Drawing upon the knowledge earned through a wildly successful music career, Emily White has launched Dreamfuel. Dreamfuel’s first product is a crowdfunding tool for athletes that is hyper-focused on replacing door-to-door clipboards in order to become the dominant way athletes and teams fundraise.

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Can an app possibly give sight to the blind?

That’s the vision behind Avi, an in-development mobile app that uses a smartphone camera to scan the world for objects, people, and text; before using audio to relay this information to sight-impaired users. And while a project like this might sound impressive coming out from the labs of an established tech giant, it’s actually the work of Juan Pablo Ortiz: a 19-year-old programmer from Guatemala who began work on the app when he was just 13.

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Despite using messaging apps, most people don’t know what’s happening to their data.

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Tesla Autopilot can be hacked with signal jamming and spoofing, but the chances of real-world attacks are currently slim

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In any very competitive market, it is extremely important to have a premium line so that you can have a successful “better” in a “good”- “better”-“best” product lineup. HP Inc. has amped up their premium notebook game over the last few years and they did this both in terms of both great product design, breadth of their product portfolio, and paying attention to the fine points. What’s even more important isn’t just to release one premium product but to continue to release them with improvements that keep the line fresh and attractive.

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Comcast is petitioning the FCC to allow them to offer cheaper broadband for less consumer privacy. Or more expensive broadband for more privacy. Pick one.

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If I were a CEO, the first question I’d ask anytime someone presented a new technology to me, would be a simple one: Why? As in Why this software or tool? What’s its purpose? How is it going to improve the business? So, in this case, while containers are generating excitement in the development community, what will be different for a business if it adopts containers?

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When Facebook banned the sale of guns and ammunition through the site in January, licensed dealers were still allowed to advertise weapons. But many dealers have learned that’s no longer the case, after the social media giant quietly changed its policy.

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