|
January 1, 2019, 8:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Wall Street Journal: |
Tech trends for 2019: foldable phones, 5G, cashierless retail, privacy legislation, autonomous delivery wagons, IoT edge computing, and more — From delivery wagons and foldable phones to privacy crackdowns and corporate health tracking, the coming year will make good on some of the tech industry's biggest promises
More:
AVC, Barron's Online, PCMag, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @msquinn, @lars_ruud, @yunheekim22, and @priyankamogul
| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
How deepfakes, AI-generated videos that graft a person's face onto another's body, have been weaponized to harass and humiliate their subjects, mostly women — “Deepfake” creators are making disturbingly realistic, computer-generated videos with photos taken from the Web, and ordinary women are suffering the damage.
More:
Washington Post, The Wrap, The Verge, Engadget, E! Online, The Daily Dot, Vulture, Gizmodo, and Business Insider
Tweets: @anitasarkeesian, @drewharwell, @lorenzofb, @niemanlab, @histoftech, @hshaban, @chriskrycho, @mantzarlis, @tonyromm, and @cameron_kasky
| Kenneth Li / Reuters: |
Source: Netflix to hire Activision Blizzard's Spencer Neumann as its new CFO starting in early 2019; Activision said it intended to fire Neumann in a filing — (Reuters) - Netflix Inc is expected to announce in the next few days that it has poached media finance veteran Spencer Neumann …
More:
Engadget, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, GameSpot, Windows Central, SludgeFeed, IGN, Bloomberg, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Jennifer Ouellette / Ars Technica: |
Researchers used a series of auctions to find that, on average, it would take more than $1,000 to entice a Facebook user to deactivate their account for a year — Some users required more than $1,000 to deactivate their account for one year. … A series of auctions revealed … | Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Experts say Facebook's opaque approach toward flagging possible suicide threats to police around the world may not be accurate, effective, or safe — A police officer on the late shift in an Ohio town recently received an unusual call from Facebook. — Earlier that day …
Tweets: @wexler, @jeffjarvis, @carnage4life, @jason_kint, @nytscience, @kenroth, @nytimes, @johnwilson, @natashanyt, @nytnational, and @nytpolitics
| Selim Chtayti / Agence France-Presse: |
Parents are often shocked by inappropriate videos on TikTok, a major hit with teens that Sensor Tower says was the most downloaded app on iOS in H1 2018 — TikTok's video-sharing app was the most downloaded on Apple's App Store in the first half of 2018, beating out Facebook, Instgram and Snapchat| Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
A look at a comprehensive Chinese e-commerce law, which was passed in August to address the sale of counterfeit and copycat merchandise, that is now in effect — - E-commerce platform operators are jointly liable with merchants for selling counterfeit and copycat merchandise on their websites| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
After a limited rollout in Singapore in November, Indonesian ride-hailing company Go-Jek says it has extended its ride-hailing service to all of Singapore — After a limited rollout, Go-Jek said today that it will extend its ride-hailing service to all of Singapore tomorrow while continuing its beta phase.
More:
Yahoo News, Channel NewsAsia, and The Straits Times
| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Didi faces new challenges in 2019 as stricter regulations take effect in China that require drivers have a local residency permit and a commercial car license — Over the last few years, millions of Chinese workers managed to earn extra money by being ride-hailing drivers.| Brad Sams / Petri: |
In 2018, Microsoft said it would start giving app developers an 85%-95% cut for non-game apps, up from 70%, but the new pricing hasn't been implemented yet — Back in the spring of 2018, Microsoft published a blog post saying that the company would soon be more generous with its revenue share in the Microsoft store.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
All photos uploaded to Twinning, Popsugar's tool to match a user's photo with a celebrity's, were accessible from a public AWS storage bucket that is now locked — I thought the worst thing about Popsugar's Twinning tool was that it matched me with James Corden.
More:
Mashable, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Notes from Silicon Valley. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt raises $182.5M to build its cryptocurrency exchange; sources: regulatory hurdles delay its plans for bitcoin futures — Bakkt, the cryptocurrency venture by Intercontinental Exchange, has scored $182.5 million to build out its platform aimed …
More:
HuffPost, Intercontinental Exchange, Bakkt Blog, CCN, TechCrunch, Bitsonline, CoinDesk, SludgeFeed, Cointelegraph.com News, Cointelegraph.com News, Ethereum World News, Bitcoinist.com, and NewsBTC
Tweets: @coindesk, @bullyesq, @pierre_rochard, @mdudas, @fintechfrank, and @mdudas
Sponsor Posts
Soxton:
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
App Spotlight: Autocomplete Address Via Google for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our apps, integrations …
App Spotlight: Autocomplete Address Via Google for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our 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:
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple's Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
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.
Hard Fork:
Fable Ban Reversed + Dr. Dana Suskind on Parenting With A.I. + Prediction Market Drama
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.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Blitzy's Brian Elliott: Cursor And Claude Code Are Looking At Your Enterprise Code 'Through A Straw'
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
The Nick, Dick and Paul Show:
Re-Release: The Death of Hollywood? W/ Allan Loeb
Nick Bilton, Dick Costolo, and Paul Kedrosky pull back the curtain on AI, startups, and the future rushing toward us, all with healthy dose of irreverence.
Subscribe to The Nick, Dick and Paul Show.
Great Chat:
Maybe Twitter isn't real life
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
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 8:35 PM ET, January 1, 2019.
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
The Hollywood Reporter:Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Alex Ritman / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Katie Hafner / New York Times: |
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
More:
Privacy International, Privacy International, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, Android Police, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Lifehacker, BGR, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, and TechLifeWeb
Tweets: @dgwbirch, @vishnurajeevan, @antoniocasilli, @went1955, @johnwilander, and @carnage4life. Thanks:@cremnob