Trending Stories from qz.com
Berliners troll Trump, sending him a 2.7-ton piece of Berlin Wall — Quartz
Homeland Security will soon have biometric data on nearly 260 million people.
Technology is changing the face of global protests
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
WeTransfer wants you to conquer your fear of drawing
Younger Americans are willing to pay twice as much as their parents for clean energy
Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet wonderland
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
Estonia is running its country like a tech company
California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
By Quitting Social Media You Could Read 200 Books a Year
There’s already a blueprint for a more accessible internet.
Automatic license plate readers are making getaway cars extinct
Net neutrality is alive and well after this week’s crushing court defeat
Storing energy in compressed air could finally become cheap enough for the big time.
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."
How Neil Young's reluctance to embrace streaming doomed his company PonoMusic, even as the company helped the industry to adapt high-resolution music
Google Wing Launching US Drone Deliveries with FedEx, Walgreens
Economists don’t understand much about the macroeconomy
China is trying to steal military space tech. The US is running stings to stop it.
Electric cars are finally taking a bite out of combustion engine sales
“Father of the internet” Vint Cerf says we need to be less naive if we’re going to fix it
The language you speak changes how informative you can be
Whatever happened to Six Sigma?
Real-Time maps warn Hong Kong protesters of water cannons and riot police
A look at the growing interest in Twitter among the protesters in Hong Kong and the struggles new users face getting on to the platform
A new kind of cybercrime uses AI and your voice against you
The number of new patents fighting climate change is plunging.
The world’s largest retailer is reaching out to India’s small farmers with new technology
Q&A with Debjani Ghosh, the first woman president of Indian IT industry body Nasscom, on the gender gap and why India is not worried about changes to H-1B visas
What happens to your iTunes account when Apple says you've committed fraud — Quartz
Doc Martens’s vegan boot business is thriving
The White House is reportedly moving to regulate “anti-conservative” social media
Scientists are using the cold of outer space to rethink air conditioning
Apple's Wearables, Home, and Accessories business generated $5.525B in Q3 revenue, up nearly 50% YoY
Facebook is facing two antitrust probes
Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk–they come from families with money
A look at "pedophile hunting" vigilante Facebook groups, which stage real-life sting operations, some that are live streamed, to catch suspected child abusers
Long Island Iced Tea Corp's pivot to blockchain in 2017 is being investigated by the FBI for insider trading and securities fraud, according to search warrants
The US has a lot in common with China’s surveillance state — Quartz
Ventilen, a Danish organization to address loneliness in young people
Two alleged dark web drug dealers sold almost $9 million worth of fake Adderall online, only to see their illicit empire fall apart by buying postage on Stamps.com.
Second Measure: DoorDash overtook Grubhub in both US monthly sales and market share in May; in Q1 2019, Grubhub reported $1.5B in gross food sales, up 21% YoY
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: the number of self-reported full-time taxi drivers, including drivers for Uber and Lyft, nearly tripled in the past ten years
Study finds Facebook status updates can possibly be used to predict users with certain diseases, especially diabetes and mental health conditions
How non-profit Thorn uses Amazon Rekognition's DetectText, which extracts text from images, and IndexFaces, which detects faces, to fight child sex trafficking
Techmeme · 5 months ago