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Microsoft Invests in Affordable Internet Access with New Fund
A free emoji keyboard SDK for mobile apps
Hundreds of Apps Banned from App Store for Accessing Users’ Personal Information
Second Life creator starts testing its virtual-reality world: Project Sansar
Evan Spiegel USC commencement speech
Why Tesla Employees Fear Elon Musk
Successful People's Biggest Financial Regrets
Re:Building a push notification system for scale with Go (Tales of Tim...
on Friday May 15, 2015 @02:18PM (#9552554)
Have you tried 3rd party push companies like Urban Airship or Parse? Looking at those two options Vs. building it ourselves... Any advice would be welcomed (expecting about 5-10k pushes/day).
Shuffle’s New iPhone App Lets You Create Disposable Phone Numbers and Email
Google's unique self-driving cars will hit public streets this summer
WifiMapper Helps You Find Free Wi-Fi Anywhere in the World
Mark Zuckerberg: Let your kids play video games
Scientists recreate universe right after Big Bang
Re:Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla
on Thursday May 14, 2015 @04:56PM (#9547536)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson was just talking about how the first trillionaire will come from astroid mining: http://www.salon.com/2015/05/04/neil_degrasse_tyson_the_firs...
Super fascinating read. It's also great because it will create a commercially viable reason for companies to want to explore space, which will make it cheaper for everyone else.
Re:The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2: The Fall
on Thursday May 14, 2015 @04:51PM (#9547508)
This would make an amazing movie.
Re:The Future of Design in Technology
on Thursday May 14, 2015 @04:47PM (#9547495)
I love how Minority Report has the monopoly on futuristic design. Kind of wish this showed more UI/UX for things like VR and 3/4D printing.
The Apple Watch is too easy to steal – Digital Trends
Bing Follows Google with Its Own “Mobile-Friendly” Ranking Algorithm
Twitch's live game video streaming arrives on Roku players
Re:AI Is Getting Good Enough to Delegate the Work It Can’t Do
on Thursday May 14, 2015 @01:14AM (#9543545)
Really interesting article. HBR is awesome. You should checkout Ray Kurzweil & Michio Kaku if you want to really dive deep into AI and the eventual robot revolution that will take over all mundane jobs (and eventually complex jobs). Kind of makes you wonder what the human experience will be like if no one will need to work for a living
Re:With Tesla Entering Market, Hopes for Home Batteries Grow
on Thursday May 14, 2015 @01:04AM (#9543514)
Elon is amazing human being. Solar City, Tesla, SpaceX and now the home energy market. It's trendy (and expensive), but at the end of the day I think it can help to draw more attention to the space and environmental consciousness. Hopefully it's not just a fad...
Re:Facebook Instant Articles: A Slippery Slope
on Thursday May 14, 2015 @12:55AM (#9543496)
Doesn't this sound like they're attempting to take traffic (and revenue) away from other publishers? If you can read the articles on Facebook, why would you want to go to a different website to read the same thing (obviously loyal users won't leave)... Just seems like Facebook is trying to become a news organization vs a social network.
Re:Daredevil’s Powers Are More Realistic Than You Think
on Thursday May 14, 2015 @12:49AM (#9543479)
It's awesome that Netflix finally released this in braille (it took some fan outrage). Seems sadly ironic they didn't do it when they first released the series...
Re:Three Moments with WeChat
on Thursday May 14, 2015 @12:42AM (#9543463)
Really interesting article. I used WeChat when I was in China. Super fun and definitely has a lot more you can do (like pay your rent). I'm curious to see if it will ever become big outside of China. Thoughts?
Venture Capitalists Help Connect Low-Income Students With Elite Colleges
Re:Apple’s App Analytics Beta Opens to All Developers
on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:12PM (#9542802)
So glad this finally happened. It sucks that you only get the data from users that opt in and it has a 24 hour delay...
Re:Memes are a myth
on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @03:15PM (#9541293)
Haha this is awesome