Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Every day, 750,000 workers log into enterprise chat software Slack to communicate with colleagues. Todd Kennedy, a 37-year-old CTO at a software startup, also uses the service—to talk with his wife, Julie. The couple created a fake company name, “TheKennedys,” to sign up for the two-member Slack chat that has replaced iMessage for them as…
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Few analysts or writers will outright say it, but I will: the Apple Watch is going to flop. And I bet a lot of other people are thinking the same thing for many good reasons. Apple has become a perennial hit maker, the company other companies copy. Apple really gets design. In the past 14…
Until now, mining good journalism from the web’s depths has been done from the top. Over the last 13 years, looking for “signals” that flag quality content has been at the core of Google News: With a search engine scanning and ranking 50,000 sources in 30 languages and 72 editions, its inventor, the famous computer…
The National Security Agency’s ability to collect the phone records of millions of Americans in bulk expired late Sunday after the Senate failed to strike a deal before the midnight deadline. However, that program, as well as several other post-9/11 counterterrorism measures, were likely to be revived in some form in the coming days after…
It takes a big company to admit that it’s wrong. Well, that and big losses, if Keurig Green Mountain is a reliable guide. A brutal earnings period, in the wake of a crackdown on what types of coffee could go into its single-serve coffee machines, has forced the wold’s largest pusher of pod-based java to…
Thanks to the technified world we live in today, your options for securing your home range from “lock your doors at night” to “spend absurd amounts of money on robots that’ll scream at burglars if they try to break in.” But as long as pesky laws keep us from arming these bots with rotary chain…
Maybe you’re the kind of person who doesn’t need to be told that threatening to rape and murder women is not okay. It’s not a casual means of communicating disagreement; it’s not a hilarious riposte; it’s not a valid expression of frustration at being a sad and lonely individual. And if you know and understand…
Imagine two of the worst New York real estate nightmares consolidated into one: Such is apparently the case for Ari Teman, the man whose Chelsea apartment made headlines last year after his Airbnb guests turned his sublet into a “XXX Freak Fest orgy.” Thanks to all that drama, Teman now says he’s found himself on the city’s infamous…
Start Article Post Content Netflix, which already eats up the fattest chunk of downstream bandwidth, is taking an even bigger bite: The No. 1 subscription-video service accounted for 36.5% of all downstream Internet bandwidth during peak periods in North America for March, according to a new report.Indeed, Netflix boosted its share of downstream bandwidth usage…