Month: March 2019

    • Care.com, the largest site in the US for finding caregivers, scrubbed ~46,594 or ~72% of day-care centers claiming to have a state license, after a WSJ inquiry (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Care.com, the largest site in the US for finding caregivers, scrubbed ~46,594 or ~72% of day-care centers claiming to have a state license, after a WSJ inquiry  —  Online child-care marketplace Care.com removed from its site tens of thousands of unverified day-care center listings just before a WSJ investigation was published. Care.com,

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    • Zuckerberg's op-ed on regulations rings somewhat hollow because Facebook can already make plenty of improvements in the areas mentioned without government help (TechCrunch)

    TechCrunch: Zuckerberg’s op-ed on regulations rings somewhat hollow because Facebook can already make plenty of improvements in the areas mentioned without government help  —  It’s been a busy day for Facebook exec op-eds.  Earlier this morning, Sheryl Sandberg broke the site’s silence around the Christchurch massacre … Zuckerberg’s op-ed on regulations rings somewhat hollow because

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    A Weather Station Fit For A PDP-11

    The Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-11/70 is a masterpiece of Cold War-era industrial design. This microcomputer was the size of one or two modern server racks depending on configuration, and the front panel, loaded up with blinkenlights, was clad in a beautiful rose and magenta color scheme. The switches — the ones you used to toggle

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    • Rakuten's stake in Lyft is now worth $2.46B, GM's $1.46B, Fidelity's $1.45B, a16z's $1.18B, Alphabet's $924M, Logan Green's $655M, and John Zimmer's $452M (Alison Griswold/Quartz)

    Alison Griswold / Quartz: Rakuten’s stake in Lyft is now worth $2.46B, GM’s $1.46B, Fidelity’s $1.45B, a16z’s $1.18B, Alphabet’s $924M, Logan Green’s $655M, and John Zimmer’s $452M  —  Lyft might not be making any money, but its investors and executives certainly are.  —  Shares of Lyft Inc. gained 8.7% on their first-ever … Rakuten’s stake

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    • How Instagram became the default way some connect with new friends: it's more casual than LinkedIn, while offering more info and less risk than phone numbers (Taylor Lorenz/The Atlantic)

    Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: How Instagram became the default way some connect with new friends: it’s more casual than LinkedIn, while offering more info and less risk than phone numbers  —  The app has become the default way to connect with new friends, dates, or business contacts.  —  When Chris Rackliffe … How Instagram

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    Squeezebox Comes To The ESP

    Streaming music may now come from somewhere in the cloud to an app on your phone and be sent to the client built in to almost every entertainment device you own, but there was a time when the bleeding edge lay in dedicated streaming device that connected to your existing set-up. One of the players

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    • Cyber insurance for companies is overhyped — even though it may be necessary

    For those following the information security space, it can feel as if the past year was just a series of announcements with one corporate security breach after another. Breaches like Equifax, Marriot, and many more have entered the general consciousness after the personal details of hundreds of millions of customers have fallen into the hands

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    • You can learn how to work with AI tech in this $25 course bundle

    It isn’t magic. It’s just smart coding. The training in The Complete Machine Learning A to Z Bundle ($25, over 90 percent off, from TNW Deals) will introduce you to the basics of deep learning and give you practical hands-on experience working with some of the most critical tools in creating self-learning systems. You can

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    • A behind-the-scenes account of how a member of TripAdvisor's anti-fraud team helped the FCC track down a Florida man accused of making 96M+ illegal robocalls (Alex W. Palmer/Wired)

    Alex W. Palmer / Wired: A behind-the-scenes account of how a member of TripAdvisor’s anti-fraud team helped the FCC track down a Florida man accused of making 96M+ illegal robocalls  —  BRAD YOUNG, A lawyer at TripAdvisor, arrived at the company’s offices in Needham, Massachusetts, on October 12, 2015 … A behind-the-scenes account of how

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    ROS Gets Quick Sensor Debugging In The Terminal

    Sensors are critical in robotics. A robot relies on its sensor package to perform its programmed duties. If sensors are damaged or non-functional, the robot can perform unpredictably, or even fail entirely. [Dheera Venkatraman] has been working to make debugging sensor issues easier with the rosshow package for Robot Operating System. Normally, if you want

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    • Gravity influences decision-making more than we can understand

    Returning to Earth from the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield remarked how making the right decision is vital in high pressure environments, saying: Most of the time, you only really get one try to do most of the critical stuff and the consequences are life or death. Mankind is preparing for a new

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    Ikea Furniture Hacks Make Accessibility More Accessible

    The ThisAbles project is a series of 3D-printed IKEA furniture hacks making life easier for those without full use of their bodies. Since IKEA furniture is affordable and available across most of the planet, it’s the ideal target for a project that aims to make 3D-printed improvements accessible to everyone. These hacks fit all meanings

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    News Analysis: Countries Want to Ban ‘Weaponized’ Social Media. What Would That Look Like?

    No established democracies have ever come as close to applying such sweeping restrictions as Australia and New Zealand are considering in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings. News Analysis: Countries Want to Ban ‘Weaponized’ Social Media. What Would That Look Like? Source: NY Times Tech

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    • How AI will save us from the mess of big data

    We are drowning in data that’s supposed to help us. The big data revolution has come from inexpensive data storage and automated data collection, giving organizations exponentially more data than they had in the past. From business logic data like computer log files to detailed weather patterns, purchasing data to TV viewing, we have access

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