The tan building in the middle is 1351 H Street NE, where the plans for the restaurant Maketto are being drawn up.
Micah Lubens bought a share of a vacant, two-story brick building that was promoted as the next up-and-coming hot spot along D.C.’s bustling H Street corridor for only $100.
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Prison inmates post reviews to Yelp.
Robert Miller , an attorney, has visited five prisons and 17 jails in his lifetime, but he has reviewed only three of them on Yelp. One he found “average,” with inexperienced and power-hungry officers. Another he faulted for its “kind of very firmly rude staff.” His most recent review, a January critique of Theo Lacy jail in Orange County, Calif., lauds the cleanliness, urban setting and “very nice” deputies.
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Wearable technology
Look around any waiting room and you will probably row after row of people hunched over their smartphones. But that common sight may change as tech companies bet that users are so attached to their screens, they’ll start to wear them.
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Facebook has a grand total of 189 million “mobile-only monthly active users (MAUs).
Facebook has for some time been focusing on getting its network into the hands of everyone around the world, be they tech sophisticates in urban centers or nomadic herdsmen in South Sudan.
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Vivek Wadhwa: During the mid-1990s, cardiologist and researcher David Albert had the idea to develop a handheld device that displays an electrocardiogram. He believed that this would save lives by providing immediate information to patients wherever they were. In those days, even the most powerful handheld computers didn’t have the needed capabilities. So Albert dropped the idea because it was impossible.
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iTunes has a long and successful history of commercial transactions, so people feel comfortable clicking and shopping and buying on iOS.
The mobel advertising market is booming and it has grown from $1.4 billion in 2011 to $4.1 billion in 2012, and it’s projected to hit a massive $7.3 billion in 2013.
And almost all of it is spent on Apple’s ecosystem.
Bookstores are in crisis. Books aren’t.
There has been an upheaval in bookselling over the past ten years. With the surge in online ordering, the challenges faced by brick and mortar booksellers, and the arguing over ebook pricing you would think the book industry was in crisis. But sales figures suggest otherwise. Increasingly, this churning appears to be an integral feature of a steady process of transformation in the digital age.
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Are we more productive in the office, or out of the office?
According to a new survey of 1,000 Americans by uSamp, 65 percent of companies allow remote work, and an even higher percentage of big companies take advantage of home and virtual offices. But what does that do to productivity? (Infographic)
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Single people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people.
A trend that has held true in studies across the world and time periods is that single, widowed, and divorced people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people. The tendencies for unmarried people to die seems to tell us about the relative strength of social bonds, which is supported by similar trends seen among ants, bees, and even cells, described in a fascinating paper in Cornell’s quantitative biology archive.
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Early adopters of the “learn to code” movement are using different education programs at different stages of their development.
People learning to code can actually do it efficiently part-time. Adults with full-time jobs can learn to code part-time. This means people whose schedules are full and who can’t afford to quit and pay college tuition at a traditional University.
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According to a recent online survey, electronics recycling has sharply risen in the past three years. General recycling is at all-time high levels, with 84 percent of U.S. residents recycling their trash – helped no doubt by the widespread availability ofcurbside recycling programs in many communities.
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Job sprawl stalls in metropolitan areas.
As policymakers and regional leaders work to grow jobs and connect residents to economic opportunity following the Great Recession, where jobs locate matters. The location of employment within a metro area intersects with a range of policy issues—from transportation to workforce development to regional innovation—that affect a region’s long-term health, prosperity, and social inclusion.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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