Laurence Dodds / Telegraph: Exclusive: Facebook to finally explain the decisions of its news feed algorithm — Facebook will finally begin telling its users why posts appear in their news feeds as it seeks to assuage public concerns about the spread of fake news and its influence over billions of people’s reading habits. Exclusive: Facebook
Read MoreJeff Kauflin / Forbes: A profile of payment card services startup Marqeta, which according to a source has doubled its revenue every year since 2016, reaching close to $150M in 2018 — n the spring of 2015, Jason Gardner, the founder of Marqeta, a payments processor, left a grim board meeting and went for a
Read MoreYou can now make flexible circuit boards of unlimited length. Trackwise was contracted out for making a wiring harness for the wing of a UAV and managed to ship a 26 meter long flexible printed circuit board. This is an interesting application of the technology — UAVs are very weight sensitive and wiring harnesses are
Read MoreYou better lose yourself in the Musk tweets. Elon Musk drops an auto-tune rap about 2016 meme Harambe – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJosh Constine / TechCrunch: Proxy, a startup that is building a mobile identity layer on top of Bluetooth LE for keyless entry and more, raises $13.6M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins — You know how kings used to have trumpeters heralding their arrival wherever they went? Proxy wants to do that with Bluetooth. Proxy,
Read MoreSamsung’s Galaxy S10 phones are tested and the verdicts are in. Here’s what they do best. 5 Galaxy S10 features you're going to love most – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreKourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall and Kylie are back, now with extra Kanye — because “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” is back on TV tonight. The Kardashians Tell All About Jordyn Woods, Fyre Festival and Being Billionaires Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreA herd of technology public offerings this year and next year is set to anoint venture capital winners. Here are some of them. These Silicon Valley Investors’ Bets May Pay Off Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreLive-action remake of Dumbo soared to the top of the weekend box office. Captain Marvel about to blast past billion at box office – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMetal fabrication is a useful skill to have. There’s plenty you can achieve in your workshop at home, given the right tools. There’s lathes for turning, mills for milling, and bandsaws and dropsaws for chopping it all to pieces. But what do you do if you need to make hoops and bends and round sections?
Read MoreCommentary: I was crushed when Apple cancelled its smart wireless charging pad. Now it’s time to move on. Apple AirPower's death could be the best thing for you and your iPhone – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreAs the KUWTK trailer promises, Mr. Kim Kardashian is ready to share his feelings with you. ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Returns With Its New Star … Kanye West? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreEverybody knows the concept of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model by now. But what not many might realize is that SaaS business lives or dies by its Monthly Recurring Revenue. MRR is becoming the lifeblood of companies following this unique business model, one that’s only growing in popularity as of late. But why? The SaaS market
Read MoreWall 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,
Read More“You are not your user” A reminder that you are not designing the product for people like yourself. Often used as a way to encourage more user research in a project. “If Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have told him faster horses”Used as a counter-argument to the previous statement, when
Read MoreAs the social network is called out for its own practices, Zuck says the internet needs guidance and standard rules. Facebook’s Zuckerberg wants laws to combat harmful content, protect privacy – CNET Source: CNet
Read More“I shouldn’t be thinking about legal precedent when I am trying to write a chorus,” a Beyoncé songwriter says, long after “Blurred Lines” changed the rules. Ripped-Off Riffs? Rise in Plagiarism Claims Unnerves Pop Songwriters Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreTechCrunch: 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
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreAlison 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
Read MoreCEO Jon Von Tetzchner also calls for privacy regulation to block companies from tracking us online. Also coming soon: Vivaldi’s email software. Vivaldi mobile browser due in 2019 — but no ad blocking – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTaylor 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
Read MoreCommentary: I was crushed when Apple cancelled its smart wireless charging pad. Now it’s time to move on. The death of Apple's AirPower' may be the best thing for you and your iPhone – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreStreaming 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
Read MoreFor 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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