Tech & Science & Business stories
Stories about tech & scientific endeavours, as well as business ones. People who have done stuff, whether they succeeded or not. Also, tech culture reflections.
Collection by Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
19+ min · · The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs. · Shared by 175, including luis antónio santos, The Indian Express, Christian Fauteux, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Esther Schindler, Martina Pugliese, Joe Rogan, HealthyWomen.org, 瑞拿頭, Azeem Azhar, Making Sense Podcast, Bryan William Jones, W. Blake Gray, Ward Plunet, Charles Baldwin, Fern
productgraveyard.com
Product Graveyard: Commemorating the most memorable deceased products
5 min · · Commemorating the most memorable products that have gone away. And finding some alternatives along the way. View products < · Shared by 89, including Martina Pugliese, Chris Messina, Fabricio Teixeira, Thomas Kaul, kp, Danny Prol, ➤ Cyril Druesne, Leslie D, Jane, Jacob Jarnvall
Ars Technica
Scientific computing’s future: Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
19+ min · · Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in. · Shared by 16, including Martina Pugliese, Esther Schindler
The StartUp
Let your customers do the work
6 min · · How we built a (free) sales team from thousands of happy users. · Shared by 15, including Martina Pugliese
Harvard Business Review
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
20+ min · · Twenty years after the introduction of the theory, we revisit what it does—and doesn’t—explain. · Shared by 464, including Joan Carbonell, Wilko S. Wolters, Manos Hatzimalonas, Marc R Gagné MAPP, Charlene Li (she/her), Marquise Stillwell, Klaus Eck, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, AI, Nicolas Babin, Prof. Sally Eaves, Shelly Kramer, Startupxplore, von Moerenburgh, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Kris Fannin, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Glenn Oberholzer, JP Nicols 🇺🇸🇺🇦, Ron McIntyre
Nautilus Magazine
How Darknet Sellers Build Trust
8 min · · Trust used to be a very personal thing: You went on the recommendations of your friends or friends of friends. By finding ways to… · Shared by 29, including Rezha Julio, Paddy Zab, Martina Pugliese
nature
Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
12+ min · · To highlight uncertain norms in authorship, John P. A. Ioannidis, Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack identified the most prolific scientists of recent years. · Shared by 36, including APS Physics, Meghan Duffy, Martina Pugliese, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social
Nautilus Magazine
Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?
11+ min · · Silicon Valley has a term for startups that reach the $1 billion valuation mark: unicorns. The term is instructive. It suggests not… · Shared by 47, including Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Thomas Power, Martina Pugliese, DHH, Dominik Grolimund, Glyn Britton
Aeon+Psyche
A fetish for falsification and observation holds back science
13+ min · · Demanding that a theory is falsifiable or observable, without any subtlety, will hold science back. We need madcap ideas · Shared by 62, including Alain, Ward Plunet, Digital Ideation, Martina Pugliese
The New Yorker
Why Pi Matters
4 min · · Yes, Pi Day is again upon us. And not just any Pi Day. They’re calling this the Pi Day of the century: 3.14.15. Pi to five digits. · Shared by 76, including Joe Filcik, passingafternoon, Dominik Grolimund, Philippe Gauvin, Martina Pugliese, Bilal Aslam, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶, Jacob Jarnvall, Chung, Eric L. Barnes 🏝️, kp, Liliane Ferrari ™, Trae Blain
The Atlantic
The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete
20+ min · · Here's what's next. · Shared by 675, including Esther Schindler, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Liv 😷, Dominik Grolimund, Rico Grimm, Marcus Kuhn, Marc Eglon, Matthias Lampe, Howard Getson, Gerd Leonhard, Arin Basu, Martina Pugliese, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Herbert Bay, René Clausen Nielsen, Thomas Pleil, Oleg Baskov, Guy Kawasaki, Carolyn Porco
medium.com
Product Integration Testing at the Speed of Netflix
8 min · · it is imperative to have a vigilant and knowledgeable Integration Test team · Shared by 6, including Martina Pugliese
medium.com
Quasi Experimentation at Netflix
4 min · · Colin McFarland, Michael Pow, Jeremy Glick · Shared by 18, including Dominik Grolimund, Martina Pugliese, Scott Brinker
WIRED
The Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Videogame Empire—And Went Too Far
20+ min · · Among those involved in David Pokora's so-called Xbox Underground, one would become an informant, one would become a fugitive, and one would end up dead. · Shared by 102, including Brad Brooks, Anthony Hamelle, Simon Carless, Carla Gentry 🎶, Thomas Power, Martina Pugliese, Marsha Collier, Amaury Martiny, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Star Halifax
35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he…
13+ min · · The famed science fiction writer was wrong about a world government, but pretty close on robots. On computers, though ... · Shared by 586, including 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Pat Kua, Katja Evertz, Brian Roemmele, Andres Oppenheimer, Kevin Kelly, Dominik Grolimund, Herbert Bay, Marie-Christine Schindler, Liliane Ferrari ™, Ines Bieler, Philip Stehlik, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Oliver Gassner https://mastodon.social/@oliverg, Matthias Sala, Klaus Eck, Simon Wüthrich, Tac Anderson