69319347
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"I talked to a hospital that's delivering restraining orders to victims of domestic abuse via teleconferencing, helping to protect them in their most vulnerable time. It's not even a drop in the ocean, but it's a really cool story about how technology can be used to help people — and how the legal system still needs to catch up with technological progress."Link to Original Source
69077653
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation has identified online harassment as a major challenge facing free speech on the Internet, and lays out its plan to fix it."Link to Original Source
67473015
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"Silicon Valley says that we need more H-1B visas because there aren't enough developers and software engineers in the United States. But there's an increasing body of evidence to suggest that the real issue is that Silicon Valley companies aren't hiring the many, many talented people here in the US."Link to Original Source
66759759
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"In the wake of Uber's latest scandal, where an executive commented that he'd like to doxx journalists who investigate the startup, we have to ask ourselves: Is Silicon Valley really building the future we want?"Link to Original Source
66751529
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"Microsoft's Developer Evangelist has his work cut out for him as he tries to prove to startups, students, and independent developers that the Microsoft platform is better for them than the competition's."Link to Original Source
66751295
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"For the massively popular note-taking platform Evernote, recent changes reflect an almost religious crusade to rid the world of skeuomorphism and change the world by bringing people together under a new way of working.
In other words, we need to stop pretending paper is a thing. It's not a thing."Link to Original Source
66588617
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"Ello, Wiper, Anonabox — individually, they're not making huge, lasting impacts. But they're proving that there's a market for technology that makes privacy and user control, not novelty and fake ephemerality, at the core."Link to Original Source
65052763
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"Oracle has new cloud platform and infrastructure offerings! Cool, except all of this really just brings them onto par with the competition circa 2012. That's a huge problem for a company trying to brand itself as a market leader."Link to Original Source
64639883
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mattydread23 (2793761) writes
"Windows On Devices, Microsoft’s Internet Of Things platform, is here. What’s it like to build on top of the new embedded Windows?"Link to Original Source
64533499
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"I talked to Matrix, an open source initiative that's trying to build a new, open, federated standard for chat, voice, and video that enables rich applications to be built but that still allow users of different clients to talk to each other. It's only two weeks old, but Matrix has a lot of potential."Link to Original Source
64409609
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"If the Internet and app market changes everything, why is so much "collaboration" technologies just variations on email and IRC? I had some thoughts from this week's TechCrunch Disrupt."Link to Original Source
64369951
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rfran (3776963) writes
"Microsoft's product shows how far voice recognition has come. An example is a phrase "how to recognize speech" and you could easily get a match to "how to wreck a nice beach," because the sounds are very similar. Microsoft's voice service can get the right term on the first try,"Link to Original Source
64290493
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"I got to talk to a nonprofit that built a cloud based on Salesforce with a UX that lets anyone with any level of sightedness — from visually impaired to fully blind — get to work in any part of the business. It's kind of a cool story about the importance of accessibility in tech, check it out."Link to Original Source
64094437
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"Just like it says in the title: Google has announced that it's changed the umbrella heading of all of its enterprise tools (Google Apps, the Google Cloud Platform, the Google Search Appliance) to Google at Work, saying they move too fast to be considered "enterprise" in the traditional sense."Link to Original Source
63965733
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Gamoid (656769) writes
"I used a Windows Phone for a week. The operating system itself is great, but if you like apps (and I do) it's kind of a total wasteland. Here are my thoughts."Link to Original Source
