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Bobby Samuels of Startup The Daily Distiller Introduces a Bite-Size Daily News Source The Daily Distiller (photo courtesy of The Daily Distiller) Having trouble keeping up to date with the happenings in your busy and active world? Recently launched news startup, The Daily Distiller,   will help you stay up to date. The Daily Distiller is a compact, bite size summary of News, Culture, Sports and Business/Technology delivered daily to your inbox. The best way to describe the look and feel would be a tradition newspaper brought to the digital era.  Traditional newspapers have a mix of news-breaking stories, special sections and cartoons. The Daily Distiller brings all that and a recipe for a mix drink on top of it in a "distilled" format. Curated by a former editor of Harvard's The Crimson - Bobby Samuels and former president of Harvard's  campus comedy magazine  The Lampoon -  Eric Brewster, the duo has a team of media talents from around the country t...

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News Ninja hopes to Deliver Trending World News via Social Trending There are many choices for trending news sources for topical interest. You can visit Huffington Post or you can use news aggregators like Flipboard , SmartNews , Feedly . News Ninja hopes to change that and give you another choice based on an entirely different measurement model - social engagement of a story.  News Ninja , released a few weeks ago, will give you the upward trending news items based on social chatter and not the aggregate likes on a single channel. We talk with Rion Martin , Marketing Director at Infegy, developer of News Ninja on how he sees this "labor of love" fills in the gaps in our news gathering. Check it out.

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Dark Deception is back on Kickstarter Help support their quest to build an amazing VR horror experience! Dark Deception has been completely rebuilt and is better than ever. They've added a ton of new features and levels, but they need your help to make sure they can deliver the best experience possible!   Go back them   and help spread the word to other gamers oh and enjoy the nightmares.

First Thin Smart Fabric Sensors to Measure All Aspects of Physicality: Force, Location, Size, Twist, Bend, Stretch & Motion Patented Monolithic Fabric Sensors Let You Answer Calls from a Shirt, Predict Diabetic Events & Measure Gait through Insoles, Show Hand/Foot Location on Gym Mats, &  Track Driver Alertness in Steering Wheels For Clothing, Shoes, & Gear for Sports, Medical, Gaming, Robotics, Aerospace, & Security  Applications Include Controllers, Measurement, Monitoring, 3D Modeling, & More Berkeley, CA, October 27, 2014 – BeBop Sensors, Inc. www.bebopsensors.com , the wearable sensor technology company created by musical instrument inventor Keith McMillen and KMI, announced today their first products, BeBop Wearable Smart Fabric Sensor, the first and only ultra thin wearable smart fabric sensor that measures all aspects of physicality, including bend, location, motion, rotation, angle, & torque.  Employing BeBo...

Picks of the Week: Where We’re Going Next | Adaptive Path http://bit.ly/1o5ghmF Google hit by more than 144,000 'right to be forgotten' requests http://bit.ly/1stJnfG (Lance Whitney / CNET) Coin vs Plastc vs Final: New credit card concept focuses on security | BGR http://bit.ly/1vWXyJ9 Stalking Greatness: This Cryptocurrency May Save America http://bit.ly/1qmhNew RoomAlive transforms your living room into an interactive video game http://bit.ly/1o5hEBN Google Ordered To Remove 122 Search Results Possibly Damaging Complainer’s Reputations http://bit.ly/1smVa0d (Akky Akimoto / Asiajin) Speed Round: Two Engineers Have Created the Doll Every Young Girl Should Be Playing With - Mic http://bit.ly/1vWVOPZ What to expect at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce pcworld.com/article/282517 … via @pcworld (Chris Kanaracus / PC World) What Everyone's Getting Wrong About Home Automation http://bit.ly/1o5hJp5 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Flouts Beats Ban, Ge...

Day 1 of the Evernote EC2014 conference brought about several interesting announcements, speakers, food, decor, heat and more. New Web Interface  Augmented Intelligence - Context Presentation Mode WorkChat More Best Speakers of the Day: Adeo Ressi CEO & Co-Founder Founder Institute Carley Knobloch Digital Lifestyle Expert @carleyknobloch Tim Ferriss New York Times Best Selling Author @tferriss

Picks of the Week: Google reportedly wants to boost presence of Google on Android devices | Android and Me http://bit.ly/1ryAFfG Bummed Out Athletes: Steve Ballmer wants Clippers to drop #Apple products sportingnews.com/nba/story/2014… via @sportingnews ( DeAntae Prince / Sporting News) "Comcast says it’s been working too hard on being ‘innovative’ to deliver good customer service" http://bit.ly/1DEh7Lv [Update] Academy of Art Students in an Uproar over Adobe CS6 License Cancellations nerdstalker.com/2014/09/academ… (SocialGreg / Nerd Stalker) Engineer Sees Big Possibilities in Micro-robots, Including Programmable Bees http://bit.ly/1vmqcCW Bendgate continues: iPhone 6, One M8, new Moto X, Lumia 1020 via @androids bit.ly/YgCd1U (Juan Carlos Torres / Android Community) Speed Round: The Ryno, A One-Wheeled, Self-Balancing Electric Scooter via @LaughingSquid bit.ly/1u56vCq (Brian Heater / Laughing Squid) Harvesting electricity from h...

Nerd Stalker Picks of the Week: The Wolf http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-wolf/ Twitpic Folds After Twitter Threat bit.ly/1pPOXsn (Britt Clark / Socialtimes) Holy Cow: Marc Newson Joining Apple's Design Team! - Core77 http://bit.ly/1lKIg9J My Year with a Distraction-Free iPhone (and How to Start Your Own Experiment) bit.ly/1lvrCuC pic.twitter.com/Zu7bfDTHhM (Jake Knapp / Medium) K480 Keyboard – Multi-Device – Logitech http://bit.ly/1lKIRse Can Printed Electronics Be the Silver Bullet for the Printing Industry? via @nerdstalker http://bit.ly/1ubVduB Speed Round: RunSwift - http://www.runswiftlang.com There Are Now at Least 25 Billion-Dollar Mobile Internet Companies bit.ly/1pzdZ90 pic.twitter.com/xX8gA3lkjX ( John Koetsier, V enture Beat) Rdio announces Version 3 http://is.gd/hBXx7y Intel’s Broadwell chip is getting ready to power next-generation Chromebooks via @gigaom http://bit.ly/1thwP8c (Keven Toefl / GigaOM) Dyson 360 Eye https://www...

Picks of the Week: Mantything https://manything.com/manything/ "Breaking: Art Student Makes Synthetic Leaf, Solves Everything" ( Kat Bauman / core77) bit.ly/1zF4ZXD Let people control the music http://www.tracktl.com/ Google Glass Alert: Potential health risks from wireless radiation bit.ly/1u1MA7g    (Dr. Joel Moskowitz / UC Berkeley) Pinterest Messaging http://about.pinterest.com/en/messages Wikimedia Won't Take Down This Photo Because a Monkey Took It via @Gizmodo feedly.com/e/UOscL8eX ( Ashley Feinberg /Gizmodo) Speed Round: Shazam for mac https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id897118787?mt=12 The Russian 'hack of the century' doesn't add up (russel Brandon / TheVerge)  bit.ly/1shIEv2 Devices.css http://marvelapp.github.io/devices.css/ Old Frenemies Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Fight Amazon feedly.com/e/ZYqvzybL ( Issie Lapowsky / Wired)  via @WIRED Dropcam breakdown by AV insider http://is.gd/koYumi ...

Google Inc. has made a one-time, in-kind donation to the nonprofit Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA). Google will be donating 110 Nexus 5 devices and 350 Nexus 7 devices to support the organization’s goals regarding digital-literacy initiatives. MEDA provides asset building to financially challenged Latinos in San Francisco’s Mission District, with a major component of its service-integration model being computer skills. MEDA is also the lead agency of the Mission Promise Neighborhood (MPN), a citywide community partnership that has been created in support of students and families living, working and going to school in the Mission District. MPN brings together schools, colleges, community organizations, businesses and community leaders to help kids graduate and families achieve financial stability. The donated devices will have programmatic uses in the tech labs at MEDA, where digital-literacy classes are taught based on varying skill levels. Richard Abisla, MEDA...

Nerd Stalker Picks of the Week: Zillow buys Trulia for $3.5B to create an online real estate giant http://is.gd/viIFUn It Looks Like 30 Is the Ceiling for How Many Apps People Use on.wsj.com/1mMUVTA via @WSJ Blockchain Returns to Apple iOS with New Bitcoin Wallet http://bit.ly/1qc1OkL Is YouTube Really Bigger Than Facebook? The Numbers Say Yes via @ReelSEO http://bit.ly/1zoiE5o "Hilton Hotel Guests Will Be Able to Use Smartphones as Keys or to Choose Rooms at Properties World-Wide" http://on.wsj.com/WKpTHe Google Smart Lenses May Treat and Detect Illness via @psfk http://bit.ly/X6HsRu Personal EKSO, an Exoskeleton Designed to Replace the Wheelchair http://bit.ly/1oCL48f Amazon Now Has a Create-Your-Own 3D-Printing Store via @Gizmodo bit.ly/1rRkAkm Speed Round: Yelp Now Lets You Add 12 second Video Reviews http://tnw.co/1tkr25j Samsung indefinitely delays the release of its first Tizen smartphone via @gigaom http://is.gd/yBhbSD EFF asks judge to rule N...

Nerd Stalker Picks of the Week: Video Of The Week: Larry Lessig On MayDay PAC   http://bit.ly/TK67sT What Is Cramming? And Why Did The FTC Say T-Mobile Fraudulently Made Millions From It? businessinsider.com/ftc-carrier-cr… via @SAI (Steve Kovach / Business Insider) Amazon enters retail top 10   http://bit.ly/1q5wnbW VMware Declares That Windows Reign 'Is Coming To An End' ... And The Mac Is Taking Over feedly.com/e/9PTVavXF via @SAI (Julia Bort / Business Insider) Why Windows Phone cannot rebound   http://bit.ly/1od3qcW http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2679115/Facebook-finally-apologises-secretly-manipulating-nearly-1m-peoples-accounts-huge-psychology-experiment.htm l  (Jennifer Newton | DailyMail UK) Bitcoin may have finally reached a tipping point http://bit.ly/1m3nPDk A Guest post by Mike Wade of IMD on Amazon's Fire via @nerdstalker lnkd.in/btuFBpp | Why The #Amazon Fire Phone Could Be A #Smartphone Game Change...

Talking tech of the week. Living in the Ocean First 11mins of Captain America? Pandora raising prices. Why Apple keeps turning on Bluetooth? Are techies really the problem? Kids Learn to code for free in SF. Khan Academy to help you with the SAT. Ed Snowden speaks at TED today. Review of Downbeats earplugs for concerts and more.

Picks of the Week: Biometric headset increases game difficulty for angry players bit.ly/1eooxpr ( Stuart Robards | Gizmag ) Amazon Wants to Ship Your Package Before You Buy It on. wsj.com/1cSXD55 via @PSFK ( Greg Besinger / WSJD ) Amazon Considering Online Pay-TV Service http://on.wsj.com/1dSIvcm ( Sharma, Ramachandra and Clark | WSJD ) 13 Things You Can Actually Buy With #Bitcoin feedly.com/k/1kH6MYq  ( Kevin Smith / Complex Tech ) Man Interrogated By FBI For Wearing Prescription Google Glass At The Movies  http://read.bi/1cT56RC ( Jim Edwards | Business Insider ) Twitter Gets Serious About Social Shopping bit.ly/1cP6THl  ( Jennifer Elias / Fast Company Labs ) Speed Round: "70,000 healthcare.gov records hacked" claim turns out to be Google results http://bit.ly/1cSV7Mj ( Rob Beschizza | Boing Boing ) Motorola lowers price of bamboo Moto X, more natural finishes coming January 21st bit.ly/1dtZKQ5 viA ( Chris Welsh | TheVerge ) ...