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Theodore Rex | Dinner | Houston, TX
Theodore Rex | Dinner | Houston, TX Source: The Infatuation, Texas Monthly The man with the suitcase bounced up the steps into Theodore Rex. He held his suitcase, which was made of brown leather that had clearly seen too much wear and sun and general disuse, close to his chest, with his arms folded around it. His eyes zig-zagged around the restaurant before settling on the host. “A table for one!” he cried, then winced as though he’d forgotten to use his inside voice…
Il Posto | Brunch | Denver
By Minna Wang "Can I get a table inside but with a lot of sun? Something by a window? That one there, maybe?" I know what I want, and I'm not shy about asking for it. Some people call that high maintenance. But I say what's the point of money and success if you don't get everything you want as often as possible? Speaking of money and success, I have both. In spades, if I do say so myself. Enough for both...
5 pieces of art created with data
By Minna Wang Art installations, interactive analyses, music, and more This is how Laurie Frick describes this project on her blog: My projects use data to tell a story that unfolds over time, the viewer is initially struck by colorful pattern that feels organic and handmade. This year I completed an interactive online project for Google Arts & Culture in London to highlight...
An aligned porous electrospun fibrous scaffold embedded Asiatic acid for accelerating diabetic wound healing
An aligned porous electrospun fibrous scaffold embedded Asiatic acid for accelerating diabetic wound healing The diabetic non-healing wound is one of the most common complications of diabetics. The long-term stimulus of oxidant-stress, inflammation and infection caused by the hyperglycemia microenvironment in the wound site always leads to the delayed healing process of the diabetic wound.
Jenny Ahlstrom: Mother, Cancer Survivor, Founder Of HealthTree
This article was published in the Spring 2019 edition of Silicon Slopes Magazine. What are some of the hardest things you can do in life? Raise children. Run a company. Run a non-profit. Fight cancer. None of these are easy in the slightest. But now imagine doing all of them — at the same time. In 2010, Jenny Ahlstrom was happily doing the first when the journey that led her to the latter three began.
LendingClub & Their New Silicon Slopes Office: Making Personal Finance Less Scary
Reading statistics about how people manage their money is like watching a horror movie where there’s no plot and every fact is a jump scare. Think about you, the nearest clown, and the creepy guy with a van across the street. If all three of you need your cars fixed, chances are that only one (maybe two) of you can afford it—since 44% of Americans don’t have enough cash to cover a $400 emergency. Fingers crossed it’s you. Or think about how the average American is $38,000 in debt.
Ovation: A Way To Give Restaurants Honest Feedback
Three years ago, I went to a Chinese restaurant in Salt Lake (which shall remain nameless) that was so awful I cringe to think about it. And believe me, I know what Chinese food should taste like — my last name’s Wang, for 皮特’s sake. After that experience, I had a choice: to write an honest review on Google or Yelp and save others from soggy potstickers and over cooked lo mein, or to keep my keyboard shut and not be cruel. I chose the latter.
Mappen: Putting The “Social” Back In Social Media
When it began, social media sounded like a great idea. Want to catch up with old friends? Sure! Want to know how your favorite family members are doing outside of the once-a-year Christmas card? Of course! Want to stalk your middle school bully and revel in how much better you turned out? Sounds unhealthy, but I guess... Want to look at photos of your friends’ and casual acquaintances’ perfect lives and feel bad about yours?
Dealertrack DMS Announces New Silicon Slopes Office
One of the most interesting things about working in the tech industry is watching it slowly take over how you think. After a few months, you start to think about software everywhere. You find yourself desperately wanting to know, “What POS is my server using?” And as you listen to hold music, you find yourself idly wondering, “What CRM is Verizon tracking me in when I complain to their customer service?” The world becomes an infinitely complex web of platforms, a beautiful symphony of code.
Incorporate Massage: There’s No Excuse Anymore For A Massage-Less Workplace
It’s 2018 and it has to be said: massage is now a basic, table-stakes startup perk. That’s right, employers and HR departments — offering your employees massages has become as essential for recruiting and culture as a stocked snack room, big annual retreats, and kombucha on tap.
Instant Deals From Coup: Ask And Thou Shalt Receive
Among my friends — nay, even just among mere acquaintances — I am famously frugal and a notorious bargain-hunter. I no longer allowed to book Airbnbs for trips with friends unless at least one person is supervising, because of my track record for filtering solely on price. I once attempted to finish half a gallon of milk in one sitting because I expected it to go bad the next morning (which worked out just about as well as it sounds).
What It’s Like To Be A Female Entrepreneur: 8 Founders And CEOs Share Their Stories
What It’s Like To Be A Female Entrepreneur: 8 Founders And CEOs Share Their Stories The job of an entrepreneur is not an easy one. You’re fighting against hugely successful incumbents, trying to educate your customers, and fighting for every last dollar of revenue and every second of sleep you can get. But that challenge is what keeps you going.
Plantagon partners with Dubai university to create urban agricultural center
Urban agriculture firm Plantagon has announced a new partnership with the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD). The collaboration will include the establishment of a ‘Urban Agriculture Research Centre’ in Dubai and a framework for urban agriculture development across the UAE. Plantagon is most well known for its vertical farms, the first currently being built in Linköping, Sweden.
- ReadWrite
1. Bots go bust2. Deep learning goes commodity3. AI is cleantech 2.0 for VCs4. MLaaS dies a second death5. Full stack vertical AI startups actually workWith AI in a full-fledged mania, 2017 will be the year of reckoning. Pure hype trends will reveal themselves to have no fundamentals behind them.
Can smart cities protect their IoT Achilles heel from hackers?
Last year’s headline-grabbing security breaches of Internet of Things (IoT) technology was the opening salvo in a new cyberwar where smart cities are firmly in the crosshairs. Smart city security vulnerabilities were a recent topic of discussion with Paul Williams, SADC Country Manager with cyber security software firm Fortinet. Williams says that 2016’s high profile IoT cyber-attacks exposed how vulnerable this new technology is to hackers.
- ReadWrite
READWRITE: What was the impetus for this book?Michael Miller: My publisher and I are always looking for new topics to write on. Trying to get ahead of some these topics. In the past, I’ve written about Cloud Computing and Bluetooth, and technologies like that before they became big. My Bluetooth book came out ten years ago and my Cloud Computing book came out five or six years ago. We always try and get ahead of the trends and sometimes, we hit some that are actually hot and sometimes we don’t.
Content Marketing Lessons From 5 Amazing TED Talks - ClearVoice
Watching a good TED talk can inspire your content marketing team to create really great content. A few years ago, I helped a friend of mine prepare for a local TED event and I learned about the hours of prep that go into even a short talk. Before you ever set foot on a TED stage, you’ve already written four or five iterations, shared it with multiple people, and practiced it until you’re practically repeating it in your sleep. It’s the editing and peer review process we writers aspire to.
Tanner Labs: There's Something Happening Here
When most of us hear O.C. Tanner, we think of the historic building on State Street in downtown Salt Lake and enough jewelry to warrant forgiveness for any amount of forgotten birthdays, anniversaries, and Mother’s Day’s. What we don’t realize is that O.C. Tanner is so much more than a jewelry store — it’s an 89-year-old company with $380 million in revenue, with only a fraction of that being in rings and necklaces. “Jewelry is less than 5% of our revenue.
A primer on data encryption
In today’s interconnected world, data encryption is the only thing that keeps us from spinning into complete and utter chaos. Born out of cryptography, encryption functions like the codes you used to pass notes with in elementary school. But there’s a difference—technically, codes are made up of letter, word, or phrase substitutions while ciphers use mathematical procedures (also known as algorithms) to transform messages.
Cisco's Berlin "Smart City" effort aims to help digitize citizens' lives
According to a report in ZDNet, the IT networking giant announced plans last week to invest in digitizing the lives of Berlin residents in conjunction with local government. The focus of Cisco’s Berlin efforts is on three key areas: telemedicine, security and network infrastructure improvements. The Berlin initiatives are part of Cisco’s $500 million “Deutschland Digital” program, announced on March 8, which strives to accelerate Germany’s digitization.
What Should Kids Be Reading? Ask Bookroo.
Up there with driving and tying your shoelaces, reading is one of the most important and useful life skills — unless you’re okay with spending your time uneducated and walking everywhere in velcro tennis shoes. We need reading for nearly everything we derive enjoyment from: Reddit posts, funny t-shirts, offensive bumper stickers — the list goes on. It was the one required skill for the original intellectual hobby, book reading.
Why the IoT Is A Leap of Logic in the Evolution of Tech - ReadWrite
The Internet of Things (IoT) has got to be the buzz phrase of the century. We thought .com was big, this is bigger; 40-50 billion connected objects by 2020 bigger, according to an AIG report, recently out. The difference between the .com business revolution, come bubble, and the IoT is that this time it is real.That’s a big statement and I know that the old adage, “famous last words” may come back to haunt me, but the IoT is truly a natural extension of the Internet and was inevitable.
Uber buying 100,000 self-driving Mercedes S-Classes?
In a new power play in autonomous vehicle market-share grab, Uber is rumored to be planning to purchase – or may have already placed an order for – thousands of Mercedes-Benz self-driving vehicles. According to a report by German media outlet Manager Magazin, Uber placed a huge order to buy 100,000 of the carmaker’s S-Class, with a total price tag of nearly $12 billion.
Apple Debuts Personal Health CareKit at Launch Event
Apple introduced the open source software framework CareKit at their launch event today, a new platform they hope will be used to develop new healthcare apps. The Cupertino-based firm plans to release the software this April, with the aim to make it easier for end-users to track their health and monitor symptoms, treatment and medications. As well, it should be easier for patients using these apps to quickly share data with their doctors or family members and loved ones.
Launching Your Company with Crowdfunding
You have an amazing idea for the next big thing, but how do you launch your startup? Not too long ago, the traditional start-up path involved accelerators, incubators, tons of networking and pitching to VCs that would tell you no 9 times out 10. Today, entrepreneurs have another option to launch their companies: crowdfunding. In fact, the crowdfunding industry is on track to account for more funding than venture capital in 2016.
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