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Amazon is reportedly bringing its grocery delivery service to the UK

Jul17
by on July 17, 2015 at 5:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Amazon has been delivering groceries for a few years now now through its AmazonFresh service,  but so far it’s been limited to a few markets to the US. According to a report by Recode, the service may soon be hitting the UK as well. Fresh is currently available in California, Seattle, New York, Philadelphia, and parts of New York, and provides groceries with same day or next day delivery. Amazon is entering a busier grocery delivery space in the UK, where customers are more used to having their food shipped to them. Whereas 5% of groceries are shipped and delivered…

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Homejoy shutting down as it draws fire in court over how employees are classified

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by on July 17, 2015 at 5:38 pm
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Homejoy's brother and sister co-founders Adora and Aaron Cheung
Homejoy is shutting down. The house-cleaning startup decided to close up shop after a series of labor lawsuits scared potential funding partners off. Speaking to Re/code, Homejoy CEO Adora Cheung said “a lot of this is unfortunate timing,” but noted the lawsuits were the “deciding factor” to shut the company down. Like Uber, Homejoy faced pushback from contractors who felt they were being treated more like employees. The company is currently fighting four different lawsuits on whether or not those working for it should be contractors or employees. Unlike Uber, Homejoy didn’t have the bankroll to withstand incoming legal fire.…

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Devialet Phantom review: This incredible $2,000 ‘Bluetooth speaker’ is going to annoy your neighbors

Jul17
by on July 17, 2015 at 5:34 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

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We don’t often spend a lot of time looking at high-end audio products, but when the chance to try out a $1,990 (£1,390) Bluetoth speaker came around, it was too tempting to decline. To call Devialet’s Phantom Sound Center ‘a Bluetooth speaker’ and put it in the same category as something like the Jambox (or any other portable speaker) is a bit like saying that the Koenigsegg Agera R super car is the same sort of thing as Nissan Pintara. In the sense that it has four wheels and performs roughly the same function, that’s true. But the similarity pretty much ends…

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The first Twitch-funded game, ‘Choice Chamber,’ lets viewers play along with gamers

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by on July 17, 2015 at 5:11 pm
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Last March, independent developer Studio Bean launched a Kickstarter for the first procedurally generated video game powered by the Twitch chat room. The game, ‘Choice Chamber‘, puts a Twitch broadcaster at the mercy of his or her own viewers — they can either choose to help the player, or to really screw some stuff up. Twitch matched the funding Studio Bean needed to get the game into production, and the finished version is finally live and available through Steam or Humble. Check out the gameplay in action below: It’s clear that Choice Chamber is inspired by Twitch Plays Pokemon —…

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Learn to code and pay what you want, with the Web Hacker Bundle

Jul17
by on July 17, 2015 at 5:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Offers, TNWDeals

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If you want to learn how to code, there is no better launchpad than the Web Hacker Bundle. The seven-course collection teaches every aspect of development, and you can currently pay whatever you want for it. On the front-end side, you can learn how to design sites from scratch with the Bootstrap framework, and how you can make your creations fully interactive with Javascript and JQuery. There is also a track on building dynamic sites with PHP and MySQL. In each case, the coursework revolves around practice projects. Full-on programming is taught by the courses on Python with Django, and…

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