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.
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 …
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 — 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 — How small tech companies are using remote work to compete with the big guys. — It used to be that Big Tech companies like Google …
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 — 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 — 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 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” — Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC 2023. But even so, there are still a lot of details …
New York Times : Sources and messages: Binance compliance officer Tigran Gambaryan told executives and Nigerian contacts of a $150M crypt...
