|
August 12, 2019, 2:50 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Facebook halted acquisition talks with Houseparty late last year due to antitrust concerns and began internal changes to make itself harder to break up — SAN FRANCISCO — Senator Elizabeth Warren has called for the breakup of big tech companies like Facebook.| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung has unveiled ISOCELL Bright HMX, a 108MP smartphone camera sensor developed in collaboration with Xiaomi, one of the largest ever at 1/1.33-inches — With the smartphone megapixel camera wars raging on, Samsung has fired a significant shot. It unveiled a 108-megapixel smartphone …
More:
Samsung Global Newsroom, The Verge, Gizmodo, TechSpot, KnowTechie, Business Insider, Neowin, Inquirer, Mashable, MSPoweruser, CNET, Gearburn, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Firstpost Tech, Gizchina, Android Authority, XDA Developers, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Beat, and SlashGear. Tweets: @whatthebit
| New York Times: |
How YouTube radicalized Brazil, diverting users to conspiracy and far-right channels, elevating Bolsonaro's party, and possibly creating a public health crisis — NITERÓI, Brazil — When Matheus Dominguez was 16, YouTube recommended a video that changed his life.
More:
HuffPost. Tweets: @max_fisher, @brendannyhan, @frankpasquale, @jessreports, @ksophiewill, @onejarednewman, @nytimes, and @profcarroll
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
As researchers find more ways to detect browser incognito mode despite Chrome 76 protections against it, NYT's paywall is back up for Chrome Incognito visitors — With the release of Chrome 76, Google attempted to put a stop to web developers and publishers detecting people using Chrome's Incognito Mode.| Wall Street Journal: |
The FBI is seeking an early alerting tool that scans public data from social media to monitor threats to the US, which may violate Facebook and Twitter policies — Agency solicits vendor proposals to collect data from Facebook, other social media to head off safety threats
More:
CyberScoop, Security Affairs, ZDNet, and Axios
Tweets: @wsj, @jbarro, @jason_kint, @fightextremism, @jeffhorwitz, and @benedictevans
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
AI-powered search company Lucidworks raises $100M from investors including Francisco Partners and TPG Sixth Street Partners, following last year's $50M Series E — AI-powered search venture Lucidworks has raised $100 million from Francisco Partners and TPG Sixth Street Partners … | Canalys: |
Canalys: Samsung shipments in Europe grew 20% YoY in Q2 to give it a market share of 40.6%, while Xiaomi's grew 48%, Huawei's fell 16%, and Apple's fell 17% — Shanghai (China), Bengaluru (India), Singapore, Reading (UK) and Portland (US) - Monday, 12 August 2019
More:
AppleInsider, iMore, 9to5Mac, Gizchina, Patently Apple, Cult of Mac, and Seeking Alpha
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
An in-depth look at the feasibility, progress, and experts' opinions of lidar-based vs Tesla-like camera-only approaches to fully autonomous cars — “They're all going to dump lidar,” Musk said about self-driving rivals in April. — Lots of companies are working to develop self-driving cars.
Tweets: @aparanjape, @arstechnica, and @ghosthayes
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitch reverts Tyler “Ninja” Blevins' channel to offline mode after he calls Twitch out for using it to promote other streamers, including a porn broadcast — Ninja (aka Tyler Blevins) has largely avoided any bad blood between him and Twitch following his jump to Mixer, but that apparently didn't last long.
More:
Business Insider, Ars Technica, Tubefilter, Washington Post, The Daily Dot, SlashGear, The Verge, GamesIndustry.biz, Beyond Search, KnowTechie, Dot Esports, BGR India, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, GameSpot, Windows Central, Polygon, GeekWire, OnMSFT.com, IGN, Dexerto.com, Dot Esports, Kotaku, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @ninja, @eshear, @ninja, @keemstar, @eshear, @eshear, @itsfangs, @eshear, @ayriath, @thiojoe, @queenieandblue, @harrischeller, @carnage4life, @m4tt, @gothalion, @tomwarren, @jessicablevins, @cupofrobots, and @m4tt
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
ByteDance launches Toutiao Search, a mobile-optimized search engine in China that shows only censored search results, setting it up as a competitor to Baidu — ByteDance has taken another step into search with the launch of a new search portal today. Called Toutiao Search …
More:
Bloomberg, KrASIA, CNBC, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @pingroma, @eric_seufert, @davidramli, and @ulywang
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Light Field Lab raises $28M Series A with Samsung Ventures, Comcast, and others investing, to start building modular holographic displays for commercial venues — Holographic display startup Light Field Lab has raised a $28 million Series A round of funding led by Bosch Venture Capital and Taiwania Capital.
More:
TechCrunch and Hollywood Reporter
| Robert Frank / CNBC: |
Wheels Up, a subscription-based private aviation company that wants to be the Airbnb of private aviation, raises $128M Series D at a valuation of $1.1B — KEY POINTS — Wheels Up, the private aviation start-up that counts Tom Brady and Serena Williams as members, says it completed …
More:
FinSMEs
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:
TrainerCentral 2.0: Built for what's next — The business of training has changed. AI didn't just make content creation faster—it made professional training content achievable for businesses that couldn't previously afford …
TrainerCentral 2.0: Built for what's next — The business of training has changed. AI didn't just make content creation faster—it made professional training content achievable for businesses that couldn't previously afford …
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
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
Apple's Most Ambitious Roadmap Ever? + OpenAI vs. Google vs. Anthropic Revisited
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.
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 2:50 PM ET, August 12, 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
Joe Sonka / Louisville Public Media:Abid Rahman / The Hollywood Reporter:
New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review: |
| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
More:
CNN, Politico, Washington Post, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Tweets: @mims, @hshaban, @noupside, @rodrosenstein, @harrymccracken, @bariweiss, @easterbrookg, @jayrosen_nyu, @emilypothast, and @cwarzel