Venus is the ultra-luxe yacht that Steve Jobs had been designing up until the time of his death, and the massive vessel recently made its first appearance in Aalsmeer, Netherlands.
The ship is somewhere between 230 to 260 feet long, made entirely of aluminum, and features seven 27-inch iMacs in the wheelhouse.
The $200 Pill packs 12 watts of power and four 1-inch drivers into its attractive design (comprised of metal and soft-touch plastic), and is able to provide a decent amount of bass and clarity, even at high volumes. Its battery can last up to 7.5 hours (presumably using a wired connection), and uses pretty standard Bluetooth audio standards.
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Facebook who recently just hit billion active users , introduces us its first commercial
Chairs, doorbells, bridges, airplanes. These are things that people use to get together and connect. Facebook is also something that over a billion people around the world use to connect with one another.
Joshua Topolsky takes a look at the new iPhone 5 from Apple.
via the verge
Hex3 is a company founded by Jon Atherton, who has raised $100,000 for his two kick starter campaigns; AppTag Laser Blaster & JaJa Pressure Sensitive Stylus for the iPad. (pictured below)
Facebook has completed its $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing app Instagram. An Instagram blog said, “Our deal with Facebook has closed, which means we can now work together to evolve and build a better Instagram for everyone.”
Supercar owners living in an exclusive high-rise apartment block can now park their beloved motors from their – LIVING ROOMS. Hamilton Parks in Singapore is a brand-new 30-storey development where flats cost between £6 and £15 MILLION. But with parking in the city limited, the skyscraper designer came up with an innovative way of parking some of the planets fastest cars. Residents simply drive their 200mph motors into a biometrically-controlled lift at the base of Hamilton Parks on the city’s swanky Orchard Road.
Facebook stock, which traded at $38 during its May IPO, has plummeted to an all-time low of $18.28.
For Facebook employees who have shares locked up, November can’t get here fast enough. That’s when they’ll be able to sell off their Facebook stock, although who knows what their shares will be worth by then. BMO Capital Markets analyst Daniel Salmon is predicting that shares will have dropped to a flimsy $15 by November.
Samsung vs. Apple
Apple won more than $1 billion in a massive US court victory over Samsung on Friday, in one of the biggest patent cases in decades.
A jury in San Jose, California awarded $1.049 billion to the US tech giant, according to reports from the courtroom.
How the jury came down on both companies. Samsung devices: the Captivate, Continuum, Droid Charge, Epic 4G, Fascinate, Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Prevail, Galaxy S, Exhibit, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize, Nexus S 4G, Gem, Galaxy Tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1
Apple is now the most valuable company of all time, with the Cupertino-based company’s market cap reaching a high of $621 billion. The company’s stock is trading at $664.12 per share, and reached a record price of $664.74 per share in trading today.
Microsoft previously set the record for a public company’s valuation at $618.9 billion in December of 1999.
Bill Gates has spotted a problem with the way our flushable toilets work and the lack of them for nearly 2.6 billion people around the globe, and he’s looking to change this in the coming years. The “Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation” hosted the “Reinvent the Toilet Fair” this week, where researchers from across the globe gathered to revolutionize the loo.
Gates actually took on the task of developing a new toilet a year ago, telling the Times of India that he was moved by cases like in their country where 1.5 million children die each year from severe diarrhea caused by poor sanitation. Countries like India lack the kind of toilets that more affluent countries take advantage of.
“Finding a new toilet design that is as good as the flush toilet should be possible. It does not exist now. That’s why we have been putting in money asking people to design a new toilet.”
All Things Digital explained in an article that “The toilets have to be hygienic and sustainable, discharge no pollutants, generate energy, recover nutrients and only need a tiny amount of water. Oh yeah, and they also need to have a cost of operation of a nickel per person per day.”
So far Gates’ foundation has awarded $400,000 in grants to eight universities aiding in research. So far, they’ve come up with ideas for converting the waste into fertilization, fuel and power sources. Read More
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