BlogHide Resteemsgarryv (55)in life • 6 years agoSuicidal ThoughtsI used this house picture because my biggest dream is to build my own house. I think about suicide more often then not as of late, i cant seem to decide if its because im a coward or its because i…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoFacebook, Google face first GDPR complaints over “forced consent”After two years coming down the pipe at tech giants, Europe’s new privacy framework, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is now being applied — and long time Facebook privacy critic, Max…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoDot lets you invest in property without the hassle of a traditional mortgageDot, a new U.K. startup de-cloaking today, aims to make it easy to invest in property without the hassle of taking out a traditional ‘buy to let’ mortgage. The company is founded by Gray Stern, who…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoTake a look at your Twitter timeline 10 years agoHere’s a fun thing for a Friday: go back and see what your Twitter timeline looked like 10 years ago. Twitter has pretty powerful search settings, but Andy Baio — of Kickstarter fame and more — did…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoLime, Bird and Spin have to temporarily remove scooters from SFThe San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has officially made available its permit application for electric scooters to operate in the city as part of a one-year pilot program. Part of that…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoJury finds Samsung owes Apple $539M in patent case stretching back to 2011A patent case that began back in 2011 has reached a conclusion, with Samsung ordered to pay about $539 million to Apple over infringements of the latter’s patents in devices that are now long gone.…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoAndy Rubin’s Essential is reportedly up for sale and has cancelled work on its next smartphoneEssential, the smartphone company helmed by Android co-creator Andy Rubin, is trying to sell itself and has cancelled development of its next phone, Bloomberg reports. The report states that…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoSnapchat launches less creepy Send and Request Location featuresSnapchat is taking another shot at location after its always-on coordinate-broadcasting Snap Map proved a bit invasive for some users. Snapchat now lets you send your on-going real-time location to…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoOpenStack in transitionOpenStack is one of the most important and complex open-source projects you’ve never heard of. It’s a set of tools that allows large enterprises ranging from Comcast and PayPal to stock exchanges…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoNetflix magic market number larger than big cable company’s magic market numberNetflix’s market cap is now larger than Comcast, which is pretty much just a symbolic thing given that the companies are valued very differently but is like one of those moments where Apple was…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoGOAT launches electric scooters in AustinGOAT, a dockless electric scooter company, has launched in Austin, after receiving official permits from the city’s transportation department for its pilot program. Unlike what’s happened in San…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoFamily claims their Echo sent a private conversation to a random contactA Portland family tells KIRO news that their Echo recorded and then sent a private conversation to someone on its list of contacts without telling them. Amazon called it an “extremely rare…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoNavigating the risks of artificial intelligence and machine learning in low-income countriesAubra Anthony Contributor Aubra Anthony is the strategy and research lead for the Center for Digital Development within the US Agency for International Development. On a recent work…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoHitlist’s new premium service puts a travel agent in your pocketHitlist, a several-years old app for finding cheap flights has begun rolling out a subscription tier that will turn it into something more akin to your own mobile travel agent. While the core app…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoThe AI in your non-autonomous carSorry. Your next car probably won’t be autonomous. But, it will still have artificial intelligence (AI). While most of the attention has been on advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoTwitter unveils new political ad guidelines set to go into effect this summerFollowing the unrelenting wave of controversy around Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Twitter announced new guidelines today for political advertisements on the social…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoUber in fatal crash detected pedestrian but had emergency braking disabledThe initial report by the National Transportation Safety Board on the fatal self-driving Uber crash in March confirms that the car detected the pedestrian as early as 6 seconds before the crash, but…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoSome low-cost Android phones shipped with malware built inAvast has found that many low-cost, non-Google-certifed Android phones shipped with a strain of malware built in that could send users to download apps they didn’t intend to access. The malware…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoAnd the winner of Startup Battlefield Europe at VivaTech is… WinglyAt the very beginning, there were 15 startups. After a morning of incredibly fierce competition, we now have a winner. Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to…garryv (55)in blog • 7 years agoReddit adds a desktop night mode as it continues rolling out major redesignFor being one of the most visited websites on the web, Reddit‘s product has rocked a notoriously basic design for much of its existence. The site is in the process of slowly rolling out a major…
