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We Can’t Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO
Who cares about my friends? I’m missing the news!
Source: We Can’t Stop Checking the News Either. Welcome to the New FOMO | WIRED
I was hacked
At about 9pm on Tuesday, August 22 a hacker swapped his or her own SIM card with mine, presumably by calling T-Mobile. This, in turn, shut off network services to my phone and, moments later, allowed the hacker to change most of my Gmail passwords, my Facebook password, and text on my behalf. All of the two-factor notifications went, by default, to my phone number so I received none of them and in about two minutes I was locked out of my digital life.
Source: I was hacked | TechCrunch
Walmart & Google Team Up to Challenge Amazon
“Ok, Google, buy me nice things.”
Source: Walmart (WMT) and Google (GOOG) enter the voice-shopping market to challenge Amazon — Quartz
Are Brand Advertisers Rethinking Their Use of Digital?
In the latest episode of “Behind the Numbers,” senior analyst Patricia Orsini and senior director of forecasting Monica Peart discuss whether brand advertisers have been spooked by concerns about brand safety online.
Source: Listen In: Are Brand Advertisers Rethinking Their Use of Digital? – eMarketer
Millennials on Millennials: Lots of Love, Lack of Loyalty
Millennials now make up the second-largest generation group in the U.S. They also now have disposable incomes, making them attractive to marketers and brands who are so eager to reach them, as this group is highly engaged, using multiple platforms for many hours on a daily basis.
Source: Millennials on Millennials: Lots of Love, Lack of Loyalty
Market share of versions of Android
The majority of Android device owners are running versions of the operating system that are more than two years old.
Source: Market share of versions of Google’s Android: CHART – Business Insider
A Wild Vision Of The Future Run By Amazon And Whole Foods
Drones. Shared refrigerators. Hydroponic garages. And never setting foot in a grocery store again.
Source: A Wild Vision Of The Future Run By Amazon And Whole Foods
How Google Maps knows when there’s traffic
Google Maps is a very useful tool for navigating your way through traffic and quickly getting you to your destination. But how it works may creep you out.
Source: How Google Maps knows when there’s traffic – Business Insider
Apple could guide you around your city using augmented reality
ARKit + CoreLocation, part 2 pic.twitter.com/AyQiFyzlj3
— Andrew Hart (@AndrewProjDent) July 21, 2017
ARKit is one of the biggest changes in iOS 11. Under the hood, Apple is about to transform the iPhone into a very capable augmented reality device.
Source: Apple could guide you around your city using augmented reality | TechCrunch
See also: Want To Learn A New Language? With This AR App, Just Point And Tap
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.
Source: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? – The Atlantic
See also: The The iPhone turns 10 – and it’s isolated us, not united us
The Revolution in Advertising: From Don Draper to Big Data
Advertising in the digital age bears little resemblance to the Mad Men depiction—the Don Drapers of advertising have been replaced by big data and the people who work with it. Professor John Deighton, the author of the case “WPP: From Mad Men to Math Men (and Women),” and Sir Martin Sorrell, founder and group chief executive of WPP and the protagonist in the case, discuss how WPP has been successful in the new advertising world order, where algorithms and robots rule
The iPhone turns 10 – and it’s isolated us, not united us
How has the first generation of kids to grow up with the iPhone been affected?
Source: The iPhone turns 10 – and it’s isolated us, not united us
See also: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
How High-Frequency Trading Is Conquering Emerging Markets
It’s sweeping the world, but can emerging markets handle the risk of a flash-crash?
Source: How High-Frequency Trading Is Conquering Emerging Markets | Fast Forward | OZY
See also: Why Marx is Essential
Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones
The founder of a nonprofit aimed at stopping tech companies from “hijacking our minds” says internet users must reclaim their humanity.
Source: Our Minds Have Been Hijacked by Our Phones. Tristan Harris Wants to Rescue Them | WIRED
Google, Samsung boost in-app revenue to match Apple
Apple may be losing its grip as the most valuable app platform
Source: Google, Samsung boost in-app revenue to match Apple – Business Insider
Why Marx is Essential
What is extraordinary about Das Kapital is that it offers a still-unrivalled picture of the dynamism of capitalism and its transformation of societies on a global scale. It firmly embedded concepts such as commodity and capital in the lexicon. And it highlights some of the vulnerabilities of capitalism, including its unsettling disruption of states and political systems. The election of Donald Trump, the vote for Brexit and the rise of populism in Europe and elsewhere can all be understood as indirect effects of shifts in the global division of labour — the relocation of key aspects of modern production away from Europe and the United States. That has been brought about by changes in what Marx identified as the capitalist enterprise’s incessant drive to expansion.
Source: In retrospect: Das Kapital : Nature : Nature Research
The digital native is a myth
The younger generation uses technology in the same ways as older people — and is no better at multitasking.
Source: The digital native is a myth : Nature News & Comment
Turn Off Your Push Notifications. All of Them.
RIP my mentions.
Source: Turn Off Your Push Notifications. All of Them | WIRED
The Pendulum Swing Of Disruption
When a new technology disrupts a traditional incumbent, it normally does so by being 3 things to the end user:
- Cheaper/free
- Quicker
- More convenient
Napster, YouTube, Amazon, Uber, Netflix, all of these companies have done exactly this. Because they most often build market share and presence using external funding, such companies turn existing economics upside down with loss leading tactics. The result is that audiences switch in their millions and incumbents are left in tatters. Any old business that relies on scarcity economics will be swept away.
Source: The Internet’s Adolescence: The Real World Catches Up Eventually | Music Industry Blog
22-year-old stopped ransomware malware virus
The researcher — who is known as MalwareTech on Twitter — registered a garbled domain name hidden in the malware to track the virus, a move that halted it.
Source: Marcus Hutchins is 22-year-old who stopped ransomware malware virus – Business Insider