This NYC Startup Wants You to Get Paid When You Want (DailyPay)

The fact that paychecks are paid monthly is merely a formality and is not indicative of when we deserve the money we work for. The truth is, employees are a company’s greatest assets and they deserved to be paid at their request. While not every company understands this, DailyPay is making it their job to fix it. DailyPay, the financial services company that provides instant payments for employees and employers, understands that sometimes you cannot wait until the end of the month to receive your pay. On their path to empowering low wage workers, DailyPay has raised 2 rounds of funding to date.

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$10 million funding round for Denver creator of 'smart home' sensors led by Silicon Valley firms

A Denver company specializing in "smart home" security technology has secured $10 million in Series A funding led by two Silicon Valley firms, the company announced today.

Notion, launched in 2013, creates small sensors that can detect smoke or changes in heat, light, motion, moisture levels and surface tension and communicate that to smartphones. Homeowners monitor and control the sensors from an app.

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The Best Affordable Jewelry Brands It Girls Love (Frasier Sterling)

With the resurgence of chokers and fashion-forward earrings, the newest, of-the-moment jewelry has really positioned itself to be some of the most covetable accessories to own right now. And with stylish girls like Kendall, Bella and Gigi donning these add-ons daily, we’re curious to know who makes the best It baubles. To our pleasant surprise, we’ve discovered a lot of these designs are from affordable brands.

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Streaming Concerts Is The New Gateway For Brands Into Music (LiveList)

The annual California Roots festival wrapped up its eighth iteration on Memorial Day weekend, drawing in tens of thousands of fans to the Monterey County Fairgrounds. The concerts allow lovers of reggae, rock and hip-hop to mingle in one place, but an online live stream, courtesy of cannabis network Weedmaps allowed thousands more to tune in. 

For the second year in a row, Cali Roots collaborated with a Venice-based business called LiveList that produces streamed events and connects audiences with shows elsewhere.

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Occipital Cracks SLAM with One Cheap Camera and an IMU

One of the larger challenges in consumer 3D tech these days is tracking the position of an AR/VR device in space. For a number of years, companies solved this problem by offering complex technological infrastructure—like cameras or sensors—that a user could place around the room to help determine their location. Lately, however, a few creative developers are finding low-cost ways to incorporate the tracking into the devices themselves.

Occipital is one of the most noteworthy among these developers. Though the company already sells a $399 system that incorporates an iPhone and their $349 sensor for tracking, the company has recently shown a tracking platform that uses a single camera to track the headset in space.

The monoSLAM solution uses a single, cheap wide-angle camera and a low-cost IMU, and works quite well according to TechCrunch.

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