Popular Stories http://wwww.pikk.com/popular.rss RebelMouse is an easy personal website builder similar to About.me, which pulls in information from sites like LinkedIn and WordPress, where a user may already be established. RebelMouse does the same for social sites—the goal is to be your ”social front page.” Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:48:17 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/24e06 It looks like it might be time to rethink the lore. The tweet sent several hours ago from the ASUS account offers yet another example of why the tech industry often leaves many women feeling like second-class citizens in a for-profit frat house. Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:06:23 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/e2ff8 Hinode is in a low-Earth (630km altitude - about 400 miles) sun-synchronous polar orbit that permits nearly continuous observations of the sun. So, in effect, Hinode has the same perspective as Earth-bound observers since the angle subtended is very small between the Earth and Hinode relative to the moon. However, Hinode's unique orbit has the spacecraft sweaping through the area occulted by the Sun once per orbit, and did so 4 separate times. Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:10:29 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/041ee This struck me as one of the most amazing innovations I've seen in a long time (assuming it doesn't cause cancer). Wed, 23 May 2012 13:29:44 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/f5474 Unaware of why some of the chips were red, the students who were served those tubes of chips nonetheless consumed about 50 percent less than their peers: 20 and 24 chips on average for the seven-chip and 14-chip segmented tubes, respectively, compared with 45 chips in the control group; 14 and 16 chips for the five-chip and 10-chip segmented tubes, compared with 35 chips in the control group. Wed, 23 May 2012 13:06:41 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/dafdf In a nutshell, SnipSnap lets you snap pictures of all your coupons and save them on your iPhone so they’re handy when you’re put in the field. Taking the picture is just the beginning though — from there, the images are uploaded to SnipSnap servers where all the pertinent information (barcode, expiration date, cashier code) are pulled from the image and and saved alongside it so your cashier won’t have to try and scan or read something off a photograph. Wed, 23 May 2012 11:10:41 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/e43ed From there just visit your favorite spots like normal. If you visit the same restaurant twice in a rolling 30-day period, you instantly become a regular, meaning you’ll not only receive 3 percent off every purchase you make, but that the merchant will have a direct line of communication with you. The beauty is that users live their lives just as they normally would, swiping at restaurants with their credit card without ever checking into anything or even opening an app. Wed, 23 May 2012 11:09:37 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/c1c13 The service asks you to input your zip code and address, and automatically pulls in all the dry cleaners in your area. You can then enter in a pick-up and drop-off time, based on the dry cleaner’s availability, and that’s all there is to it. A delivery person knocks on your door, picks up your giant bag of wovens and delicates, and promises to see you again tomorrow (or whenever you have scheduled the drop-off). Wed, 23 May 2012 11:06:19 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/b4ee9 The company has agreed to pay $40 million to settle claims that it deceived customers by saying its Shape-ups shoes would help people who wore them shed pounds and tone their abs, buttocks and legs, the Federal Trade Commission said. Fri, 18 May 2012 08:20:28 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/316f5 The campaign cost them $240 — almost $1 for each new Facebook fan they got from the campaign. "Is that feeling of exhilaration worth $240?" Michael said. "I don't know — hopefully that translates into new business." It didn't. After a long night of asking every single customer where he found out about Pizza Delicious, not one said it was through Facebook. Fri, 18 May 2012 08:19:45 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/a2018 a) no but this photo is b) yes and this photo is too Thu, 10 May 2012 20:05:11 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/768cc This startup out of the Philippines gives musicians a way to promote their music on Twitter by auto-tweeting songs and directing followers to a special landing page for each tune. The page is optimized for maximum sharing, hashtags and all, to help your ditty go full Rebecca Black (only good, hopefully). The company already has some pretty impressive musicians using it, including Duran Duran, Bow Wow, Jason Mraz, and Brian Adams, who released a single exclusively on the platform. The company goes up against similar audio-hosting service SoundCloud. It was founded by Stefano Fazzini and Christian Fazzini. Thu, 10 May 2012 18:06:32 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/7b20e You hate tracking your finances, you love playing games. What if your bank accounts were a little more game-like? Toshl wants to make finance and budgeting fun, and it uses actual adorable monster characters to do it. Impressively, the app is available on most every phone platform, including BlackBerry and Nokia. The Slovenia-based company was founded by Matic Bitenc and Miha Hribar. Thu, 10 May 2012 17:50:49 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/7b889 Representing Japan, this year-old news site (called TOM for short) has the latest on Manga and Anime culture. Currently, all of the action is taking place on the startup’s Facebook page, which has 3.7 million likes. Our favorite detail about TOM is that once a month everyone comes to work in full cosplay getups. We hope they’ve carried that tradition over to 500 Startups. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:57:42 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/87acd This iPad app is an interactive magazine packed with a variety of content to keep your kids entertained while they’re learning. The issues are filled with great design, things to read, quizzes, photos, simple games, and videos. For example, in the Night issue there’s an article shows you how to make shadow puppets, tips on sleeping tight, and fun stats and facts. The Italy-based company was started by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:55:38 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/f26a2 When you hear the name “Netflix” you immediately think of ties, right? Us too, which is why Tie Society is offering online rentals for men’s neck ties. As the company’s founders explain it, not every upstanding man has the opportunity to buy a new tie for every event. Tie Society allows them to choose between ties of all colors, materials, and widths to keep up with the trends no matter how small their closet is. With only 300 ties for all those necks, we hope they will grow their inventory as they grow their customer base. (The Tie Society customer makes us think of that Tea Party YouTube video created by Smirnoff Iced Tea. It features Martha’s-Vineyard-20-somethings, swaddled in seersucker and cable knit, “chillin’” on golf courses.) Thu, 10 May 2012 15:52:48 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/9087e This startup connects people who need help with older or infirm family members with qualified caregivers in their area. Trusting a stranger to take care of a loved one can be stressful, but TenderTree helps by carefully screening the candidates for you. Caregivers are subjected to a federal background check and interviews with previous clients before they can even be listed. Once you hire someone, the service helps with the little details like managing payment, contracts, and tracking hours. The service is in beta in San Francisco, but will be rolling out to other cities in the near future. The Bay Area company was founded by Andy Agrawal and Dana Wu. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:45:13 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/ffa19 TeleportMe is a panorama photography app for Android smartphones. The app lets you take large panoramic images with your phone’s camera and stitches them together. The final product can be shared on Twitter or Facebook, or though TeliportMe where you can set up a profile for yourself. The fun part is browsing other users’ panoramas from around the world. The app will compete against similar products, Photosynth and TourWrist. TeliportMe was founded in Bangalore, India by Vineet Devaiah and Abhinav Asthana. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:44:11 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/5139c Work productivity-booster Teamly starts by having employees enter their top five priorities for the day and month, and then sends them helpful daily email reminders. Managers can track what their minions are working on and see the latest status of any tasks, as well as charts showing their productivity over time. The micromanagement app claims it will help ease micromanagement, perhaps by making it an unspoken, passive sort of activity. If unspoken isn’t your management style, you can leave comments on different tasks (“Stop reading MSNnow and finish that feature. -Dylan Tweney”). Teamly will only let you set a handful of goals, which can help you focus on what’s important. The UK-based startup was founded by Scott Allison, Matthew Berman, and Edward Robertshaw, who met in Omaha, Nebraska. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:43:10 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/9cb70 Storypanda makes interactive kid’s stories for the iPad. The app acts as a bookshelf and marketplace for Storypanda books — the selection will be updated monthly. A modern day choose-your-own-adventure book, kids can re-mix their favorite stories and share the results with their friends. The Vancouver-based startup’s co-founders, James Chutter and Pavel Bains, bring an impressive amount of experience in interactive entertainment, including time in the game, film, and TV industries. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:42:23 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/f221b After last year’s deluge of daily deals sites, many of us were suffering daily deals fatigue. (Group-yawn, amirite?) Sqoot has a different approach that may bring a little life, and money, back to the genre. Using the Sqoot API, apps can integrate daily deals offers into their existing apps, giving them a way to make some money. For $99 a month, apps can keep 50 percent of the revenue on any deals sold through their app. It’s a nice alternative for any publisher or developer with a location-based app. The Chicago-based co-founders Mo Yehia and Avand Amiri are still distancing the company from a gross bit of sexism while promoting a hackathon earlier this year. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:41:10 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/259a0 PublikDemand helps organize your outrage against companies, union-style. Customers can band together to make demands such as taking on Comcast for violating net neutrality. To up the stakes, if a company doesn’t comply PublikDemand will work with its competitors on exclusive offers. Naturally, the idea was inspired by customer service black hole Time Warner Cable, which charged Courtney Powell hundreds of dollars for a router they claimed she didn’t return. Powell is now CEO of PublikDemand, which she started in Austin, Texas with co-founders Jim England, A.T. Fouty, and Richard McClellan. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:39:52 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/aa380 This iPhone app wants to make it easier for small businesses to communicate with their clients or other business contacts, improving customer retention. Using the app, you can connect with people using text messages, email, Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. You can have one-on-one conversations or send out mass promotions. The app will automatically address each email to the individual person, saving you the pain and misery of a mail merge. It can also be used to encourage referrals and book appointment slots. The service costs $25 a month after a free one-month trial period. PocketOffice is a San Francisco based startup, co-founded by Alan Wells (formerly of Zynga, Affinity Labs, and Nextive) and Glenn Allen (a co-founder of OpenTable). Thu, 10 May 2012 15:38:55 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/1b3ec One of a number of fashion-related startups in this group, Monogram is a shopping app for the iPad that turns an algorithm into a personal stylist. Similar to popular news-reading apps Flipboard and Zite, the app learns what brands and fashions you like over time and edits down the content it delivers to fit your tastes. However, the Monogram founders were smart enough to add some humans to the mix because “machines alone have no sense of style/trends and do a poor job of fashion recommendations.” The app groups things into categories such as price (purses under $500? We’ll take four!) and new, or by store or flash sale site, such as Gilt Group. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:12:07 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/ac385 This ticketing and events-discovery site lets organizers or performers add their own events, sells tickets, and shows attendees which of their friends will be at the same concert, art show, conference, or football match. It will even share where their buddies are seated. After collecting a bit of information from a user, the site will even be able to recommend similar events they might enjoy. Afterwards, attendees can leave reviews or comments about an event. The company is based in Brazil, where the founders saw an opportunity to provide much-needed electronic-ticketing technology to ticket vendors. The co-founders are Gabriel Benarrós, who studied behavioral economics at Stanford, Sébastien Robaszkiewicz, who studied Computer Science at Stanford and Marcelo Henrique. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:11:05 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/729c5 When you think “property inspections,” the word “happy” might not immediately pop into your mind. If you are a property manager who has to do these types of tedious inspections for a living, being able to do them on a slick iPad app is probably very happy-making indeed. You can fill out the default fields (the kitchen sing is good/fair/dirty/broken) on the checklist or make your own custom entries, and attach an image to each one. When you’re done with a report you can automatically generate a PDF for the house, apartment, TV studio, ice cream parlor, or hospital and email it to any relevant parties. The app is free, but each inspection will cost $1.79, Thu, 10 May 2012 15:10:06 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/4fec0 This new collaborative offering piggybacks on wildly popular cloud sharing-tool Dropbox. Groupiter adds real-time conversations to file sharing. Upload that power-point deck and sit back while your co-workers discuss the pros and cons of using Comic Sans on the title page. Share a few photos of wedding dresses and get immediate opinions from a sibling overseas. The company is still keeping details under wraps and is not currently offering the tool to the general public (you can sign up on the homepage to be on the invite list), Thu, 10 May 2012 15:09:03 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/a2752 An entrepreneur or freelancer working out of a home office or coffee shop can use a virtual Fontaco number to sound more professional, like they’re in a proper office and wearing pants. A Fontaco number can be rerouted to any landline, mobile phone, or even a Skype account. You’re not limited to a number for your location, you can get digits for other cities and give the impression of being everywhere at once. The startup was founded by a team of four: Daniel Martinez, Joaquin Martinez, Jose Antonio del Rio, and Ricardo Cacique. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:07:39 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/e0e7b web-based platform that helps teachers and institutions manage day-to-day tasks. There is an app store filled with compatible web-apps on a variety of middle school and high school topics. Those apps can use the Chalkable API to work with any of the service’s core features, including a shared calendar, grading tools, attendance tracking, and a custom emailing interface. For Chalkable to work best, a school needs to set it up so all teachers can take advantage of it. The cost is $10 per student a year, with half of that going into a budget for apps. The New York City based startup was founded by Michael Levy, who previously founded Entertainment Teller Machine and worked at TriSpecs Inc, and  Zoli Honig, who started the IT firm ZZ Tech and fro-yo chain Berrylicious. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:06:27 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/10ce8 CardFlick is taking a stab at the virtual business-card space with a design-centric iOS app that came out last year. You can design a slick-looking virtual card using photos from your Camera Roll or Instagram and then physically flick the screen to send your card to someone else who has the app. If they don’t have it installed, you can just email, text, or tweet it. The info is automatically added to the iPhone’s Contacts app, and if someone updates their CardFlick information, the same data is automatically updated for all the people who have their card. An Android version of the app is currently in beta. Unsurprisingly given its beautiful interface, CardFlick was founded by a designer, Ketan Anjaria. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:05:12 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/e5f4b The subscription-based service asks you what you need in your closet — perhaps you want help with finding non-jeans pants, decent collared shirts, maybe even a sweater vest that brings out your eyes. A stylist will handpick the requested item from a selection of hip brands (Ben Sherman, French Connection) and talented new designers (Descendant of Thieves) and ship it to you. If you don’t like what they’ve sent, mail it back with free shipping and don’t pay anything for the clothing item. If you decide, hey, this button down makes me look pretty fly, you can keep it and Bombfell charges you a $69 flat fee. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:03:44 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/b1358 At first we thought this was another fantasy league startup, but were pleasantly surprised to see that it a tool for organizing real live sports teams. Using a combination of the startup’s desktop, web, and mobile apps, you can organize a your amateur soccer team, sloshball league, or quiddich playoffs. Send invites over email or text, track who’s in the lineup as people respond, create a landing page for game details with a map, and quickly let everyone know about last-minute changes or cancellations. The London-based company was founded by Andrew Crump and Piers Rollinson. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:01:31 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/f0f29 This website is a directory of activities that keep kids busy while freeing up a few hours (or days or weeks) of down time for their parents. Calling itself a “Yelp for kids’ activities” the company grew out of a listing of listing summer-camps that started last year called Sign Up For Camp.com. Now it’s expanding the business to include shorter activities such as dance classes, art programs, and other after-school time-killers in its two pilot locations, the San Francisco Bay Area and Philadelphia. On the site, parents can read program descriptions, locate a program on a map, or check out user reviews. Thu, 10 May 2012 14:59:18 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/18029 The guns were sorted, cataloged, and fed into an industrial shredder so they could be delivered to Mindich for melting. Mon, 07 May 2012 18:35:13 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/1a68b A young randyc attempts to cast his vote while holding an unknown child. A French election official becomes suspicious when randyc replies, "Merci Buckets" to a request for valid identification. Sun, 06 May 2012 13:46:46 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/150ef Plastic water bottles are an easy target for environmentalist ire, and for good reason. The marketing and selling of bottled water has been one of the most successful commercial campaigns of the past several decades—and it’s helped add billions of tons of waste to ocean trash vortexes like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:33:03 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/f48a0 The new “multifunctional” glass, based on surface nanotextures that produce an array of conical features, is self-cleaning and resists fogging and glare, the researchers say. Ultimately, they hope it can be made using an inexpensive manufacturing process that could be applied to optical devices, the screens of smartphones and televisions, solar panels, car windshields and even windows in buildings. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:41:37 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/2acb0 It's finally here. Will you use it? Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:56:24 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/58141 That's the word from a big new study, which tracked the health and habits of 434,190 people in Taiwan from 1996 to 2008. Smokers who got just 15 minutes of exercise a day were 55 percent more likely to quit than were people who weren't active at all. And those active smokers were 43 percent less likely to relapse when they did quit. Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:45:20 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/76105 The results are in from last summer’s attempt to test new technology that would provide the Pentagon with a lightning-fast vehicle, capable of delivering a military strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour. Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:20:18 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/c371f  Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 states that mandatory event data recorders must in installed in all cars starting in 2015, and it outlines civil penalties that will be levied against violators, Infowars.com reports. While the primary function of the black box devices would be to record and transmit data that could be used to assist a driver and passengers in the event of an accident, the bill has legislation built in that would give the government access to the data with a court order, and it also gives authorities the ability to access the data as part of an investigation. Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:13:45 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/34a60 Do you approve of the investigation? He said “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:01:37 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/d6c7c When unfolded the Noteboard is about the size of 27 notecards but it collapses into a pocket-friendly package. The Noteboard costs just $10 and includes a band to keep the whole thing together along with a black whiteboard marker. Sure, you could probably make one yourself, but not for $10. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:16:20 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/f4f64 Owners plug a small translator device into their vehicle; the device sends diagnostic data to our system. If there's a problem, we alert local repair shops, which can then pitch their services. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:09:19 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/1eec7 click then vote Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:32:38 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/e25c6 click then vote Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:18:17 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/c7ee9 watch then vote (after you stop crying) Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:13:50 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/d2bfd The maker of the fast-growing photo-sharing app, which just made its way to Android, is set to receive $50 million at a $500 million valuation, the sources said. Others joining the round could include DST Global. Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:13:10 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/b5f53 In the summer of 2010, the researchers conducted an in situ study in Worcester County, Mass. aimed at replicating how imidacloprid may have caused the CCD outbreak. Over a 23-week period, they monitored bees in four different bee yards; each yard had four hives treated with different levels of imidacloprid and one control hive. After 12 weeks of imidacloprid dosing, all the bees were alive. But after 23 weeks, 15 out of 16 of the imidacloprid-treated hives -- 94% -- had died. Those exposed to the highest levels of the pesticide died first Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:44:17 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/ea879 Couch said: “I’ve been bullied and called names, I wanted to wear the T-shirt to encourage respect for all students, gay or straight. I wish my school would help me create an accepting environment for LGBT kids, not single me out for punishment.” Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:29:42 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/db51d Three governors and two lieutenant governors plan to tour Beef Products Inc.'s plant in South Sioux City, Neb., Thursday afternoon to show their support for the company and the several thousand jobs it creates in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota and Texas. Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:20:02 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/3ee7a In fact, more than 280,000 of those lives could have been spared by preventing the disease in the first place—all via behavioral and research changes based on scientific discoveries that have been made already, according to a new review article published online March 28 in Science Translational Medicine. This statistic is not new, the researchers pointed out, but quibbling over details of exactly how many cases of—or deaths from—each form of cancer are due to preventable risk factors, the researchers noted, has delayed investment in mitigating the risks that researchers already know about, the authors argued. Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:16:21 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/22c03 That in itself is pretty nifty — as evidenced by the 11,000 people who downloaded Flutter in the first 11 days it was available, and the 400,000 gestures the app logged from those users. In the near-term, Flutter expects to expand its functionality to control other media apps such as Pandora and YouTube, as well as to other operating systems and devices beyond the Mac. Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:19:39 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/5d08f Wrong. According to a handful of studies, consistently clocking over 40 hours a week just makes you unproductive (and very, very tired). Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:03:59 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/44898 We've all done it. You step out on the street after paying for your coffee at Starbucks or handing the cab driver a tip. Your first natural inclination is to reach in to your pocket, dig out your cellphone and call somebody and say, "hey, I'm on my way." But your phone is not there. Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:22:58 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/62bb5 This man owned some pitbulls who killed people, and now the man is facing felony charges. They escaped his fencing while he was out of town. Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:07:33 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/f1baa WLF's chief executive Peter Baldini accused the tobacco industry of thriving on ignorance about the true effect of smoking and "misinformation to subvert health policies that could save millions". Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:56:20 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/52898 The world of news is ablaze with stories of people lining up at Apple stores around the world and getting their hands on the “new iPad”.  But isn’t it strange that nobody knows exactly what to call it?  ”New iPad”, “iPad HD”, “iPad 3?… the terms are being used interchangeably by everyone who’s up to buy the device.  NowI’m sure Tim Cook had his reasons not to call it the iPad 3, but at least give it some moniker akin to the iPhone 4S. Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:40:30 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/5497b This is (sadly?) the new normal, so we hope you have larger pockets. But do folks actually want their next smartphone to have a larger display? According to a recent study done by the guys at Strategy Analytics, the answer is a resounding yes: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:13:52 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/7aabe The numbers are contained within an updated filing in which Facebook states (page 24), "While we believe these numbers are reasonable estimates of our user base for the applicable period of measurement, there are inherent challenges in measuring usage of our products across large online and mobile populations around the world. For example, there may be individuals who have multiple Facebook accounts in violation of our terms of service, despite our efforts to detect and suppress such behavior." Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:03:47 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/96c2c Men like to know when their wife or girlfriend is happy while women really want the man in their life to know when they are upset, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association. Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:10:03 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/833fc mcdonald's is gross except for this one magical time of year. Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:24:15 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/beb27 Researching family activities and travel is one of the top three reasons moms go online, but when they Google family hotels, they get pages of ubiquitous Disney deals. Poshbrood.com fills a need by providing a free, curated catalog of upscale, family-friendly hotels, resorts, and villas—all mom tested by bloggers we send to personally experience each property Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:31:46 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/fac00 For many women, finding the right bra is a challenge. Enter Israeli startup Brayola, a new site that aims to make it easier for women to find their next favorite bra. Brayola helps women find their perfect bra size and discover new bras that match the style she likes. Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:05:44 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/c36f5 The tomb has been dated to before A.D. 70, so if its engravings are indeed early Christian, they were most likely made by some of Jesus' earliest followers, according to the excavators. Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:44:37 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/e5442 In a lawsuit fled against Chicago's board of education, Lincoln Brown claims that his use of the word "n***er" during a conversation with students was a constitutionally-protected attempt to teach his class "an important lesson in vocabulary, civility and race relations". Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:23:33 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/c8ec5 click then vote Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:54:37 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/47f56 The group found that children consume more titanium dioxide than adults do because sweets like candies, marshmallows and icing are among the products with the highest levels. The paper lists the names of the products tested and their titanium dioxide content. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:56:02 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/34e65 Greg Brooks, founder and owner of Sub Sea Research, a Portland, Maine-based business that hunts for treasure, recently came across the biggest find of his career: 1.7 million ounces—62,500 pounds—of platinum aboard a scuttled cargo ship that sank in 1942.  Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:54:42 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/dc43a His career will soon get back on track. A new federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monitoring oil spills and wildlife, even shooting Hollywood films. Local police and emergency services will also be freer to send up their own drones. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:52:19 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/64aac Is it creepy when data mining gets this good? Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:20:01 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/9fb43 That's the extreme step some pediatricians are taking when it comes to dealing with parents who won't get their children vaccinated over concerns the injections cause autism or other side effects. The Wall Street Journal reports that these doctors are fed up and would rather rid the family from their practice than have unvaccinated children risk infecting other infants or sick children in the waiting room. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:09:53 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/cae68 This is the greatest thing ever because when you're done you can copy and paste it into an email. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:28:35 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/93c7e According to TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech execs, the so-called "App Economy" has created an estimated 466,000 jobs since 2007, when the iPhone was first unveiled. The report specifies that this estimate includes all jobs at Facebook-focused companies like Zynga, as well as dev gigs at Amazon, AT&T and Electronic Arts, in addition to the obvious heavyweights, Apple and Google. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:15:41 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/2a0c4 Heather Peters sued Honda in small-claims court in Torrance, California over the gas mileage she was getting in her Honda Civic Hybrid, which was around 20 miles per gallon less than Honda had advertised. After two days of testimony, Commissioner Doug Carnahan sent his 26-page decision to both Peters and Honda, with a ruling in favor of Peters and $9,687 awarded in damages. That's just short of the $10,000 maximum that can be won in small-claims court. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:14:08 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/40b65 Using both fossil and living specimens, scientists calculated growth rates for 28 different mammalian groups during the past 65 million years—and found that, for mammals, getting big takes longer than shrinking. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:13:22 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/94dc4 specifically the handful of times Lenny reached for his groin area to imitate one of Jackson’s best-known dance moves — constituted gross misconduct and that Lenny was suspended. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:49:22 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/f1eb6 President Obama said Sunday that he deserves a second term despite suggesting in a similar interview three years ago that if he didn’t turn around the economy in three years, his presidency was going to be a “one-term proposition.’ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:47:42 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/8a87d As she was born in 1885, Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez had to spend more than half her life without electricity or running water. In the year of her birth Cuba was still a Spanish colony, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York harbour and the first automobile was patented. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:46:49 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/bdd27 Our goal at Ridejoy is to make it easy and fun to share rides with friendly people. If you’re going on a trip, you can list extra seat space in your car, and if you need to get somewhere, you can find a ride. It’s like carpooling, but fun. And it works. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:12:53 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/9d64e Embarrassed state officials on Thursday blamed a failure of the quality assurance office within the Vermont Correctional Industries Print Shop in St. Albans, Vt., to detect a prisoner-artist's addition made four years ago to the traditional state police logo, reports Mike Donoghue of the Burlington Free Press. In an ingenious bit of subtle social protest, a spot on the shoulder of the cow in the state emblem was modified into a pig. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:28:59 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/54f48 Actor Cynthia Nixon recently stirred controversy when she declared that she had chosen to be gay. The quote that prompted the debate? It appeared in a profile of Nixon in the New York Times Sunday Magazine:. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:42:44 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/2f796 Just do it... then look at a white or neutral surface and blink. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:43:42 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/0ca74 A group of compounds used in a variety of products, including water-resistant clothing and microwave popcorn, may prevent childhood vaccinations from working properly, a new study says. In the study, children who had higher concentrations of these compounds, called perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), in their blood had lower immune responses to diphtheria and tetanus vaccinations. An insufficient immune response to a vaccination can mean a child is actually vulnerable to catching a disease even though they've beenvaccinated against it. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:22:32 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/f3c97 Long before the advent of such games as Minecraft, virtual worlds were coded primarily as first person shooter maps. You could play Half-Life deathmatch in a super-sized kitchen, Counter Strike on a World War II battlefield and so on. Map making was an artform. But it’s clearly not dead. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:49:15 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/b7360 More than half (54%) of respondents said it was "acceptable" to have 15 seconds of pre-roll advertising. When the ad run time rose to 30 seconds just 12% found it acceptable despite the content they were about to view being free of charge. Just 4% found 45 second ads acceptable and some ad lovers were happy with a full minute of advertising. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:58:03 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/ca62d American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:33:23 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/7031a "Nail" and "Head" puns welcome. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:01:44 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/1926d Watch this amazing punt return touchdown. He even throws in a little victory loop at the end. Unbelievable. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:28:51 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/ed908 In honor of her 90th birthday, President Obama sent a video message to Betty White, asking to see her long-form birth certificate. After all, she is incredibly spry for a woman of advancing age. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:45:29 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/8a840 StackSocial is a white-label eCommerce platform enabling technology-focused publishers to generate additional revenues by offering exclusive flash sales on software, apps, video tutorials, and other digital tools. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:43:44 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/0b9cc Invested.in allows users to create and customize interactive fundraising campaigns. Invested.in also offers licensing and partnership deals to larger entities for their own customized “crowdfunding” platforms. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:42:20 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/b65ee TidePool is a gamified psychometrics platform to assess and track the characteristics of job seekers. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:40:03 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/488d6 Look IO overlays live chat support with visual feedback into mobile apps that allows customer service agents to view and support mobile users in real-time. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:38:35 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/0a9ad GetBonkers is a game publisher and aggregator building a large suite of fun and engaging mobile learning apps for children. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:36:31 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/4385d So a person or (judging by the access rate) team of people were systematically accessing our database, during office hours, and it looked like they moved into a new office over the weekend at the start of November. But who were they, and what were they doing? Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:17:47 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/1c2ce "This is not a simple social convention, but rather the fundamental cell of every society. Consequently, policies which undermine the family threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself," he said. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:56:03 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/756ff When you first see it in the distance, you wouldn’t think it anything other than a picturesque home in the Adirondacks: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:03:54 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/ecd0a Roughly 200 million people worldwide use illicit drugs such as marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine and opioids each year, according to a new study. The figure represents about one in 20 people between the ages of 15 and 64. Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:48:47 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/1a3fc Click then vote. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:22:00 +0000 http://www.pikk.com/d24ba