Michael Frazier

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Gear & Gadgets
WIRED’s Favorite Gear of 2018: iPhone XR, Google Home Hub, and More
WIRED - WIRED Staff
Every trip around the sun, we prod, poke, and test hundreds of products here at WIRED. Most of them are just fine. Not boring—few things are truly …
5 Podcasts That Will Give You a Leadership Edge
Inc Magazine - By Marla Tabaka
Listening to these podcasts will make you smarter, tougher, and more business savvy. Ever since NPR's Serial broke the internet last year, it seems like we've been in the middle of a podcast boom. But
Teens Who Grew Up After Sept. 11 Give Tours At Memorial Museum
NPR - Hansi Lo Wang
The National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum trains a small group of high school students to give tours to their families and friends. But all of these tour guides were children when the Twin Towers fell. Transcript
Internet Helps Photographer Find Couple in Stunning Storm Wedding Photo
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
One of the big photo stories on the Web this past week has been the picture above, shot over the weekend by Australian photographer Sam Yeldham. …
Pugz: Tiny phone-charged wireless earbuds kill it on Kickstarter
CNET - by Amanda Kooser
Pugz wireless earbuds are new dogs with a new charging trick that lets you groove out while you charge them up.
Get an LG Watch Urbane smartwatch for $224.99
CNET - by Rick Broida
From the Cheapskate: That's the lowest price to date for LG's seriously sexy, Android Wear-powered watch. And now it's compatible with iOS, if you care.
Spotify told us the top 20 songs people listen to in the shower — here they are
Business Insider - Nathan McAlone
At a conference earlier this week, Ek revealed that there are 39,000 active playlists named "Shower." And these playlists get 550,000 streams every day. (No pun intended). But what songs are these people
Bioweapons experts seriously doubt Tesla's new apocalypse mode
Fortune - Claire Groden
Tesla’s new Model X, unveiled Tuesday night, boasts zero-to-sixty acceleration in 3.8 seconds, falcon wing doors, and the ability to travel 250 miles …
Sereneti Kitchen Robot Cooks So You Don’t Have To
TechCrunch - Alex Wilhelm
Last week at Disrupt SF 2015, I ran into the folks behind Sereneti Kitchen, a company that I’ve known since it launched at our Hardware Battlefield in Vegas earlier this year. Then, its technology had
10 Web Design Trends You Can Expect to See in 2015
TNW - Amber Leigh Turner
Every year, Web design grows and so many awesome things are being published daily. I can only imagine that the best is yet to come in 2015, including many of the trends we predicted for 2014. While many
Google Patents Holograms For Glass, Which Could Involve Magic Leap
TechCrunch - Josh Constine
Today Google published a patent application for using holograms in a head mounted display like Google Glass. It would effectively let Google create augmented reality experiences that superimpose computer-generated
The Dawn Of The Classic Publishing Era
TechCrunch - Yoni Argaman
My father was a journalist. Growing up, I remember how excited I would get when visiting the printing house of the newspaper he worked for. I loved everything about the large, industrial printers — the
Tesla's Elon Musk reveals when customers can pre-order the cheaper Model 3
Fortune - Kirsten Korosec
The Model 3, the lower cost all-electric car that Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has mentioned in interviews and shareholder letters, isn’t expected to …
Motorola drops 3 Moto 360 collections: Flat tire’s here to stay, so you can just deal with it
TNW - Natt Garun
Motorola today unveiled the next-gen Moto 360, featuring two sizes for men alongside separate collections for women and sports. The refreshed version of the smartwatch features a thinner body and more
Apple II
Steve Jobs 'played no role at all' in designing the Apple I or Apple II computers, Woz says
Business Insider - Julie Bort
Fourteen-year-old entrepreneur Sarina Khemchandani did just that, scoring an interview with Woz in late August. There was, if you remember, some controversy surrounding how the Ashton Kutcher "Jobs" movie
Google’s Self-Driving Car Prototypes Are Coming To Public Roads In Austin
Popular Science - By Xavier Harding
Hit the road Jack Our first glimpse of Google’s driverless cars came in 2012. Since then, Google has confined most of its test-drives of these vehicles to the roads outside its headquarters in Mountain
Issara Is Everlane For Leather Goods
TechCrunch - Romain Dillet
Meet Issara, a new e-commerce player focused on selling leather goods, cutting the middleman and fairly compensating workers. In many ways, Issara is reminiscent of Everlane, a clothing startup that has
India says Google may have rigged search results
The Verge - Jacob Kastrenakes
India has some concerns about Google's search practices. According to The Economic Times, India's competition regulator has filed a report accusing Google of rigging its search results in a way that favors
T-Mobile
T-Mobile Doesn’t Like Customers Who Use 2,000GB Of Data Per Month
TechCrunch - Romain Dillet
T-Mobile CEO John Legere issued a strong announcement saying that some customers are abusing the company’s network. While T-Mobile has become quite popular with its unlimited LTE mobile plans, unfortunately
Boeing shows off weapon for destroying drones with a freaking laser
Mashable - Chris Perkins
Rouge drones, meet Boeing's Compact Laser Weapons System. Boeing showed off its Compact Laser Weapons System this week. It's a portable laser weapon that can take drones out of the sky by directing a blast
Galaxy Note
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Design Flaw Examined In Teardown
Forbes - Ian Morris
It’s now become a major news story that the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 can be permanently ruined by having its S Pen inserted the wrong way around. To those of us in the tech industry such a design flaw is
Mobile Gaming Live-Streaming Service Mobcrush Has Raised Around $10M
TechCrunch - Matthew Lynley
We’ve heard from sources that Mobcrush, a live-streaming service centered around mobile games much in the same way Twitch is known for streaming popular eSports desktop games, has raised around $10 million
Ashley Madison
Ashley Madison Faces $578 Million Class Action Lawsuit
TIME - Tanya Basu
Two Canadian law firms filed a $578 million class-action lawsuit against the companies that run extramarital-affairs website Ashley Madison over a recent hack that exposed the personal information of 39
Jamstik+ review: Not quite a guitar replacement, but a great tool for beginners
TNW - Natt Garun
When I was growing up, my mom would put me in a variety of classes: ballet, piano, swimming. After a semester of each course, I would get bored and move on to something new. The varied curiosity was fun
Alcatel OneTouch partners with LA Galaxy FC and StubHub Center
Android Authority - Edgar Cervantes
Alcatel is no stranger to football (soccer) clubs. The manufacturer partnered with Toronto FC last June, and today they are teaming up with the LA Galaxy FC and their home stadium, the StubHub Center.
Social Media
Ten new marketing concepts your company needs to understand right now
The Globe and Mail - Marie Chevrier
The basics of marketing will, for the most part, stay the same but the landscape is continuously evolving. Technology is speeding everything up and companies who want to get the message out about their
The founder of Google's top secret project lab has a new plan to double the world's GDP
Business Insider - Jillian D'Onfro
His efforts turned into Google X, the secretive "moonshot factory" that has produced some of Google's most technically ambitious projects like self-driving cars, smart contact lenses, Google Glass and
Twitter has killed Politwoops, which kept an eye on politicians
TNW - Mic Wright
The Open State Foundation (OSF) knew this was coming. The US account was shut down by Twitter in May. Now the hammer has come down on the rest of the group’s Politwoops accounts – each of which was dedicated
Which of These is the Best Wearable of the Last Year?
gizmodo.co.uk - Tom Pritchard
Our good friends over at T3 are almost ready for their annual glitzy glamorous awards show, with the 2015 T3 Awards taking place on 17th September in …
Is Amazon Considering Ditching the $299-a-Year Fee for Its Fresh Grocery Delivery Service?
Recode - Jason Del Rey
Amazon keeps pushing back the end date of free trial periods for new customers, raising the possibility that the company may be reconsidering the price point altogether. When Amazon launched its Fresh