Fast Company
This is the computer you’ll wear on your face in 10 years
4 min · · Snap’s new Spectacles 3 camera glasses are an important step toward the augmented reality glasses that could one day replace the smartphone as our go-to computing device. · Shared by 154, including Jelan Ong, Ines Bieler, Yvette Dubel, Josep M. Ganyet, Katja Evertz, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Gerrit Eicker, Thomas Power, Klaus Eck
nature
Chemists make first-ever ring of pure carbon
3 min · · Elusive 18-atom ‘cyclocarbon’ could be a step towards molecule-scale transistors. · Shared by 27, including Research Stash, Roger Highfield, Thomas Power, Mahantesh Biradar, Andy Stanford-Clark, Gerrit Eicker
WIRED
Snap Bets Its Future on a Stylish New Pair of Spectacles
2 min · · The camera-enabled sunglasses get a face-lift, a second camera, and a few new viewing powers. It's all part of Snap's plan to dominate augmented reality. · Shared by 13, including Gerrit Eicker
Mashable
Instagram now lets anyone make their own AR effects
1 min · · Get ready to see a lot of new augmented reality effects in Instagram. · Shared by 21, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Rosh Sillars, Gerrit Eicker
The Guardian
Teen's tweets from her smart fridge go viral after mother confiscates phone
2 min · · Fifteen-year-old resorts to drastic measures after mom takes action ‘so I’d pay more attention to my surroundings’ · Shared by 102, including Luca Hammer, @grzewap@mastodon.social, Mark Kaigwa, Lukas Stickelberger, Gerrit Eicker, John Koetsier, Jessica Gioglio, Dean Anthony Gratton, Bernhard Huessy, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Andy Sporring - 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Essays
Ars Technica
Elon Musk’s Neuralink: Both an evolution and a plan for radical change
11+ min · · Neuralink will probably fail in interesting and worthwhile ways. · Shared by 71, including George M 🇪🇺, Thomas Power, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Gerrit Eicker, 瑞拿頭, Gabriele
goodereader.com
E Ink Smartphones are the big new trend of 2019
4 min · · There are many E Ink smartphones that have come out in the past few months and a bunch of new ones are going to be released periodically until the end of 2019. Smartphones with e-paper are more viable · Shared by 5, including Gerrit Eicker
The Economist
Streets ahead
4 min · · Europe is edging towards making post-car cities a reality · Shared by 77, including Bernhard Huessy, Charles Baldwin, Tauno, Gerrit Eicker, Steve Case, Ward Plunet, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Financial Times
Huge computing power ‘can deliver human-level AI in 5 years’
6 min · · OpenAI bets that size matters in race to artificial general intelligence · Shared by 77, including David Pearce, Oren Etzioni, Yvette Dubel, Luca M. Sergio, Martin Ford, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Niklaus Gerber, Gerrit Eicker, Thomas Power, Howard Getson
The Guardian
Innocence lost: What did you do before the internet?
10 min · · People born in the late 1970s are the last to have grown up without the internet. Social scientists call them the Last of the Innocents. Leah McLaren ponders a time when our attention was allowed to… · Shared by 87, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Ines Bieler, Fern, Ste Davies, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Mike Davidson, Gerrit Eicker, Mark Kaigwa
Outside
This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry
9 min · · Alt meat isn't going to stay alt for long, and cattle are looking more and more like stranded assets · Shared by 162, including dunschtig, Katja Evertz, Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund, Gerrit Eicker, Arnie Kuenn, Jane, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, dankim@androiddev.social, MrChad 🔮, Howard Getson, Rajesh Kasturirangan
MIT Technology Review
Sorry, scooters aren’t so climate-friendly after all
2 min · · Bird boasts that its dockless electric scooters allow customers to “cruise past traffic and cut back on CO2 emissions—one ride at a time.” Its rival Lime claims the vehicles “reduce dependence on… · Shared by 148, including Moritz Meenen, Vikram Dutt, Dr. Nettra Pan 👁, Bernhard Huessy, Tom Connor, Charles Baldwin, Gerrit Eicker, Bertrand Maltaverne, Sascha Brossmann (he/him) 🇪🇺🇺🇦, Mike Butcher, Esther Schindler, Ian M Calvert, Antonio Vieira Santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, DonDahlmann, Frederic Filloux, Fabrizio Bianchi
VICE
Americans Are Making Phone Farms to Scam Free Money From Advertisers
10 min · · Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate cash to buy food, diapers, and beer through ad fraud. · Shared by 129, including George M 🇪🇺, Mark Kaigwa, elpocas, Marsha Collier, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Jane, Gerrit Eicker, Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡, Mike Butcher, Warren Whitlock
Pew Research Fact Tank
Americans have become much less positive about tech companies’ impact on the U.S.
3 min · · Negative views of technology companies’ impact on the country have nearly doubled since 2015, from 17% to 33%. · Shared by 44, including Yvette Dubel, Jonathan Kogan, Pew Research Internet, Annamaria Lusardi, CMSWire.com, Gerrit Eicker