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What is Signal, and why is everybody downloading it right now? The encrypted messaging app is currently the most downloaded app on both app stores.
eMarketer: US e-commerce sales, up 12%-16% in recent years, will have grown by 30%+ in 2020 and Amazon's US retail business grew an estimated 39% YoY in 2020
SoulCycle changed fitness. Its culture and toxic work environment made growth impossible. – Vox
Privacy laws in the US had momentum at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has focused Congress elsewhere and forced everyone to give up more data online
2020: The year in charts, from Covid-19 to the election – Vox
Russia reportedly hacked the US Treasury and other federal government agencies
Alloy, a Reid Hoffman-backed political data startup for Democrats, imploded after four senior employees, who had all complained about a colleague, were fired
San Francisco moves toward condemning the naming of the Zuckerberg hospital
The controversy behind a star Google AI researcher’s departure
AI has cracked a problem that stumped biologists for 50 years. It’s a huge deal.
Biden transition: How he could act fast and outrun Republican opposition to his presidency – Vox
Obama: The internet is “the single biggest threat to our democracy” | President Obama loved the internet. Now he has second thoughts.
Social media is making a bad political situation worse | America’s polarization problem is bigger than we thought it would be.
One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong
Is social media ready for a Covid-19 vaccine? – Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are bracing for more misinformation.
Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus
Donald Trump is attempting a coup in plain sight – Vox
Trump’s performance with Hispanic voters in 2020 should prompt some progressive rethinking – Vox
California's Proposition 24 is set to expand and strengthen CA's recent privacy law, the CCPA, and create a Privacy Protection Agency to help enforce the rules
5 fact-checks from the Senate’s hearing on social media
The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is stunning
Deep geothermal energy is poised for a big breakout
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are pushing for a reform to CA tax law that would use property taxes to fund education, spending almost $11M on the effort
Facebook and Twitter said they would crack down on QAnon, but the delusion seems unstoppable – Can anyone stop QAnon?
Trump wants to end Obamacare. He has no plan to ensure preexisting conditions are covered. – Vox
How to spot fake news on Facebook and Twitter before the 2020 election
Almost 2,000 US election offices have applied for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's $250M gift for election infrastructure; grants ranged from $5,000 to $15M
Leaked memo from February reveals Amazon's plans to invest in software to analyze data on unions, alongside non-union "threats" like crime and weather
Techmeme · 4 months ago
Leaked Amazon internal memo reveals new software to track unions
Reddit · 4 months ago
Google and Facebook hate a proposed privacy law. News publishers should embrace it.
An inside look at the world of TikTok "collab houses" in Los Angeles, amid allegations of exploitative talent managers withholding money from influencers
Sources: Democratic Party leaders say Facebook has failed to stem the tide of misinformation on its platform, despite monthly conversations with the company
Elon Musk and SpaceX launch Starlink satellite broadband amid pandemic
Reddit · 4 months ago
While livestreaming video e-commerce has taken off in China, it has yet to go mainstream in the US, but Walmart hopes it can lead the way with its bet on TikTok
Techmeme · 4 months ago
We have to accelerate clean energy innovation to curb the climate crisis. Here’s how.
Getting broadband internet to everyone in the US is a political and policy issue, which will need a multi-layered effort at the local, state, and federal level
Give everybody the internet – We need to get the internet to everyone in America. Here’s what it would take to do it.
Lower-income students are paying the price for the global laptop shortage
Apple wants to stop advertisers from following you around the web. Facebook has other ideas.
A look at Remark Holdings, supplying 100+ Chinese schools, and a Las Vegas school, with AI-powered thermal imaging tech to monitor COVID-19 safety compliance
Air pollution is worse than we thought
Instagram has been taken over by "social justice slideshows" that use the 10-image carousel format to inform and educate about myriad issues
Techmeme · 5 months ago
Biden's VP pick Kamala Harris, who has close ties with tech execs and has dodged questions about breaking up Big Tech, is likely to generate excitement in SV
Bill Gates Is Spending $150 Million To Try To Make A Coronavirus Vaccine As Cheap As $3
Facebook took down a Trump post for the first time
TikTok says it will reveal its algorithm and wants Facebook to do the same
Reddit · 6 months ago
Big Tech's antitrust hearing is largely theater, producing soundbites with little bearing on rule-changing and law-making, but it's still a valuable spectacle
Techmeme · 6 months ago