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Wired Looks At the Most Advanced Oceanographic Ship in the World Sally Ride Model Rendering ( Photo Courtesy of Conde Nast Entertainment / Scripts Institution of Oceanography) This 238-foot beauty isn’t just oddly comfortable—it comes equipped with some serious tech  for some serious oceanography and called the Sally Ride. From the Scripps Press Brochure   "Owned by the United States Office of Naval Research and operated by Scripps Institution of  Oceanography, R/V Sally Ride is an Ocean Class Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research  (AGOR) vessel designed to perform multidisciplinary oceanographic research  worldwide,  from littoral environments to the deepest ocean, from the tropics into first-year  sea ice. Check out the specs below and the video from Wired's Channel on Conde Nast Entertainment's  The Scene . R/V Sally Ride  Specializations Gross tonnage: 3,043 long tons Sustained speed: 12 kts Maximum speed: 12.8 kt...

Ivy League Powered Invite-Only Startup Event Premieres in November Startup Events (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Always great to see another startup event creating community within a given startup ecosystem.This time, an organizer is putting up 12 selected startups from the Ivy League schools to pitch to investors in New York. The inaugural event called the Ivy Startup Conference , which will be held on November 9th, is invite only and will start to create community not only with some elite private schools in the U.S. but also celebrates female founders and investors who will make up a fair percentage of the attendees and especially the investor panel. We talk with co-founder/serial entrepreneur Cheryl A. Robinson who also wrote a great piece last week for Nerd Stalker on her journey to create this event called Exclusive Yet Inclusive - Insight from a Female Entrepreneur . Cheryl explains below her vision for inclusiveness at this conference celebrates the strides wome...

Yeti LLC Releases Product Design Sprint Guide Product Development (photo courtesy of Pablo by Buffer) Want to rapid develop?   Today, San Francisco-based design and development firm,  Yeti LLC   founded by , has released “ The Definitive Guide to Product Design Sprints ,” a comprehensive, start-to-finish manual covering why, when, and how a proper design sprint can take an idea to tested prototype in just five days. Pioneered by the Google Ventures team, a design sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. It's a rapid prototyping session in which your product's riskiest assumptions are tested with real users, providing valuable design insight to maximize the product's impact.

Commercial UAV News Releases Report on How Commercial Pilots Can Operate Within the New FAA Part 107 Rules   Drown News (photo courtesy of Pablo  by Buffer) Well the day has finally arrived.  Although the details around Part 107 were announced in June, today represents the first day people may legally operate a drone for commercial purposes under the new FAA regulation.  To coincide with the new Small UAS Rule, aka Part 107,  Commercial UAV News  announced today the release of a free online report,  What You Need to Know to Legally Operate Your Drone Under New FAA Regulation” ,  that helps define what it means to legally fly drones under the new FAA regulation that went into effect today. The ruling represents a critical moment that will forever change the commercial U.S. drone industry, and the report is an accessible article that outlines the essential guidelines for non-hobbyist small unmanned aircraft (UAS) operators looking to unders...

Elephant Chart - AVC For me, the story this chart tells is the movement of low cost labor from the developed world to the developing world over the past 25 years. This movement has allowed the "global middle class" to raise their incomes 60-80% while the middle class in the developed world has been stalled out.

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