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The Next Web: “Instagram tests letting you follow hashtags instead of people” 2018

December 05, 2017

The Next Web: “Instagram tests letting you follow hashtags instead of people” 2018

#Apps #Instagram #Links #Mobile #Updates

Can’t get enough #content on Instagram? Is following individual people just not enough to fill the social media void in your heart? Fret no ...

Motherboard: “One Bitcoin Transaction now uses as much Energy as Your House in a Week” 2018

November 27, 2017

Motherboard: “One Bitcoin Transaction now uses as much Energy as Your House in a Week” 2018

#Bitcoin #Links

An index from cryptocurrency analyst Alex de Vries, aka Digiconomist , estimates that with prices the way they are now, it would be profitab...

Great Wall of Numbers: “Eight Things Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts probably won’t tell You” 2018

November 27, 2017

Great Wall of Numbers: “Eight Things Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts probably won’t tell You” 2018

#Bitcoin #Economics #Links

Simultaneously, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars raised by VCs and over a couple billion dollars raised through ICOs in the past ...

The Verge: “Why Microsoft makes weird hardware” 2018

November 24, 2017

The Verge: “Why Microsoft makes weird hardware” 2018

#Gadgets #Links #Microsoft #Mobile

We went inside Microsoft’s hardware lab to see how it developed the Surface Book and to explore this question: why such a big focus on hi...

Fortune: “Trump’s Tax Reform could benefit Apple, other Multinationals” 2018

November 16, 2017

Fortune: “Trump’s Tax Reform could benefit Apple, other Multinationals” 2018

#Apple #Economics #Links

For FY 2016, Apple booked total pre-tax earnings of $61.4 billion. On its income statement, Apple showed a “provision for taxes” of $15.685 ...

TechCrunch: “Facebook Stories replaces Messenger Day with synced cross-posting” 2018

November 14, 2017

TechCrunch: “Facebook Stories replaces Messenger Day with synced cross-posting” 2018

#Facebook #Links #Updates

Facebook is cleaning up the redundancy in its Snapchat Stories clones. Today Facebook is killing off the Messenger Day brand and merging t...

CNBC Business: “Morgan Stanley predicts space industry will triple in size” 2018

November 13, 2017

CNBC Business: “Morgan Stanley predicts space industry will triple in size” 2018

#Economics #Links #Space

Morgan Stanley estimates the space industry, worth about $350 billion today, will grow into an economy worth more than $1.1 trillion by 2040...

The Guardian: “Trump Twitter account shut down by employee on last day of work” 2018

November 09, 2017

The Guardian: “Trump Twitter account shut down by employee on last day of work” 2018

#Links #Politics #Twitter

A Twitter employee deactivated Donald Trump’s personal account on their last day of work, the company said on Thursday, likely meaning the a...

Vanity Fair: “This Could Be the End of Facebook” 2018

November 06, 2017

Vanity Fair: “This Could Be the End of Facebook” 2018

#Facebook #Links #Politics #USA

It’s worth recalling, of course, that it wasn’t the makers of Tylenol who put cyanide in the pills that killed seven innocent people; nevert...

The Atlantic: “Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars” 2018

October 23, 2017

The Atlantic: “Inside Waymo’s Secret World for Training Self-Driving Cars” 2018

#AI #Car #Google #Links

Originally developed as a way to “play back” scenes that the cars experienced while driving on public roads, Carcraft, and simulation genera...

Monday Note: “Tesla’s New Car Smell” 2018

October 23, 2017

Monday Note: “Tesla’s New Car Smell” 2018

#Car #Links #Tesla

My first serious doubts about Tesla didn’t stem from missed schedules, I’ve been guilty of too many of these, they’re part of tech life. Wha...

Photoshop Blog: “Introducing: Lightroom CC, Lightroom Classic CC and more” 2018

October 20, 2017

Photoshop Blog: “Introducing: Lightroom CC, Lightroom Classic CC and more” 2018

#Lightroom #Links #Photo #Software #Updates

What’s the Difference between Lightroom and Lightroom Classic? Going forward, the product you’ve known as Lightroom will be rebranded “Light...

The Guardian: “Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace” 2018

October 15, 2017

The Guardian: “Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace” 2018

#Links #Politics #USA #World

The real explanation for the past decades of failed peace negotiations is not mistaken tactics or imperfect circumstances, but that no strat...

Vanity Fair: “How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down” 2018

October 13, 2017

Vanity Fair: “How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down” 2018

#Links #Medicine

Like Apple, Theranos was secretive, even internally. Just as Jobs had famously insisted at 1 Infinite Loop, 10 minutes away, that department...

War on the Rocks: “The Rise and Fall of Erdoganocracy: Why Victory May Defeat Turkey’s President” 2018

October 12, 2017

War on the Rocks: “The Rise and Fall of Erdoganocracy: Why Victory May Defeat Turkey’s President” 2018

#Links #Politics #Turkey

Eventually, the alliance fell apart in 2013, as Gulenists turned against Erdogan . The war between the two culminated in the coup attempt, w...

The Verge: “Apple now sells an iPhone dongle with a headphone jack and charging port” 2018

October 10, 2017

The Verge: “Apple now sells an iPhone dongle with a headphone jack and charging port” 2018

#Apple #Gadgets #iPhone #Links

It took an entire year after the release of the iPhone 7 for Apple to start selling a dongle that lets you plug in headphones (or your car’s...

Backchannel: “The Myth of a Superhuman AI” 2018

October 09, 2017

Backchannel: “The Myth of a Superhuman AI” 2018

#AI #Links #Science

There is no doubt that a super AI can accelerate the process of science. We can make computer simulations of atoms or cells and we can keep ...

Gizmodo: “Uber’s iOS App had Secret Permissions that allowed it to Copy your Phone Screen” 2018

October 09, 2017

Gizmodo: “Uber’s iOS App had Secret Permissions that allowed it to Copy your Phone Screen” 2018

#Apple #Apps #Car #iPhone #Links #Mobile #Privacy #Uber

The screen recording capability comes from what’s called an “ entitlement ”—a bit of code that app developers can use for anything from sett...

The New Yorker: “A.I. versus M.D.” 2018

October 09, 2017

The New Yorker: “A.I. versus M.D.” 2018

#AI #Links #Medicine #Science

The most powerful element in these clinical encounters, I realized, was not knowing that or knowing how—not mastering the facts of the case,...

The Guardian: “Total recall: the people who never forget” 2018

October 08, 2017

The Guardian: “Total recall: the people who never forget” 2018

#Links #Medicine #Science

Price was the first person ever to be diagnosed with what is now known as highly superior autobiographical memory, or HSAM, a condition she ...