Clubhouse debuts Backchannel, a DM feature supporting group messages and audio chat, on iOS and Android; the ability to send images or video will be added later
Ashley Carman / The Verge : Tweets: @clubhouse and @sub8u Tweets: @clubhouse : My hat? Tipped My mic? Flashed My messaging? Direct. After we unintentionally leaked their feature 5 times, here's our b...
Clubhouse debuts Backchannel, a DM feature supporting group messages and audio chat, on iOS and Android; the ability to send images or video will be added later
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Signal says it has added support for privacy-focused cryptocurrency MobileCoin to let users send and receive money, starting in the UK on iOS and Android
Testing your first payment — Sending your first payment Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security : Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support Stephen Diehl : Et tu, Signal? Liam Tung / ZDNet : Signal messaging...
Wikipedia to protect its main 2020 election page with expanded measures, like stopping new editors from making edits, that it has used to stop COVID-19 misinfo
The encyclopedia is determined to emerge from the insanity of a pandemic and a polarizing election with its information and reputation intact. Tweets: @krmaher , @raju , @backchnnl , @mr_dudders , @ar...
The software industry makes amazing software tools for itself, while doctors, academics, and scientists are stuck using bad software
The software industry makes amazing tools for itself, while doctors and scientists are stuck with old code. Tech needs to quit hacking and start listening. Tweets: @terronk , @nxthompson , and @backc...
How low-code database services like Airtable, a category often sneered at by professional programmers, let non-programmers create community databases
When people build a database to manage reading lists or feed their neighbors, that's coding—and culture. — It's a normal afternoon in July. Tweets: @backchnnl , @wired , and @rozzie Tweets: Backchan...
Andrew Yang's Data Dividend Project would force social media companies to compensate users, but the plan underestimates difficulty of valuing data
Will Rinehart / Wired : Tweets: @willrinehart , @jrhuddles , @adalovelaceinst , @backchnnl , @jason_kint , and @bill_tribble Tweets: Will Rinehart / @willrinehart : This morning I have an op-ed in @W...
The pandemic presents the biggest language translation challenge for COVID-19 info, as Wikipedia supports 309 languages, Google Translate 109, and Bing 71
Services like Google Translate only support 100 languages, give or take. What about the thousands of other languages—spoken by people just as vulnerable to this crisis? Tweets: @appenglobal , @backch...
Tim O'Reilly talks about his new book, WTF: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us, and how tech is a positive force despite current issues
Steven Levy / Wired : Tweets: @backchnnl and @wired Tweets: Backchannel / @backchnnl : Tim O'Reilly thinks Jeff Bezos might actually make a decent president. http://www.wired.com/... @wired : “Financ...
Magic Leap quietly settles sex discrimination lawsuit; sources say the company is raising a new financing round, led by Alibaba again, at $6B to $8B valuation
Despite its critics, the secretive startup is raising more cash in its quest to be the Apple of augmented reality. — Hi Backchannel readers.