Laura Locke

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Report: Apple to switch from OLED to microLED displays in Apple Watch as soon as next year
9to5Mac - Benjamin Mayo
Apple is apparently in advanced talks with Taiwanese display manufacturers to introduce microLED displays into its products as soon as next year, via Economic Daily News. The company is apparently readying
Huawei
Leaked documents reveal Huawei’s secret operations to build North Korea’s wireless network
The Washington Post - Ellen Nakashima and Gerry Shih and John Hudson
Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese tech giant embroiled in President Trump’s trade war with China and blacklisted as a national security threat, secretly helped the North Korean government build and
Technology
The Best Algorithms Struggle to Recognize Black Faces Equally
WIRED - Tom Simonite
French company Idemia’s algorithms scan faces by the million. The company’s facial recognition software serves police in the US, Australia, and …
Health (UK)
Gut bacteria may have motor neurone disease role
BBC News - James Gallagher
Gut bacteria may be playing a role in motor neurone disease, according to early studies in animals and people. Experiments show some species of bacteria - and the chemicals they make - change the pace
Megan Rapinoe
Martina Navratilova on Megan Rapinoe and the Trajectory of Gay Women in Sports
The New Yorker - Masha Gessen
Megan Rapinoe, the co-captain of the champion U.S. women’s soccer team, is confidently and casually everyone’s current favorite athlete, leader, and lesbian. As I watched her take the podium at the ticker-tape
SoundCloud
Superpowers (with GoldLink)
Col3trane on soundcloud.com
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Bitch Ass
Pell on soundcloud.com
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Breezy
Tate Tucker on soundcloud.com
Technology
The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies
The New Yorker - Siddhartha Mukherjee
New “living drugs”—made from a patient’s own cells—can cure once incurable cancers. But can we afford them? It matters that the first patients were identical twins. Nancy and Barbara Lowry were six years
SoundCloud
EARTHA
Jamila Woods on soundcloud.com
SoundCloud
WASTE MY TIME
Zaia on soundcloud.com
SoundCloud
Jet Black (feat. Brandy)
anderson .paak on soundcloud.com
Technology
Elon Musk says Starship prototypes will have first test flights in ‘2 to 3 months’
TechCrunch - Darrell Etherington
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk believes that both the Texas and Florida Starship prototype rockets being developed by the private space company will fly “in 2 to three months,” which is an aggressive timeline considering
YouTube
GoldLink - Zulu Screams (Official Video) ft. Maleek Berry, Bibi Bourelly
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Zulu
Zulu Screams (feat. Bibi Bourelly & Maleek Berry)
IFFY FM on soundcloud.com
Grindr
Grindr Wanted To Make The World Better For Queer People. Then A Chinese Gaming Company Bought It.
buzzfeednews.com - Ryan Mac BuzzFeed News Reporter
On a stormy afternoon in November, employees at Grindr’s in-house digital magazine, Into, were on edge. They’d just left an emergency staff meeting …
Technology
Meet Morgan Beller, the 26-year-old woman behind Facebook's plan to make its own currency
CNBC - Salvador Rodriguez
Facebook declined to make Beller available for an interview. But CNBC spoke with 10 tech industry professionals who have worked with Beller …
Grindr
You’re Gonna Wanna Read This Grindr Exposé
out.com - Harron Walker
Gays, please pretend that you’re not illiterate for a second because you’re going to want to read the following Grindr exposé from service top to …
Technology
What are click farms? A shadowy internet industry is booming in China
yahoo.com - Krystal Hu
In China, the world’s largest smartphone market with over 800 million users, a unique type of farm springs up in urban areas. The operations, known as …
Technology
Upgrade to Superhuman Reflexes Without Feeling Like a Robot
ieee.org - Evan Ackerman
Electrical muscle stimulation can speed up human reflexes. But can we use it without giving up control of our bodies?We're used to seeing robots with …
Technology
Fast-growing web of doorbell cams raises privacy fears
Associated Press - By AMY FORLITI and MATT O'BRIEN, Associated Press
The woodsy community of Wolcott, Connecticut, doesn't see a lot of crime. But when the police chief heard about an opportunity to distribute doorbell cameras to some homes, he didn't hesitate. The police
Climate
Berkeley Is the First City in America to Ban Gas From New Homes
Bloomberg - David R Baker, Mark Chediak
The fight to kick natural gas out of homes and businesses is intensifying. In a vote late Tuesday, Berkeley -- the city near San Francisco long known …
Technology
Oyo Hotel Founder Buys $2 Billion in Shares Back From VC Investors
The Wall Street Journal. - Corinne Abrams
Softbank is also increasing its stake in operation, which has 1 million hotel rooms world-wide MUMBAI—The 25-year-old founder of Oyo Hotel & Homes, an India hotel brand, has led a $2 billion share buyback
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Andrew Yang
‘I Came From the Internet’: Inside Andrew Yang’s Wild Ride
Rolling Stone - Andy Kroll
Ah, the smell of democracy. The sour tang of fish and human sweat fills the air on a heat-stroke-hot Friday night in June. The 2020 presidential …
A$AP Rocky
Kanye West Contacted Donald Trump About A$AP Rocky’s Incarceration
Rolling Stone - Daniel Kreps
President Donald Trump tweeted Friday that he would look into A$AP Rocky’s continued incarceration in Sweden after talking to Kanye West about the …
Yemi Alade
Inside Beyoncé’s Bold Bet to Get Americans to Listen to African Music
Rolling Stone - Elias Leight
Last month, the Nigerian star, who recently passed the one-million-subscribers mark on YouTube, flew to Los Angeles to work on a project by Beyoncé. …
Brandi Carlile
Listen: Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Amanda Shires, Natalie Hemby Are The Highwomen
NPR - Stephen Thompson
In 1985, a team of country-music legends formed The Highwaymen, a supergroup combining the talents of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. It somehow took 34 years for someone
Brandi Carlile
The Highwomen: In the Studio With Country’s Ballsiest New Supergroup
Rolling Stone - Marissa R. Moss
“That’s a fucking hit,” calls out Dave Cobb in his customary denim uniform, seconds after the last note of the Highwomen’s debut single, “Redesigning …
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Laura Locke

BBC News (Tech) Contributor. SF Native. Oakland Grown. Brooklyn + Liverpool Roots