Sunday, April 30, 2017

Top Stories of the Day // April 30, 2017

Tempow turns your dumb Bluetooth speakers into a connected sound system | Your next computer could be in a data center | Snapchat is stifled by its un-algorithmic feed | Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey | Giant companies that won’t buy your startup | Middle East startups are growing fast, and that’s even before the flying taxis arrive | Tech and politics clash in Cameroon as government restores internet |
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SUNDAY, APRIL 30 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Romain Dillet

Tempow turns your dumb Bluetooth speakers into a connected sound system

Meet Tempow, a French startup that can make your Bluetooth speakers more versatile. The company has been working on a new implementation of the Bluetooth... Read More…
Romain Dillet

Your next computer could be in a data center

Most of the apps on your phone already rely on a server component to store and process your data. When you post a video on Facebook, it gets re-encoded into... Read More…
Josh Constine

Snapchat is stifled by its un-algorithmic feed

Snapchat invented its best products by being the anti-Facebook. Its disappearing chats made visual communication quick and casual compared to Facebook's... Read More…
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Jonathan Shieber

Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey

Wikipedia, the online user-generated encyclopedia, has been blocked by the Turkish government. News of the blockage was first reported by the website Turkey... Read More…
Joanna Glasner

Giant companies that won’t buy your startup

Huge companies in fast-changing, technology-intensive businesses buy startups. After all, they have the money and need fresh entrepreneurial talent to tap new... Read More…
Mike Butcher

Middle East startups are growing fast, and that’s even before the flying taxis arrive

The flight from Tehran to Dubai is about two hours, similar to the flight from New York to Chicago. The flight from Cairo to Beirut is one hour and 15 minutes.... Read More…
Jake Bright

Tech and politics clash in Cameroon as government restores internet

The government of Cameroon ended its internet blackout of parts of the country last week, according to news reports and confirmation from the country's... Read More…
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Saturday, April 29, 2017

Top Stories of the Day // April 29, 2017

Amazon is shutting down its ‘Underground Actually Free’ program that gives away free Android apps | Watch how Elon Musk’s Boring Company tunnels will move cars faster | Yik Yak shuts down after Square paid $1 million for its engineers | How GE avoided Kodak’s fate | Elon Musk teases Tesla electric semi truck, up to 4 new Gigafactory locations | Someone scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies to make a facial dataset for AI experiments | Tumblr just added a switch in the iOS Settings that lets you turn the porn back on |
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SATURDAY, APRIL 29 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Sarah Perez

Amazon is shutting down its ‘Underground Actually Free’ program that gives away free Android apps

Amazon announced it will be shutting down its "Underground Actually Free" program, which offers customers free versions of Android apps that would typically... Read More…
Darrell Etherington

Watch how Elon Musk’s Boring Company tunnels will move cars faster

Just what does Elon Musk’s Boring Company want to accomplish? This might be our clearest picture yet – a video shown during Musk’s TEDTalk... Read More…
Lora Kolodny

Yik Yak shuts down after Square paid $1 million for its engineers

Yik Yak co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington published a farewell note to users on Friday, announcing they would shut down their once-popular anonymous... Read More…
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Ron Miller

How GE avoided Kodak’s fate

George Eastman founded Kodak in 1888 in Rochester, New York. Four years later and 200 miles down the road, Thomas Edison and some pals founded General Electric.... Read More…
Darrell Etherington

Elon Musk teases Tesla electric semi truck, up to 4 new Gigafactory locations

Elon Musk was on stage at the 2017 TED Conference in Vancouver on Friday, and he revealed some of his tunnel work and aspirations, but he also talked about a... Read More…
Natasha Lomas

Someone scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies to make a facial dataset for AI experiments

Tinder users have many motives for uploading their likeness to the dating app. But contributing a facial biometric to a downloadable data set for training... Read More…
Sarah Perez

Tumblr just added a switch in the iOS Settings that lets you turn the porn back on

Here’s an interesting change: Tumblr’s iOS application just received an update which now lets you turn on or off adult-oriented, NSFW search... Read More…
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