|
February 23, 2017, 12:20 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Interviews with 30+ current and former Uber employees depict an unrestrained work culture; Uber also faces 3+ lawsuits over sexual harrassment or verbal abuse — SAN FRANCISCO — When new employees join Uber, they are asked to subscribe to 14 core company values, including making bold bets …
More:
Mashable, SiliconBeat, CNBC, Mashable, Tech Times, Vanity Fair, AOL, Axios, Recode, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, The Verge, Business Insider, The Daily Caller, SiliconValley.com, Boing Boing, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Tweets: @danprimack, @melaniehannah, @dtunkelang, @moorehn, @williamalden, @faris, @geekvsmachine, @nickdhaynes, @jvagle, @kf, @ryanlawler, @nitashatiku, @mattyglesias, @auerbachkeller, @rmac18, @vogon, @mccanner, @rmac18, @shwinyo, @kateknibbs, @zachwritesstuff, @sarahnemerson, @bro_pair, @fmanjoo, @kazuomatsu, @sarahcuda, @juliacarriew, @ktbenner, @ktbenner, @caseynewton, @mikeisaac, @puiwingtam, and @caseynewton
| Google Online Security Blog: |
Google unveils first SHA1 collision using nine quintillion computations, releases two different PDFs with identical hashes, urges sunsetting of unsafe protocol — Posted by Marc Stevens (CWI Amsterdam), Elie Bursztein (Google), Pierre Karpman (CWI Amsterdam), Ange Albertini (Google) …
More:
The Verge, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Forbes, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, Tom's Hardware, Privacy Online News, and Wired
| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
Amazon fights against search warrant for Echo recordings in murder trial, argues Alexa commands and responses have First Amendment rights — Amazon is sticking to its guns in the fight to protect customer data. The tech titan has filed a motion to quash the search warrant for recordings … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Google's Jigsaw unveils Perspective, an AI-powered tool for publishers to weed out abuse from online comments, available as an API for free — A research team tied to Google unveiled a new tool on Thursday that could have a profound effect on how we talk to each other online.
More:
Globe and Mail, Nieman Lab, The Atlantic, 9to5Google, BetaNews, Washington Post, TechCrunch, Forbes, Android Police, Engadget, Jigsaw - Medium, The New York Times Company, Wired, VentureBeat, The Digital Reader, New York Magazine, Softpedia News, Silicon Republic, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, BBC, and New York Times
Tweets: @ow, @dovseidman, and @martinsfp
Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts. See also Mediagazer| Alan Ni / Google: |
Google updates Gboard for iPhone with support for voice typing, 15 new languages, Google Doodles, and iOS 10 emoji — In May 2016, you first met Gboard, our app that let you search and send information, GIFs, emoji and more, right from your keyboard. In July, Gboard went global.| John Eggerton / Multichannel News: |
FCC opens up 5 GHz spectrum band to unlicensed LTE use, certifies equipment from Ericsson and Nokia — T-Mobile will start employing new tech starting in spring — The FCC is opening up the 5 GHz spectrum band to unlicensed LTE use in a move that will boost spectrum sharing and wireless broadband.
More:
Newsroom, DSLreports, Federal Communications …, TechCrunch, Axios, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Engadget, MacDailyNews, Wireless Week, HotHardware, Wall Street Journal, The Register, Network World, International Business Times, The Hill, Ars Technica, and TmoNews
Tweets: @sherifhanna, @geoffblaber, and @fcc
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Airmap, an airspace management system for drones, raises $26M Series B round led by Microsoft Ventures — It's a bet on a future full of airborne robots — Drones are an increasingly common sight in the skies, but unlike aircraft with a human at the controls, there is no formal …
More:
TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Reuters, PE Hub Blog, On MSFT, and Fortune
| Maciej Cegłowski / Idle Words: |
Internet services companies should offer a “travel mode” that limits contacts and history to a minimal subset, to protect users from invasive searches at border — News reports tell us that Customs and Border Patrol has become more aggressive about checking social media accounts at the border.
| Politico: |
Sources: White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing out after failing FBI background check; one source says failure was due to investment issues — White House Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing was among the six staffers who were dismissed from the White House last week after being unable …
More:
FederalNewsRadio.com, The Hill, New York Daily News, Nextgov, and The Daily Caller
Tweets: @ldrogen, @miketannenbaum, @mattyglesias, and @paulkrugman
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
How Pinterest built Lens, its search tool for identifying real-world objects before suggesting related items, using GPU-powered deep learning and more — Sometime around 2013 and 2014, deep learning was going through a revolution that required pretty much everyone to reset their expectations …
More:
The Register and Search Engine Land
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify expands its push into original content with three new podcast series on music and pop culture, with more originals to be announced later this year — Spotify is expanding its podcast selection today, with the announcement that it's adding three new original podcast series on its service …
More:
news.spotify.com, Billboard, hypebot, and Tubefilter
| Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Facebook's head of news partnerships Campbell Brown and CPO Chris Cox are hosting off-the-record meetings with journalists to improve relations — Facebook's new head of news partnerships Campbell Brown is hosting off-the-record events at her Manhattan home with big-name media people … Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Generate Sample Data the Way You Want It Using AI, for Free — Finding good sample data is harder than it should be.If you've ever tried to test a dashboard, build a demo, or train a team on an analytics tool, you know the drill.
Generate Sample Data the Way You Want It Using AI, for Free — Finding good sample data is harder than it should be.If you've ever tried to test a dashboard, build a demo, or train a team on an analytics tool, you know the drill.
IDrive:
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.Featured Podcasts
Hard Fork:
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR's Ajeya Cotra
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Big Technology Podcast:
Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Sources:
Sam Altman on OpenAI's next model and the AI backlash
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Brian Singerman from GPx
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:20 PM ET, February 23, 2017.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Brian Steinberg / Variety:Stewart Clarke / Deadline:
Tosin Akintola / Reason:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Yolanda Redrup / Financial Review: |
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
More:
AppleInsider, BetaKit, investor.fitbit.com, Tech Times, SlashGear, The Register, Axios, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Business Insider, Reuters, and The Verge. Tweets: @tomiogeron
Earlier Picks
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
More:
Instagram, Geek.com, Softpedia News, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, Ausdroid, Social Media Today, Pocket-lint, Android Central, Tubefilter, AndroidGuys, GeekWire, AppleInsider, Android Authority, TalkAndroid.com, MAC blog, Android and Me, PhoneDog.com, CNET, Tech Times, International Business Times, Windows Central, Digital Trends, Neowin, Phandroid, iDownloadBlog.com, The Tech Portal, Adweek, Axios, Greenbot, Android Police, 9to5Google, Thurrott.com, Droid Life, iPhone Hacks, Gizmodo, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, Marketing Land, Engadget, VentureBeat, Lifehacker, and New York Magazine
Tweets: @sickchickchic, @girlsgotaface, @tylerfbradley, @antlfatima, @joshconstine, and @youngjannetti