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Audi, Lexus and Toyota rank highest for car-seat anchors
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Audi, Lexus and Toyota rank highest for car-seat anchors

New rankings from the insurance industry show that the Audi Q7, Lexus RX and Toyota Prius have the easiest-to-use anchors for child seats.

Thanks, but I can’t take credit for that — and I don’t recall seeing it when I published the post.
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Thanks, but I can’t take credit for that — and I don’t recall seeing it when I published the post.

Perhaps it was added by the Startup Grind publication. Continue reading on »

It’s certainly not the way an advisory role should work, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a…
From The Noisy Channel

It’s certainly not the way an advisory role should work, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a…

So I agree that it’s a flag, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a red flag. Continue reading on »

No. I believed that they brought me on as an advisor so I could help them solve their problem.
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No. I believed that they brought me on as an advisor so I could help them solve their problem.

And I spent a bunch of time with their team. It was only later that they started dropping my name to VCs — in fact, after May when I’d… Continue reading on »

Turbulence forces emergency landing in Ireland; 12 injured
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Turbulence forces emergency landing in Ireland; 12 injured

A United Airlines flight bound for London made an emergency landing at Shannon Airport in Ireland on Wednesday after severe turbulence that left 12 passengers needing...

The quest to end lost airline luggage
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The quest to end lost airline luggage

Victor DaRosa stands under a scorching afternoon sun, loading bags onto a jet heading to Detroit.

I may have been burned, but I’m not willing to let this experience make me that cynical.
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I may have been burned, but I’m not willing to let this experience make me that cynical.

I still basically trust people, and I’d like to keep it that way. But now I understand more than before why other people are less trusting. Continue reading on...

Melinda, you’re right: it should not have taken an experience like this to teach me to be more…
From The Noisy Channel

Melinda, you’re right: it should not have taken an experience like this to teach me to be more…

careful. That said, I met the company through someone I trust, and I did spend some time with the team before becoming an advisor.Continue reading on »

Lesson Learned
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Lesson Learned

This morning, I woke up to find out that a job-matching company I’d been advising, WrkRiot (formerly known as 1for.one and apparently also…Continue reading on...

Autism a Silicon Valley asset with social quirks
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Autism a Silicon Valley asset with social quirks

Corey Weiss may not be adept at body language or social cues, but he knows software.

Study provides voice for evacuation needs of mobility impaired
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Study provides voice for evacuation needs of mobility impaired

A fire alarm sounds. An announcement comes over the office public address system: "A fire has been reported in the building. This is not a drill. Please move to...

Searching for Goldilocks
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Searching for Goldilocks

Many search queries don’t have a single right answer or even an objective best answer. For example, if you’re looking for mailboxes or…Continue reading on »

Researchers work to predict the future of transit
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Researchers work to predict the future of transit

Haris N. Koutsopoulos believes that our ability to predict the future has the potential to enable various innovations in public transit. The short-term future,...

Refugee who made it returns with drone to halt drownings
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Refugee who made it returns with drone to halt drownings

Standing on a pebbled beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, Mehdi Salehi searches for a good spot to set his drone loose.

Bags don't fly free: Charges have boosted airlines' departure performances, study finds
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Bags don't fly free: Charges have boosted airlines' departure performances, study finds

When most major airlines began charging flyers for checked bags in 2008, travelers grumbled. Southwest Airlines—one of the most successfully run airlines in history...

Feds: Ignore that post about banning driver cellphone use
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Feds: Ignore that post about banning driver cellphone use

Briefly Monday, it looked like the federal government was going to push all 50 states to ban the use of cellphones and other wireless devices while people are driving...

It's only rock 'n' roll – and sometimes it's better in mono
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It's only rock 'n' roll – and sometimes it's better in mono

While music lovers continue to argue about the relative merits of digital audio and the analogue vinyl disc, another debate is going on about the renaissance of...

Experts use drift modeling to define new MH370 search zone
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Experts use drift modeling to define new MH370 search zone

Experts hunting for the missing Malaysian airliner are attempting to define a new search area by studying where in the Indian Ocean the first piece of wreckage...

Discovering electric mobility in a playful way
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Discovering electric mobility in a playful way

How can services help encourage the spread of electric mobility, and how can they be systematically developed? Using four case studies from Finland, Estonia, Denmark...

Image: Margaret Hamilton's Apollo code
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Image: Margaret Hamilton's Apollo code

Half a century ago, MIT played a critical role in the development of the flight software for NASA's Apollo program, which landed humans on the moon for the first...
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