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Facebook Live threatens reality TV
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Facebook Live changes everything. It’s gripping. It’s real. It’s immediate. And now it looks like it’s ready to kill the last remaining stronghold of network television. Philandro Castille, his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds and her small daughter were pulled over in the afternoon on...
Tesla death won't stop progress
Sadly, Tesla owner Joshua Brown was killed last week when his vehicles collided with tractor trailer. At the time the car was being guided by Autopilot, a smart, assisted driving system. This was the first fatality of its kind.The immediate response was shock. Despite healthy public skepticism, the idea of safer assisted and ultimately...
Facebook shakes down advertisers
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.The panic among publishers is palpable. Facebook (FB) is tweaking its Newsfeed algorithm again – elevating posts from friends and family at the expense of all else. This is not the first time Facebook has made changes to its algorithm. Two years ago the social network noticed Facebookers...
Amazon wants you to call...
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Amazon (AMZN) is getting back into mobile phones. The company announced an experiment to subsidize two low-cost Android phones. This is not the first time Amazon’s tackled mobile. In 2014 it unveiled the Fire phone, a high-end smartphone with a heavily skinned version of Android,...
Brave new world of synthetic DNA
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.It really is a brave new world. Last week a group of prominent scientists announced plans for a project to create synthetic human DNA from scratch. The project will be led by synthetic biologists Jef Boeke of Langone Medical at the New York University and George Church of Harvard Medical School,...
Apple dials up trouble for iPhone
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Apple (AAPL) shareholders should be worried. It used to be a button-down, tight-lipped secretive company. Those days are gone. It’s now so transparent it’s verging on the pathetic. Maybe you’ve heard the news. According to the Wall Street Journal, with the exception...
Parking is the new plastics
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.In the film "The Graduate," a family friend offers young Ben guidance for his future: Plastics. Good call. Google is having that consigliore moment right now with cities. Like Mr. McGuire in the film, it wants to whisper just one word: Parking.A couple of weeks ago Eric Schmidt, the chairman...
Oil industry under siege
To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Things are going to get a lot tougher for the embattled fossil fuels industry. That’s according to a new Bloomberg research piece predicting a slow, inevitable death. To be sure, fossil fuels have been under siege for a while. The politics of climate change coupled with spills, fires, explosions...