Month: June 2019

    • China-based robotic process automation startup Laiye, whose product UiBot gained 6,000 enterprise users after launching in January, raises $35M Series B (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)

    Rita Liao / TechCrunch: China-based robotic process automation startup Laiye, whose product UiBot gained 6,000 enterprise users after launching in January, raises $35M Series B  —  For many years, the boom and bust of China’s tech landscape have centered around consumer-facing products. China-based robotic process automation startup Laiye, whose product UiBot gained 6,000 enterprise users

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    • How to Write a Great Cover Letter

    A few weeks ago a close friend of mine posted a job on Facebook that was available in her office that just happened to be a perfect match for a different friend of mine that’s looking for a new job. I passed the info along to friend number two and connected them together. Read more…

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    • Profile of 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan, who sold the site in 2015, and says he has soured not just on 8chan, but on the whole idea it represented (Nicky Woolf/Tortoise Media)

    Nicky Woolf / Tortoise Media: Profile of 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan, who sold the site in 2015, and says he has soured not just on 8chan, but on the whole idea it represented  —  How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet  — 

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    • Iran seized nearly a thousand computers used to illegally mine Bitcoin

    After detecting an unusual spike in energy consumption, Iranian authorities seized nearly a thousand computers being used to mine cryptocurrency, according to the country’s state media. Authorities discovered two bitcoin farms operating in abandoned factories in Yazd province, which caused a seven percent spike in the country’s power consumption this month. Iran’s central bank banned

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    • Apple will repair 2018 MacBook Airs with faulty logic board for free

    A “very small number” of Apple’s 2018 MacBook Air computers suffer from an issue with their logic boards, and the company will replace the components for free, according to documents seen by 9to5Mac. The site reveals that certain 13-inch Retina screen 2018 MacBook Air models have an issue with their logic boards. The documentation reportedly

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    Extracting Power From USB Type C

    For the last decade or so, we’ve been powering and charging our portable devices with USB. It’s a system that works; you charge batteries with DC, and you don’t want to have a wall wart for every device, so just grab a USB hub and charge your phone and you headphones or what have you.

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    • How TikTok users are supplanting the traditional functions of record labels, like talent scouting and publicity, for new artists (Alyssa Bereznak/The Ringer)

    Alyssa Bereznak / The Ringer: How TikTok users are supplanting the traditional functions of record labels, like talent scouting and publicity, for new artists  —  Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ is both a chart-topping phenomenon and a turning point for the music business.  Here’s what happens when a social media platform becomes a label.

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    • Amazon is adding a new tab to highlight live television to its Fire TVs

    Amazon is making it easier for users to find live television on its Fire TV units. The company says that it will soon roll out a “Live” tab that collects all of the various live programming across apps that users might have installed. Amazon describes the tab as a “single destination” that “brings together your

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    • Apple says that it’s focused on quality over quantity when it comes to its TV shows

    Apple’s head of services and programming says that the company has adopted a quality-over-quantity mindset when it comes to its forthcoming Apple TV Plus service. This weekend, The Sunday Times released an interview with Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, in which he talks about what to expect from the

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    • Iran's Energy Ministry says that power consumption jumped 7% in June, largely due to Bitcoin mining, making the power grid unstable, seizes 1,000 Bitcoin miners (Golnaz Esfandiari/Radio Free Europe …)

    Golnaz Esfandiari / Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Iran’s Energy Ministry says that power consumption jumped 7% in June, largely due to Bitcoin mining, making the power grid unstable, seizes 1,000 Bitcoin miners  —  Iran has blamed an “unusual” spike in electricity consumption in the country on cryptocurrency miners, while warning … Iran’s Energy Ministry says

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    • Google launches Fuchsia OS developer website with official documentation about developing for its open source operating system (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

    Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: Google launches Fuchsia OS developer website with official documentation about developing for its open source operating system  —  As was repeatedly made plain to see during this year’s Google I/O, developers are eager to learn more about Google’s Fuchsia OS. Google launches Fuchsia OS developer website with official documentation about developing

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    • How supermarkets can reduce packaging to save the planet from drowning in garbage

    It was inspiring to read about the launch of Waitrose’s trial in Oxford offering consumers a range of products free of packaging. Their system isn’t revolutionary – smaller supermarkets have been doing the same thing for quite some time, as have many committed people. But it’s the first time that a major supermarket has made

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    • Create Written Notes From YouTube Videos Instantly With this Chrome Extension

    There are a ton of informative YouTube videos out there. When you’re watching one where you’re hoping to learn something; however, you have to take your own notes on the topic for later. Gnotes is an extension that can help with that. Read more… Create Written Notes From YouTube Videos Instantly With this Chrome Extension

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    • Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will go on trial next summer

    Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of blood-testing startup Theranos, will officially go to trial in San Jose next year, according to the US District Judge Edward J. Davila of the Northern District of California. Federal prosecutors indicted Holmes and the company’s former president and COO, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani last summer, charging the pair with two

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    • US troops in Afghanistan will soon test a tiny, pocket-sized drone in the field

    The US Army will soon be equipping some units in the field with tiny personal drones, reports Stars & Stripes. The 1st Battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division’s 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment will begin using the devices next month in Afghanistan as the military works to figure out the best way to use them. FLIR

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    • An Amazon engineer made an AI-powered cat flap to stop his cat from bringing home dead animals

    Machine learning can be an incredible addition to any tinkerer’s toolbox, helping to fix that little problem in life that no commercial gadget can handle. For Amazon engineer Ben Hamm, that problem was stopping his “sweet, murderous cat” Metric from bringing home dead and half-dead prey in the middle of the night and waking him

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    • Interview with Google's Matías Duarte on his smartphone notification designs while at Danger between 2000-2005 and what can be done to make notifications better (Lauren Goode/Wired)

    Lauren Goode / Wired: Interview with Google’s Matías Duarte on his smartphone notification designs while at Danger between 2000-2005 and what can be done to make notifications better  —  NOTIFICATIONS ARE, AT the most basic level, a method of alerting people to some piece of information, often with some element of urgency. Interview with Google’s

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