Cuando Sonia Vallabh descubrió el error en su ADN, lo abandonó todo para intentar salvar su vida. Después de años investigando y a punto de doctorarse, ha encontrado un tratamiento prometedor que supone un gran avance en los tratamientos genéticos contra enfermedades hereditarias
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Facebook succumbed to the public backlash over its handling of fake news, privacy, and digital wellbeing to miss Wall Street’s estimates in its Q2 2018 earnings, it’s first. GDPR, Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before congress, and more scandals didn’t stop Facebook from reaching 2.23 billion monthly users, up 1.54 percent, much slower than Q1’s 3.14 percent growth rate. Facebook earned $13.23 billion in revenue with $1.74 EPS compared to Thomson Reuters consensus estimates of $13.36 billion and $1.72 EPS.
Daily active users reached 1.47 billion, up 1.44 percent percent compared to Q1’s 3.42 percent. Facebook’s daily and monthly user counts were up 11 percent year-over-year, confirming that the momentum of its business is still overpowering its PR problems when you zoom out. And its DAU to MAU ratio held firm at 66 pecent, indicating that users are still visiting the site often. But the question for today’s earnings call will be whether time spent on the site has decreased significantly.
The stock market frowned heavily on the slow growth rates, pushing Facebook’s share price down over 8 percent in after-hours trading to udner $200 per share. That’s despite it earning $5.106 billion in profit and revenue being up 42 percent year-over-year.
The quarter saw Facebook clamp down on APIs for developers in hopes of preventing another Cambridge Analytica style disaster. Its CEO faced tough days of questioning from congress over the privacy problem, alleged bias against conservatives, and its failure to protect the 2016 presidential election. Facebook tried to redirect attention away from its problems during its F8 conference that saw it announce plans for a dating feature. But all the problems may be taking a toll on user engagement, leading to the revenue miss. Weak daily and monthly user growth should be a big concern, and will put even more pressure on Instagram to prop up the corporation.
Source: TechCrunch
China was the last country holding up the takeover, the biggest ever in the semiconductor industry when it was proposed two years ago.
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Google introduced the Titan Security Key, a physical USB-based device that eliminates the need to enter usernames and passwords. The device includes firmware developed by Google’s engineers that verifies its integrity.
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Which ThinkPad is best? We pitted the ThinkPad T480s business notebook against its thinner and lighter ThinkPad X1 Carbon sibling, to see which of these iconic machines is better deserving of its rather premium pricing.
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The Amazon Echo’s ESP feature makes it so only the Alexa device closest to you responds to your question. Now, new cloud-based software will make it much easier for Alexa gadgets not made by Amazon to follow suit.
Source: CNET
While Facebook seems happy to host fake news conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, YouTube is taking a (very small) stand.
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Commentary: It’s time to let wearables be our password helpers.
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Nirav Tolia, CEO of Nextdoor, is stepping down from his role, Recode reports. For those unfamiliar with the company, Nextdoor is like a social network for your neighborhood. Though, over the years, there has been controversy around Nextdoor’s role in promoting racial profiling. Nextdoor later rolled out a new tool to address some of the issues around racial profiling.
In an email sent to the team today, Tolia said he’s starting to look for his replacement and once that happens, he will move into an active chairman role on the board, according to Recode.
Here’s a nugget from the email, obtained by Recode:
Yet as Nextdoor evolves, the role of the CEO needs to evolve as well. The size of our footprint is growing larger and our organization is growing more complex. The time is right to find the next CEO for Nextdoor. With our board of directors, I will be leading the search to recruit a proven operator who can take our company to the next level. We will take our time to find the right person, so this process will likely take several months. During that period, I will continue to lead as CEO. When the next CEO is selected, I will become Chair of the Board where I will continue doing whatever I can to help us succeed.
Nextdoor raised $75 million at a $1.5 billion valuation last December, followed by an expansion into France in January. I’ve reached out to Nextdoor and Tolia and will update this story if I hear back.
Source: TechCrunch
Plus: Porsche updates the Macan, and Bugatti gives the Chiron a glass roof.
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