Day: December 4, 2018

Review of $349 Nokia 7.1: has a sharp and colorful screen, snappy performance, and fast software updates due to Android One, making for a great value smartphone (Jacob Kastrenakes/The Verge)

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Review of $349 Nokia 7.1: has a sharp and colorful screen, snappy performance, and fast software updates due to Android One, making for a great value smartphone  —  But what’s on the inside matters, too  —  What matters more: how a phone looks or how it performs? Review of 9

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Facebook makes Collections shareable, allowing users to share gift ideas or shopping lists with friends (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Facebook makes Collections shareable, allowing users to share gift ideas or shopping lists with friends  —  This holiday season, Facebook is hoping you’ll use a relatively little-known feature to share your gift ideas.  —  With collections, users can already save Facebook content … Facebook makes Collections shareable, allowing users to share

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Inside Google's Area 120, the company's in-house startup incubator founded in 2016 that has since greenlighted about 50 projects by Google employees (Harry McCracken/Fast Company)

Harry McCracken / Fast Company: Inside Google’s Area 120, the company’s in-house startup incubator founded in 2016 that has since greenlighted about 50 projects by Google employees  —  Google’s “20% time“-the long-standing perk that invites employees to carve off a fifth of their working hours to devote to personal projects … Inside Google's Area 120,

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2018 State of European Tech report: funding reached a record $23B, all-male founders get 93% of capital, almost 50% women suffer discrimination in workplace (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: 2018 State of European Tech report: funding reached a record $23B, all-male founders get 93% of capital, almost 50% women suffer discrimination in workplace  —  The 2018 State of European Tech report, now in its fourth year, was released today.  Assembled by investment firm Atomico … 2018 State of European Tech

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After Jack Dorsey's trip to India and encounter with the harassment Dalits face on Twitter, it's time to include minorities in talks of platform accountability (Thenmozhi Soundararajan/New York Times)

Thenmozhi Soundararajan / New York Times: After Jack Dorsey’s trip to India and encounter with the harassment Dalits face on Twitter, it’s time to include minorities in talks of platform accountability  —  Dalits and other Indian gender, religious, tribal and ethnic minorities are regularly harassed on Twitter by right-wing troll armies. After Jack Dorsey's trip

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Sources: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge as the default browser on Windows 10 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Sources: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge as the default browser on Windows 10  —  Microsoft’s Edge web browser has seen little success since its debut on Windows 10 back in 2015.  Built from the ground up with a new rendering engine known as EdgeHTML

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Profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the only Google Senior Fellows, who joined the company in 1999 and have pair-programmed some of its key infrastructure (James Somers/New Yorker)

James Somers / New Yorker: Profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the only Google Senior Fellows, who joined the company in 1999 and have pair-programmed some of its key infrastructure  —  Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet. Profile of Jeff Dean

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