Tuesday, August 06, 2019

The Moon Is Full of Money

The Moon Is Full of Money Nautilus


50 years ago, the Sony TC-50 cassette player and recorder accompanied the Apollo 11 crew to the Moon and back. (Here’s what they listened to.) Ten years later, the company came out with the Walkman, the first portable cassette player that struck a chord with consumers. In this video, Mat of Techmoan shows us the TC-50 and shows how similar it is to the later Walkman. I found this video via Daring Fireball, where John Gruber remarked on the iterative nature of design: “You get to a breakthrough like the original iPhone one step at a time.”

AFP wants a system to collect social and political info to aid police operations


ZDNet by Asha Barbaschow

Opens expression of interest for the two-year project. 


I think all writing is a disease. You can’t stop it.”
— William Carlos Williams





DOJ: Review Focuses on Practices that Create or Maintain Structural Impediments to Greater Competition and User Benefits – The Department of Justice announced today that the Department’s Antitrust Division is reviewing whether and how market-leading online platforms have achieved market power and are engaging in practices that have reduced competition, stifled innovation, or otherwise harmed consumers. The Department’s review will consider the widespread concerns that consumers, businesses, and entrepreneurs have expressed about search, social media, and some retail services online. The Department’s Antitrust Division is conferring with and seeking information from the public, including industry participants who have direct insight into competition in online platforms, as well as others.

  Legal marijuana is helping the black market




  

Incentivizing an Ethical Economics

History shows that incentivizing the wealthy to contribute to the population’s basic needs makes everyone a winner.


ternet Innovation Alliance – Are Millennials okay with the collection and use of their data online because they grew up with the internet? “In an effort to help inform policymakers about the views of Americans across generations on internet privacy, the Internet Innovation Alliance, in partnership with Icon Talks, the Hispanic Technology & Telecommunications Partnership (HTTP), and the Millennial Action Project, commissioned a national study of U.S. consumers who have witnessed a steady stream of online privacy abuses, data misuses, and security breaches in recent years. The survey examined the concerns of U.S. adults—overall and separated by age group, as well as other demographics—regarding the collection and use of personal data and location information by tech and social media companies, including tailoring the online experience, the potential for their personal financial information to be hacked from online tech and social media companies, and the need for a single, national policy addressing consumer data privacy…”



Smart Money Said ‘Skip Bitcoin, Bet on Blockchain.’ Not Any More Bloomberg

Google’s sister company creates smart nappies FT. I’m so old I remember when “The Internet of Sh*t” was just a metaphor.

Drone pilots now authorized to telecommute Duffle Blog

Google’s sister company creates smart nappies Financial Times. Kill me now


Swedish people are getting chip implants to replace cash New York Post

The Moon Is Full of Money Nautilus

The catastrophic data leak via browser extensions Dataspii

Chrome 76 Prevents NYT and Other News Sites From Detecting Incognito Mode ars technica

Emotion-Detection Applications Are Built On Outdated Science, Report Warns EurekaAlert

Israeli security company reportedly has tool that spies on Apple, Google and Facebook cloud data CNBC

My browser, the spy: How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users Ars Technica

Israeli group’s spyware ‘offers keys to Big Tech’s cloud’ FT

A Proposed Response to the Commercial Surveillance Emergency LawFare

Prime Day for a union? Not yet at this Amazon warehouse Fast Company

‘This is unprecedented’: Alert, Nunavut, is warmer than Victoria CBC

Major U.S. cities are leaking methane at twice the rate previously believed Science

Your Data Were ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You NYT