In 1890, a group of eight large New York City bakeries combined to form the New York Biscuit Company and built a giant six-story factory in West Chelsea. Eight years later, they merged with their competitor, Chicago’s American Biscuit and Manufacturing to form an even larger conglomerate – the National Biscuit Company, but the factory and headquarters remained in Chelsea. In 1901, the National Biscuit Company put their abbreviated company name on a box of wafers for the first time – Nabisco. Soon, Nabisco became the company’s official name. Read more…
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When customs officers at Futian Port in China saw a males passenger with “weird walking posture, joint stiffness, muscle tension …” they got suspicious. Turns out, he was attempting to smuggle 94 iPhones into the country—all of them strapped to his body. Read more… 
Unlocking your front door from a smartphone app isn’t a terribly new idea, you can even electronically send keys to people you want to have access to your home while you’re away. But Kwikset is updating its Kevo Bluetooth front door lock with new hardware that lets you lock or unlock your front door from anywhere on earth you have mobile data on your smartphone. Read more… 
With 4K slowly but surely making its way to the mainstream, it was only a matter of time before the Ultra HD format hit Roku—perhaps the most promising streaming device on the market . Now, not only will Roku be hooking up with Netflix to start streaming in 4K, but it’ll be teaming up with Best Buy’s Insignia and Haier to offer Roku-powered TVs for all your content-streaming needs. Read more… 
Apple has long sold Bose headphones and speakers in its retail stores, including in the time since it acquired Bose-competitor Beats Audio, and despite the lawsuit filed by Bose against Apple alleging patent violations on the part of Beats. That’s come to an end this week, though: Apple’s dropped Bose merchandise both in its retail locations and online, despite recent news that the two companies have settled the patent suit. Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
Among all the other goodies being packed into the brand new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus , the phone comes bearing the newest generation of Apple’s M chip—the M8. And it might finally turn the iPhone into the fitness tracker we’ve been waiting for. Read more…