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“How Android Phones Hide Missed Security Updates From You”

Posted on 18. April 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss

WIRED: The problem, Nohl points out, is worse than vendors merely neglecting to patch older devices, a common phenomenon. Instead, it’s that they tell users they install patches that they in fact don’t, creating a false sense of security. „We … [Continue reading]

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“Zillow, Aggregation, and Integration”

Posted on 17. April 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss

Ben Thompson at Stratechery: it is one thing to sit on top of an existing industry and, well, be a media company/lead generation tool. There have been a whole host of businesses that did exactly that, and while there is plenty of money to be … [Continue reading]

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“Siemens is expanding in the Middle East with a $500 million internet of things investment”

Posted on 17. April 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss

CNBC: German multinational Siemens is expanding its already sizeable Middle East presence by investing in the digital sphere, to the tune of $500 million over the next three years. [...] The company plans to build 20 MindSphere Application … [Continue reading]

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“Lyft’s Strategist Wants Self-Driving Electric Cars to Save the World”

Posted on 17. April 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss

Bloomberg: Raj Kapoor thinks autonomous vehicles will save the Earth. With some caveats. “The big idea is actually making sure that we have all four together: autonomous, electric, shared rides with shared ownership,” explains the chief strategy … [Continue reading]

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“Tumbling Costs for Wind, Solar, Batteries Are Squeezing Fossil Fuels”

Posted on 29. March 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss

Bloomberg: BNEF’s latest report on the levelized costs of electricity, or LCOE, for all the leading technologies finds that fossil fuel power is facing an unprecedented challenge in all three roles it performs in the energy mix – the supply of … [Continue reading]

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“China’s blockchain ambitions are revealed in the sheer number of patent applications”

Posted on 29. March 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss

Echo Huang at Quartz: How hot is blockchain in China? “Even vendor aunties selling vegetables are talking about blockchain” is a saying spreading widely on social media—and it isn’t much of an exaggeration. Chinese companies, if not street … [Continue reading]

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“Media vs. Facebook: This time it’s personal”

Posted on 29. March 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss

Axios: Facebook and Google execs privately complain about the barrage of critical coverage they face, charging that media companies have a financial incentive to attack them and that media execs are settling scores. They're right. [...] Many … [Continue reading]

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Podcast App Breaker, Social Discovery and the Portable Social Graph

Posted on 28. March 2018 Written by Marcel Weiss

Marshall Kirkpatrick: Discovering a great new podcast is a real thrill and a relatively new app called Breaker makes it easy to do. It uses your friend list from Twitter or other social networks to tap you into a stream of podcast listening … [Continue reading]

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“Judging Apple Watch’s Success”

Posted on 25. April 2017 Written by Marcel Weiss

John Gruber at Daring Fireball: But if Apple gets it into its head that they should only work on iPhone-sized opportunities, it would paralyze the company. In baseball terms, it’s fine for Apple to hit a bunch of singles while waiting for their … [Continue reading]

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“The first generation of CDs is already rotting and dying”

Posted on 15. February 2017 Written by Marcel Weiss

Peter Kirn at CDM Create Digital Music: The failure of CDs seems to be more of a case of marketing getting divorced from science. We’re never free of the constraints of the physical world. As an archivist will tell you, we have to simple adapt – … [Continue reading]

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Author: Marcel Weiss is a writer, consultant and fighter for pareto-optima. He is thinking and linking from Berlin, Germany.

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