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Downtown Brooklyn emerging as key part of city's Silicon Alley
Photo credit: Inside the offices of One Hundred Robots in Downtown Brooklyn. (Anthony Lanzilote)
When it comes to the city's tech future, Brooklyn is starting to give Manhattan some serious competition. More than 200 start-ups have set up shop in DUMBO, downtown Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, according to the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication's database. That number is going to keep growing, according to city leaders.
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Read more »The internet is going to choose the name of this woman's baby
Photo credit: Natasha Hill (via Facebook)
Would you let the internet name your baby? Twenty-six-year-old Natasha Hill would.
The West Los Angeles schoolteacher won $5,000 from a contest on Babynames.com, with the caveat that she would let online voters choose her baby’s name.
Hill will have no influence on the names on the ballot, and the list of potential names will be based "on current trending names and Advertiser Sponsorships."...
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