High-energy particle physicists figured out video conferencing a long time ago

  Reddit   ·   3 days ago

The UN is partnering with China’s biggest surveillance software company

  Reddit   ·   6 days ago

The internet should be a public utility

  Hacker News   ·   2 weeks ago

Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too

  Hacker News   ·   2 weeks ago

The Chinese-made, sub-$100 smartphone is Africa’s fastest-growing handset

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

Uber is suspending shared Pool rides in North America to slow the spread of coronavirus

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

Inside TikTok's strategy to get a foothold in Africa: signing up Instagram and YouTube creators, hiring staff in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa, and more

  Techmeme   ·   4 weeks ago

A look at the rise of unofficial "WhatsApp mods", like GB WhatsApp, one of the most used messaging apps across Africa with extra features like multiple accounts

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Psychedelic therapy and sexual abuse

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

  Hacker News   ·   1 month ago

South Africa-based Jumo, which partners with financial service providers and telecoms to offer lending, savings, and insurance services, raises $55M

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Uber Eats head Jason Droege steps down and is replaced by VP Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty as the company exits some markets amid growing competition

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Judge rules that DoorDash must arbitrate 5,000+ workers' labor disputes, which may cost the company millions, denying its attempt to move to a class action suit

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

Frustration grows in China as face masks compromise facial recognition

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

India’s plans for data centre parks may finally force Facebook and Twitter to localise

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

How YouTube shields advertisers (not viewers) from harmful videos

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

How the Navy SEALs wound up buying 450 counterfeit radio antennas

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

The US’s top 15 emerging jobs of 2020, according to LinkedIn

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

How the McDonnell Douglas-Boeing Merger Led to the 737 Max Crisis

  Hacker News   ·   3 months ago

Rudy Giuliani’s security company gets an “F” for website security

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

New regulations that require buyers of SIM cards to have their faces scanned, in addition to providing an official ID, came in to force in China on December 1

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Copia, an e-commerce and logistics startup for unbanked customers operating in central Kenya, raises $26M Series B led by UK's LGT Lightstone

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Mobile access alone won’t solve the digital divide—we’re going to need fixed-line after all

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

From dial-up to 5G: logging on to the internet

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”?

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

Google guesses what your political leanings are—but it’s a secret

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

Why millennials never want to leave their apartment anymore

  Pinboard   ·   5 months ago

Two of America's biggest coal plants closed this month

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

Profile of Mixhalo, a live-music app being offered by bands like Aerosmith as a VIP experience, to let fans hear the music at live shows as the band intended

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

Google Stadia highlights what’s wrong with broadband caps

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

With no laws to stop them, defense firms are on track to make killer robots a reality

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

Berliners troll Trump, sending him a 2.7-ton piece of Berlin Wall — Quartz

  Pinboard   ·   5 months ago

Homeland Security will soon have biometric data on nearly 260 million people.

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

Technology is changing the face of global protests

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

Q&A with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on internal resistance to winning the JEDI contract, bias in AI, shifting culture in a huge company, working with rivals

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

WeTransfer wants you to conquer your fear of drawing

  Designer News   ·   5 months ago

Younger Americans are willing to pay twice as much as their parents for clean energy

  Reddit   ·   5 months ago

Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

Spotify says 14% of MAUs listen to podcasts, podcast hours streamed grew 39% QoQ, and podcast engagement is driving increases in free to paid conversion

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

Estonia is running its country like a tech company

  Hacker News   ·   6 months ago

California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am

  Hacker News   ·   6 months ago

By Quitting Social Media You Could Read 200 Books a Year

  Hacker News   ·   6 months ago

There’s already a blueprint for a more accessible internet.

  Designer News   ·   6 months ago

Automatic license plate readers are making getaway cars extinct

  Reddit   ·   6 months ago

Net neutrality is alive and well after this week’s crushing court defeat

  Reddit   ·   6 months ago

Storing energy in compressed air could finally become cheap enough for the big time.

  Reddit   ·   7 months ago

IKEA is investing $2.8 billion in renewable energy infrastructure. "Weaning off fossil fuels isn’t just about a social good initiative, We have to do this because we’re here for the long term."

  Reddit   ·   7 months ago

How Neil Young's reluctance to embrace streaming doomed his company PonoMusic, even as the company helped the industry to adapt high-resolution music

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago