Friday, July 26, 2013

New Nexus 7 to arrive today at Best Buy

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/26/new-nexus-7-on-sale-early/

Source new Nexus 7 to arrive today at Best Buy

A tipster has told us that the latest Nexus 7 from Asus and Google will hit Best Buy stores today, and a pre-order we placed earlier for the device seems to confirm that. We put our money down for one when the order page first went up, and while the confirmation originally said it would arrive on the original July 30th launch date, it's now telling us that we can expect our tablet later today. That jibes with info we were given by a source claiming to be the manager of a Best Buy store. He said that while pre-orders started yesterday, "there were few (of them) in my region," meaning that "if you are present at a (Best Buy) location today at opening, you have a good chance of buying the tablet." He added that some stores don't have stock yet due to agreements with Google, but pre-orders are still possible at those locations. Until we receive confirmation, however, you may not want to make a long journey to one of the outlets. Meanwhile, we've reached out to both Google and Best Buy.

[Thanks, Anonymous]

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12K gaming rig renders 1.5 billion pixels per second for just $17,000 (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/26/12k-gaming-amd-7970-sharp-pnk321/

DNP 12K gaming brings frame rates and resolution to OMFGlevels

Think your gaming rig's impressive because it can run Metro: Last Light with maxed out settings at 60FPS? Well, Microsoft rounded up a trio of Sharp PN-K321 32-inch 4K monitors and wired them to a Windows 8 PC stuffed with three ASUS 7970 GPUs. The $17,000 experiment proved two things: Such tech is outside our price-range, and it takes a huge amount of support to get it working. For instance, before AMD wrote custom drivers to make Eyefinity and multi-stream transport play nicely together, the framerate was a meager 8FPS. It's worth noting that even after all that, demos only lasted a few minutes before the computer's power supply would conk out -- but maybe the kinks will be fixed in time for us to play Battlefield Bad Company 5 on it.

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Via: Gavin Gear (Twitter)

Source: Extreme Windows Blog (Microsoft)

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Dealzmodo: Sanyo Eneloop XX, ASUS Monitor, Vornado Fan, Fight Club

Source: http://gizmodo.com/dealzmodo-sanyo-eneloop-xx-asus-monitor-vornado-fan-912558549

Dealzmodo: Sanyo Eneloop XX, ASUS Monitor, Vornado Fan, Fight Club

Eneloops are by far the best rechargeable batteries on the market, and they've become somewhat of a running joke around here because they never stay on sale long enough for the post to go up. Well, today is the day. Needless to say, I'd get them in your cart and checkout quickly if you're interested. [Amazon]

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Scientists Just Discovered a New Force That's Stronger Than Gravity

Source: http://gizmodo.com/scientists-just-discovered-a-new-force-thats-stronger-909286447

Scientists Just Discovered a New Force That's Stronger Than Gravity

Scientists have long known that blackbodies produce radiation and that radiation creates a repulsive effect. However, according to a new study there's another force at play, one that acts a bit like gravity and attracts objects to the blackbody. They're calling it "blackbody force."

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How PolicyMic, A Startup With A Handful Of Employees, Gets 6 Million People To Read It Every Month

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-increase-site-traffic-according-to-policymic-2013-7

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In 2011, Chris Altchek left his job at Goldman Sachs. He created PolicyMic, a site that used Bleacher Report's model of hiring mostly-free contributors to produce content and applied it to politics. 

Since then, Altchek and his co-founder Jake Horowitz have raised a small family-and-friends round followed by $1.5 million from investors such as politician Condoleezza Rice and Silicon Valley big-wig Mary Meeker.

The team recently grew to 16 people but Altchek says his team reached 6 million monthly uniques with just 12 people prior to the mini hiring spree. Part of the traffic growth came from obvious tweaks, like adding more apparent share tools to the site and expanding into other verticals, such as news and entertainment. There's also an obvious traffic spike in March 2013, when PolicyMic closed its financing round. Other less obvious factors contributed to the company's growth as well.

We asked Altchek which moves he's made over the past few years that helped his site grow the most.

"PolicyMic focused on a very specific demographic – millennials – and a specific type of content – high-quality analysis," Altchek says. "We've been able to grow traffic to over 6 million monthly uniques, which is now 1/3 social, 1/3 search, and 1/3 direct, by doing three things really well."

Here are those three things, according to Altchek:

  1. Smart social – we've narrowed in on smart content that people still want to share. We hired a behavioral scientist from London School of Economics, Liz Plank, who's job is to study viral trends on smart topics. We track social sharing on all the top publishers on the web and draw trends that allow us to produce viral stories on important topics. A few examples include this story on the protests in Turkey which has 97,341 shares, or this storyon Calvin & Hobbes with 50,011 shares, this story on Brazil which 71,570 shares, or this story on the American economy with 47,176 shares.
  2. Mobilizing millennials – we have built our editorial team around our millennial contributors – who are the leading 20-something in their fields. Instead of writing multiple stories per day, our 12-person editorial team is focused on training writers, editing, fact-checking, and recruiting millennials with deep topic expertise. By sourcing these high quality millennial contributors, we have built out a network that produces, consumes, and distributes to have an impact on PolicyMic and across various social networks. Our contributor model has allowed to us to scale to publishing over 90 high-quality articles per day.policymic users chart millennials
  3. Viral Engagement – while building a high-quality publishing system, we've built a community of millennials that want to have intellectual discussions on big ideas. Because of the authentic discussion happening on our platform, thought leaders have begun holding Q&A by publishing on the site and responding to comments. Here are a few recent thought leaders we've hosted:policymic contributors

Future improvements Altchek is planning to make include a site redesign, and the expansion into even more verticals this fall. 

To see how he got started, here's a Q&A with Altcheck shortly after he left Goldman Sachs.

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