VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems
mission comes second, profit comes first. And that comes at a cost: vaccines delayed, loved ones lost. https://twitter.com/... Lawrence Mower / @lmower3 : Unreliable registration, problems that lock s...
Current and former employees provide an inside look at Airbnb amid layoffs, as its warm and fuzzy office culture met with the business realities of a pandemic
Erin Griffith / New York Times : Tweets: @dpteran , @twadhwa , @nbashaw , @briangaar , @mdudas , @nytimes , @alex_peys , @eringriffith , @karaswisher , @roseveleth , and @chrisalbon Tweets: Dan Teran...
Current and former employees provide an inside look at Airbnb amid layoffs, as its warm and fuzzy office culture met with the business realities of a pandemic
What happens when a kumbaya office culture meets the business realities of a pandemic? — SAN FRANCISCO — On May 5 … Tweets: @eringriffith , @karaswisher , @roseveleth , @nytimes , @chrisalbon , @ale...
Unacast, an analytics company using location data from a variety of apps, debuts a Social Distancing Scoreboard to grade how US citizens are adapting by region
or not. Data from tens of millions of smartphones grades counties & states by how much people are staying put. Washington, DC gets an A Wyoming gets an F See your county https://www.washingtonpost.com...
A look at the weird and wacky patents filed by tech companies, some seemingly unrelated to the industry, and the reasons behind filing for them
and far more effective ways to encourage and protect innovation. https://slate.com/... @stanfordlaw : Tech companies are competing to amass as many patents as possible, but could this arms race be mis...
As podcast service Blubrry says there are now over 700,000 podcasts, with 2,000 to 3,000 launching every month, a look at whether we have reached “peak podcast”
that had no thought put into its content and was recorded on an iPhone—failed, therefore the whole medium is on the decline.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Ric Sanchez / @ricsanchez : “People assume tha...
Psychological research suggests the effectiveness of VR as an empathy machine is debatable and in some cases may even cause harm
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How and why devices like Echo and Home record your voice, what they do with the data, and how to scrub those recordings
Tim Moynihan / Wired : Tweets: @roseveleth Tweets: Rose Eveleth / @roseveleth : This feels like an important thing to know. https://www.wired.com/... pic.twitter.com/nAsDAyC5Ln
How and why devices like Echo and Home record your voice, what they do with the data, and how to scrub those recordings
If you got an Amazon Echo or Google Home voice assistant, welcome to a life of luxurious convenience. You'll be asking for the weather, the news … Tweets: @roseveleth Tweets: Rose Eveleth / @rosevele...