WIRED UK
Don't like wearable tech? Get your bedroom to track you instead
3 min · · Our environments will watch us and react in the next frontier of personalisation · Shared by 56, including sircharlsxavier, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, Daniel Kraft, MD, Brian Roemmele, luis antónio santos, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Lisa Gualtieri, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Dave Kemp
The Verge
Google now has a ‘multibillion-dollar’ hardware business, has paid $80B to Android app devs
2 min · · Compare to YouTube, which makes $15 billion a year · Shared by 53, including Hans Bickhofe, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
WIRED
How a Space Engineer Made Her Own Rotary Cell Phone
3 min · · The funky DIY device is a creative way for Justine Haupt to eschew the always-on lifestyle. · Shared by 73, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, U.S. Department of Energy, Jennifer Ouellette, Steven Sinofsky, John Koetsier
The Verge
Former Windows chief reveals Microsoft’s reaction to the iPad
3 min · · Microsoft responded with Windows 8 and its Surface RT tablet. · Shared by 55, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jakub Ferenc, Steven Sinofsky, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Input
The iPad's original software designer and program lead look back on the device's first 10 years
20+ min · · We chatted with Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno about the tiny tablet that could. · Shared by 50, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Benjamin Mayo, Rafael Zeier, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Benedict Evans
Presentations — Benedict Evans
· Presentations by Benedict Evans: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, The End of the Beginning and Mobile is Eating the world. · Shared by 662, including Mathew Ingram, Ross Dawson, Chris Messina, Sebastien Meunier, Barney Loehnis, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Florian Graillot, Daniel Pink, Rene Ritchie, Ryan Hoover, Paul Kedrosky, Noah Smith, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis, Tim O'Reilly, Barry Ritholtz, Vala Afshar, Pippa Malmgren, Luke Wroblewski
heise online
Smartphone gegen Kamera: Bildqualität im Vergleich
2 min · · Smartphones sind die besseren Kameras! Das Werbemantra wirkt. Doch wo stehen die mobilen Alleskönner tatsächlich in Sachen Bildqualität? · Shared by 9, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Guardian
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your apps
8 min · · Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight · Shared by 604, including Jonathan Kogan, Johannes Lenz, Mark Kaigwa, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Jansnet, Brian Ahier, Jane, Howard Getson, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Rob Go, Oliver Raduner, henrik, Joshua Walker, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz, Luca Like, Josep M. Ganyet, Christian Müller, Matthias Lampe
Ars Technica
Fewer than 10% of Americans are buying $1,000 smartphones, report says
2 min · · And consumers in major cities are more likely to take the plunge than others. · Shared by 16, including Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Marsha Collier
Insider Business
Smartphones of the future could work in a completely different way thanks to 5G, and it means you'll rarely have…
2 min · · Smartphones can't become obsolete if they don't actually run our apps. In the future, we might be streaming our apps over 5G. · Shared by 68, including Real Marsha Wright®, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Elena Neira, Hans Bickhofe, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे
The Guardian
Uncovered: reality of how smartphones turned election news into chaos
6 min · · Groundbreaking research gives snapshot of world in which politics coverage is warped by social media algorithms and friendship groups · Shared by 80, including Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Ayala Sherbow, luis antónio santos, Liliane Ferrari ™, Mark Kaigwa, Lluís Codina, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Mathew Ingram, Mark Little
The Wall Street Journal
Huawei Manages to Make Smartphones Without American Chips
1 min · · American tech companies are getting the go-ahead to resume business with Chinese smartphone giant Huawei, but it may be too late: it is now building smartphones without U.S. chips. · Shared by 17, including Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Korben, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
The New York Times
Smartphones Are Spies. Here’s Who They Report To.
8 min · · The apps and companies profiting from your every movement. · Shared by 18, including Eric Topol, Ste Davies, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
WIRED
Nature Will Triumph—and Reclaim All Our Gadgets
2 min · · A new art exhibit, “The World After Us,” shows the power and ingenuity of nature to make use of machines in a world without humans. · Shared by 16, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
FORTUNE
The certainty of Magic Leap's augmented-reality future
· At CES 2020, the well-funded startup was showing off new games and other apps. · Shared by 23, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Rick King, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
MIT Technology Review
Your kid’s phone probably isn't making them depressed
1 min · · The news: Two psychology professors have examined about 40 studies that investigate the link between the use of smartphones and depression and anxiety among teenagers. · Shared by 42, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, ExApologist