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MediumMarijuana The Best Use of a Pot Breathalyzer Isn’t for Driving, It’s for Jobsmedium.com - Sarah Kessler Recreational marijuana use is now legal (or about to be) in 11 states and Canada. Driving under its influence is not. But if police suspect someone …
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MediumGoogle Photos Google’s A.I.-Powered Camera Was Destined to Failmedium.com - Dave Gershgorn Google just pulled the plug on its Clips camera, a tiny device that was supposed to capture photos of the little snippets of your day that would …
MediumUniversity of Hawaii Scientists Are Using Drones to Combat a Fungus Wiping Out Hawaii’s Sacred Treesmedium.com - Chris Baraniuk In early September, a drone flew over the Waiakea Forest Reserve on Hawaii’s Big Island. It slowed its pace, lowered itself to a hover just feet from …
MediumBlockchain Blockchain Could Provide ID for Those Who Need It Mostmedium.com - Benjamin Powers Students in developing countries and refugees fleeing violence need reliable proof of their identity — and the blockchain might just work Akile Wua …
MediumUberEATS A Web of ‘Partner’ Companies Keeps Uber Out of Trouble in Polandmedium.com - Hanna Kozlowska Oleksiy’s first job after immigrating to Poland from western Ukraine was in a bakery. But the work was taxing, and he fell ill from going back and …
MediumFacebook Libra and the Balance of Powermedium.com - Colin Horgan The fate of Facebook’s cryptocurrency hangs in the balance, and with it, the fate of nations “A simple global currency and financial infrastructure …
MediumCities Break Up the Media Giantsmedium.com - Paris Marx The streaming wars will produce a new oligopoly. We can do better. For decades, corporate consolidation has been judged almost exclusively on whether …
MediumPoland A Web of ‘Partner’ Companies Keeps Uber Out of Trouble in Polandmedium.com - Hanna Kozlowska Uber’s intermediaries often cut abusive deals with drivers, adding a layer of uncertainty to an already precarious work arrangement Oleksiy’s first …
MediumPixel Buds Google’s Quest to Be Everywhere — and Nowheremedium.com - Owen Williams Apple left the door to the smart home wide open, and Google is ready to walk on in A few years ago, Apple’s hardware line-up was unrivaled: it was the …
MediumMac App Store How the App Store Ended a Golden Era of Softwaremedium.com - Megan Morrone Apple released the first iPhone in June 2007, a little over a year before they opened the iPhone App Store in July 2008. In that sad and lonely year, …
MediumTechnology Every Day Americans Tell Google They Want to Do a Mass Shootingmedium.com - Patrick Berlinquette Every Day Americans Tell Google They Want to Do a Mass Shooting. Their Data Could Stop the Next One. Ad click data — a less technically flawed …
MediumThe Future Police Are Trying to Predict the Futuremedium.com - Jake Pitre ‘Predictive policing’ uses historic data to forecast where crime will occur, but critics question the accuracy How can policing be improved? …
MediumMind What a Compulsive Email Habit Does to Your Mind and Relationshipsmedium.com - Angela Lashbrook Every morning when I wake up, I roll over and check my email. Usually there’s nothing that can’t wait: some press releases about new studies, the …
MediumTechnology Google Needs to Talk About Repairabilitymedium.com - Eric Ravenscraft At a press event on Tuesday, after taking some time to detail its investments into recycled materials and renewable energy, Google unveiled the shiny …
MediumGoogle WiFi Google’s Most Interesting Hardware Announcements, Rankedmedium.com - Will Oremus A router that talks, an AirPods rival, and a phone you might actually buy In a distinctly low-key launch event at New York’s Hudson Yards on Tuesday, …
MediumFacebook Is Libra dead?medium.com - Elizabeth M. Renieris PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa have all recently withdrawn their support for Facebook’s plans for a global digital currency network by …
MediumDisney+ Why Disney+ Will Win the Streaming Warsmedium.com - Eric Ravenscraft Nostalgia for old junk like ‘Zenon’ is a powerful thing On Monday, Disney published a gargantuan Twitter thread listing nearly everything that’s …
MediumTechnology Controversial ‘3-Parent Baby’ Fertility Technique Fails to Deliver for Older Womenmedium.com - Emily Mullin The experimental procedure is banned in the United States but is being offered at clinics abroad as a treatment for infertility An experimental and …
MediumMolecular Biology Enters Home Health Screening with Two New DNA Testsmedium.com - Emily Mullin Ancestry’s move into health testing comes just after rival 23andMe announced a new “VIP” testing service earlier this month. 23andMe’s regular health …
MediumPregnancy The Exclusionary Language of Pregnancy Appsmedium.com - Florence Ion Apps that help you track your pregnancy and figure out who to call when baby coughs are helpful, but what happens when you’re a parent who isn’t …
MediumFacebook Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign Should Abandon Facebook Altogethermedium.com - Josh Chapdelaine The senator is trolling Facebook, but would she send a louder message by abandoning the platform altogether? Over the weekend, Senator Elizabeth …
MediumFacebook Facebook Is Holding Your Friends Hostage in the Battle for the Smart Homemedium.com - Owen Williams Why doesn’t the company make apps for Amazon Echo and Google Home? Because your friends are its only advantage. The tech giants are fighting for a …
MediumPrivacy Tech Firms Struggle to Balance Privacy With Securitymedium.com - Raphael Tsavkko Garcia In end-to-end encryption, the sender’s software securely “locks” the contents of the message, video, audio, or document, so that it can only be …
MediumPinterest How Pinterest Built One of Silicon Valley’s Most Successful Algorithmsmedium.com - Will Oremus Inside the company’s powerful recommendations tool — and its efforts to avoid the scandals facing its rivals Like most social networks, Pinterest was …
MediumTechnology As California Burns, Customers Flock to Batteries and Solarmedium.com - Kate Wheeling Derek Krause, a retired firefighter, installed a solar panel and battery storage system on his home in Oakland earlier this year. “I just think the …
MediumIcon version of the Flipboard logoCalifornia Utilities Don’t Want You to Know About a Simple Solution to California’s Blackoutsmedium.com - Kate Wheeling Derek Krause, a retired firefighter, installed a solar panel and battery storage system on his home in Oakland earlier this year. “I just think the …
MediumTechnology The Tricky Business of Media and Entertainment Techmedium.com - Mike Raab Note: the following is an excerpt from my contribution to Finding Genius: Venture Capital and the Future it is Betting on, by Kunal Mehta, which …
