Allen de la Cruz

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Software Consulting - platform integrations, user engagement and monetization
Social Media, Online Video, Mobile

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Prototype: At Ministry of Supply, Teamwork in Making High-Tech Apparel
Two groups of M.I.T. entrepreneurs were working on simila...
Concerns Arise on U.S. Effort to Allow Internet ‘Wiretaps’
A report cautioned that government wiretapping of the Int...
Apple Fights Back in E-Book Antitrust Case
The company is scheduled to go to trial in June over the ...
Hunting for Syrian Hackers’ Chain of Command
If researchers prove the Assad regime is closely tied to ...
Times Site Is Attacked by Hackers
The New York Times Company was a victim of online attacks...
Bits Blog: Eric Schmidt of Google to Meet With British Prime Minister
The search company’s executive chairman is part of a grou...
DealBook: Faced With Overload, a Need to Find Focus
Here’s a radical proposal: Don’t check your e-mail tomorr...
Gadgetwise Blog: App Smart Extra: Apps for Editing Photos
Some simple photo apps can turn ordinary photos into quir...
Bits Blog: New Apps Arrive on Google Glass
Google announced seven new apps for its Internet-connecte...
Ars Technica
Video: Reboots that need the boot, part 2—SimCity
The 2013 SimCity reboot is heartbreakingly awful.
A second look at Google I/O: Androids, robots, and the show floor
After the keynote there was still plenty to see.
Printable A3-sized solar cells hit a new milestone in green energy
Printing 10 meters of solar cells in a minute means good ...
Why use a database instead of just saving your data to disk?
For smaller projects, is a database worth it?
To manage your diabetes, Weird Science recommends the munchies
But it advises against using frog-based pregnancy tests.
Ars readers react to laser-wielding Soviet satellites and Google I/O
Ars also debates how to make game play sportsmanlike.
At EVE Fanfest, players celebrate a different world
A tourist's perspective on a devoted gathering.
MacBook Air supplies dwindle ahead of WWDC, Intel CPU refresh
Waiting for next-generation Air? The stars may be alignin...
Prenda lawyer Paul Hansmeier asks appeals court to delay sanctions
But Hansmeier is having trouble even getting admitted at ...
TechCrunch
What Games Are: Cometh The Hour, Cometh The Xbox?
With Xbox 360 having started well but ended in a very con...
The Evolution Of Hacker News
The idea of a VC having its own news aggregator was a bit...
CrunchWeek: Google I/O Madness And Square's New iPad Hardware For Merchants
It's that time of the week for CrunchWeek, the show where...
I/Overload?
Did Google's conference succeed? It launched dozens of pr...
How Hike, India's Fast Growing Mobile Messaging App, Is Banking On SMS & Local Diversity To Beat The Big Boys
It’s still practically a newborn but Indian mobile messag...
Gillmor Gang: Live from betaday
This Gillmor Gang was recorded live at betaday, the betaw...
Speculation Of A Nexus Q Replacement Swirls After An Unannounced Google Media Streamer Hits The FCC
Google is prepping... something. An announced Google medi...
Why We Aren't Developing For OUYA
Editor's note: Tolga Ozuygur is the co-founder of Overdos...
The Time Has Come For Chrome In The Home
I’ve spent the last two weeks wandering around London, Pa...
Lifehacker
Why It's Always Worth Asking for a Hotel Upgrade
A lot of people are uncomfortable with haggling, but jus...
Twipster Strips Twitter's Cluttered Interface Down to the Essentials
Safari/Chrome: If Twitter's web interface is a little to...
Garden Without The Back Strain with this DIY Seed Gun
Everyone loves a good backyard garden, but hunching over...
Cut Lemons Lengthwise to Get More Juice
When you need lemon juice for a recipe, nothing beats fr...
Add Custom Backlighting to Your Keyboard
A lot of nice gaming keyboards come with backlit keys, b...
Sip Grabs Color Codes From Anywhere, Instantly
OS X: If you see a color on the web or in an app that yo...
Top 10 Everyday Life Hacks That Take 10 Seconds or Less
Sometimes, you can do something the fast way, or you can ...
Buy a New Toothbrush Whenever You Buy Toothpaste
Dentists recommend buying a new toothbrush every 3-4 mon...
Find a Quick Exercise Routine You Can Actually Stick to This Weekend
Exercise: most of us hate it and wish we did it more ofte...
CNN.com - ...
Google+: One tool to bind them all
For two years, Google has pushed its Google+ as more than...
Google+: One tool to bind them all
For two years, Google has pushed its Google+ as more than...
Is Yahoo about to buy Tumblr?
In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league...
Meet your robot bartender
Crowd control took on a whole new meaning last night as a...
Tech tools tell you you're drunk
Even if they don't admit it, most people know when they'r...
'Star Trek' or 'Star Wars'?
Photon torpedoes and proton torpedoes. Warp speed and hyp...
Yes, it's a cocktail-making robot bartender
Crowd control took on a whole new meaning last night as a...
Is Yahoo about to buy Tumblr?
In a deal that would vault Yahoo into the premiere league...
Tech tools tell you you're drunk
Even if they don't admit it, most people know when they'r...
New on ...
Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 18 May 2013)
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint serv...
From Our Archive: Wearable Computing, Long Before Google Glass
What was it like to use a wearable computer back in 1999?...
SAP Makes Big Data Real– And Real-Time
The following View from the Marketplace was provided by S...
The Impending Headache of Google Glass Apps
Glass apps will require people to create new content filt...
The Latest Hardware Hacking Tool: A Machine that Carves Custom Circuit Boards
Otherfab’s Kickstarter project offers an easy way to make...
Building Solar in Spain Instead of Germany Could Save Billions
Building solar and wind projects in the wrong place is wa...
Brain Training May Help Clear Cognitive Fog Caused by Chemotherapy
The mental fuzziness induced by cancer treatment could be...
Smartphone Tracker Gives Doctors Remote Viewing Powers
Here’s the smartphone technology that alerts a doctor whe...
Cheap Magnetic Helmet Detects Some Kinds of Brain Damage
Prototype spots swelling and bleeding in a pilot study—bu...
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Cast AR hands-on with Jeri Ellsworth at Maker Faire 2013 (update: video interview)
When Valve's first hardware hire, Jeri Ellsworth, tweet...
Alt-week 5.16.13: bug eyes, robo-cops and fake flowers
Alt-week takes a look at the best science and alternative...
Dell Project Ophelia USB Android stick to ship in July, priced at $100
We know that "wherefore art thou?" was about Romeo, but...
Sprint closes deal to buy US Cellular spectrum, adds 420,000 customers
Sprint was clearly hungry for capacity when it bought s...
The Last of Us will debut 'play while it downloads' feature on the PS3
Even though we don't yet know what the PlayStation 4 lo...
Google-built media player hits the FCC, reveals only a Hitchhiker's Guide reference
With much of its information obscured it's hard to say ...
Amtrak boosts WiFi on select trains, more upgrades coming this summer
There are plenty of wonderful things about train travel...
Stitcher adds car mode to iOS app, encourages responsible driving
Stitcher just announced a new car mode for the iPhone v...
University of Glasgow makes 3D models with single-pixel sensors, skips the cameras (video)
Most approaches to capturing 3D models of real-world ob...
Wired Top ...
Autodesk Purchases, Revives 3-D Design App Tinkercad
On Saturday, Autodesk announced it is purchasing Tinkerca...
The Schticky Is the Dark Knight Rises of Infomercials
When you?re an insomniac freelance writer who works from ...
Wired Space Photo of the Day: Galactic Wheels
How many rings do you see in this new image of the galaxy...
Penguin Bets Big That The 5th Wave Will Be the Next Hunger Games
In the latest Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast author R...
Dropping Jaws (And Slowpokes) on Cervelo's $10,000 Racing Bike
As one of just a few hundred limited-edition bikes produc...
From S.H.I.E.L.D. to Downton's Dracula: 10 New TV Shows to Check Out This Fall
This week, the broadcast TV networks announced their new ...
After $200 Million, Darpa Gives Up on Formation-Flying Satellites
Darpa is ending its experiment with small, close-flying s...
Slowly, Military Opens the Door to Outside Prosecutions for Sexual Assault
The military doesn't want to take sexual assault cases ou...
Game|Life Podcast: EA Ditches Online Passes and Wii U, But Mostly Wii U
Wired senior editor Peter Rubin joins me to explore two E...
Techdirt.
Sophisticatedjanedoe / FightCopyrightTrolls Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
Hi Techdirt! I'm known to this and other tech blog commun...
Awesome Stuff: Cool Product Designs
For this week's awesome stuff, we've got three different ...
Rice University Professor: SkyNET's Gonna Take Ur Jerbs!
It's sad to note how collective humanity has done an ost...
Make Art, Not Law
Crossposted from Questioncopyright.org Photo by Rav...
AP's Attempt At DRM'ing The News Shuts Down
Plenty of people rightly mocked the news a few years ago ...
DailyDirt: DIY Junk Food
Is it still junk food if you make it yourself? If you fee...
Suburban Express Goes Double Or Nothing On Their Aggressive Behavior
Hopefully you recall the story of Suburban Express and it...
Want To Destroy Any Hope Of Serious Cybersecurity? Give The DOJ Its Desired Backdoor Wiretaps On All Communications
The Obama administration has supposedly been "considering...
Nintendo Exchanges Goodwill For Control; Issues Mass Monetization Claims On Let's Play Videos
Nintendo's history of aggressive IP enforcement is long a...
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