Coud-based mapping service CartoDB has released a beta version of a new tool, Odyssey.js, that lets you create interactive maps in Markdown without knowing how to code.
If you like the idea beyond Forgotify, a web app that surfaces music that has never been played on Spotify, but want more control on what you discover, then you may be interested to hear of The Long Tail an app that pulls the 50 least played Spotify tracks of any artist into a playlist.
Travelers can leave their cars at the arrival level of the ParkingPLUS structure. As they leave, they confirm on a touch-screen that no one is in the car. The robot valet, nicknamed “Ray,” takes it from there.
Here’s a video of a guy performing a hands-free dance to put his pants on. He does it in less than 30 seconds, and he obviously chose to sync the footage to Europe’s “Final Countdown.”
Some readers will see this post and shout “HA! How could you NOT know that?” But most of The Next Web team didn’t know it until today, and I’m willing to bet that we’re far from alone.
Google Street View features some pretty cool things. But it’s also ripe for pranksters who get wind of a Google Street View car in the area. Two mechanics from Edinburgh, Scotland, staged a fake murder, with one chap posing over a motionless body while wielding a pick axe.
This is the performance of “The Company” at Vibe XIX 2014. Can’t tell if they are robots or humans. This dance routine is so impressive That it looks unreal. Check this out!
You know that one iPhone ringtone? Yeah. That one. Some call it “Opening”; others call it “That one damned song thats woken me up every morning since iOS 7 came out.”
Surrealist painter Hans Ruedi Giger, whose designs inspired the creature in Alien and whose otherworldly and often grotesque art graced album covers for Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Debbie Harry and Danzig, died Monday, following hospitalization for falling down the stairs in his Zurich home. He was 74.
Between is teaming up with local Korean partners such as 10×10 and Wincube Marketing to launch a gift shop for couples, where mobile coupons will be issued for them to redeem their presents.
Box announced today that its Notes service has emerged from beta and will roll out to all users by early June. Once the feature has been added to your account, a Notes button should appear in your dashboard.
After staying relatively quiet for most of 2013, Skrillex is back and ready to boogie. Today, he’s dropped dates for “The Mothership Tour”, a massive North American jaunt that includes headlining shows and festival appearances through the end of August.
At TechCrunch‘s Disrupt NY conference, Grace Choi, founder of Mink, presented a desktop printer that will change the way we buy makeup. “The makeup industry makes a whole lot of money on a whole lot of bullshit,” said Choi at the start of her presentation.
Clearly, being a parent is not easy. As a matter of fact, from the looks of it, you have to go above and beyond every so often to keep the family intact. Take Will Pemble, for instance.
Nokia may have finally offloaded its device and services division to Microsoft after its $7.2 billion deal was completed last month, but it is starting May with an interesting announcement: it is launching a fund that will invest $100 million in connected car startups.
So what would happen if you took a drone, attached twin video cameras to it, and had each of those cameras feed directly into one half of an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset?
