|
May 17, 2018, 10:30 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
YouTube to launch a paid version of YouTube Music next week, at $10/month; YouTube Red will be replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra — YouTube Music is launching Tuesday, and YouTube Red is going away. It's being replaced by YouTube Premium, and it will cost extra.
More:
YouTube Blog, YouTube Blog, The Verge, Pitchfork, Lefsetz Letter, USA Today, Ars Technica, Thurrott.com, BuzzFeed, XDA Developers, Engadget, BBC, TechCrunch, International Business Times, BGR, CNET, AppleInsider, CNBC, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Liliputing, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, Ubergizmo, Music Ally, The Guardian, The FADER, Digital Trends, Android Beat, AndroidGuys, Droid Life, Neowin, Reuters, Android Authority, MacRumors, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, Wall Street Journal, Music Industry Blog, MediaNama, The Next Web, Android Central, gHacks Technology News, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Google, Android and Me, Engadget, Fast Company, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @hankgreen
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
YouTube will use Content ID data to display full music credits and link to the official videos of artists and songs — YouTube is to begin surfacing more song and artist information for videos that are hosted on the YouTube platform. — The Google-owned video-streaming giant has long offered … | Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Hands-on with the Xbox Adaptive Controller, designed for video game players with disabilities, which will cost $99.99 and go on sale later this year — Microsoft stumbled into the accessibility market about three years ago, with the launch of the Xbox One Elite controller.
More:
Microsoft, Xbox Wire, CNET, Ars Technica, The Verge, BleepingComputer.com, CNET, Thurrott.com, VentureBeat, PCWorld, Inquirer, SlashGear, Digital Trends, The Official Microsoft Blog, On MSFT, Tom's Guide, Wall Street Journal, PC Gamer, Gamasutra, CNBC, The Guardian, Windows Central, Mashable, Polygon, Windows Experience Blog, destructoid, The Next Web, Kotaku, Hackaday, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, VG247, and bit-tech.net
Tweets: @joeparlock, @devindra, @bajopants, @grimmbonez, @dakami, @chrisrgun, @aevanko, @shikaboom, @avalonstar, and @charleyyrachael
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Senate narrowly votes to block Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality rules; the resolution now heads to the House, where it faces long odds — Senate defies “armies of lobbyists,” but House may help FCC kill net neutrality. — The US Senate today voted to reverse the Federal Communications …
More:
Recode, Fortune, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Inquirer, Wired, ExtremeTech, NPR, The Verge, CNET, Reuters, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Gizmodo, CNET, NewsBTC, SiliconANGLE, IGN, O'Grady's PowerPage, Business Insider, The Mac Observer, Associated Press, Gizmodo, Neowin, CBS San Francisco, PC Gamer, Engadget, DSLreports, The Atlantic, Techdirt, Silicon Republic, Digital Trends, Android Authority, GeekWire, Mashable, Stop the Cap!, MIT Technology Review, TechCrunch, Politico, and The Next Web
Tweets: @ceciliakang, @lasesana, @murphindc, @tonyromm, and @tonyromm
| Andrew Rice / Wired: |
Profile of Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman who orchestrated net neutrality repeal and is a nerdy conservative ideologue reviled by some and cast as a hero by others — IN MARCH, AJIT Pai, the 45-year-old chair of the Federal Communications Commission, took to the internet—a community … | Yaz Gagne / Fast Company: |
eBay launches Interests, personalized product recommendations that cut across shopping categories, using big data and a questionnaire — eBay, says Bradford Shellhamer, the company's head of engagement, wants to be the “heavy metal-loving, yogi, OSU fan's favorite store.” It also wants to be yours.
More:
Engadget, VentureBeat, eBay Newsroom, TechCrunch, The Verge, Digital Trends, CNET, and Axios
| Apple: |
Apple's Everyone Can Code curriculum for Swift is expanding to schools serving blind and deaf students in the US — Apple is teaming up with leading educators for blind and deaf communities across the US to bring accessible coding to their schools. Beginning this fall …
More:
MacRumors, Computerworld, Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Adweek, The Loop, iLounge, and MacStories. Tweets: @tim_cook
| Kim-Mai Cutler / Logic Magazine: |
The history of venture capital, its importance to Silicon Valley as military funding abated in the '50s, and what's fueling and challenging its global growth — Venture capital is an integral part of Silicon Valley. But how does venture actually work? Why is it so important to the tech industry …
Tweets: @alexisohanian
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
PluralSight, which offers software development courses, prices IPO at $15/share, raising $310M+ — Pluralsight priced the shares in its IPO at $15 this afternoon, above its previously set target range of between $12 and $14, and will raise as much as $357 million ahead of its public debut tomorrow morning.
More:
PE Hub Blog, SiliconANGLE, Pluralsight, Reuters, and Seeking Alpha
| Steven Scheer / Reuters: |
Intel's Mobileye has signed a deal to supply 8M cars with its self-driving technology to an undisclosed European automaker — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Mobileye, Intel Corp's Israel-based autonomous driving unit, has signed a contract to supply eight million cars at a European automaker …
More:
TechSpot
| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Jürgen Schmidhuber, the controversial AI pioneer whose Swiss startup Nnaisense is working on developing an artificial general intelligence (AGI) — Jürgen Schmidhuber says he'll make machines smarter than us. His peers wish he'd just shut up.
Tweets: @roydanroy, @muellerfreitag, @valleyhack, @atbwebb, and @mark_riedl
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple has quietly explored opening a campus in Northern Virginia, to accommodate 20,000 employees, as well as in North Carolina, according to multiple reports — For the last several months, Apple has been exploring locations for a new campus focusing on technical support, and according to new reports …
More:
WRAL-TV, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Axios, Retail Dive, MacDailyNews, Raleigh/Durham Business …, VentureBeat, The Loop, CNBC, AppleInsider, Fortune, TechCrunch, Washington Post, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, MacDailyNews, CNET, USA Today, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @cnbc, @jacknicas, @b_fung, @mattgertz, and @adammklein
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Hacker breaches servers of Securus, a firm enabling real-time warrantless cell location tracking for cops, and provides access to its clients' data to reporter — A hacker has provided Motherboard with the login details for a company that buys phone location data from major telecom companies and then sells it to law enforcement.
More:
Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, Houston Chronicle, Gizmodo, Engadget, and CNET
Tweets: @thememoryhole2, @josephfcox, @intangiblecoins, @jason_koebler, and @josephfcox
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie says Cambridge Analytica ran voter suppression campaigns for Bannon, targeted African-Americans with “disengagement tactics” — Appearing before the Senate Judiciary committee today as part of the ongoing investigation of Cambridge Analytica …
More:
CNN, Reuters, The Hill, The Guardian, and Axios
| Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan, who was fired last November following disclosure of Uber's 2016 data breach, is joining Cloudflare as its CSO — - He said he chose Cloudflare because the company matches his passion for “securing the whole internet.” — The announcement comes at a pivotal …
More:
Cloudflare Blog and Reuters
| Graham Rapier / Business Insider: |
SEC created a satirical cryptocurrency site called HoweyCoins to warn investors about ICO scams, complete with a nine-page whitepaper and an expiring 15% bonus — - HoweyCoin, a satirical ICO website made the the US' top securities regulator, is a warning against scams.
More:
The Next Web, The Verge, Fortune, U.S. Securities …, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, The Register, NewsBTC, CoinSpeaker, Coingeek, Bitsonline, Bloomberg, Finextra Research Headlines, NPR, TechSpot, MIT Technology Review, and Axios
Tweets: @sec_news and @vitalikbuterin
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook announces a partnership with the Atlantic Council aimed at helping deter manipulation of the platform during elections around the world — Facebook today will announce a partnership with the Atlantic Council aimed at helping deter manipulation of the platform during elections around the world.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cask Data, a startup that builds solutions to run big data analytics services based on Hadoop, joins Google Cloud; terms not disclosed; Cask had raised $40M — Google is pushing hard on its efforts to build out a deeper enterprise business around Google Cloud, which continues … | Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
After passenger's murder, Didi no longer shows profile pictures or lets users rate and tag each others' appearances, removing tags like “long legs”, “beauties” — China's ride-sharing behemoth Didi is trying to make its platform safer for users after a 21-year-old woman …
More:
The Verge, Didi Chuxing.EN, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, New York Times, MIT Technology Review, and Quartz
Tweets: @suilee and @didichuxing
| Kelsey Graeber / BuildZoom: |
Analysis of building permits shows Facebook has filed $900M+ in construction permits for West Campus building projects, mostly used for office space, since 2015 — Since the grand opening of the Gehry-designed building named ‘MPK 20’ and de facto launch of Facebook's West Campus in March 2015 …
More:
VentureBeat and Silicon Valley Business …
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Hands-on with OnePlus 6, coming May 22: 19:9 ratio 6.28" AMOLED display and a small notch, starting at $529 for 6GB RAM/64GB model, $629 for 8GB RAM/256GB — It's been only six months since the launch of the OnePlus 5T, but today the company is pushing out a new device that both packs … | Lynn La / CNET: |
More:
The Verge, International Business Times, BGR, Android Police, Engadget, 9to5Google, AnandTech, 9to5Google, and The Guardian. Thanks:@jdolcourt
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:
Celebrating 10 years of Zoho Marketplace — 30 Zoho products,2,900+ extensions and integrations,1 million+ users, and2 million installations.Zoho Marketplace celebrates a decade-long journey of adding timeless value …
Celebrating 10 years of Zoho Marketplace — 30 Zoho products,2,900+ extensions and integrations,1 million+ users, and2 million installations.Zoho Marketplace celebrates a decade-long journey of adding timeless value …
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
Lenny's Podcast:
OpenAI's Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber
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:
Best of Big Technology: How Ozempic Changes Our Bodies, Minds, and Economy — With Johann Hari
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:
Zuckerberg's Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Joanna Stern on the New Siri, OpenAI's Weird Gadget, and Life After the Wall Street Journal
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.
Invest Like the Best:
Eric Vishria - A Decade of Lessons Investing in Software & Hardware
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
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 10:30 AM ET, May 17, 2018.
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
Todd Spangler / Variety:Josh Gerstein / Politico:
CNBC:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
XDA Developers, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, MacStories, Android Authority, The Verge, Neowin, Twitter, Engadget, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, iLounge, 9to5Mac, and 512 Pixels
Tweets: @henshaw, @sirstendec, @mcnees, @joenrv, @twitterdev, @twitterdev, and @tomwarren
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
More:
TechCrunch. Tweets: @alexhern, @itsnicolenguyen, @mims, @baekdal, @paulbernaluk, @libbycwatson, @chronotope, @dymaxion, and @tupp_ed
| Alexander J Martin / Sky News: |
More:
TechCrunch, CNET, Recode, Silicon Republic, The Guardian, International Business Times, Slate, BBC, TechSpot, BetaNews, Engadget, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @j_amesp, @tom_watson, and @jason_kint