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Blue Apron’s “Farm Egg” makes me question everything
Farm egg. It may seem as simple as just that. An egg. The food that Atkins and Paleo diets made popular once again. The food that draws one of many dividing lines between vegetarians and vegans. But this particular egg is one of the more layered, even scrambled (if you will), symbols of Silicon Valley startup-dom. It’s easy to dismiss the Yos of the tech world as outliers, but much harder… Read More
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The circle is complete: Minecraft is getting a deathmatch mode
Minecraft, a game that skyrocketed to unprecedented levels of popularity among all ages because of its open-ended gameplay, infinite worlds, and limitless possibilities for creation and collaboration, is getting a deathmatch mode. Google asks the Internet for N-words — what could possibly go wrong?
What’s worse than asking the Internet at large to name your product? Telling them it has to start with N. Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the stupefying magnitude of Google’s naiveté here. This startup just got $4 million to get you to eat more bugs
Gross? Well, that gross idea just pulled in a $4 million Series A round from AccellFoods, existing investor Collaborative Fund and a bunch of angels including Nas and Tim Ferriss. The team behind the creepy crawlies as food company previously raised $1.6 million, adding up to $5.6 million in total financing thus far.
It’s the sort of weird approach that is often celebrated in startup land. Read More
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Snoop Dogg Would Like Bill Gates To “Fix His S*&t”
When something happens like, I don’t know, Xbox Live going down, what do you do? A lot of us run to Twitter to complain about it. Not because our complaints will be heard, but because hot damn sometimes it just feels good. T-Mobile CEO Apologizes For “Offending” EFF And Its Supporters
After an aggressive response to his company, T-Mobile, being called out for being anti-Net Neutrality on its new “Binge On” product by the EFF, CEO John Legere has backtracked a bit. In case you missed it, he flippantly asked “Who the fuck is the EFF?” during a Twitter Q&A last week. EFF supporters told him. In droves. Here was his apology today, which is of course… Read More
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Over 200,000 People Have Signed A Petition To Stop Apple From Killing The iPhone’s Headphone Jack
You may have heard the rumors that Apple might be doing away with the headphone jack on the iPhone to push forward the wonderful world of wireless listening. Awesome, right? Well, hold on. First off, as per usual, Apple has said nothing to confirm or deny this, so it’s just a rumor. Still, we’re treated with baffling headlines like this: This confusion is causing a bit of an… Read More
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Kim Kardashian’s Buttmoji Owns The App Store
It seems like 2015 was the year of the “emoji.” I mean, a damn emoji was the “word of the year.” This year is ending with a massive bang on the App Store thanks to Kim Kardashian and her…assets. Fire up the App Store on your devices and here’s what you’ll see for the top paid app: The app, KIMOJI, costs $1.99. What do you get? Well, emojis having to… Read More
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First Round’s Holiday Video Will Have You Reaching For Your Cell Phone
In the tech world it’s just not the holidays until First Round Capital drops its annual holiday video. It’s that time again, folks. The annual festivities started way back in 2008, the year of our blog. Then it happened again and again. If you’d like to sing along, you’ll find the lyrics below the video. They are most certainly…special. I won’t ruin anything… Read More
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Insert Snarky Subtweet About Twitter Trademarking Subtweet
Yes. This a trademark application filed on October 30th for the term “subtweet.” Twitter has filed a trademark for the term “subtweet.” pic.twitter.com/ivE9hLDm2R — Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) December 4, 2015 If you’re not sure what a subtweet is, then well…I’m not sure I can help you all that much. Basically, when someone talks trash about… Read More
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