The Uber circus has been in full swing lately. The resignation of a high level executive due to lack of disclosure around sexual harrassment, the disturbing picture of an embedded harrassment culture there, to the quite powerful lawsuit that Google’s Waymo is swinging against Uber, to the video of their CEO Travis Kalanick acting like […]
It hasn’t been a good election for Facebook. Some months ago they faced accusations of bias against Conservatives, then got caught spreading fake news after they replaced their human editors with an algorithm. And after the results, were accused of having (possibly unduly) influenced the result by being an easy way to spread fake news and generate […]
Last Friday, it was revealed that Facebook had fired its “Trending Editors” team, who looked after its trending news feed (kinda obvious from the name?), and had only recently been in the news under accusations of bias from the Conservatives in the US. It also comes fairly soon after Facebook rolled out its sections and […]
This is about to be the most overused meme on the Interweb After a big ole investigation, in which the European Union threatened to claim back from Apple their ‘owed’ taxes to the tune of billions, they went ahead and did it. Well, technically Ireland has been charged with recovering the bill as they allowed Apple the […]
On 10 August, Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi from Apple talked to Fast Company in a very interesting interview. I discuss some of the strategic timing of the interview here, but this article is a focus on the Maps part of the discussion, where the two talk about the underestimation, and cost, of doing Maps well. It’s a […]
The Apple bigwigs have been on a bit of an interview tear in the past week, building up the hype in the lead up to the iPhone launch on September 7. The interviews (Tim Cook with the Washington Post, and Eddy Cue/Craig Federighi with Fast Company) have taken an interesting approach, pushing the humanity of their leaders […]
UPDATE. Day 2 and the Census is showing no signs of coming back up. This morning the ABS declared that they’d been hit by four Denial of Service attacks, and after the most serious one decided to take the Census offline. This is not remarkable, but a day later they still have not come back online, […]
There’s a lot being made out of Apple’s decision to use differential privacy in iOS10. WIRED as usual have a solid write up. In Craig Federighi‘s part of the WWDC Keynote address, he mentioned that Apple was shifting to use differential privacy as a means to collect even more data but protect user privacy at the […]
Snapchat is launching an online magazine called Real Life at the end of June. Real Life aims to focus on our lives with technology, rather than focus on the technology with reviews, comparisons and all the usual hallmarks of tech publishing. I will definitely be watching this closely, both personal interest, and as someone who’s […]
No, it wasn’t a PR stunt. But damned if the timing wasn’t perfect to steal away some of Apple’s WWDC thunder. And I had to use the old 90s Microsoft=Borg joke… Enough about Micro$oft! (OH GOD THE 90s JOKES) The LinkedIn deal! US$26.2 billion, at about US$196 per share. This valuation is down from the high in early 2015 […]
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