Tag: the cloud

• Inside Google’s Civil War

  May 20, 2019

  It started in Tokyo on Nov. 1, 2018, when 100 employees walked out of Google’s office at 11:10 a.m. local time. Thirteen hours later, the elevators at the company’s New… more ›

• Africa’s Pulse, No. 19, April 2019 : An Analysis of Issues Shaping Africa’s Economic Future

  April 28, 2019

  https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/31499 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 ›

• 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 ›

• When the Web Loses Its Memory

  April 4, 2019

  Diana poured her passionate fandom into Thorvaenn, her Tumblr account, for years. Marvel and Thor in particular became the primary focus for the GIFs she made, for her meticulous recommendations,… more ›

• Andreessen Horowitz Is Blowing Up The Venture Capital Model (Again)

  April 2, 2019

  This story appears in the April 30, 2019 issue of Forbes Magazine. Subscribe merging from the financial crisis in 2009, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz laid out their campaign to… more ›

• Warner Signs Algorithm to Record Deal

  March 26, 2019

  Skip to main contentTagsSigningIndustry NewsVideoWTF https://pitchfork.com/news/warner-signs-algorithm-to-record-deal/ more ›

• The Future of Computing Is Analog

  March 5, 2019

  The next revolution in computing will be signaled by the rise of analog systems over which digital programming no longer has control. https://onezero.medium.com/the-future-of-computing-is-analog-e758471fbfe1 more ›

• 5G Unplugged

  February 5, 2019

  The advent of the mobile internet has massively accelerated the information revolution brewing since the start of the 20th century; the impact on civilization is staggering. https://medium.com/@sergesapiens/5g-unplugged-6cda0f078419 more ›

• How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

  January 6, 2019

  In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-fraud operations ever uncovered. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html more ›