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Internet tools are just starting to be applied to industrial tasks such as maintaining equipment and optimizing operations, but the wealth of data being produced by industrial systems could make this a major focus of development in the coming years.On Tuesday, General Electric increased its bet on this proposition by introducing a cloud platform for data management and recruiting partners to help it serve industrial customers. At an event in San Francisco, GE and its partners, including Pivotal, Accenture and Amazon Web Services, laid out what they see as the opportunities and challenges.The cutting edge of innovation in using data has shifted from the financial services sector to the consumer realm, and it's about to move again to the industrial sector, said Paul Maritz, CEO of Pivotal."It's the industrial space that really has to take the usage of data to a whole new level," Maritz said. Pivotal, a PaaS (platform as a service) company formed by VMware and EMC with an investment by GE, will develop cloud-agnostic industrial offerings in conjunction with GE. Also on Tuesday, GE announced an expanded relationship with Accenture to develop technology and analytics applications, plus a partnership with Amazon Web Services, which will be able to host GE's services.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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In the latest video by the Slow Mo Guys, Gav causes incredible slow motion soda mayhem by shooting a line of four Dr. Pepper bottles with a crossbow. The soda explosions were captured at 2,500 frames per second by a Phantom Flex camera.

In his latest video, New York City filmmaker Casey Neistat compares the “pain in the ass factor” of three commuting methods: taxi, his bicycle, and the new bike sharing service, Citi Bike. According to Neistat, Citi Bike turns out to be the “least pain in the ass.” Citi Bike marketing team take note.

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photo by Ren Netherland of Barcroft Media via CBBC These amazing photos of multicolored, creatively groomed dogs were taken by photographer Ren Netherland at creative dog grooming competitions across the United States. The dogs have been dyed and carefully sheared to depict cartoon characters, wild animals, and even mythical creatures in a very unique art form. More photos of the outlandishly groomed animals can be found at Netherland’s website and at Barcroft Media. photos by Ren Netherland of Barcroft Media via The Telegraph via Digg

This week we're changing up our usual routine of picking a specific neighborhood and listing the ten least expensive properties for sale. This time around we'll be listing the ten most expensive properties in San Francisco to hit the market in the past seven days. This map does not include multi-unit buildings—only single-family homes and condos are included. Of the 178 properties that recently hit the market, the ten most expensive range from a one-bedroom asking $3.5M to a $28.95M Billionaire's Row home that isn't even built yet. Let's get this party started! Click here to view the map.

July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Tickets On Sale Now Facebook announced today that the company now has one million active advertisers — companies or organizations that have advertised on the social network at least once in the last 28 days. The company attributed that feat to small businesses, saying that this milestone is due in large part “to the small businesses growing their businesses online and in their local communities via Facebook.” Apparently, small business does get social. Facebook’s director of small business, Dan Levy, thanked those businesses: I know business owners like these invest their hard earned money and time into running their companies. So today, on behalf of everyone at Facebook, I want to say thank you to them and to the over one million businesses like them who are active advertisers. You have chosen Facebook as a partner to grow your business. We appreciate the chance to work with you, and we celebrate your success. Two months ago Facebook announced that there were two billion connections between local businesses and people in the site’s social graph, and in an average week local business pages get more than 645 million views and 13 million comments. The company did not release new data on those points, but the up-to-date numbers are doubtless higher today. With Facebook building ever-stronger connections between local businesses and their customers online — and an ever-growing wallet share of local advertising budgets — local search and recommendation engines such as Yelp and OpenTable and the tradition iYPs are potentially getting cut out of their traditional stomping grounds. Facebook’s local ambitions are also challenging Google Local and Google Places, both of which collect data on local businesses and drive local advertising on Google, Google, Maps, and more for the search and advertising giant. photo credit: Andrea Costa Creative via photopin cc Filed under: Business, Entrepreneur, Media, Social .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate-mobilebeat { width:278px; margin:0px 0px 10px 20px; padding:10px; float:right; border:1px solid #e4e4e4; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; color:#000; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate-mobilebeat .logo-date-wrap { width:100%; display:block; float:left; margin-bottom:8px; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate-mobilebeat img { float:left; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate-mobilebeat .date-location { float:right; font-size:12px; line-height:14px; text-align:center; padding-left:7px; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:3px; border-left:1px solid #e6e6e6; color:#585a5b; } .boilerplate-before .event-boilerplate-mobilebeat .cta { display:block; clear:both; width:100%; border-radius:5px; border:1px solid #1864b1; color:#fff; text-shadow: 0px -1px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); text-align:center; text-decoration:none; font-weight:600; font-size:18px; line-height:17px; padding:4px 0px 6px 0px; background: #1f80e4; background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%, #1862ae 100%); background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#1f80e4), color-stop(100%,#1862ae)); background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); background: linear-gradient(to bottom,  #1f80e4 0%,#1862ae 100%); filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#1f80e4', endColorstr='#1862ae',GradientType=0 ); }

Last June diver Dave Leander discovered a message in a bottle nearly a century old in the waters off Harsens Island near Detroit. The message read “Having a good time at Tashmoo,” a reference to an amusement park that was a popular attraction on the island in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The message was signed by two Detroit girls, Selina Pramstaller and Tillie Esper, and was dated June 30, 1915. Historians are now trying to track down the descendants of the girls. photos by Kathleen Gilligan for Detroit Free Press via Allee Willis Marches on Detroit

To solidify their depth at wide receiver, the San Francisco 49ers drafted the WAC's leading receiver in 2012, Quinton Patton. At last month's NFLPA Rookie Premiere, Patton sat down with Dan Rubenstein of SB Nation to discuss his memories of getting drafted by the 49ers, studying a more complex playbook, and looking forward to Week 1 vs Green Bay.