|
March 28, 2017, 11:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Karl Bode / DSLreports: |
House passes resolution that lets ISPs sell customers' browsing history without user permission, 215 to 205 along party lines — As most had expected, the House of Representatives today voted 215 to 205 to kill privacy rules protecting US broadband subscribers.
More:
Reuters, Slate, New York Times, BuzzFeed, USA Today, Washington Post, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Verge, USA Today, The Register, Wired, PCWorld, VentureBeat, Techdirt, Associated Press, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, International Business Times, CNET, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Guardian, Motherboard, Motherboard, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, Politico, New York Magazine, Softpedia News, Mashable, BGR, The FADER, Access Now, CTIA, Consumerist, Seeking Alpha, and The White House
Tweets: @waltmossberg, @chillmage, @whiskerscrowley, @karlbode, @karlbode, @dannysullivan, @fmanjoo, @segphault, @amir_anasr, @wired, @jimmy_wales, @fmanjoo, @dannysullivan, @byrdinator, @fmanjoo, @sarahintampa, @markbao, @putorti, @chillmage, @chillmage, @chillmage, @chillmage, @opensecretsdc, @dangillmor, and @privacyint
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Inside the privacy vote: Democrats said it would make ISPs “more powerful than Amazon and Google”, GOP said rules “unfairly skew advertising market” — Congress passes bill allowing ISPs to sell customer Web surfing data. — The House of Representatives voted today …
More:
The White House, Asinine Tech, Axios, CNNMoney, Washington Post, Recode, TechCrunch, Forbes, SlashGear, NPR, Nextgov, Vox, and Vocativ
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook copied Snapchat a fourth time, and now all its apps look the same — Facebook doesn't seem concerned with giving each of its core services a unique identity. — Facebook is copying Snapchat again: Today it launched Stories, the 24-hour photo and video montages that ultimately disappear, inside of its core Facebook app.
More:
The Verge, The Next Web, TechSpot, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Droid Life, SiliconBeat, Tech Narratives, Breitbart, TechCrunch, Fortune, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, and Variety
Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @shiraovide, @vinnyvideo, @ramzzy_, and @caseynewton
| Facebook: |
More:
Pocket-lint, TechCrunch, The Verge, Softpedia News, PhoneDog.com, International Business Times, New York Times, Vanity Fair, AppAdvice.com, Tech Trader Daily, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, Quartz, Investor's Business Daily, Digital Trends, Marketing Land, iMore, ZDNet, Pocketnow, Adweek, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Central, Android Police, TechCrunch, BGR, Bloomberg, MacRumors, Axios, and Reuters
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @danprimack, @caseynewton, @buzzfeednews, and @reckless
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber's first diversity report: staff is 36.1% female worldwide with 15.4% female engineers; in US, 49.8% white, 30.9% Asian, 8.8% black, 5.6% Hispanic overall — Uber just released its highly anticipated, first-ever diversity report detailing the demographics of its employees as of this month.
More:
Uber Global, Uber, USA Today, The Register, The Daily Beast, New York Times, New York Times, Softpedia News, Forbes, The Daily Caller, Light Reading, Fortune, The Guardian, Tech.Co, CNET, ABC News, Xconomy, The Hill, CNNMoney, Tech Narratives, Gizmodo, Engadget, Business Insider, Axios, Mashable, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Mashable, Financial Times, and Recode
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Google Home and Google WiFi available April 6 in UK, the first market outside US for both; Home to cost £129, WiFi to cost £129 for single pack, £229 for double — Google announced today that its Home and Wifi devices will be available soon in the U.K., the first international markets for the gadgets.
More:
Google, Google, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, The Guardian, ZDNet, The Verge, BetaNews, gizmodo, PC Advisor, SlashGear, TechRadar.com, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, Ars Technica UK, AndroidHeadlines.com, Sky News, v3.co.uk, TrustedReviews, WIRED UK, The Huffington Post, Android Police, CNBC, Inquirer, NDTV Gadgets 360, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @googleuk and @jandawson
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Turvo, a collaborative logistics startup, raises $25M Series A led by Activant, with participation from individual investors including Tony Fadell, Aaron Levie — Turvo, a two-year-old, Sunnyvale, Ca.-based company, is emerging today with an idea so ambitious that investors have provided …
More:
PR Newswire, SiliconANGLE, American Shipper, Silicon Valley Business …, Fortune, silicontap.com, and PE Hub Blog
Tweets: @turvo, @app_sw_, @thestoddart, and @las40000
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Tinder unveils Tinder Online, a web-optimized version currently being tested in emerging markets with plans to launch everywhere “soon” — Tinder is today introducing a new way for users to access the platform with the launch of Tinder Online, a web-optimized version of the dating app … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
AWS launches Amazon Connect, a tool for call centers that uses its Lex speech recognition and AI; Salesforce says it's integrating Einstein service with Connect — Amazon Web Services just unveiled a new service for running call centers, dubbed Amazon Connect, leveraging the same technology used … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Amazon debuts AmazonFresh Pickup, a drive-in service delivering groceries straight to the trunks of customers' cars, in beta at two Seattle locations — Amazon's grocery efforts just got a new level of convenience for shoppers: AmazonFresh Pickup, a drive-in grocery delivery right to your car's trunk, launching in beta on Tuesday.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google's Search app for iOS now includes Gboard, a search widget, and expanded 3D Touch integration — Google's desire for its search engine to become more deeply integrated into the iOS operating system got a big push today - the company says that its previously standalone keyboard app Gboard …
More:
International Business Times, Google, and Search Engine Land
| Will Norris / Google Open Source Blog: |
Google launches new site to detail how it uses, releases, and supports opens source, includes internal documentation and processes for projects — Free and open source software has been part of our technical and organizational foundation since Google's early beginnings.
More:
ZDNet, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, BetaNews, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, and Android Central
Tweets: @sigigoode, @reza_zadeh, @beparadigm, @foss_nsbm, and @sampavin
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitch to start selling video games and in-game content this week with around 50 titles on board — Video game streaming site Twitch will soon begin selling PC games and other in-game content on its site, the company says. We understand the games may arrive as soon as tomorrow or later this week …
More:
International Business Times and VentureBeat
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:
App Spotlight: Google Sheets Magic Lookup for Zoho CRM — Our App Spotlight brings you hand-picked apps to enhance the power of your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all apps, integrations …
App Spotlight: Google Sheets Magic Lookup for Zoho CRM — Our App Spotlight brings you hand-picked apps to enhance the power of your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all apps, integrations …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
Special Report: Will AI Wipe Out Humanity? (And Who Profits)
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:
The Atlantic's CEO on AI, Billionaire Owners, and Moonlighting as a Creator
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:
Mark Zuckerberg on Muse, Meta's biggest AI bet yet
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.
Lenny's Podcast:
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Invest Like the Best:
Walter Russell Mead - How America Keeps Winning
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Grit:
The AI Race Has a Leaderboard | Arena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:35 PM ET, March 28, 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
Heather Cherone / WTTW News:Brett LoGiurato / Status:
Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Jon Henley / The Guardian: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
More:
ZDNet, Forbes, Zero Hedge, Ars Technica, Quartz, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Valley Business …, The Tech Portal, Tech in Asia, VentureBeat, SiliconBeat, Tech Narratives, USA Today, Axios, New York Times, Recode, CNBC, and CNNMoney
Tweets: @flyosity, @sirsteven, @jonrussell, and @sashanaryshkine
Earlier Picks
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
More:
Reuters, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Twitter Blog, The Tech Portal, Marketing Land, Bloomberg, Tubefilter, Tech Narratives, VentureBeat, The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
Tweets: @caseynewton and @sarahfrier
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
More:
The Guardian, The Next Web, Investor's Business Daily, 9to5Mac, Inquirer, Engadget, and Fortune. Tweets: @ediggs
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
More:
Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Laptop Mag, MacRumors, International Business Times, Mercury News, Tech Times, Computerworld, BGR, Redmond Pie, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Forbes, Refinery29, Gotta Be Mobile, InfoQ, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, Apple Developer, ABC News, Ubergizmo, Help Net Security, SiliconBeat, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, and Cult of Mac