Never Panic About Leaving the Oven On Again: This Smart Sensor Alerts You To Anything Wrong at Home

Ever leave the house with a nagging panic? Whether your personal nightmare is that you left the coffeepot or iron being left on or the pipes bursting when you're not home on a below-freezing night, there's a new smart home sensor that could be just the kind of anxiety-killing remedy that we need.

Denver-based Notion is a "complete home awareness solution and all-in-one IoT (Internet of Things) home sensor" that can monitor and send you instant alerts on things happening across your entire home — from motion and temperature changes to water leaks and sounding alarms. The second generation of their product, released on November 7th, integrates with your existing Nest thermostat to help you save energy and money — and relieve anxiety.

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HAAWK, Which Tracks Down Revenue for Rights Holders, Buys RoyaltyClaim and TuneRegistry

HAAWK, a rights management and content monetization firm started by Ad-Rev co founder Ryan Born, has acquired RoyaltyClaim and TuneRegistry. Terms of the deal were not disclosed although Haawk had previously raised $2.5 million in seed venture capital from Rincon Venture Partners.

Prior to this current acquisition, HAAWK bought certain assets from Dart Music, which specialized in cleaning up music rights metadata, among other rights management services. That company filed for bankruptcy last summer and its assets were sold in separate deals to HAAWK and Core Rights LLC this fall.

As part of the current deal, RoyaltyClaim founder Dae Bogan will become CEO of HAAWK while Born will retain the titles of chairman, president and CFO.

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ROLI launches Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues by Mathematics

You can now remix three of the album’s biggest hits.

Wu-Tang’s Mathematics has collaborated with music tech company ROLI to produce a new Studiopack for the firm’s NOISE app and BLOCKS hardware.

It’s from the brand-new album Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues. You can now take the sounds from three tracks off the brand new Wu-Tang album ‘The Saga Continues’ and make them your own.

Featuring instrumental and vocal clips, the Wu-Tang: The Saga Continues Studiopack lets you put your own spin on the singles “People Say,” “My Only One,” and “Lesson Learn’d”.

“Make your own beat or remix mine,” said Mathematics, the Wu-Tang-affiliated producer who created The Saga Continues..

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Workers Get Faster Access to Wages With These New Apps (DailyPay)

Instant pay helps boost employee attendance, but can make saving hard to do

For more workers across America, every day is payday.

Uber Technologies Inc., McDonald’s Corp. and Bloomin’ Brands Inc.’s Outback Steakhouse are among a growing group of employers giving workers near-instant access to their wages through payday apps.

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