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WIRED
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
20+ min · · Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight. · Shared by 597, including Danny Goodwin, Nancy, Chris Messina, Florian Hanke 🍎, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Gerd Leonhard, Esther Schindler, Bjorn Larsen, Mathew Ingram, Backchannel, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Steven Sinofsky, Elena Neira, Thomas Power, OM, Audrey Watters, Liliane Ferrari ™, Marsha Collier, Jeff Atwood, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
The Atlantic
What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
20+ min · · Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say. · Shared by 541, including Vikram Dutt, Howard Getson, René Pfitzner, Saigoneer, Mark Kaigwa, mrbrown, Richard Deitsch, Tom Connor, Christian Fauteux, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Arin Basu, Jill Jacobson, Carl Morris, ja hallo met kasper, Marsha Collier, Neil Lee, Florian Hanke 🍎, BrendanEich, Katja Evertz, Tim Harford
The New York Times
It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
Summary · 20+ min · · What with data privacy scandals, fake news and Russian interference, Facebook finds itself in the middle of a growing storm. An increasing number of voices in US politics – as well as in economic and legal circles – have started to call for the breakup of the internet giant. Now Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has joined the chorus. He makes his case in a New York Times op-ed, which has become an instant must-read for anybody interested in the debate about the role of government in the social media space. · Shared by 407, including ❤️ Umair, Thomas Power, Adrienne Fichter, Tristan Harris, Molly Wood, Gerd Leonhard, Jeff Bussgang, Stewart Alsop, Mathew Ingram, Chris Messina, mrbrown, Richard Gutjahr, Gabriel Weinberg, John Battelle, rufuspollock, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Azeem Azhar, Rand Fishkin, Matt Navarra, Hannes Grassegger
play.date
Playdate. A New Handheld Gaming System
7 min · · It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. It’s got a beautiful black and white screen. Playdate from Panic is coming soon. · Shared by 267, including Scott Murray, rstevens 🐳💨, Nick Finck, Liliputing, David Hellmann, Matt Schlicht, Rand Fishkin, Gergely Orosz, MDS, anildash.com, Steve Troughton-Smith (Archived), Federico Viticci, Noah Chestnut, jesse squires 🏴, Mark Kaigwa, Pixel, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Stammy, Fabricio Teixeira, Dominik Grolimund
Slate
The 36 Bits of Software That Changed Our Lives
20+ min · · Apollo 11, the JPEG, and yes, even the Roomba. · Shared by 258, including Gary Thomas 🌐, Draven, #MuskOut (not parody), Kane Mar, Howard Getson, Rob Tiffany, Evan Selinger, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Michael (मुकेश), Mark Kaigwa, Marcos, Esther Schindler, Jeff Atwood, Linda Liukas, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Oliver Fuchs, Steven Sinofsky, Jeremy Liew, #BLM #StopAsianHate, AJ Ghergich, Ahmad Ragab
TechCrunch
Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know
17+ min · · Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to people with nearly zero fees. You’ll pseudonymously buy or cash out your Libra… · Shared by 251, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Gabriele, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Björn Ognibeni, Fabian Künzli, Barney Loehnis, Builtvisible, Mike Ivars, Erick Mazer Yamashita, Johannes Lenz, Mari Smith, Mark Kaigwa
The Guardian
The science of influencing people: six ways to win an argument
8 min · · Hidebound views on subjects such as the climate crisis and Brexit are the norm – but science may sway stubborn opinions · Shared by 248, including Marc Zenger, Guy Kawasaki, Tom Connor, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Jochen Burkhard, Liliane Ferrari ™, Fanzo, Florian Hanke 🍎, Thomas Billeter
Forbes
China – The First Artificial Intelligence Superpower
5 min · · China combines a gigantic amount of data with talent, companies, research and capital to build the world's leading AI ecosystem. · Shared by 228, including Oliver Ewinger, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Josep M. Ganyet, Thomas Telandro, Yves Mulkers, Bob E. Hayes, Howard Getson, Mark Kaigwa, Matthias Lampe, Oleg Baskov, Nige Roberts-Willson, Iain Brown, PhD, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Barney Loehnis, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Kogan
WIRED
Facebook’s Libra Reveals Silicon Valley’s Naked Ambition
4 min · · Cloaked in the guise of making the world a better place, the cryptocurrency project is really another attempt to go big or go home. · Shared by 215, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Charles Baldwin, Martina Grolimund, Claudia Sommer, Backchannel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Alain, Gabriele, Thomas Power, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Yvette Dubel, Ralph Hutter, Dominik Grolimund, Oleg Baskov, Thomas Billeter
The New Yorker
Is Amazon Unstoppable?
· Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back. · Shared by 214, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Remy Bataille, luis antónio santos, Jochen Burkhard, Charles Duhigg, Jane, Johannes Lenz, Dr Catherine Breslin, Steve Case, Ward Plunet, Thomas Power, davidabrock, Paul Kedrosky, @brianleroux@indieweb.social 💙, Michael Seemann, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Avinash Kaushik, mdy
The Wall Street Journal
Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content
3 min · · Genius Media Group says Google is lifting and republishing on its own platform the hip-hop and pop music lyrics found on Genius.com, resulting in a drop in traffic for the site. · Shared by 201, including Charles Baldwin, Rand Fishkin, Adam Tinworth, Mac McCann, Oliver Reichenstein, Vincenzo Tremonte, Josep M. Ganyet, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Benedict Evans, Balaji, Tim O'Reilly, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, AJ Kohn
The New York Times
How an Online Mob Created a Playbook for a Culture War
3 min · · The powerful lesson of a 5-year-old harassment campaign: How to wage a post-truth information war. · Shared by 199, including 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Stephanie A Kowalski, Paolo Pedercini 🥶, Charles Baldwin, Felix M, Aleksandra Wisniewska, Liz Lumley, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Jane
The New York Times
The Making of a YouTube Radical
20+ min · · Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism. · Shared by 185, including Mark Little, C. Dutilh Novaes akademienl.social/@cdutilhnovaes, Florian Hanke 🍎, Kevin Roose, Anthony Hamelle, Kevin Kelly, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, The Real Prof. Katharine Hayhoe, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, W. Blake Gray, Mark Kaigwa, Andrew Hutchinson, Nando 💪🇦🇺🇦🇷, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 💥 Katie Martell, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Arin Basu, Mike Butcher
The Washington Post
Review | Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.
6 min · · Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. · Shared by 183, including Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Jane, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Bjorn Larsen, Mathew Ingram, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, BrendanEich, Raphael Bratschi, Mark Kaigwa, Korben, Steven Sinofsky, W. Blake Gray, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Gideonro, Thomas Byttebier, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, mrbrown, Vincenzo Tremonte, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org
OpenAI
MuseNet
5 min · · We’ve created Musenet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. · Shared by 170, including Ilya Sutskever, Lukas Biewald, Thomas Telandro, jz, Michelle Boisson, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, luis antónio santos, Katja Evertz, Future of Life Institute, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, ipfconline in vacation mode :) will be back Sept.4, Christine McLeavey, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Josep M. Ganyet, Massimo Banzi, Nils Hitze, Oleg Baskov, Ryan Hoover
The Washington Post
It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
6 min · · Shared by 164, including Marsha Collier, Ralph Hutter, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Scott McLeod, Mark Kaigwa, Jane, Daniel Jörg, Guy Kawasaki, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Noely ⚡️🏐, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Mathew Ingram, OM, Bernhard Huessy, Eric L. Barnes 🏝️, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Luca Like, Yvette Dubel