"The meerkats are moving in colonies, and they're always alerted of what's going on," says Ben Rubin, founder of live-streaming app Meerkat, which has become the most-discussed app at SXSW this year
In this video, Rubin, together with Ryan Cooley, community manager of Meerkat, explain what the app aims to achieve.
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When people think about the practicality of electric cars, one of the first concerns is battery life, particularly given the ever-hungry batteries in our mobile devices.
On Sunday, Tesla founder Elon Musk promised to erase those fears completely, a claim that, if true, could boost interest among those worried about getting stuck in the middle of nowhere while looking at a blinking "battery drained" dashboard symbol
The news came via Musk's Twitter feed, where he promised to deliver an over the air software update that will "end range anxiety." ...
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AUSTIN, Texas — Twitter tried raining on Meerkat's parade last Friday when it cut off the app's ability to access the microblogging network's social graph. But apparently, those efforts failed.
Meerkat, a live-streaming app that automatically tweets out a link to your followers, saw its user base jump at least 30%, Ryan Cooley, the company's community director, told Mashable.
Cooley would not specify how many Meerkat users there currently are, but the app reportedly had ...
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It's all of the road trip and none of the driving — at least, not by a human.
An autonomous car, developed by Michigan-based Delphi Automotive, will begin a 3,500-mile trip across the U.S. on March 22. Beginning in San Francisco, the car is expected to arrive in New York about a week later.
"We're going to learn a lot out of this," Jeff Owens, Delphi's chief technology officer, told The Associated Press.
There will be a person behind the wheel at all times, but they are not expected to intervene at all unless the autonomous car gets into trouble. ...
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For the 25th anniversary of Photoshop, the software that's synonymous with digital photo editing, CreativeLive set out to see just how far the tool has come.
So they made some Photoshop experts boot up the original version to try their luck at editing some images.
The results are, well, mediocre at best. The experts are confounded by Photoshop 1.0, devoid of so many of the tools they're used to in Creative Cloud. It almost makes us feel better about our paltry Photoshop skills.
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