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In fewer than 100 days, the Benioff Children's hospital will open in San Francisco, mostly thanks to a huge $200 million donation from Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne.

The Benioffs have been working with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) on building this hospital since 2010.

It turns out that all that exposure to the way hospitals do business has given Benioff ideas.

His company is set to announce in November a new initiative to sell cloud services software to the healthcare industry, according to Christina Farr and Bill Rigby at Reuters who broke this story.

Salesforce.com thinks this could be its next $1 billion idea, sources told Reuters. And it's currently hiring like mad to go after it.

Healthcare software is an interesting, and lucrative, nut to crack. Hospitals, doctors offices and related industries will spend $31.3 billion on tech by 2017, some market researchers predict.

But because of privacy laws like HIPAA, they can't buy any old cloud service to store documents, chat, or send data to their phones or tablets. These services have to get certified with special security controls and get certain government stamps of approval.

Remember Benioff started life as a teen coding genius and is still a bona-fide gadget geek known to wear two fitband wrist computers at once.

And doctors love iPads.

It makes sense that the hospital that bears his name would be the first to use a new app called CareWeb Messenger, built on Salesforce.com's cloud, Reuters reports. It will let doctors, nurses and patients chat on mobile devices while complying with HIPAA.

Salesforce.com could try to sell it to other hospitals, although there's already a ton of competition in that market (HipaaChat, Doximity, for instance).

It could also get into the electronic health care records business, following competitors like Microsoft and Oracle.

And it will almost certainly try to get into the brand new field of consumer health care apps tied to the "Internet of Things," or devices outfitted with sensors. This take advantage of new sensors added to all sorts of healthcare monitoring devices, everything from pill bottles to contact lenses, will share data, and get their own apps.

Salesforce.com wants to host those apps and help make them all work together.

Work on that at Salesforce.com has already begun. In April, the company announced a partnership with Philips that will let care givers monitor patients with chronic conditions in their homes.

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A bag of Fritos, a pot of chili, and a pizza sounds like the menu for my last Super Bowl party. The pizza scientists over at Papa John’s thought that this would be a great idea for a pizza theme, because…well, we’re not quite sure why anyone would think that, but for the next month or so, you can order this strange pizza-casserole hybrid.

One would think that if a Frito-pizza thing came from any chain pizzeria, it would be Pizza Hut. After all, both Pizza Hut and Frito-Lay are part of the same parent company, Yum! Brands. If Pizza Hut decided to do this, they would have stuffed the Fritos in the crust. Presumably. Maybe the chili and the beef as well.

Anyway, if you’re interested in this pie, you’ll be able to get it for $12 through November 23rd. Its toppings include Fritos chips (of course) as well as beef, chili, tomatoes, onions, and cheddar cheese. Of course, there’s also mozzarella.

If you like Frito pie and also Papa John’s pizza, this might be edible. If you happen to try it, let us know how it tastes in the real world.

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Meet Brian- he's a great father, beloved NeatoShop artist ambassador and one heck of a nice guy, but during the Halloween season he becomes the stuff of nightmares.

Brian enjoys putting a fear of dark places in folks who pay him a visit at his terrifying home away from home- Spooky World's Nightmare New England.

Spooky World's Nightmare is New England's premiere haunted destination, located in the otherwise sleepy town of Litchfield, New Hampshire.

If you're brave enough to endure attractions like Brigham Manor, the plantation home of the murderous Bishop family, the hellish labyrinth called The Colony, or the neon circus nightmare Freak Show in 3D you might run in to Brian or one of his ghoulish buddies.

But hurry- Spooky World's Nightmare attractions will disappear back into the mists come November 8th!

So, if I can trust the little genie that works in my head, most of the people reading Geeks are Sexy are around 30, so here’s what you can all expect in the next few years. Hey, I know what I’m talking about, I’m going through this myself, and it’s all true. ;)

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Aged cheddar oozes out of the artisan white bread sandwich at a molten-lava pace. I bite into crisp strips of smoked bacon and macaroni noodles, and I kind of forget where I am in time and space.

This is not your mom's grilled cheese.

Fast-casual eatery The Melt, which is headquartered in the Bay Area, dedicates itself to savory and tech-savvy grilled cheese sandwiches starting at $5 a pop. And cheese aficionados across California are lining up at lunchtime for toasted creations as tame as The Classic (cheddar on artisan white) or as decadent as The Shroom (Swiss, portabello mushrooms, and grilled onions on sourdough).

The Melt opened with not-so-humble beginnings. The brainchild of Flip Video founder Jonathan Kaplan, Sequoia Capital — the firm that backed Apple, Google, Instagram, and Oracle — put up $10 million to get the chain off the ground in 2011. Today, a management team led by Kaplan and a board of directors including three prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists, a former head of retail operations at Apple, and a James Beard award-winning chef, oversee 15 locations throughout California, including several in Silicon Valley.

We stopped by The Melt's New Montgomery location in San Francisco to find out if it's worth dining out on grilled cheese that costs more than a loaf of white bread and packet of Velveeta combined.

When we arrived at 12:30 p.m. on a work day, young professionals packed the place, although the line moved quickly.

The menu board contained eight grilled cheeses to choose from: four basics ($4.95) and four specialty sandwiches ($6.95). Diners could customize their sandwich with fresh tomato, jalapeno, or grilled onion at no cost; meat and other veggies run $1 – $2 per add-on.

I ordered the Mac Daddy, a bacon-macaroni-gluttony combo. It cost $6.95 and came with a pickle (or chips).

It's evident that Kaplan's tech background influenced much of the ordering process. My initials popped up on an electronic order status board by the pick-up area, and when my sandwich was ready my initials jumped to the top with the words "Order up!'

While waiting for my coworker's sandwich to hit the counter, we noticed some patrons skip the line entirely. Part of The Melt's tech-shtick is its expedited online ordering process. When you place your order on the website or mobile app, you receive an email with a QR code that is unique to your purchase. You can go to any Melt location, walk straight to the pick-up area, and tap the QR code to a scanner to send your order to the kitchen.

The Melt app also gives you the option to send your order to the kitchen without being inside the store, so it's ready for pick-up whenever you are.

Vice President of Operations Greg Hernandez told Gizmodo in an interview that the perfect grilled cheese combines a few criteria. The cheese needs to be ooey-gooey, the bread has to be crispy "but not hard like a crouton," and the sandwich as a whole should be moist without turning soggy.

The contraption pictured below is the secret ingredient to cultivating this grilled cheese of technology lore. The sandwich cooks in the glorified toaster for approximately 50 seconds. While The Melt declined to take us behind the counter and teach us its ways, I have faith in a company that recruited NASA consultants to design its delivery transport boxes.

I soon discovered my trust was well placed. The Mac Daddy's bread tasted buttered and heavily herb-spiced, but the sandwich was not so greasy that it leaked all over my hand. The saltiness of the bacon complemented the rich mac and cheese, of which there was just enough.

The indulgent lunch filled me for most of the afternoon. I regret nothing.

SEE ALSO: San Franciscans Are Lining Up To Eat This Sushi-Burrito Hybrid

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Sheesh, every costume for kitties is “sexy” this and “sexy” that! This year the hot costume is “Sexy Ebola Nurse,” for Pete’s sake! Guess I’m rolling my own!

Photo courtesy of Olga Boltenko.
Found in Harbin, China. 

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The Donahue Report (via Multichannel News) notes that Comcast filed the trademark for the term "True Gig" on October 20, suggesting that a 1 Gbps offering from the company is likely in the works. Earlier this year company stated they'd offer 1 Gbps and higher services "as soon as possible" as the company looks to quickly deploy the DOCSIS 3.1 standard once it's complete. Comcast's current top offering is a 505 Mbps down, 100 Mbps up fiber/coaxial hybrid tier that runs users around $300 a month, comes with a $1,000 ETF, a $250 activation fee, and a $250 installation fee.
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Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix, has a new documentary series called This is Not a Conspiracy Theory. He's creating the film in segments and releasing it as he goes, inviting the audience to interact with the film as it's being created (with script reviews, early footage, and so on).

Two parts of This is Not a Conspiracy Theory are live now; you can watch the first segment for free, though if you want more, you have to buy the film. I bought in months ago, and the second installment has just been released. This new installment explores conspiracy theories in the British colonies that would become the United States. It's smart, dark, and complex.

Here's a new trailer for the series:

If you enjoy documentaries, I think you'll dig this. (Even if only to sign up for the "Tell Me When You're Done" email list.)

With an increasing number of BitTorrent users seeking solutions to hide their identities from the outside world, VPN services have seen a spike in customers in recent years.

Pirate Bay users also have a great interest in anonymity. A survey among the site’s users previously revealed that nearly 70% already had a VPN or proxy or were interested in signing up with one.

For this last group The Pirate Bay has an interesting promotion running. For the past few days the site has replaced its iconic logo with an ad for FrootVPN, a new startup that offers free VPN accounts.

The promo has has been seen by millions of people, many of whom very interested in the costless offer.

Since VPNs are certainly not free to run, many people are wondering if there’s a catch behind this rather generous offer. Previously TPB advertised an adware ridden client so this suspicion is understandable.

TorrentFreak contact the Pirate Bay team for more information, and they informed us that the FrootVPN promotion is not a paid ad. It’s merely a friendly plug for a startup run by some guys they know.

While that’s assuring, it doesn’t explain how they can offer their service for free. We contacted the FrootVPN operators to find out more, and they told us that they started the free VPN to counter the commercialization of the VPN business.

“The whole idea behind FrootVPN was to provide a free simple VPN service without any bandwidth limitations. Of course the maintenance isn’t free but we had some resources over from our other projects from which we were able to launch FrootVPN.”

“We are a bunch of guys who support freedom of speech and don’t like the idea that VPN providers charge so much money for just a simple proxy, especially since the bandwidth costs nowadays is so cheap,” FrootVPN tells us.

While a free VPN sounded like a good idea, the VPN service has become a victim of its own success. They gained 100,000 users in less than a week and admit that it’s not sustainable to keep the service free forever.

“The word has spread rapidly and we thank all our promoters including TPB for supporting us. We got 100,000 users within a week, which we never expected. However, this does indicate that we will be forced to charge something for the service in order to maintain it,” FrootVPN says.

FrootVPN’s VPN servers are currently hosted at Portlane, who have been very helpful in accommodating the growth. During the weeks to come they hope to increase their capacity and FrootVPN has already bought several new servers to keep the quality of the service on par.

“We have 20x servers running currently with 2x10Gbps total capacity. We have now additionally bought 40x more servers and 4x10Gbps bandwidth from Portlane which will be ready within a week or two. We hope that after this upgrade the quality of our service will be much better,” they say.

While they may have to charge a few dollars in the future, one of the main motivations of the FrootVPN team remains in line with The Pirate Bay’s original philosophy. That is, to provide tools that help to bypass censorship and promote freedom of speech.

“FrootVPN supports freedom of speech and want the Internetz to be an uncensored place,” they say.

Although free VPNs are often not the fastest, especially not when they are growing with tens of thousands of users per day, FrootVPN says it will try to keep up. In any case, “free” is an offer that’s hard to refuse for those who are on a tight budget.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing and anonymous VPN services.