Startups have begun selling and renting out AR spaces tied to real-world addresses, raising questions about who should have the rights to a property's AR layer
It's the stuff of nightmares: The other day, I found my property occupied by a stranger, who was renting it out, Airbnb style. Tweets: @ldrogen , @pierce , @amywebb , @jank0 , @dlberes , @timgrieve , ...
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @jcstearns , @justinh...
An oral history of #hugops and the growing community of operations engineers who offer support for their peers before and during major cloud service outages
Tom Krazit / Protocol : Tweets: @protocol , @lisaphillips , @ejgreenberg , @timgrieve , @fastly , @tomkrazit , @rseroter , and @protocol Tweets: @protocol : The people who keep the internet alive for...
Bose is shutting down its AR program, saying its technology couldn't be commercialized as planned, with current AR apps ceasing to function within 30 days
& still do. I suspect that one day this type of platform will go gangbusters. Maybe that'll be at Bose, maybe somewhere else. https://twitter.com/... Tim Grieve / @timgrieve : And now @bose pulls the ...
John Borthwick, one of Giphy's early investors and board members, describes how the Facebook deal came about and says talks began in late March
@ow https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... @vivekxk : 1/5 Seems like the Giphy deal is strategically great for FB and probably gave Giphy the lifeline it needed. FB gets valuable intel...
As COVID-19 confines people to their homes and prohibits gatherings, US political races are moving online, causing anxiety for some campaigns
Issie Lapowsky / Protocol : Tweets: @issielapowsky and @timgrieve Tweets: Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : “We're canceling our paid canvassing plans. We're not going door to door. We need alternati...
How one researcher is using Facebook's anonymized data sets and new colocation maps to identify social distancing habits
Facebook's mapping tools are helping researchers in California track whether people are following social distancing orders. — As the COVID-19 outbreak continued … Tweets: @emilydreyfuss , @issielapo...
Anonymous Twitter account @VCBrags hits a nerve mocking VC's propensity for self-promotion by quote-retweeting boastful tweets
Investors either are loving or blocking @VCBrags, which retweets investors' best brags. — A parody Twitter account is getting under the skin … Tweets: @andrew__reed , @dhaliwas , @vcbrags , @vcbrags...