|
March 8, 2017, 2:50 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nest is working on a cheaper sub-$200 thermostat with individual room control, a home security alarm system, and a digital doorbell — Nest, the pioneer of the iPhone-like digital thermostat, is readying several new products in its quest to modernize the home. — by
More:
Business Insider, Android Authority, Android Police, International Business Times, CNET, Engadget, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Droid Life, The Verge, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Seeking Alpha, and Axios
Tweets: @markgurman, @onejarednewman, and @markgurman
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft partners with Qualcomm and Cavium to develop Windows for servers using ARM processors, has been testing it in Azure for search, storage, more — The software maker seeks to cut costs in its Azure cloud business by developing new hardware — Microsoft Corp. is committing … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Google announces it has bought Kaggle, a platform with ~500K data scientists, which hosts data science and machine learning competitions and has raised $12.75M — Google today said it is acquiring Kaggle, an online service that hosts data science and machine learning competitions …
More:
No Free Hunch, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Google Cloud Platform Blog, Ars Technica, Silicon Republic, Tech2, and Business Insider
Tweets: @kaggle, @monkchips, @mims, @izehori, @sub8u, @ivan_bezdomny, @bhc3, and @marshallk
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Cloud Video Intelligence API, letting developers analyze and catalog the contents of video — At its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, Google today announced the launch of a new machine learning API for automatically recognizing objects in videos and making them searchable.
More:
Google Cloud Platform, The Verge, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, and Axios
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @jamesmaguire, @gigabarb, and @karissabe
| Biz Stone / AskJelly.com News: |
Pinterest acquires Jelly Industries, maker of anonymous Q&A service Jelly; co-founder Biz Stone says it's unclear if Jelly will be integrated or remain separate — Ben Finkel and I co-founded Jelly four years ago to create a human powered search engine.
More:
Bloomberg, Recode, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @jelly, @caseynewton, @jelly, @mims, @caseynewton, @caseynewton, @joshelman, and @biz
| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Instacart raises $400M, valuing the firm at $3.4B, led by Sequoia Capital with participation from a16z, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, KPCB, more — The online grocery delivery startup is looking to pinch pennies, starting with bottle deposit fees. — by — Apoorva Mehta is thinking a lot about bottle deposits.
More:
News at Instacart, Bloomberg, GeekWire, Wall Street Journal, Axios, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @shiraovide, @scottmaustin, @sequoia, @business, @paulpage, @ellenhuet, and @ellenhuet
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches Facebook 360, a hub for 360-degree photos and videos available only on Samsung Gear VR — Facebook has devoted major resources and billions of dollars to virtual reality, but there has been a pretty clear line between what happens in the main Facebook app and what happens on the Oculus Rift and Gear VR.
More:
Facebook, GeekWire, The Next Web, CNET, Engadget, Droid Life, and Adweek
Tweets: @joshconstine
Thanks:@lucas_matney. | Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
Mozilla debuts Firefox 52 with WebAssembly, a new standard that lets web apps run in a browser at “near-native” speeds, disables all NPAPI plugins except Flash — New version of Firefox should run complex apps much faster in the browser, but dropping support for some plug-ins could be an issue for Google Hangout fans.
More:
The Mozilla Blog, Inquirer, Naked Security, David Bryant, Ars Technica, TechSpot, MacRumors, SlashGear, Neowin, eWeek, Graham Cluley, PCWorld, Liliputing, and Engadget
Tweets: @sdeleuze, @stroughtonsmith, and @stroughtonsmith
| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Vimeo now supports 360-degree video on web and mobile, with monoscopic or stereoscopic modes, on Google Daydream, Samsung's Gear VR, and Zeiss VR One — Virtual reality hardware wouldn't be anywhere without content to play on it — that's why so many big video companies … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft announces general availability of Visual Studio 2017, which focuses on multi-platform development and is more modular, says new IDE is faster to use — Microsoft this morning released Visual Studio 2017, the latest version of its integrated development environment …
More:
The Visual Studio Blog, The New Stack, MSDN Blogs, VentureBeat, The Visual Studio Blog, Xamarin Blog, eWeek, The Register, On MSFT, Computerworld, Ars Technica, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott.com, On MSFT, Neowin, Business Insider, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, Lifehacker, BetaNews, Neowin, and Windows Central
Tweets: @satyanadella
Thanks:@johnhcook| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google launches first original podcast City Soundtracks, a guide to the musical highlights of different cities, available on Play Music and iTunes — Google Play Music has today launched its first original podcast, City Soundtracks. Available on Google's streaming service (and on iTunes! …
More:
Google, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Android Police, The Next Web, TalkAndroid.com, CNET, Engadget, and 9to5Google
| Stefanie Fogel / Engadget: |
CNN launches a VR news unit, CNNVR, which will cover major news events and produce VR livestreams — The Cable News Network is going virtual. CNN has announced the launch of a new immersive journalism unit called CNNVR that will produce videos and live streams of major news events, along with a weekly virtual reality experience.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.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Zoho:
Meet Zoho Social MCP: Your AI assistant can now help run social media — Social media management has come a long way from simply publishing posts.Today, marketers are expected to create content …
Meet Zoho Social MCP: Your AI assistant can now help run social media — Social media management has come a long way from simply publishing posts.Today, marketers are expected to create content …
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
Grit:
Booking.com CEO on AI and the Future of Travel
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Acquired:
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
Learn the playbooks that built the world's greatest companies - and how you can apply them as a founder, operator, or investor.
Subscribe to Acquired.
Lenny's Podcast:
The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
Demis Steps Down, Apple's Memory Problem, Microsoft's Clever Trick
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:
The White House's Secret A.I. Rules + The State of Model Alignment With METR's Chris Painter + The Final Hot Mess Express
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.
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 2:50 PM ET, March 8, 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
Rob Bonta / Deadline:Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Oriana Schwindt / Variety: |
More:
Digital Trends, MacRumors, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, EW.com, Multichannel News, Hollywood Reporter, TrustedReviews, Fierce Cable, Digiday, Mashable, Engadget, USA Today, Reuters, Co.Create, Android Police, The Verge, SlashGear, and Fortune. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| DL Cade / PetaPixel: |
More:
Yahoo Research, Neowin, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @yahooresearch and @yahooresearch
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Earlier Picks
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
More:
Instagram, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Social Media Today, Neowin, SlashGear, Adweek, and iMore
Tweets: @shhhua
| WikiLeaks: |
More:
Errata Security, Wired, BGR, SiliconBeat, BetaNews, Krebs on Security, TechCrunch, Washington Post, InfoWorld, Computerworld, eWeek, USA Today, BBC, Forbes, BuzzFeed, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, CSO, Forbes, Slate, Hit & Run, EW.com, The Next Web, Bay News 9, LinkedIn, ExtremeTech, CBS News, Errata Security, InvestorPlace, ZDNet, SlashGear, New York Times, The Register, Daring Fireball, Lawfare, The Daily Caller, iDownloadBlog.com, Schneier on Security, 9to5Mac, Fortune, BuzzFeed, Network World, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Neowin, SecurityWeek, Softpedia News, Apple News aus Cupertino, O'Grady's PowerPage, The Guardian, Geektime, Ubergizmo, International Business Times, Tech2, BGR, Nextgov, motherboard, Engadget, The Loop, Silicon Republic, Axios, AppleInsider, TechSpot, NordVPN, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNET, Tech Times, Engadget, Cointelegraph.com News, iPhone Hacks, Inquirer, Security Affairs, Ars Technica, Out-Law News, Light Reading, Schneier on Security, New York Magazine, Help Net Security, Mercury News, Reuters, Hackaday, TechHive, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, TWICE, The Mac Observer, Associated Press, The Verge, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Cisco Blog, CNNMoney, and NPR
Tweets: @johnpaczkowski, @zeynep, @tomwarren, @ericgeller, @aclu, and @swiftonsecurity