Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
@aramzs documents a lot of interesting stuff about Facebook Trends. For example, I recommend you check out his short post about Facebook Signal, a tool Facebook gives media companies to survey how trends are flowing around Facebook. And follow his twitter. The other day he made some interesting notes about articles in Facebook Trending…
The War Room It was late morning on Friday, October 18, when Elizabeth Holmes realized that she had no other choice. She finally had to address her employees at Theranos, the blood-testing start-up that she had founded as a 19-year-old Stanford dropout, which was now valued at some $9 billion. Two days earlier, a damning…
It seems like Amazon just accidentally released its specialized page for iPhone 7 accessories—an hour before Apple was set to announce the new phone. The pictures include one iPhone with the rumored dual back-facing cameras. It also includes a link for Bluetooth headphones, which probably the confirms the long rumored removal of the headphone jack….
The war over high-speed access is fought on 40-foot-high wooden sticks. America, we have a problem, and it is tall, ubiquitous, and on the side of the road. It is poles. Not the polls that do or do not track the progress of Donald Trump. Not people of Polish extraction. Utility poles. Poles are the key…
Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel season 1, episode 7 of “Star Trek: The Original Series.” CBS via Getty Images Not so long ago, the concept of a virtual assistant that could listen to your questions and provide answers was purely the realm of science fiction. In fact, it wouldn’t be unfair at all to…
Facebook is testing a new feature to encourage conversations By Damon Beres2016-09-02 21:13:17 UTC Facebook really, really wants you to talk to your friends. The company is testing a new feature — “What friends are talking about” — in some News Feeds. Mashable spotted it Friday in the Android version of Facebook’s mobile app, though…
Enlarge / Another Android update means another stack of phones that will never see it. cache hit 59:single/related:ee51956cd1ad0e29f24f61e99b0c8480 empty Not all of the big Android phone makers have announced their plans for the Nougat update, but if you look at Sony’s and Google’s and HTC’s official lists (as well as the supplemental lists being published…
Image: AP Some things are sacred. Some things should only be touched by the meaty, all-knowing fingers of the men who know them best. Some things are just so pure and sacred and special that they’re worth getting all worked up over. Planet of the Apps, Apple’s extremely promising new reality show about apps, is…
The shortage of women in tech is troubling. What’s more troubling is a woman, in tech, trying to keep women out of tech. Sadly, that’s exactly what Gizmodo’s Sophie Kleeman did with her recent piece titled ‘Apple’s Decision to Cast Jessica Alba in Its Reality Show Is an Outrage.’ The piece pines over the admittedly-odd casting…
Even for someone who has been researching and writing about misogyny for over a decade, it is hard to comprehend the level of obsessive hate that had to go into the attack on actress Leslie Jones. The 48-year-old comedian and actress became a big star over the summer, with her breakout role in “Ghostbusters” and her…