CruxSkunk iPad Keyboard Exposes the Mirage of Kickstarter CruxSkunk iPad Keyboard The CruxSkunk is a Kickstarter project that’s finally coming to fruition. Priced at $229, it’s an iPad keyboard that aims to mirror the Apple design aesthetic. Thin and Solid The CruxSkunk is made of aluminum and the keyboard portion […]
Earlier this week 22-year-old California woman Denise Helms made some disastrous social media choices after President Barack Obama won re-election. Helms wrote on Facebook: “Another 4 years of this [N-word]. Maybe he will get assassinated this term.” The racist comment immediately went viral and Helms was criticized for her racism […]
Apple continues to be by far the most lucrative retailer in the United States in terms of sales per square foot. Apple’s retail stores make $6,050 in sales per square foot, the most of any American retailer, according to the latest data from RetailSails, which measures the productivity of major retailers […]
Rihanna has knocked Eminem off the top spot as most-liked celeb on Facebook. At press time, the Barbadian singer has 61,564,736 fans, while the rapper stands at 61,217,673, according to Starcount, a data aggregator that measures social-media popularity. Slim Shady reigned as king of the social network since surpassing Lady […]
In elections past, you may not have known where your high school friends stood on the political spectrum. But now, thanks to the power of social media, you learn quite a bit about about where your old buddies stand on the gold standard, Obamacare or abortion. Maybe much more than […]
“Education is a big problem,” says Knewton CEO Jose Ferreira. He’s spent his whole life in the education space, starting at Kaplan in 1991. He tried to bring adaptive learning to Kaplan in 1993, but it was hard to do so in a brick-and-mortar situation, an environment in which few […]