone hardware, has announced it is ending support for its first handset, the Fairphone 1.  Read More

Source: TechCrunch

KKR confirms it will buy WebMD for $2.8B in cash

 Some consolidation is afoot in the world on health-focused online media properties. Today, WebMD, one of the biggest sites in the world for health-related information — announced that it would be acquired by Internet Brands — the company that is controlled by KKR and owns a large portfolio of B2B and B2C websites in verticals like automotive, health, home, travel and legal —… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Surfboard Shaper Danny Hess Makes Truly Gorgeous Wooden Boards

Hang for ten inside the woodshop of San Francisco shaper Danny Hess.
Source: Wired

Accountants, get worried — Rimilia raises $25m growth funding

 Currently large enterprises require large accounting teams to do what’s known as cash matching and credit collection. This is very manual stuff. Some of the ERP vendors (most notably SAP) have their own modules to do this, but in this world the big players are firms like Hanse Orga which is focused on Germany and the SAP ecosystem, and US players HighRadius and Billtrust. However, much… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

'Insecure' Returns With a Secret Weapon: Agility

The show’s second season acknowledges issues other shows might obsess over—but never gets bogged down.
Source: Wired

Helix’s Bold Plan to Be Your One Stop Personal Genomics Shop

$80 and a spit sample gets you a spot on one of Helix’s sequencing machines and a chunk of its cloud storage for your exome sequence.
Source: Wired

Microsoft’s second-generation HoloLens will include a dedicated AI coprocessor

 Microsoft has revealed that it is preparing to equip the second version of its HoloLens VR headset with its own AI processing capabilities to enable more features and services. The firm said that it is customizing the current processor within the headset with an AI coprocessor that will allow HoloLens to analyze data without needing to use the cloud. That means faster processing times, and… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Zuckerberg fires up the Zuckergrill live on Facebook – CNET

Talk about multitasking — the Facebook CEO talked affordable internet and cancer research while cooking up a storm.
Source: CNET