2026-01-14
This will be the coolest piece of tech if @moxie pulls it off. For those who dont know, Whatsapp's privacy also comes from Moxie - libsignal licensed by Whatsapp runs on the double ratchet algorithm
Ars Technica
A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats
Moxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger …
2025-09-26
Humanity's last use case is to generate training data. “the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms” https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Call-recording app Neon, which became the #2 social app on the US App Store, goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts
A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies …
2022-12-14
This is huge. Apple is allowing sideload of alternative app stores on iPhones. This is incredible and allows for new browsers on the iOS store. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party app stores on iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 in the EU, due to EU requirements in 2024, including letting users change defaults
Apple Inc. is preparing to allow alternative app stores on its iPhones and iPads, part of a sweeping overhaul aimed at complying …
2022-10-21
The Google fine is a by-product of a simple thing: Payments. Google Pay is pre-installed on Android. The regulator is paranoid about the “Big Tech takeover of banking”. Anyone wanna debate that the RBI note was not a position statement ? https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
India fines Google $161.9M for requiring Android device makers to pre-install its entire Google Mobile Suite and mandating the prominent placement of those apps
2022-09-08
Apple Watch Ultra is EN13319 dive computer certified ? People dont know that the stupid dive computer industry is worth 5 billion USD. A far shittier Suunto D5 is 1200 USD. Apple just fucked them big time. And very likely my very first Apple Device 🏳️🏳️
The Verge
Apple debuts the Watch Ultra, for athletes, with a 49mm titanium case, improved multiband GPS, “action button”, second speaker, and 36-60-hour battery, for $799
Victoria Song / The Verge :
Apple is using the Bühlmann decompression algorithm ZHL-16 which is used by Garmin & Scubapro. Pretty good. Very conservative. But understandable why. https://www.apple.com/...
The Verge
Apple debuts the Watch Ultra, for athletes, with a 49mm titanium case, improved multiband GPS, “action button”, second speaker, and 36-60-hour battery, for $799
Victoria Song / The Verge :
2021-09-13
“emails, calendars, IMs, calls of 61,182 US Microsoft employees over first 6 months of 2020 to estimate causal effects of firm-wide remote work. Our results show remote work caused the collaboration network of workers to become more static and siloed” https://www.nature.com/...
GeekWire
Study of 61,000 Microsoft employees shows the shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration, threatening productivity and long-term innovation
2021-04-07
Very cool. Google opensources Lyra - it's like GPT3 meets Clubhouse. AI driven low bandwidth voice codec. Just right for India. P.S. looks like the training data is not opensource. Algorithms are ...well...useless. https://opensource.googleblog.com/ ...
VentureBeat
Google open sources Lyra in beta, an audio codec that uses ML to create high-quality voice calls for low-bandwidth networks or archiving large amounts of speech
2020-11-19
Holy crap. @TensorFlow 2.4 supports “ML Compute” on Apple M1. This means using GPU for acceleration. Like Nvidia's CUDA monopoly. Apple couldn't get this for their Intel CPU ? It somehow points the blame at Intel as the villian all along. https://machinelearning.apple.com/ ...
VentureBeat
Apple debuts a forked version of TensorFlow optimized for macOS, says it trains up to 7x faster on 13" MacBook Pro with M1 than 2020 Macbook Pro 13" with Intel
Join GitHub today — GitHub is home to over 50 million … Mayank Sharma / TechRadar : Apple M1 Macs will make training AI much faster Ewdison Then / SlashGear : Google TensorFlow M...
2020-07-16
AWS just made it dead simple to create the next edtech, Tiktok,etc platform. This is very cool. And just as I predicted, they still aren't able to do camera-as-an-sdk . Huge billion dollar opportunity for someone. P.S. mmhmm app is halfway to it https://aws.amazon.com/...
TechCrunch
Amazon launches a new livestreaming option for influencers on its Amazon Live service, a home shopping network-style video feed on Amazon's retail site
Amazon is giving live streamers a new way to earn commissions on purchases of products showcased in their streams.
2019-10-14
Boys and girls...come to India. We only have Angel Tax. Atleast the govt doesn't do due diligence on us. https://www.sfexaminer.com/...
KQED
SF proposes an Office of Emerging Technology to evaluate, issue permits for new devices and services that operate on the city's streets and other infrastructure
San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Norman Yee unveiled this week a proposal to create an Office of Emerging Technology …