In April 2004, a couple of Harvard undergraduate roommates took a walk in the pouring rain around the university campus. They were two of the three co-founders of an internet company that had launched a couple of months earlier — a social network start-up that we now know as Facebook. One of the young men, a history student called Chris Hughes, was making his case to the other, a… Read More
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The educational backgrounds of VC investment professionals are in some ways surprisingly diverse, even if the population of investors generally isn’t. Still, there are some definite trends to suss out at all levels of the educational continuum, and that’s what we’re going to do today. Read More
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Apple has filed a patent that was made public this weekend for a keyboard that is resistant to crumbs, dust, and dirt. Really, it’s shocking that it’s taken so long for such a patent to emerge.
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Source: Digital trends
The Midwest is back! At least, that’s the conclusion from a group of venture capitalists who went on a multi-day bus tour through the region recently. As Kevin Roose wrote in the New York Times this week, “The trip, which took place on a luxury bus outfitted with a supply of vegan doughnuts and coal-infused kombucha, was known as the ‘Comeback Cities Tour.’”… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The climate of Barcelona, political and weather-wise, stood out at a tech show that failed to impress beyond the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S9.
Source: CNET
This week on CTRL+T, we talk MoviePass’s tracking drama and the way the local world works – media-style. We’re joined in the studio by Eric Eldon, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Hoodline (and former co-editor of TechCrunch and therefor my former boss). Hoodline is a local news site that covers hoods in San Francisco and Oakland “near you.” As in down the… Read More
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The only way you *didn’t* see former Trump aide Sam Nunberg last week was if you didn’t turn on a TV or look at the internet.
Source: Wired
Opinion: When ISIS uses Twitter to recruit or a landlord uses Airbnb to discriminate, that’s not exploiting the platforms’ glitches—that’s using their features.
Source: Wired
Jonk’s photographs in *Naturalia: Reclaimed by Nature* were taken in over 30 countries across four continents.
Source: Wired
Could external GPUs finally kill the desktop?
Source: CNET