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Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Codename: “Project Lightning.” Yesterday, Twitter announced a new feature where users can watch live feeds of breaking news stories. The feature will also include scheduled events, like the Grammys, NBA finals, U.S. Open…Similar to Snapchat’s Discovery button, which has started to earn Snapchat…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Fast Times at Senate Park. Don’t expect too many muslims at the Ice Cream party today. It’s the official start of Ramadan, where among many things, Muslims fast from June 17-18th to July 18-19th. Ramadan dates change each year because it corresponds to…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech High stakes amateur photography. We’ve all done it. You’re out for dinner with a group of friends and you ask the waiter to snap your photo. After a tutorial on how to use your iPhone, the waiter snaps your photo, breathes a sigh…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Bloom connects multiple generations. Skype is every young traveler’s tool of choice to let mom and dad know they’re alive. But using Skype to connect with older relatives can prove challenging, in some cases, impossible. Cue, Bloom, an easier way to connect with…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Hillary Clinton Rap Genius. On Saturday, Hillary Clinton addressed America in her “official launch” campaign held on Roosevelt Island, in New York City. Yesterday, Hillary’s campaign announced it will allow people to annotate and leave comments on the speech she delivered. (Try it…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Dating app that puts her in the driver’s seat tops 1 Million. Bumble, the dating app founded by ex-Tinder employees, announced that its female users have started more than one million conversations on the platform. (TechCrunch) Why is this a big deal? What…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Post hoc ergo propter hoc. “after this, therefore because of this” is a logical fallacy that perfectly describes the mess 10 selfie-loving tourists are in after an earthquake of magnitude 5.9 hit Mount Kinabalu on Friday. “…10 tourists who stripped at the top…

Here’s what happening today   Tech Tony Stark whiteboard coming to a boardroom near you. In January Microsoft unveiled the Surface Hub – an 84 and 55-inch touchscreen tablet designed to change how businesses run meetings. You can buy one for a cheap $19,999. What you haven’t heard is the story of the creator of…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Apple pays ransom. On Monday Apple kicked off its WWDC in San Francisco. You can read the 10 most important announcements here. What didn’t make the list was Tim Cook’s announcement that he paid the Cleveland Indians bullpen a ransom for Brandon Moss’s…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech Here’s what’s missing at Apple’s WWDC.  New versions of iOS and OS X, new streaming music service, revamped iTunes Radio, and Apple Pay rewards program are all talking points at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference the next five days. But, “…rumors indicated Apple would…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today   Tech Android M preview offers some nice privacy features. “the days of agreeing to permissions before you’d even used an app are over, or at least they will be down the road.” (Engadget). One new feature Android M offers is the ability to…

Good evening, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know today Tech You’ll never look at #Instafood the same. Last week Google unveiled a project called Im2Calories that uses Google’s artificial intelligence (A.I.) software to count calories in photos. Something to note was Google’s Ready. Fire. Aim. approach to launching the software: “If it only…