Is your website slow? Find out the stylish way with Stella

If you ever encounter a slow-loading website, it can be frustrating trying to work out what’s caused the problem.Stellais a great tool for testing out a site’s health – either as a one-off checkup or for ongoing monitoring – and it manages to throw a rather stylish look into the mix too. Simply enter any URL into Stella’s checkup tool and it will run a speed test to check exactly where any bottlenecks might be....

3 min · 428 words · Erin Mckinney

Is Zyrra the future of bra fitting?

The bra industry currently uses a fitting system that is over one hundred years old. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of women roam the streets every day in bras that don’t fit properly. Isn’t it time for technology to apply a nip of disruption to the bra industry? ZyrraCo-founders Christi Andersen and Derek Ohly think so. The two met at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College near Boston, Mass....

3 min · 606 words · David Reed

Is ‘brain drift’ the key to machine consciousness?

Think about someone you love and the neurons in your brain will light up like a Christmas tree. But if you think about them again, will the same lights go off? Chances are: the answer’s no. And that could have big implications for the future of AI. A team of neuroscientists from the University of Columbia in New York recently published research demonstrating what they refer to as “representational drift” in the brains of mice....

4 min · 688 words · Cynthia Hicks

iScanner lets iPhone and iPad users handle documents and scanning like a boss

TLDR:The iScanner app is the no. 1 way iOS users can handle, convert, or edit documents their way — and it’s now 79 percent off. We all love our phones. And over the past decade, their functionality has exploded to the point that there’s now precious little your iPhone can’t do in a pinch. However, there are some tasks you face that immediately make you think, eww, I’m going to have to tackle that one back at the office....

3 min · 452 words · Brian Wallace

iScreenshots. A better way to create and share iPhone screenshots

TNW Quick Hit iScreenshots($.99) allows one to use screenshots from apps, web sites, SMS conversations and more, crop them and create a full screenshot from a combination of image sources. Hits:Users can capture and create a single screenshot with all the information they desire to capture and email it to anyone without the need for any editing or sending multiple emails. Misses:Additional sharing options (Twitter,Facebook,Tumblr,Dropbox, text message, ect.) from within the app would be grand....

3 min · 506 words · Robin Beck
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