Julie Kim / MIT Technology Review:
A look at the underwhelming state of augmentative and alternative communication tech, including a handful of iPad apps, for speech and language impaired users — For people who can't speak, there has been depressingly little innovation in technology that helps them communicate.
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Sunday, June 25, 2023
A look at the underwhelming state of augmentative and alternative communication tech including a handful of iPad apps for speech and language impaired users (Julie Kim/MIT Technology Review)
Saturday, June 24, 2023
The Twitter-to-Mastodon migration started in November 2022 failed because of Mastodon's exclusionary culture decentralization making the UX worse and more (Bloonface/Café Lob-On)
Bloonface / Café Lob-On:
The Twitter-to-Mastodon migration started in November 2022 failed because of Mastodon's exclusionary culture, decentralization making the UX worse, and more — I've been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey - I'm just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here …
Hermes wins permanent ban on 'MetaBirkin' NFT sales
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is using Instagram to promote an edgier image to court the "tech bros" captivated by Elon Musk's online antagonism and offline antics (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is using Instagram to promote an edgier image to court the “tech bros” captivated by Elon Musk's online antagonism and offline antics — Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to appear more relevant among the tech elite
Sources: IBM is close to a deal to acquire cloud-based IT management startup Apptio from Vista Equity Partners for $5B; Vista acquired Apptio for $2B in 2019 (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: IBM is close to a deal to acquire cloud-based IT management startup Apptio from Vista Equity Partners for ~$5B; Vista acquired Apptio for ~$2B in 2019 — Purchase of Apptio, owned by private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners, could be finalized over the weekend
Research: 81% of tech companies with under 5K employees allow remote work or have only remote options while just 26% with 25K employees are fully flexible (Rani Molla/Vox)
Rani Molla / Vox:
Research: 81% of tech companies with under 5K employees allow remote work or have only remote options, while just 26% with 25K+ employees are fully flexible — How small tech companies are using remote work to compete with the big guys. — It used to be that Big Tech companies like Google …
Watch: PM Modi meets Apple Google Microsoft CEOs
Friday, June 23, 2023
How YouTube updating its policy for fan accounts will help users
The US broadens eligibility for federal subsidies under the Chips Act to include companies providing tools chemicals and other semiconductor supplies (Yuka Hayashi/Wall Street Journal)
Yuka Hayashi / Wall Street Journal:
The US broadens eligibility for federal subsidies under the Chips Act to include companies providing tools, chemicals, and other semiconductor supplies — Biden administration expands eligibility for federal subsidies to semiconductor factory suppliers — WASHINGTON—The Biden administration …
Internal records undercut claims that Twitter censored pro-Trump content before the Capitol riot and show a reluctance to suspend Trump's account until Jan. 8 (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Internal records undercut claims that Twitter censored pro-Trump content before the Capitol riot and show a reluctance to suspend Trump's account until Jan. 8 — In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence.
JPMorgan expands its JPM Coin launched in 2019 for USD transactions to euro payments; the digital token has been used to process $300B in transactions so far (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
Anna Irrera / Bloomberg:
JPMorgan expands its JPM Coin, launched in 2019 for USD transactions, to euro payments; the digital token has been used to process ~$300B in transactions so far — JPMorgan Chase & Co. expanded one of the most high-profile projects to bring blockchain technology to traditional banking …
Lithuania announces Tech Zity a €100M tech campus touted as Europe's largest at 592K sq. ft. with facilities for 5000 workers co-living spaces and more (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Lithuania announces Tech Zity, a €100M tech campus touted as Europe's largest at ~592K sq. ft., with facilities for 5,000 workers, co-living spaces, and more — Lithuania is vying to become one of the major European tech hubs, bolstered by a growing number of so-called “unicorn” …
A look at Apple Vision Pro features based on the visionOS SDK including a "Moving at Unsafe Speed" alert a "Travel Mode" for airplanes and a "Guest Mode" (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
A look at Apple Vision Pro features based on the visionOS SDK, including a “Moving at Unsafe Speed” alert, a “Travel Mode” for airplanes, and a “Guest Mode” — Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC 2023. But even so, there are still a lot of details …
Realme to launch next Narzo phone in India on June 26
Thursday, June 22, 2023
How to silence calls from unknown numbers on WhatsApp
Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)
Pranshu Verma / Washington Post : Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 202...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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