Author: Tech Support

    • Executives at construction startups discuss how they are automating parts of their work and what it will take to create fully autonomous construction projects (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

    Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Executives at construction startups discuss how they are automating parts of their work and what it will take to create fully autonomous construction projects  —  Built Robotics executives are fond of saying that their autonomous system for construction equipment, like dozers and excavators … Executives at construction startups discuss how they

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    Cable Driven Robotic Joint

    Even the oldest of mechanisms remain useful in modern technology. [Skyentific] has been messing with robotic joints for quite a while, and demonstrated an interesting way to use a pulley system in a robotic joint with quite a bit of mechanical advantage and zero backlash. Inspired by the LIMS2-AMBIDEX robotic arm, the mechanism is effectively

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    • A look at the origin of the conspiracy theory linking 5G to COVID-19, which went mainstream as influential people and celebrities started amplifying it in March (Rebecca Heilweil/Vox)

    Rebecca Heilweil / Vox: A look at the origin of the conspiracy theory linking 5G to COVID-19, which went mainstream as influential people and celebrities started amplifying it in March  —  Damaged cabling and telecommunications equipment is pictured following a fire at a phone mast attached to a chimney in Huddersfield, northern England, on April

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    • The coronavirus pandemic shouldn’t legitimize permanent surveillance after the crisis

    In Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, she recalls the response to the launch of Google Glass in 2012. Zuboff describes public horror, as well as loud protestations from privacy advocates who were deeply concerned that the product’s undetectable recording of people and places threatened to eliminate “a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy and/or anonymity.”

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    • The internet tailwinds that propelled meteoric growth in Silicon Valley are stalling, which will accelerate zero-sum games between startups and incumbents (John Luttig/luttig's learnings)

    John Luttig / luttig’s learnings: The internet tailwinds that propelled meteoric growth in Silicon Valley are stalling, which will accelerate zero-sum games between startups and incumbents  —  The Internet tailwinds that propelled Silicon Valley’s meteoric growth for decades are stalling out.  The ripple effects will jolt the tech industry. The internet tailwinds that propelled meteoric

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    • How activists are protesting online, like dropping pins with protest messages beside Russian government buildings on Yandex.Maps, holding Zoom conferences, more (Christopher Miller/BuzzFeed News)

    Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News: How activists are protesting online, like dropping pins with protest messages beside Russian government buildings on Yandex.Maps, holding Zoom conferences, more  —  Lockdown measures have stopped many protesters from going outside.  So they’re getting creative. How activists are protesting online, like dropping pins with protest messages beside Russian government buildings

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    • Interview with Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, on rearranged priorities due to the COVID-19 crisis, competition, his evolving strategy around M&A, and more (Tom Krazit/Protocol)

    Tom Krazit / Protocol: Interview with Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, on rearranged priorities due to the COVID-19 crisis, competition, his evolving strategy around M&A, and more  —  More than a year after he joined Google Cloud, the CEO has made little headway against AWS and Microsoft. Interview with Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google

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    • While others like Disney and WarnerMedia change schedules to try to salvage part of the year, Netflix says it has enough content to not move its 2020 slate (Julia Alexander/The Verge)

    Julia Alexander / The Verge: While others like Disney and WarnerMedia change schedules to try to salvage part of the year, Netflix says it has enough content to not move its 2020 slate  —  The streamer’s 2020 slate won’t move around, exec says  —  The most pressing issue entertainment companies around the world … While

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    • A look at Luminary Media, a year after its launch as "the Netflix of podcasting": company says subscriber base grew by 14% in the past six weeks amid lockdown (Gerry Smith/Bloomberg)

    Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: A look at Luminary Media, a year after its launch as “the Netflix of podcasting”: company says subscriber base grew by 14% in the past six weeks amid lockdown  —  No ads.  No Axelrod.  No problem.  New CEO is gung-ho on subscription model  —  When Luminary Media launched in April 2019

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