medium.com
Does Costco Offer Home and Auto Insurance?
2 min · · Costco is an insurance company which provides insurance coverage at cheaper rate. It is one of the famous insurance company where people…
Nieman Lab
Want to see what one digital future for newspapers looks like? Look at The Guardian, which isn’t losing money anymore…
7 min · · It's a remarkable turnaround for an institution that's been losing money for what seems like forever, and there are lessons to be had for other digital publishers. · Shared by 198, including Mathew Ingram, Klaus Eck, Charles Baldwin, Nieman Reports, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, bouiboui, Joshua Benton, Adrian🇨🇭, Lluís Codina, Frederic Filloux, Carl Morris, Jane, almagentia369, Adrian Zumbrunnen, Vincenzo Tremonte, ErmanTaylan.eth, NZZ Editorial Tech
Washingtonian 🌸
What Happened After My 13-Year-Old Son Joined the Alt-Right
19+ min · · A Washington family's nightmare year. · Shared by 118, including Rand Fishkin, Mohamed Azazy, Neil Lee, Miguel, Loubna Rais, Mathew Ingram, Draven, Bjorn Larsen
VICE
AirPods Are a Tragedy
12+ min · · Apple claims that AirPods are building a “wireless future.” Lay people think they're a symbol of disposable wealth. The truth is bleaker. · Shared by 177, including Tillmann Lang, Kat, Tris Hussey, Christian Fauteux, George M 🇪🇺, Dominik Grolimund, Glyn Britton, Bernhard Huessy, Chris {he, they} , 瑞拿頭, tante, Trent Walton, Neil Lee, Christina, Oliver Raduner, Chris Messina, Philippe Surber, faq-mac
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
The New York Times
Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses
15+ min · · Newly obtained tax information reveals that from 1985 to 1994, Donald J. Trump’s businesses were in far bleaker condition than was previously known. · Shared by 168, including Mac McCann, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Nate Berg, Nils Hitze, Steven Sinofsky, Liv 😷, Mathew Ingram, John Battelle, Heisenberg Report, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Gideonro, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Esther Schindler, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, NYTimes Communications, Pete Skomoroch, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Carly
WIRED
Facebook Wants to Connect You With Your 'Secret Crush'
2 min · · The new dating feature will let you express romantic interest in up to nine friends at once. · Shared by 57, including Mathew Ingram, Mike Butcher, Thomas Power, Chris Messina, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Loughlin O'Nolan, Backchannel
The Wall Street Journal
Altice USA Buys Streaming-Video Network Cheddar for $200 Million
3 min · · Cable operator Altice USA Inc. agreed to acquire streaming-video network Cheddar Inc. for $200 million, an all-cash deal expected to raise the profile of the company’s news division. · Shared by 31, including Joan Lockwood, Benedict Evans, Mathew Ingram
Sky News
Dead could outnumber living on Facebook within 50 years
2 min · · The global digital heritage of the world will be on platforms such as Facebook, say researchers, so how do we begin to analyse it? · Shared by 66, including anildash.com, Liliane Ferrari ™, Arin Basu, Bill Johnston, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Mark Kaigwa, Sky News Tech, Nichole, Ste Davies, Klaus Eck, Builtvisible, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Dean Anthony Gratton, Matt Navarra
The Wall Street Journal
Driving? The Kids Are So Over It
· In a challenge for Detroit, teens put off getting their licenses and buying cars. About a quarter of 16-year-olds had a driver’s license in 2017, a sharp decline from nearly half in 1983. · Shared by 54, including Till Quack, Matthew Bishop, Steven Sinofsky, Bill Gurley, Maja Grolimund-Kurth, Jeremiah Owyang
Outside
He Doesn't Just Chase Hurricanes. He's Addicted to Them.
10 min · · Josh Morgerman is an obsessive stormchaser. As hurricanes grow fiercer and more destructive, what does it mean to be someone who loves them? · Shared by 45, including 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧
The Economist
Can Uber ever make money?
4 min · · A ride back through history offers sobering lessons · Shared by 50, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tendayi Viki, Dominik Grolimund
The Pudding
How Algorithms Know What You’ll Type Next
6 min · · By Wessel Stoop & Antal van den Bosch If you have ever typed something on a smartphone, you have likely seen it attempt to predict what you’ll write next. This article is about how text predictors… · Shared by 58, including Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Data Science Renee, Remy Bataille, Mara Averick, Neil Lee, luis antónio santos, Scott Murray, Oscar MacDonald, rohit, Niklaus Gerber, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧
The Verge
US facial recognition will cover 97 percent of departing airline passengers within four years
1 min · · Biometric Exit is already used at 15 US airports · Shared by 24, including jean marc manach @manhack@social.tcit.fr, Luca Hammer
The Washington Post
Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they’re talking about, study suggests
· Researchers attempt to measure how often people oversell themselves in society. · Shared by 62, including Clemens M. Schuster, Azeem Azhar, Chris Messina, Christopher Lauer™, Florian Hanke 🍎, Antonio Vieira Santos
The New York Times
Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again
5 min · · Thanks to “data inference” technology, companies know more about you than you disclose. · Shared by 143, including Yvette Dubel, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, fernand0, Leslie D, Mathew Ingram, Mark Kaigwa, Florian Hanke 🍎, luis antónio santos, zeynep tufekci, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Fern, Thomas Pleil, Josep M. Ganyet