May 6th 2020
Intelligent Machines 558
And the Bridge You Rode in On
Pixel Buds Problem, PewDiePie's YouTube Deal
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Pixel Buds Problem, Pew Die Pie's YouTube Deal
- New Pixel Buds have a major problem
- Elon Musk and Grimes' baby X AE A-12
- Governor Cuomo appoints Eric Schmitt to COVID panel
- Does technology help education? What lessons are we learning from distance learning?
- Apple/Google contact tracing API sample code
- Bruce Schneier: contact tracing apps have absolutely no value
- PewDiePie gets an exclusive YouTube deal
- Some Good News, YouTube, and Facebook hold online graduation ceremonies
- Facebook announces 20 members of its oversight board
- Serena and Venus Williams' Mario Tennis match
- Tim Bray quits Amazon in dismay
- .org sale called off
- Tik Tok is a hard place to make money
- Wink moves to a subscription model
- New Sonos speakers
- New York shuts down the subway for the first time ever
- Twitter will warn you before you send a vulgar tweet
- Tom Cruise and NASA will make a movie in space
Picks of the Week
- Leo's Tool: Jukebox
- Stacey's Thing: Level Lock
- Jeff's Numbers: Zoom is worth more than all US Airlines
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Links
- PewDiePie Signs Exclusive YouTube Live-Streaming Deal – Variety
- Following Facebook, YouTube says it will host an online graduation event
- Related: John Krasinski, Oprah and Steven Spielberg surprise graduates with sage advice
- Facebook announces first members of Oversight Board
- Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka will play in a celebrity Mario Tennis tournament on Facebook
- Amazon VP quits over whistleblower firings in scathing blog post
- ongoing by Tim Bray · Bye, Amazon
- Grimes & Elon Musk named their new baby X Æ A-12, gave it a face-tat filter
- Tom Cruise and Elon Musk's SpaceX are making a movie in space, report says - CNET
- Apple and Google release sample code, UI and detailed policies for COVID-19 exposure-notification apps | TechCrunch
- Cuomo appoints Eric Schmidt to head a blue-ribbon commission to rethink technology use in NY
- Twitter warns us before sending "vulgar" tweets
- ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR) - ICANN
- Automatic Labs shuts down its vehicle-tracking service, citing the COVID-19 pandemic - The Verge
- TikTok stars, many of them young and holding down other jobs, are struggling to make money, despite millions of views, due to a
- Damned wobbly bridge
- Related: Galloping Gertie (right by Stacey!)
- For the first time in its history, New York City deliberately shut down its entire subway system this morning
- Jukebox
- Level Lock
- Zoom is worth more than all US Airlines