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Meerkat’s highest daily ranking on the U.S. iPhone download chart was No. 140, on March 20th. At this point, the app had already generated thousands of news stories and blog posts, most of them ...
The Canadian band Walk Off The Earth does a live broadcast via the app Meerkat on Tuesday, March 24. Credit: Meerkat Cute name. Adorable illustrated mascot. And lots of online buzz. Meerkat, a new ...
Late last year, I wrote about a bird called the rocket-tailed drongo and, in response to a comment, I noted the following: “Drongos are notorious thieves and mimics. In South Africa, I spent a ...
It's hardly algebra or physics, but meerkats have been observed actively teaching their young, ... citing the spread of milk-bottle opening by birds in Britain as an example.
Meerkat is an app that lets you stream video live on the Internet right from your smartphone instantly. Hit the button and you're available for anyone to watch, just like that. You sign up through ...
It's 8 a.m. on a Friday morning and hundreds of people in places as far away as Anchorage and Tokyo know that the traffic is backed up on the I-35 on the way from the airport to downtown Austin ...
Meerkat announced an interesting partnership with GoPro today at VidCon, CNBC says. The partnership will allow GoPro users to live stream on the Meerkat service using action cameras.
That’s the danger of building on someone else’s platform. You never know when they’ll pivot into your business and steamroll you. Last night, that happened to Meerkat. 10 hours later ...
The bird that impersonates a MEERKAT to steal food: Drongo catches a quarter of its meals by imitating other creatures. A drongo can warn other creatures when a predator is lurking close by; ...
In the market for a new PC to replace that Windows 10 computer but want to try a different OS? Linux-first PC and laptop manufacturer System76 has refreshed its mini PC it calls "Meerkat" with better ...
Well that evidence is no longer anecdotal. In a new study published today, Tom Flower from the University of Cambridge has indeed found that fork-trailed drongos can deceive meerkats into scurrying ...