dan_rowinski · TEXXR

“You do wonder if he's thought this through,” says Stephen Diamond, an associate professor of law at Santa Clara University. Going out on a wild limb here but . . . no? https://twitter.com/...

2022-04-15 View on X

Bloomberg

Filing: Elon Musk delivers a non-binding proposal to take Twitter private by acquiring all outstanding stock for $54.20 per share, in a cash deal worth ~$43B

not “cancel culture” — are ruining discourse Eugene Robinson / Washington Post : If Elon Musk wants Twitter, he's welcome to it Financial Times : How Elon Musk could fund his $43bn...

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“You do wonder if he's thought this through,” says Stephen Diamond, an associate professor of law at Santa Clara University. Going out on a wild limb here but . . . no? https://twitter.com/...

2022-04-15 View on X

The Information

Source says Twitter's board of directors views Elon Musk's takeover offer as unwelcome, suggesting the company will fight the bid

Amir Efrati / The Information :

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Won't it just grow two more heads? https://twitter.com/...

2022-04-05 View on X

CoinDesk

German police shut down darknet market Hydra Market, which had €1.23B in 2020 revenue, and seize 543 bitcoins

The Hydra Market's bitcoin privacy mixer complicated the investigation, police said. — German authorities seized $25 million in bitcoin (BTC) as they shut down Hydra Market …

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This was inevitable. As an audiobook lover, not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, Audible is owned by Amazon and getting book money away from Amazon is good for authors. On the other hand, Spotify is not known for paying its creators all that well. https://twitter.com/...

2021-05-21 View on X

TechCrunch

Spotify partners with Audible rival Storytel, allowing the latter's subscribers to listen to books on Spotify; Storytel has 500K titles and 1.6M subscribers

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This is a highly relevant question. Historically, adoption of robotics has been correlated with the availability of prime aged (20 - 55) blue collar workers. The more workers, the less robots. Social distancing temporarily changes that equation. https://twitter.com/...

2020-04-27 View on X

Wired

How manufacturers and e-commerce companies may invest in robots to help them adapt to social distancing, regular cleaning, and a possible worker shortage

Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @anand1agarwal , @dan_rowinski , @billschrier , @darkjournalist , and @wired Tweets: Anand Agarwal / @anand1agarwal : Rethinking. Reframing. Re-evalu...

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I was thick in the middle of covering the smartphone wars, which lasted from about 2009 - 2014 and became the impetus for driving many now-massive areas of the tech ecosystem. https://twitter.com/...

2019-12-12 View on X

The Verge

A rundown of the 100 gadgets that defined the 2010s, shaped first by the smartphone wars before branching off into new categories

it is still the basic form iPads are still in today Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg : The original iPad is way too low. Elizabeth Lopatto / @mslopatto : please enjoy my write up of a...

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Quantum supremacy? It's one of those things you want to believe, but my biggest thought is “we'll see.” Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing https://nyti.ms/2p5B00T

2019-10-23 View on X

New York Times

Google claims “quantum supremacy” breakthrough: its quantum computer performed a mathematical calculation at a speed inconceivable with today's technology

SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Wednesday that it had achieved a long-sought breakthrough called “quantum supremacy,” …

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