Noah MittmanPrivacy A Spectacularly Bad Washington Post Story on Apple and Google’s Exposure Notification Project daringfireball.net A Washington Post story today on Apple and Google’s joint effort on COVID-19 exposure notification project, from reporters Reed Albergotti and Drew …
Noah MittmanTechnology Now More Than Ever, Facebook Is a ‘Mark Zuckerberg Production’ The New York Times - Mike Isaac, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia KangSAN FRANCISCO — On Jan. 27, at a regularly scheduled Monday morning meeting with top executives at Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg turned the agenda to the coronavirus. For weeks, he told his staff, he had hearing
Noah MittmanTechnology Facebook’s redesigned desktop site with dark mode is now available everywhere The Verge - Nick StattFacebook’s redesigned desktop site is now available globally, the company announced on Friday. Prior to this change, the new version of Facebook was available only if you opted into it starting in March
Noah MittmanZoom Zoom Not Cutting It for You? Try Exploring a Virtual World WIRED - Louise Matsakis In a matter of weeks, Zoom has gone from obscure business app to household name. It’s where college kids throw parties and how elementary school …
Noah MittmanZoom Embracing the Chaotic Side of Zoom The New Yorker - Naomi FryThree years ago, the political analyst and South Korea expert Robert Kelly was giving a live interview on the BBC, via videoconference, from his home office in Busan, when his two young children barged
Noah Mittman The Subtle Ways Amazon Is Discouraging People From Ordering So Much Stuff slate.com - Aaron Mak It's now the Don't-Buy-Everything Store.
Noah Mittman Thank god for the internet Input - Joshua Topolsky On a recent Tuesday, at 1 p.m. Eastern Time, I watched my six-year-old daughter Zelda tune into a live webcast to learn how to draw an elephant with …
Noah MittmanBravo Apple’s new iPad Pro cuts off the microphone when its case is closed to prevent snooping The Verge - Monica Chin
Noah MittmanApple ‘Several’ ARM-based Mac laptops and desktops coming next year, says report The Verge - Sam ByfordThe Mac’s long-rumored transition from Intel processors to Apple’s own ARM designs could be swifter and more extensive than you might have expected. According to a new research note from analyst Ming-chi
Noah Mittman The Coronavirus Crisis Is Showing Us How to Live Online The New York Times - Kevin RooseFor someone who has barely left his house, I’ve had a shockingly busy few days. First, there were the hyperactive group texts, which started up last week with dozens of messages a day from friends about
Noah Mittman In praise of the iPadOS 13.4 cursor sixcolors.com - Jason Snell I want to take a moment to appreciate the delicate and whimsical animated appearance of the cursor in iPadOS 13.4, which was released today.It’s …
Noah Mittman YouTube follows Netflix by reducing video stream quality in Europe Engadget - Steve DentIt has also launched a hub dedicated to verified Coronavirus coverage. YouTube is joining Netflix in reducing streaming quality in Europe to reduce strain on the internet, Reuters has reported. "We are
Noah Mittman Teaching on Twitch was a ‘mild disaster’ for one games professor The Verge - Megan FarokhmaneshRobert Yang has just said the magic number. Twitch chat suddenly has an echo, and it sounds like “nice.” Yang, a developer and New York University Game Center professor, is teaching a course about the
Noah MittmanSmart watches are totally eating the "accessible watch" market, which really shouldn't be surprising, given the end-value Smart devices are eating the accessible watches market Vogue Business - George Arnett
Noah Mittman Can a Robot Decide My Medical Treatment? – The Markup themarkup.org In an attempt to manage soaring health care costs, some government officials and health care companies are turning to algorithms to determine how to …
Noah Mittman 'Uncharted territory': Robinhood's competitors aren't celebrating its massive outage CNBC - Ryan Browne Rivals to popular investing app Robinhood aren't jumping at the opportunity to celebrate the company's recent outage. The U.S. commission-free trading …
Noah Mittman $1 million per hour: Major music labels hit streaming milestone TNW - David CanellisStreaming persists as a major money maker for music’s fat-cats. Not only did it account for 80% of the entire music industry‘s profit in 2019, streaming collectively earned Universal, Sony, and Warner
Noah Mittman Facebook Now Lets You Turn Any 2D Photo into a 3D Image Using AI petapixel.com - DL Cade Facebook just expanded 3D photo posting to phones that don’t actually capture depth data. Using the magic of machine learning (i.e. artificial …
Noah Mittman The ‘Dating Market’ Is Getting Worse The Atlantic - Ashley FettersKaitlyn TiffanyThe old but newly popular notion that one’s love life can be analyzed like an economy is flawed—and it’s ruining romance. Ever since her last relationship ended this past August, Liz has been consciously
Noah Mittman Reddit CEO: TikTok is ‘fundamentally parasitic’ – TechCrunch TechCrunch - Lucas MatneyTikTok is one of the hottest social media platforms but the CEO of Reddit had some harsh words for the popular app, calling it “fundamentally parasitic” at an event Wednesday. The comments from Reddit
Noah Mittman Firefox turns controversial new encryption on by default in the US The Verge - Jon PorterStarting today, Mozilla will turn on by default DNS over HTTPS (DoH) for Firefox users in the US, the company has announced. DoH is a new standard that encrypts a part of your internet traffic that’s sent
Noah MittmanIf to make bending glass you have to layer bending plastic on top of it... what's the point of using any glass at all, then?play Folding glass: how, why, and the truth of Samsung’s Z Flip The Verge - Sean Hollister
Noah MittmanInternet of Things New infrastructure will enhance privacy in today’s Internet of Things cmu.edu People navigating through the digital landscape of the Internet today are bombarded with notices about how their data is being collected. But in the …
Noah MittmanInternet of Things What the Hell Is That Device, and Is It Spying on You? This App Might Have the Answer - VICE VICEOn any given day, Americans connect thousands of internet-enabled devices to the internet, despite repeated warnings from cybersecurity experts that such devices often lack even the most rudimentary privacy
Noah Mittman What We Lose by Hiring Someone to Pick Up Our Avocados for Us The New York Times - Ginia BellafanteFor the past few years I have made a habit of going to a particular Starbucks in Brooklyn after I drop my son off at school, a ritual that has given me pleasure way out of proportion to its ordinariness.
Noah Mittman I stumbled across a huge Airbnb scam that’s taking over London Wired UK - James Temperton It’s November 2019 and I’m standing in an Airbnb in Battersea, south London. But this is not the Airbnb I booked. Everything is slightly, …
Noah MittmanTechnology UK to spend $1.6 billion on the world's fastest weather supercomputer Engadget - Steve DentIt'll deliver regional forecasts down to a quarter mile in size. The UK's weather service, the Met Office, will spend £1.2 billion ($1.6 billion) to acquire the world's most powerful climate supercomputer,
Noah MittmanCybersecurity Iranian hackers have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world | ZDNet ZDNet - Catalin Cimpanu Iranian hackers have targeted Pulse Secure, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Citrix VPNs to hack into large companies. Today's security threats have …
Smart watches are totally eating the "accessible watch" market, which really shouldn't be surprising, given the end-valueIf to make bending glass you have to layer bending plastic on top of it... what's the point of using any glass at all, then?
