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#FF Summaries from Our Retweeters and Followers National Chewing Gum Day on #FF (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Today is National Chewing Gum Day! According to Wikipedia,  Chewing gum in many forms has existed since the  Neolithic period . 6,000-year-old chewing gum made from  birch bark tar , with tooth imprints, has been found in  Kierikki  in  Finland . How would you like to chew that? We celebrate the best social chewers on the planet - Our retweeters and followers. Have a great weekend! - The Nerd Stalker Team

Our IQs have never been higher - but it hasn't made us smart James Flynn is worried about leaving the world to millennials. As a professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand, he regularly meets bright students with enormous potential, only to find that many of them aren't engaging with the complex past of the world around them.

UX Leadership Roles: Multiple Paths The UX Principal loves doing the detailed work and coming up with new UX design ideas. UX Principal is a role that very rarely exists within organizations, but when it is does, it is very valuable in keeping senior UX professionals doing what they enjoy and in creating great work.

This Old Ass Commodore 64 Is Still Being Used to Run an Auto Shop in Poland Hell yeah. We need to learn a lesson about needless consumerism from this auto repair shop in Gdansk, Poland. Because it still uses a Commodore 64 to run its operations. Yes, the same Commodore 64 released 34 years ago that clocked in at 1 MHz and had 64 kilobytes of RAM.

Amazon's Newest Ambition: Competing Directly With UPS and FedEx Just before the morning rush hour on a recent Thursday, a brigade of vans rolled up to a low-slung warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport. Workers in bright green vests crammed some 150 Amazon.com packages into each truck before the fleet headed through the urban sprawl to customers' doorsteps.

OMMA gives your Social Panels for Marketers Live Photo Courtesy of OMMA - Media Post At the Online Marketing Media Awards (OMMA) Social, they explore how marketers are leveraging and managing this explosion of innovation. Facebook and Twitter are rolling out new user features and ad opportunities, from video to new ad units. Answer questions like Which are worth trying?  Instagram quickly has become the mobile social juggernaut, but how can marketers harness image and video feed to best effect? And all social channels, from Snapchat to Facebook Messenger , are flexing their muscles as polished media redistribution platforms. How do sponsorships and brand messages fit into this new age newsstand?  Watch it live now!

SF Music Tech Summit Announces the 2016 Startup Competition Winners SF Music Tech Summit has announced the winners amongst dozens of impressive entries for the SF MusicTech Startup Competition this year. After careful consideration from a unique panel of judges, they have the ten winners of the competition who will be presenting at the  SF MusicTech Summit to be held this year on October 17, again at Hotel Kabuki in SF Japantown. The ultimate winner will be selected to win a complimentary legal package of services from  WSGR .  The summary of each one is below. Check it out or y ou can learn more about each startup  here . 

OMMA gives your AR/VR Panels for Marketers Live [ View the story "Scenes from the OMMA VR/AR" on Storify ] At the Online Marketing Media Awards (OMMA) VR/AR they explore how marketers will take Virtual and Augmented Reality from this mind-altering novelty phase into an opportunity to enrich branding, deepen consumer relationships and maybe even sell a couple things along the way. Watch it live now!

Nike's HyperAdapt Shoes May Not Make You Faster But Certainly Cooler Introducing Nike's HyperAdapt Self Lacing Shoes  (photo courtesy of Conde Nast Entertainment ) The Marty McFly shoes have been touted for years but now Nike has brought them to reality in a a shoe they call - HyperAdapt 1.0 with EARL (Electro Adaptive Reactive Lacing). Is that nerdy or what?  Watch Nike's Tinker Hatfield and Tiffany Beers explain the new power-lacing HyperAdapt 1.0 and demonstrate how to charge the sneakers, and tighten and loosen the laces with the touch of a button.  This is really the future of wearables.  Thanks to Conde Nast Entertainment and WIRED for a peek into these cool shoes.

Komatsu's robotic mining truck completely dumps the driver ​Komatsu​'s latest autonomous truck fully embraces the notion of unmanned operation by ditching the cabin and adopting a design that optimizes load distribution and doesn't distinguish between forwards and backwards.

NASA's Hubble Spots Possible Water Plumes Erupting on Jupiter's Moon Europa Astronomers working with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope have captured images of what might be water vapor plumes erupting from the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. "This finding bolsters other Hubble observations suggesting the icy moon erupts with high altitude water vapor plumes," reports NASA.

Design SHIFT Introduces World's Most Secure Personal PC ORWL is a secure PC (photo courtesy of Design SHIFT) Are you looking to secure your data? ORWL (pronounced Orwell) designed by Design SHIFT is a palm sized secure PC and has features something that the CIA or NSA would kill for, eh I mean drool for. This comes from Design SHIFT's learning in the banking industry when they designed Clover  point of sale system. The case is physically protected against unwanted intrusion and provides NFC key for power up so that unauthorized users can't use the system - similar to modern car key systems. ORWL is a current active project on Crowd Supply . Check out Daniel Nelson's interview about what ORWL is all about.

The Scene's Forbes Channel Explores What You Spend to Go to Work and Offers Tips The Dirty 30 Stars Share Their Last Thing on Their Phone (photo courtesy of WIRED and Conde Nast Entertainment) Would you share the last thing on your phone with the public? Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart and Mamrie Hart - Youtubers turned stars of the feature film Dirty 30 - show WIRED the last thing they did on their phones. Thanks to the WIRED channel on Conde Nast Entertainment's  The Scene , the "Holy Trinity" unveils what they last Googled, how many alarms they have and their favorite emojis. Check out the video below. 

Fashion Meets Tech in San Francisco Starting Tomorrow San Francisco Fashion Week™ 2016 Opens this Weekend (photo by  San Francisco embraces the intertwined relationship between fashion, retail and technology like no other city. Understanding this relationship, San Francisco Fashion Merchants and Alliance, Inc. (SFFAMA) will present San Francisco Fashion Week 2016 on September 24, 2016 - October 2, 2016.  With the city being known as the ultimate hub where technology and fashion intermix, it’s only fitting that this year’s theme is “Tech Drives Fashion.” San Francisco Fashion Week 2016 will explore how technology has become an integral part of the fashion industry by showcasing emerging and student designer collections, virtual reality, 3D fashion, fashion tech, wearable tech, retail and so much more. 

#FF Summaries from Our Retweeters and Followers The Follow Friday Lucadors (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Like Google, we honor Mexican wrestler or Luchador Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta on what would have been his 99th birthday.Huerta is credited with making the Mexican sport of lucha libre wrestling so popular which here in the US is much like our open or pro wrestling style. Have a great weekend! - The Nerd Stalker Team

Lattice Semi Offers a Cash Prize and a Trip to CES to Ingenious Mobile Makers Small FPGAs and Big Possibilities Hackathon Contest (photo courtesy of Lattice Semiconductor) So, you want to be a FPGA developer. What's a FPGA? By definition it is called a Field Programmable Gate Array, where a parallel set of inputs can be interpreted or programmed into a parallel set of outputs. Interpretation - this is hella fast. Most of the time, a microprocessor/micro-controller will execute a command or decision based on its clock speed and number of clock cycles it will take to execute the command. In FPGAs, the speed of the execution is the switching speed of the small transistor gates involved in the calculation is the speed.  Common applications where FPGAs would be found are digital cameras, CT Scanners, X-Ray machines, high speed switchers and routers to name a few. Lattice Semi, one of the makers of FPGAs, are looking for maker types for their "Small FPGAs - Big Possibilit

Entrepreneur Taffy Williams Discusses " Rebuilding After Failure " Picture by Taffy Williams This month, we talk in depth with entrepreneur and author, Taffy Williams on " 4 Ways To Reduce Tunnel Vision " based on the same article he wrote for his blog -  Startup Blog . Taffy draws on his years of experience(aka bumps and bruises) to discuss the four ways entrepreneurs and startup CEOs can make better decisions on product development. Check it out.

The team at  DesignCrowd Invited Their Community to Put Famous Stars in Masterpieces Stars in Masterpieces (photos courtesy of DesignCrowd ) Happy Humpday Nerds. We just had to share this. The team at  DesignCrowd  shared the output of its community of designers to reimagine classic paintings with modern celebs in them for a bit of a laugh. Amazing what some cool Photoshop skills can do. Check it out! Kim and Kanye doing "American Gothic" By Grant Wood (photo courtesy of DesignCrowd.com ) Mick Jaeger as "Beethoven" By Dm2 (photo courtesy of DesignCrowd.com) Beyonce in "Portrait of a Young Woman" By Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun (photo courtesy of DesignCrowd.com ) Angelina Jolie as "Lady Tufton"  By Anthony Van Dyke (photo courtesy of DesignCrowd.com ) You can find all the submissions  here . Featured on 

Crowdfunding Help Comes in Many Sizes and Platforms Crowdfunding in a Crowded Place (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Just like the app market, the major crowdfunding platforms are over-saturated. Though, c rowdfunding has changed the way were invest and micro-investing is the new stock certificate, crowdfunding today does have its issues - Promotion,  Fraud , Order fulfillment to name a few.  Is traditional crowdfunding broken? Some think so. We list some alternatives or some different ways to go about funding your project. We talk with Sjoerd Geurts of Gambitious , who has an investment portal for Indie gamer developers, Nick Tommarello of WeFunder who does equity crowdfunding, Josh Lifton of Crowd Supply who manages development to fulfillment platform and lastly DMM-make who helps promote curated products via standard crowdfunding platforms and a provides a post-crowdfunding fulfillment store. These new platforms and their founders are different - humble, focused and p

We Unbox the Samson Go Mic Connect Samson Go Mic Connect  Well Nerds. We got a product to test out. The Samson Go Mic Connect . We received this product from Samson to try out and that is exactly what we are going to do. We will start with this unboxing video and then take it on the road to LA with us. Check it out!

The Scene's The New Yorker Channel Explores Challenges to Night Star-gazing In a Big City The Weekend Must Watch (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Live in city? Do you stargaze on a clear night?  Thanks to  The New Yorker channel on Conde Nast Entertainment's The Scene , The New Yorker's senior video producer, Sky Dylan Robbins, in The End of Darkness  takes you with The Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, to find dark areas in New York which in most major cities is getting more difficult to find.   Check it out!

SocialMedia Sean visits the Victoria, BC Startup Hub - Tectoria Experience Tectoria Startup Event (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Us nerds are all about startups. Our partner in Victoria, BC, Canada, Sean Charles (aka @socialmediasean), give us a tour of one of the startup focused events in Victoria's startup scene - Experience Tectoria. 

#FF Summaries from Our Retweeters and Followers The Follow Friday Gridiron Stars (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Great opening week of football..well to most. Enjoy the Tweets from our Retweeters & Followers. Have a great weekend! - The Nerd Stalker Team

Amazon Introduces the Newest Benefit into the "All-You-Can-Eat" Prime Membership Prime Members Get Audible Channels (photo courtesy of Business Wire) Amazon and Audible yesterday announced a new premium spoken-word benefit for Prime members in the U.S. Members now enjoy unlimited free access to the new short-form digital audio service, Audible Channels, as well as a rotating selection of more than 50 audiobooks from Audible’s catalog. Audible Channels for Prime now joins the growing list of benefits for Prime members including guaranteed unlimited fast, free shipping, unlimited access to Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Photos, early access to Lightning Deals and more. Prime members can access Audible Channels for Prime by downloading the Audible app for iOS, Android, and Windows 10. To learn more about Audible Channels for Prime, please visit  www.amazon.com/audiblechannels .

Essential Kanban Condensed Six years have passed since the "blue book" was released (the book about Kanban, written by David J Anderson in 2010). To meet up with the competition, Scrum has its own "Scrum Guide" available for download, I assume that David and Andy Carmichael (the co-author) wanted to release a guide for Kanban as well.

Practical Content Strategy In Action User Experience (Photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Content strategy is the epitome of easier said than done. Translating the idea of content strategy into meaningful action and results is a struggle, which is why Joseph Phillips has identified a methodical process for devising, carrying out and measuring content strategy projects.

The Mercedes-Benz Vision Van Is Equipped With Delivery Drones Further proving that Mercedes-Benz can make anything cool, the concept Mercedes-Benz Vision Van is equipped with delivery drones. It's a sleek and stylish delivery truck that, quite honestly, we'd actually want to drive. It could have one-shot, full truck loading, a battery-electric drive, automated cargo space, joystick controls and, of course, the previously mentioned delivery drones.

The Scene's Forbes Channel Explores What You Spend to Go to Work and Offers Tips The Weekend Must Watch (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Do you know what work costs you yearly? To spend money you have to make money, right? Well there are costs associated with your employment.  Thanks to the Forbes channel on Conde Nast Entertainment's The Scene , Forbes takes you on a video infographic about areas in your work life that costs you money (Transportation, Lunch, Coffee, Pet Care, Day Care, Clothing, etc.) and some tips on how to make it less of a hit on the pocketbook. Check it out!

#FF Summaries from Our Retweeters and Followers This week is Nobel prize week and we honor our retweeters and followers with this follow friday prize. Have a great weekend! - The Nerd Stalker Team

#FF Summaries from Our Retweeters and Followers The Apple of Our Eye (Photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Great Apple announcement week...well to most. Enjoy the Tweets from our Retweeters & Followers. Have a great weekend! - The Nerd Stalker Team

The Twitterverse Announces Apple's New Changes Tim Cook and Late Late Show Host James Corden do One Republic (courtesy of Apple Inc.) We always do things a little different. Instead of announcing and writing about the changes, reactions, we use the twitterverse to do that. If you want a rundown...there is a lot out there. Enjoy the twitterverse's rendition of the Apple Event 2016!

WIRED Captured These People Doing Things Fast Joe Sabia Types with Two Fingers - FAST (photo courtesy of Wired) Think you can do normal things fast? Watch these very normal people do everyday tasks like clapping, stacking cups, keyboard typing, crocheting and many more very FAST. Thanks to Conde Nast Entertainment and WIRED for the following clips of people doing things FAST.

FoodBytes! By Rabobank is Heading to Boulder Showcasing Innovative Startups in Food and Ag Tech Food and Ag Tech (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Rabobank,   a premier bank to the global food and agribusiness industry, has announced that   FoodBytes !  is coming to  Boulder, Colorado  this fall. FoodBytes! Boulder will be held at the  University of Colorado Boulder  at Folsom Fields’  Byron R. White Club  on Wednesday, October 26 and will bring together food, tech and agriculture startups alongside agribusiness executives and industry influencers. FoodBytes! Boulder invites startups interested in presenting their ideas to apply  here  by Monday, September 12 11:59 PM MT . Ten companies will be announced as the FoodBytes! Boulder finalists and will give a five-minute pitch, while 10 runners-up companies will give 60-second pitches.

We talk About Tech stories of the Week - Deadpoolers, Deep Learning and Data Science Learning for Free Nerd Stalker Tech Week Podcast (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Adolfo and Greg talk about the week's tech. Listen or Watch now!

Smithsonian Channel Premieres Building Star Trek This Weekend to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Original Star Trek Series Scene from "Building Star Trek" (photo courtesy of Smithsonian Channel) Thanks to the Smithsonian Channel for letting us nerds pre-screen "BUILDING  STAR TREK"   which follows the conservation team from the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum as they attempt to restore and conserve the original 11-foot, 250-pound model of the U.S.S. Enterprise from the original series. The two-hour special tracks the effort to rebuild a model of the original U.S.S. Enterprise bridge by using authentic set pieces and props, which recently went on display at Seattle’s EMP Museum. Check out more below!

O'Reilly Has 83 Free Data Science Books For Your Weekend Pleasure Weekend Homework (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Happy Labor Day weekend! Been putting off learning Big Data? Got a long train, plane, or car ride ahead of you? Ben Lorica,  the  Chief Data Scientist at O'Reilly Media  has just opened their vault of a collection of   83 free ebooks on data-related topics   to cheer you up (or at least help pass the time). Check it out below!

SF Residents Get to Try the Hill-Holding, City Friendly Car smart fortwo (photo courtesy of Mercedes-Benz USA) The smart fortwo is rolling into San Francisco this weekend to give city dwellers a few 'smart' options for their travels around narrow and hilly city streets.  This Labor Day weekend at Marina Green Triangle on Saturday, September 3rd and Sunday, September 4th from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., participants can experience firsthand why the smart fortwo is the ultimate city car.  With its best-in-class turning radius, convenient compact size and competitive fuel economy, the smart fortwo is the smart choice for San Francisco residents.

#FF Summaries from Our Retweeters and Followers Spock and Kirk (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Enjoy the Tweets from our Retweeters & Followers. Have a great weekend! - The Nerd Stalker Team

The Space-Age Technology in Star Trek Series Becoming a Reality Star Trek 50th Anniversary (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) On September 8th marks the 50th Anniversary of the first airing of the iconic Star Trek original series. On September 4, the Smithsonian Channel premieres the two hour documentary called " BUILDING STAR TREK"  8PM ET/PT which celebrates the series’ legacy, with an in-depth look at today’s space-age technologies created by scientists inspired by the series. They will take you behind the scenes on some of the restoration activities of Star Trek memorabilia at the Smithsonian.  Engineers and scientists around the U.S. are now making the vision of this landmark sci-fi series a reality –by unlocking the secrets of warp space and teleportation, revealing the mysteries of the invisibility cloak and solving the riddle of the phaser and tricorder. Below is some the the items discussed in the documentary.