Snow time in Motown
I love the smell of angle grinder in the morning.
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Freelancers, Alone No More: Coworking Is Going Big Business
While coworking spaces were initially conceived to give independent workers an alternative to the coffee shop, today, there’s growing interest in coworking spaces from larger companies as an alternative to the cube farm, as a way to lower real estate overhead, boost sustainability and stimulate workers who thrive on the spaces’ entrepreneurial energy.
Google Wants a 2.25% Cut of Every iPhone Sale -
Looking to earn back some of the $12.5 billion it’s spending to buy Motorola Mobility, Google sent a letter to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers looking for a maximum 2.25% cut of sales for phones that use Motorola’s technology, including Apple’s iPhone. The letter, which w…
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Cinemagram app for iOS makes art out of animated GIFs | The Verge
Gifboom for android.
NYPD Must Pay $15 Million for Illegally Arresting 22,000 -
For almost 30 years — from 1983 to 2012 — the New York Police Department went about arresting people under laws that state and federal courts had long declared unconstitutional, cuffing and booking almost 22,000 people. In 2010, federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin finally held them in contempt of court. Yesterday, she signed an order approving what is effectively their punishment: a $15 million class-action settlement that could generate individual payments of as much as $5,000.
(Source: anticapitalist, via ikenbot)