San Francisco Bay Area – Science, Technology, Society

Pedal cars at maker Fest

Posted on May 22, 2013June 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

Pedal Car Race Competition Heats Up
Goli Mohammadi, makezine.com

The fine folks of the Fun Bike Unicorn Club (FBUC) are hosting the second annual Death Defying Figure 8 Races this weekend, May 18 and 19, at Maker Faire Bay Area. One look at a handful of the pedal cars that will be racing this weekend,…

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Pedal Car Race Competition Heats Up (makezine.com)

Bulletproof conference: biohack your life

Posted on May 19, 2013June 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

(via Bulletproof Conference — Biohack Your Life)

guardian tecnologia: Kickstarter must not fund biohackers’ glow-in-the-dark plants | Martin Lukacs (guardian.co.uk)
Biohacking (wewanttolearn.wordpress.com)
Make Yourself Bulletproof (exohuman.com)

Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents

Posted on April 30, 2013June 30, 2013 by timbatchelder

Ashlee Vance, businessweek.com

(An earlier version of this story ran online.)

Max Nanis’s website prominently features about two dozen head shots of the skinny, scruffy 22-year-old Southern Californian with his shirt off …

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Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents

How Silicon Valley’s Tech Reign Will End (developers.slashdot.org)
Hollywood, Silicon Valley quarrel over digital media (theneteconomy.wordpress.com)
IN SEARCH OF CHEAP HELP: The Hill: Silicon Valley prepares to push House toward immigration reform… (pjmedia.com)
The Next Silicon Valley Could Have Been In Israel (gizmodo.com.au)
Instagram, Vine competition expose what’s wrong with Silicon Valley’s current MO (bizjournals.com)
A set of tools to nurture your own Silicon Valley (innovationrainforest.com)

Food Hackathons: food tech startups growing

Posted on April 15, 2013June 23, 2013 by timbatchelder

Food Hackers Cook Up a Storm of Startup Ideas in San Francisco
Wade Roush, xconomy.com

Wade RoushFile this under “more evidence that food-tech is one of the hottest areas for Bay Area entrepeneurs.” A weekend Food Hackathon contest at SOMACentral’s new 450 Townsend Street space attracted some 170 developers, designers,…

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New Rock Health Startups Focus on Data, Sensors, Patients (xconomy.com)
The VC Will See You Now at the “World’s Largest Office Hours” (xconomy.com)
Global Hackathon for Social Good : Mobile (geekli.st)
Hacking the Red Planet in San Francisco (mapbox.com)
Public Media Collides with Silicon Valley; Six Startups Emerge (xconomy.com)
6 Hackathons You Should Know About (news.dice.com)
Food: Eating and Food Shopping in San Francisco (Bay Area) (thegypsynurse.com)

Minority Report tech: coming to your living room

Posted on January 1, 2013January 2, 2013 by timbatchelder

Dan Lyons, readwrite.com

The company is called Leap Motion, and if you want to get an idea of how much everyone in San Francisco is buzzing about them, consider this: A few weeks ago I was visiting a different hot new startup in San Francisco, and in the middle of their d…

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