BlogHide Resteemsnicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoMy six months with $30/month email service Superhuman – TechCrunchA $30-per-month email service capturing the adoration of investors and founders in Silicon Valley is perhaps an unsurprising story in a subscription-obsessed landscape, yet we’re only now hearing…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoReddit quarantines Trump-focused community – TechCrunchIt’s NEWSLETTER TIME get pumped! I know I am – it’s my first Daily Crunch in over a year. That’s right, your friendly neighborhood Anthony Ha is otherwise occupied today so I’m back to deliver this…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoGoogle launches auto-delete controls for Location History on iOS and Android – TechCrunchGoogle has always argued that the data it collects does more than provide power for its targeted ad empire — it also makes its services more useful. But not everyone thinks that Google should be…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoMillennials don’t want to get drunk. What do they want? Apéritifs. – TechCrunchGen Z doesn’t want to get drunk. Millennials are tired of the obligatory after-work drinks. Haus, a new startup selling apéritifs online, has a solution for them. The company’s beverages have a…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoThese kids are changing the future of space travel – TechCrunch“STEM” is often a misunderstood term. Some might assume it’s complicated, unapproachable, or only for people in white lab coats inside a research facility. But STEM—which stands for Science…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoHere is BMW’s new electric motorcycle concept – TechCrunchBMW has a long history of building motorcycles, but it hasn’t done all that well in the electric motorcycle department. Clearly, though, this is something the company is thinking hard about and…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoHackers are stealing years of call records from hacked cell networks – TechCrunchSecurity researchers say they have uncovered a massive espionage campaign involving the theft of call records from hacked cell network providers to conduct targeted surveillance on individuals of…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoiOS 13 brings many much needed quality-of-life improvements – TechCrunchIn developer lingo, quality-of-life updates are all about refining things that already work. Thanks to these incremental improvements, it should make the end-user experience much more enjoyable. And…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoBill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time” – TechCrunchAt a recent event hosted for founders by the venture firm Village Global, one of its most prominent investors, Bill Gates, sat down with Eventbrite cofounder and CEO Julia Hartz to discuss founding…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years ago‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ reaches 400K downloads, $300K in consumer spend in UK and US – TechCrunchHarry Potter: Wizards Unite, the highly anticipated new mobile game from Pokémon GO makers Niantic and Warner Brothers’ games division, is off to a good start, but it’s not breaking Pokémon GO…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoAirbus-owned Voom will compete with Uber Copter in the US in 2019 – TechCrunchThe U.S. air taxi market is heating up: Aeronautics industry giant Airbus will be among the companies operating on-demand air travel service in 2019 in American skies, FastCompany reports. Airbus’…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoGoogle Pay expands its integration with PayPal to online merchants – TechCrunchGoogle and PayPal have been strategic partners for some time. The companies in 2017 announced that PayPal would become a payment method in Android Pay, the service that later rebranded as Google…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoThe Problem with Quantum Computers - Scientific American Blog NetworkBy now, most people have heard that quantum computing is a revolutionary technology that leverages the bizarre characteristics of quantum mechanics to solve certain problems faster than regular…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoNew Space Telescope Will Map the Universe in High-Energy X-rays - Scientific AmericanA German-Russian mission called SRG will detect millions of supermassive black holes, many new to science, and hundreds of thousands of stars. “Have you seen your body in X-rays? It looks…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoDaily Crunch: Facebook unveils Libra cryptocurrency – TechCrunchThe Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1.…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoRoli’s newest instrument, the Lumi, helps you learn to play piano with lights – TechCrunchThere has been a longstanding gulf between the consumption music and the creation of it: not everyone has the time or money to spend on lessons and instruments, and for those in school, many music…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agoGenetic Mutation in "CRISPR Babies" May Shorten Lifespan - Scientific AmericanWhen Chinese scientist He Jiankui edited the genes of twin baby girls last year, he said he was doing it to protect them against HIV infection; their father was HIV-positive. The now-disgraced…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.A New Approach to Addiction Treatment - Scientific American Blog NetworkThe nation’s growing addiction crisis has amplified the urgent and long-standing need for integrating research into substance abuse treatment and recovery process. While there has been an increase…nicmachiavelli (5)in dlike • 6 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Personality Disorders | Psych CentralPersonality disorders form a class of mental disorders that are defined by long-lasting, rigid patterns of thought and behavior. Because of the inflexibility and pervasiveness of these patterns…nicmachiavelli (5)in steemstem • 6 years agoSend emails securely with a secret handshakeSpies recognize each other by a secret handshake. Thanks to a new cryptographic technique , this type of protection is now also possible for e-mails. Good news for online spies - and all others who…