Posts by Nick Papple

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Facebook, stop trying to make Fetch happen. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just granted Facebook a patent for Generating a Social Glossary (read: slang detection software). No word on whether or not Facebook plans to do anything with the patent, but many people are speculating the…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH This app is changing sports forever. “If a whiteboard and erasable marker were the primary tools of the trade for previous generations of coaches, Hudl is fast becoming the 21st-century analogue,” says Fast Company. I think I’m going to be sick. Nine Six Flags…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Steph Curry just launched a tech startup. “NBA superstar Stephen Curry has launched his own startup aimed at helping athletes optimise their social media channels and engage more efficiently with fans,” says The Drum. Here’s what you need to know. + Guess how much…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Anonymous hipsters adding value. For most of us, our days of scouring the deepest corners of MySpace for fresh new music ended when we graduated from middle school. But for some, the search for hot new tracks will never end… or at least until…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH The future of real estate investing — Part 2. When Google announced  its reorganization as Alphabet in October, the news was delivered in a letter from Alphabet CEO Larry Page and published on Alphabet’s new website abc.xyz. While most of us saw the new…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH One of Google’s self-driving cars hit a bus. Cue the naysayers shaking their heads. First, the facts. Up until now, Google’s self-driving cars have only ever been in accidents on the receiving end (not at fault). But, a recent crash in Mountain View, California has one…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH “Meet the Internet-connected water jug that orders its own filters from Amazon.” This is a great headline by TheNextWeb. It was lifted straight from the Brita Infinity Smart Water Pitcher description page, but whoever copied it saw the big benefit immediately. Think about it,…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Aristotle, Cicero, and Donald Trump all have this in common. A question we’re all wondering is what makes Donald Trump’s tweets so yuuuge? After all, he has the same 42 characters we all have, but somehow Trump’s tweets seem bigger. We turn to Slate’s…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Look mom, no hands. Would you believe that I typed this in Google Docs without touching my keyboard? No lie. Google announced today updates to Google Docs, and one of those updates is new voice recognition software. You can write, edit, and format documents…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Judgment Day is here and it has impeccable form. Google’s next gen. humanoid Atlas robot is here and with perfect squat form to boot. Recap: In 2013, Google bought Boston Dynamics, an engineering company that makes Terminator-like robots for the military. Boston Dynamics released…

[Note from the editor: The Daily Brief newsletter will be put on pause for one week starting tomorrow. The next issue will be published February 24th.] Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Why $1 subscriptions are better than FREE. The New York Times offers several digital and print subscriptions. Their…