Tag: tech

• Turn Slack messages into notes, to-dos and more with Zapier

  May 11, 2019

  The best way to streamline your everyday work with Slack is to tap into our App Directory. It’s home to hundreds of tools you can use right inside your workspace.… more ›

• Cybernetic Forests

  May 9, 2019

  The artist James Bridle assesses the relationship between technology and the environment. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/sounds/play/m0004sdb more ›

• May 5, 2019

  https://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/hearables-will-monitor-your-brain-and-body-to-augment-your-life more ›

• The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program

  May 5, 2019

  It’s easy to forget now, but Amazon wasn’t always the king of online shopping. In the fall of 2004, Jeff Bezos’s company was still mostly selling just books and DVDs.… more ›

• The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance

  May 3, 2019

  Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has more subscribers than Netflix, more cloud computing revenue than Google, and a near-trillion-dollar market cap. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-05-02/satya-nadella-remade-microsoft-as-world-s-most-valuable-company more ›

• How Google is building its huge subsea cable infrastructure

  April 25, 2019

  Google announced a milestone in its bid to control the world’s internet infrastructure with its first privately funded international subsea cable touching down in Chile yesterday. https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/24/how-google-is-building-its-huge-subsea-cable-infrastructure/ more ›

• Camera Above the Classroom

  April 23, 2019

  BEIJING — Jason Todd first discovered his school’s secret on the internet. It was late September 2018, less than a month after high school had started. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003759/camera-above-the-classroom more ›

• Facebook Showed Me My Data Is Everywhere And I Have Absolutely No Control Over It

  April 17, 2019

  According to the description, “These advertisers are running ads using a contact list they or their partner uploaded that includes info about you. This info was collected by the advertiser… more ›

• Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji: The Rapid Evolution of a Wordless Tongue

  April 13, 2019

  The rapid evolution of a wordless tongue. Consider the tilde. There it is, that little squiggle, hanging out on the far-upper-left-hand side of your ­computer keyboard. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html more ›

• The frantic, unprecedented race to save 700,000 NSFW Tumblrs for posterity

  April 4, 2019

  GeoCities, Vine, Friendster–communities live, thrive, and often die on the net. But the two-week timeframe in which content will disappear from Tumblr is unprecedented, says Jason Scott. https://www.fastcompany.com/90279321/the-frantic-unprecedented-race-to-save-700000-nsfw-tumblr-for-posterity more ›