Issue #35 - Shihab Mehboob
Today I’m featuring Shihab Mehboob (creator of Aviary and Vinyls).
Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer
Alan Kay recently gave his 1970's Xerox Alto to Y Combinator and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Alto was t...
A Future of Betting on Tech But Not Tech Companies….?
If tech is everywhere do you bet on tech companies anymore? One thing I learned recently is that if you look at the late pandemic much of the ‘growth’ that happened wasn’t the pure tech companies… what it was was legacy brands finally being forced to adopt and move quickly on tech solutions…. The growth from the pandemic was Walmart adopting tech, not Amazon… it was Disne...
The podcast industry's biggest spammer
Who has sent us more unsolicited commercial email than anyone else?
PayPal Policy Updates
Effective July 28, 2022:
U.S. business accounts will not be able to receive personal transactions from U.S. PayPal accounts.
U.S. PayPal accounts will not be able to send personal transactions to U.S. business accounts.
The rate for the “Send/Receive Money for Goods and Services” payment type will be 2.99% (with no fixed fee). This pricing change will result in fee increases for some transactions. You can preview the Merchant Fees page that will be effective on July 28, 2022, following such changes.
Spiderwoman, Wise-Women: Listservs to connect - The History of the Web
Way before social media, listservs acted as a glue that held the web community together.
Schools for sale: What KCPS does when buildings close – The Beacon
Kansas City Public Schools now emphasizes affordable housing as it offers schools for sale after they have closed.
Apple Music Sessions Kicks Off with Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes
Today, Apple introduced new exclusive live sessions on Apple Music. The music streaming service kicked off Apple Music Sessions with performances by country music stars Carrie Underwood and Tenille Townes. The sessions with Underwood and Townes, which include both audio-only and video components, were recorded in Spatial Audio at Apple’s Nashville, Tennessee studio. Apple has
Keep Conversations Going, Now From Your Computer! - Snap Newsroom
Everyday 332 million people open Snapchat on their phones, and with our camera, can start conversations with their real friends. Today, we’re introducing Snapchat for Web, a new way for our community to stay connected through our camera when they’re at their computers.
Automatic Backup & New CSV format
Back up, recover, and restore data from your account and create copies of previous versions
Move your passwords from Chrome to 1Password
You can transfer your passwords from Chrome into 1Password on 1Password.com.
Move your iCloud Passwords from Safari to 1Password
You can transfer your passwords from Safari into 1Password on 1Password.com.
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Reddit pushes further into live audio with new tools
The social media platform will start highlighting live audio chats at the top of the home feed so they're easier to find.
/r/dadjokes open mic night! Come tell jokes with us live!
Voyager team working to keep 42-year-old probes operational
To keep NASA’s Voyager probes, launched 42 years ago to study the solar system’s gas giant planets, operational in interstellar space for as long as possible, mission scientists are making tough decisions to propel the spacecraft even further. To achieve this however is no easy feat. It’s one that has required mission managers to turn …
Help Us Map TrumpWorld
We logged more than 1,500 people and organizations connected to the incoming administration. Now we want your help to understand them and to add more.
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Snap launches Snapchat for Web – TechCrunch
With Snapchat for Web, you can send messages and snaps, and chat via video and regular calls. It also allows users to take advantage of messaging features.
Keep Conversations Going, Now From Your Computer! - Snap Newsroom
Everyday 332 million people open Snapchat on their phones, and with our camera, can start conversations with their real friends. Today, we’re introducing Snapchat for Web, a new way for our community to stay connected through our camera when they’re at their computers.
Spent the last hour creating a very minimal desktop app for Write.as / Musing... — Micro Matt
earliest thoughts today were about my digital work environment, and how it’s basically just the browser, and how distracting that is as someone who always has 50-plus tabs open at any given moment. I think it’d be much nicer to, in the morning, click an icon on my desktop that opens my digital “office.” It’d only show me exactly what I need to work. And at the end of...
Haven't talked much about this here, but I've been more seriously doing... — Micro Matt
I met some very cool people at the first few walks, and we started coordinating and going to more of them together. At each one, a topic kept coming up: it'd be great to have a more consistent group, instead of relying on different stores to put on events for us. So a few weeks ago, I finally decided to organize one. I made an Instagram chat group and invited all the people I'd talked to about it. Then they...
PlatinumAn Empirical Model of Large-Batch Training
In an increasing number of domains it has been demonstrated that deep
learning models can be trained using relatively large batch sizes without
sacrificing data efficiency. However the limits of...
Teacher-Student Curriculum Learning
We propose Teacher-Student Curriculum Learning (TSCL), a framework for
automatic curriculum learning, where the Student tries to learn a complex task
and the Teacher automatically chooses subtasks...
Cosplayers On Coke, Computers, Communication, Competition, And Lack Thereof
Wherein The Funny Rabbit On Your Phone Rambles Aimlessly About Conventions, Drug Abuse, And The Current State Of Digital Interaction In An Era Of Social Monopoly
First Impressions of WWDC22
Apple Design was styling, expressive, and so many amazing creations were shown.
Quora and the Search for Truth
The Internet is a place of unreliable facts and heavy socialization, so it makes sense that there is a website like Quora, where a registered community of users poses and answers questions about all sorts of things. With 450,000 topics, it’s a challenge to keep it all straight, but it’s necessary for a future ad business.
Introducing MacStories Selects: The Best New Apps, App Updates, and iOS Games of 2018
Over the course of a year, the MacStories team tries hundreds of apps. We test them, live with them, poke, prod, and break them, and then we write and talk about them. Collectively, it amounts to thousands of hours of thought and analysis that on a macro level seeks to answer the question: what makes