Month: July 2014
Markets Edge Down in Early Trading
Data on pending home sales and company earnings were expected later Monday.
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Watch John Oliver make the case that America is the world’s greatest nuclear threat
Dollar Tree Buying Rival for $8.5 Billion
Well, that’s quite expensive considering that everything costs $1.

Only the very brave, or foolish, are investing in Russia right now
Stocks Are Sliding (FDO, DLTR, Z, TRLA, HLF, LOCO, SPX, SPY, QQQ, DIA)
17 Companies With Awesome Perks That Will Make You Jealous
These people must love going into work every day.

Here’s a novel way to control Android on a projector
It’s possible to embed Android(s goog) into almost any device these days, and increasingly pocket projectors are shipping with the open-source operating system pre-installed. The problem comes when you realize there isn’t a great way to interact with the touch interface when it’s projected onto a wall. Enter TouchPico, a new Indiegogo campaign offering a product which simulates the touch-screen experience with an infrared stylus.
The magic is in the TouchPico’s infrared pen, which, when pressed onto a surface, outputs an infrared signal that is read by a camera on the front of the projector. This means that users can manipulate the projected screen using the pen like they would a touchscreen device with a finger. The device itself is a pico projector that outputs a 854 x 480 display onto a screen or a wall. Paired with the projector is an Android 4.0 device running on a Rocketchip 1GHz processor…
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The best argument yet for net neutrality comes from Major League Baseball
Interesting that the MLB would make such a submission.
Biotech And Internet Stocks Are Nowhere Near Their Insane Levels Of 1999
Stocks are crazy.