Thursday 28 February 2019

Amazon’s Project Zero will let brands remove counterfeit listings of their products

Amazon’s Project Zero will let brands remove counterfeit listings of their products

Amazon wants to cut down on fake listings.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18244603/amazon-project-zero-counterfeit-listing-remove-products?source=Snapzu

Historian Argues Ronald Reagan's 1981 Tax Cut Led To Trumpism

Historian Argues Ronald Reagan's 1981 Tax Cut Led To Trumpism

Is it possible that the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, followed by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the legacy of Ronald Reagan is where it all went wrong? That is the case that John Komlos makes in his paper recently released onto SSRN - Reaganomics: A Historical Watershed. It wasn't morning again.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2019/02/26/historian-argues-ronald-reagans-1981-tax-cut-led-to-trumpism/#45a8dfd01b19?source=Snapzu

Why Startups Fail and How to Avoid It

Why Startups Fail and How to Avoid It

Founding a startup in the modern world is becoming increasingly difficult. Between fierce competition for venture capital, market share and new challenges presented by an ever-changing business environment, entrepreneurs are regularly stepping headfirst into unclear waters when they decide to create their startup and naturally quite a lot of them fail. In this post, we will be exploring some of the reasons why.
Read more: https://startupstash.com/why-startups-fail/?source=Snapzu

Hackers Made $300k in Bitcoin to Keep Dirty Online Secrets

Hackers Made $300k in Bitcoin to Keep Dirty Online Secrets

A new type of scam has emerged in which fraudsters attempt to solicit a Bitcoin ransom from victims by claiming to have incriminating videos.Security experts warn about ‘Sextortion,’ a new form of crypto scam that was first reported in 2017 and gained popularity in 2018. Last week, a UK-based cybersecurity company Digital Shadows published research investigating this new phenomenon. The experts of digital risk protection detailed how cybercriminals have diversified their blackmailing methods.
Read more: https://beincrypto.com/hackers-want-bitcoin-to-keep-your-dirty-online-secrets/?source=Snapzu

Former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Says the Internet Needs Regulation

Former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Says the Internet Needs Regulation

Big telecom networks and platforms such as Google and Facebook are centralizing the internet, former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler says.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/former-fcc-chair-tom-wheeler-says-internet-needs-regulation/?source=Snapzu

Tobacco plants transformed into ‘green bioreactors’ to benefit human health

Tobacco plants transformed into ‘green bioreactors’ to benefit human health

Researchers at Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute are using tobacco plants as ‘green bioreactors’ to produce an anti-inflammatory protein with powerful therapeutic potential. The plants are being used to produce large quantities of a human protein called Interleukin 37, or IL-37. The protein is naturally produced in the human kidney in very small quantities and has powerful anti-inflammatory and immune-suppressing properties, providing potential for treating a number of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders like type 2 diabetes, stroke, dementia and arthritis.
Read more: https://mediarelations.uwo.ca/2019/02/26/tobacco-plants-transformed-green-bioreactors-benefit-human-health/?source=Snapzu

Canadian Dairy Farmers Forced To Remove Lying Adverts Claiming Milk Contains No Growth Hormones

Canadian Dairy Farmers Forced To Remove Lying Adverts Claiming Milk Contains No Growth Hormones

Canadian dairy farmers have been forced to pull adverts which falsely claimed there are no growth hormones in their milk. The adverts, which had been running nationwide, prompted complaints to Advertising Standards Canada - the advertising industry's self-regulating body. According to the Plant Food Council, all dairy naturally contains growth factor 1 (IGF-1), which is intended to promote rapid growth in calves, as well as large amounts of estrogens and progesterone as cows on large farms are milked throughout pregnancies.
Read more: https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/canadian-dairy-farmers-remove-lying-adverts-milk-no-growth-hormones?source=Snapzu

Wednesday 27 February 2019

Facebook’s Patreon competitor is a bad deal for creators

Facebook’s Patreon competitor is a bad deal for creators

We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audience is coming from. To find out more or to opt-out, please read our Cookie Policy. In addition, please read our Privacy Policy, which has also been updated and became effective May 23rd, 2018.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/2/26/18241756/facebook-fan-subscriptions-patreon-pages?source=Snapzu

Studies Keep Showing That the Best Way to Stop Piracy Is to Offer Cheaper, Better Alternatives

Studies Keep Showing That the Best Way to Stop Piracy Is to Offer Cheaper, Better Alternatives

Study after study continues to show that the best approach to tackling internet piracy is to provide these would-be customers with high quality, low cost alternatives. For decades the entertainment industry has waged a scorched-earth assault on internet pirates. Usually this involves either filing mass lawsuits against these users, or in some instances trying to kick them off of the internet entirely. These efforts historically have not proven successful.
Read more: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3kg7pv/studies-keep-showing-that-the-best-way-to-stop-piracy-is-to-offer-cheaper-better-alternatives?source=Snapzu

Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism.

Why are millennials burned out? Capitalism.

“If Millennials are different, it’s not because we’re more or less evolved than our parents or grandparents, it’s because they’ve changed the world in ways that have produced people like us.” That’s how Malcolm Harris, an editor at the online magazine the New Inquiry, begins his book Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials. It’s a smart, contrarian look at the social and economic problems plaguing millennials — defined as people born between 1980 and 2000.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/2019/2/4/18185383/millennials-capitalism-burned-out-malcolm-harris?source=Snapzu

Tuesday 26 February 2019

Apple COO Jeff Williams 'Very Aware Of' Concerns Over Apple Product Cost

Apple COO Jeff Williams 'Very Aware Of' Concerns Over Apple Product Cost

Apple COO Jeff Williams spoke at Elon University on Friday, Feb. 22 and spoke of his history in joining Apple in 1998. The Times News covers his talk in detail. Williams also took questions from students in the audience. One student asked Williams if Apple had any plans to reduce prices considering the seemingly large margins on Apple products based on analyst reports.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/24/apple-coo-jeff-williams-cost/?source=Snapzu

Anthem's physical sales half Mass Effect Andromeda's

Anthem's physical sales half Mass Effect Andromeda's

Anthem topped the UK boxed game sales chart during its first week of release, but with half the physical sales of BioWare's previous game Mass Effect Andromeda. Without digital sales through EA's Origin service on PC, or download sales on PlayStation or Xbox, it's difficult to draw exact comparisons. But from the comparisons we can make, Anthem's sales do not paint a hugely positive picture.
Read more: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-25-anthem-physical-sales-half-mass-effect-andromeda?source=Snapzu

Monday 25 February 2019

Warren Buffett says he’d buy more AAPL stock if it was cheaper, not interested in selling

Warren Buffett says he’d buy more AAPL stock if it was cheaper, not interested in selling

Warren Buffett, through his company Berkshire Hathaway, is Apple’s second biggest shareholder, having dramatically increased his stake in the last few years. In an interview with CNBC, Buffett says that he is unlikely to sell his AAPL shares, and would buy more if it was cheaper. AAPL has fallen from highs of $233 at the end of last year to as low as $142 in January. After becoming the first company to hit a trillion-dollar valuation, Apple stock cratered by as much as 40% as part of a wider market selloff and fears about under-performing iPhone sales.
Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2019/02/25/aapl-stock-warren-buffett/?source=Snapzu

PepsiCo is laying off corporate employees as the company commits to millions of dollars in severance pay, restructuring, and 'relentlessly automating'

PepsiCo is laying off corporate employees as the company commits to millions of dollars in severance pay, restructuring, and 'relentlessly automating'

PepsiCo has kicked off a round of layoffs as it begins a four-year restructuring plan that is expected to cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars in severance pay. This week, PepsiCo employees in offices including Plano, Texas, and the company's headquarters in Purchase, New York, were alerted that they are being laid off, according to two people who were directly impacted by the layoffs.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/pepsico-layoffs-begin-restructuring-plan-kicks-off-2019-2?source=Snapzu

2019 New Instagram Features

2019 New Instagram Features

25 updates were made in 2018. How many are expected in 2019? As many as it takes to get this upstart social media network where it wants to be...at/near the top of the SM realm.
Read more: https://www.sylviaogweng.com/blog/instagram-new-features-2019?source=Snapzu

Meet the Nokia 9: Five cameras bring a different approach to phone photography

Meet the Nokia 9: Five cameras bring a different approach to phone photography

HMD's Nokia brand is building another flagship smartphone, and unlike the Nokia 8 Sirocco, this one is actually coming to the US. HMD is announcing the "Nokia 9 Pureview" at Mobile World Congress, and it's got a whopping five cameras on the back. HMD devices usually live in a price range with very little competition. In the sub-$400 market the company really only has Motorola to contend with, and it can easily win most of those matchups by virtue of regularly shipping security updates and new OS releases.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/meet-the-nokia-9-five-cameras-bring-a-different-approach-to-phone-photography/?source=Snapzu

Sunday 24 February 2019

Burger Shop Goes Vegan and Sales Spike 400% In a Day

Burger Shop Goes Vegan and Sales Spike 400% In a Day

Sales of the “bleeding” Beyond Burger are soaring at Finnish vegan burger shop Bun2Bun. The chain became Finland’s first vegan burger shop in December, selling plant-based patties from Beyond Meat with dairy-free cheese and vegan sides.
Read more: https://www.livekindly.co/burger-shop-goes-vegan-and-sales-spike-400-in-a-day/?source=Snapzu

YouTube removes ads from anti-vaccination video channels

YouTube removes ads from anti-vaccination video channels

YouTube said Friday it's removing ads that appear on video channels featuring anti-vaccination content. The move comes after some marketers pulled ads from the platform because they didn't know they were appearing with videos that discourage vaccinations. BuzzFeed, which first inquired about the anti-vaccination videos with YouTube, earlier reported the news.
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-removes-ads-from-anti-vaccination-video-channels/?source=Snapzu

Saturday 23 February 2019

Microsoft workers protest use of HoloLens headsets for war

Microsoft workers protest use of HoloLens headsets for war

A group of Microsoft workers is demanding the company cancel a contract supplying the U.S. Army with HoloLens headsets that they say would turn real-world battlefields into a video game. Microsoft's head-mounted HoloLens displays use augmented reality, which means viewers can see virtual imagery superimposed over the scenery in front of them.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2019-02-microsoft-workers-protest-hololens-headsets.html?source=Snapzu

Green New Deal is feasible and affordable

Green New Deal is feasible and affordable

Don't listen to the right wing and corporate lobbyist naysayers: Jeffrey Sachs writes that Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey's Green New Deal Resolution would provide economic, social and environmental benefits--and it can be done.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/opinions/green-new-deal-sachs/index.html?source=Snapzu

Google ends forced arbitration for employees

Google ends forced arbitration for employees

Google is finally ending forced arbitration for its employees. These changes will go into effect for both current and future Google employees on March 21. While Google won’t reopen settled claims, current employees can litigate past claims starting March 21. For the contractors Google works with directly, it will remove mandatory arbitration from their contracts. The caveat, however, is that it won’t require outside firms that employ contractors to do the same. Still, Google says it will notify suppliers so that they can see if that approach would work for them.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/google-ends-forced-arbitration-for-employees/?source=Snapzu

Google planning to launch a ‘Netflix for games’ to turn the $140 billion industry on its head

Google planning to launch a ‘Netflix for games’ to turn the $140 billion industry on its head

Google did not instantly reply to an ask for remark. Google will certainly introduce brand-new pc gaming equipment in a keynote speech at a significant computer game seminar following month, 9to5Google reported, handling conventional gamers in the video gaming area like Microsoft’s Xbox as well as Sony’s PlayStation. The solution is claimed to allow individuals stream console-quality video games on less expensive equipment, with the utmost objective of using a “Netflix for video games” registration solution.
Read more: https://virtualmela.site/2019/02/22/google-planning-to-launch-a-netflix-for-games-to-turn-the-140-billion-industry-on-its-head/?source=Snapzu

Friday 22 February 2019

Idaho teen says he made $35k in 4 days plowing Seattle

Idaho teen says he made $35k in 4 days plowing Seattle

A northern Idaho teen says he made $35,000 in four days by charging as much as $750 an hour to plow during the early-February snowstorms in Seattle. Eighteen-year-old David Holston owns a landscaping and snow plowing company in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He was visiting his mom in the Seattle area for her birthday, and he brought along his plowing equipment thanks to a friend's suggestion.
Read more: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/idaho-teen-says-he-made-35k-in-4-days-plowing-seattle/923811726?source=Snapzu

'He's learned nothing': Zuckerberg floats crowdsourcing Facebook fact-checks

'He's learned nothing': Zuckerberg floats crowdsourcing Facebook fact-checks

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he is considering crowdsourcing as a new model for Facebook’s third-party factchecking partnerships. In the first of a series of public conversations, Zuckerberg praised the efforts of factcheckers who partnered with Facebook following the 2016 presidential election as a bulwark against the flood of misinformation and fake news that was overtaking the site’s News Feed. “The issue here is there aren’t enough of them,” he said. “There just aren’t a lot of factcheckers.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/20/facebook-fact-checking-crowdsourced-mark-zuckerberg?source=Snapzu

Thursday 21 February 2019

Successful Blogging Tips: 10 Easy Ways to Make Your Blog More Successful

Successful Blogging Tips: 10 Easy Ways to Make Your Blog More Successful

Success in blogging is yours if you follow these 10 successful blogging tips that cover everything from images to networking and all topics in between.
Read more: https://www.mostlyblogging.com/successful-blogging-tips/?source=Snapzu

Trump's trade war is prompting farmers to put off big ticket purchases, and it's another sign of the pain the tariffs are causing (DE)

Trump's trade war is prompting farmers to put off big ticket purchases, and it's another sign of the pain the tariffs are causing (DE)

American farmers are tangibly deferring equipment purchases as a result of the ongoing trade war between the US and China, Deere & Co says. As the prolonged trade war between the US and China continues, American farmers are tangibly deferring equipment purchases, according to agriculture machinery manufacturer Deere & Co. Trade frictions "have weighed on market sentiment and caused farmers to become more cautious about making major purchases, " Deere CEO Samuel Allen said Friday in his company's first-quarter earnings release, adding that its results were hurt by customer concerns over tariffs and trade policies.
Read more: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-trade-war-causes-farmers-to-put-off-big-ticket-purchases-2019-2-1027965568?source=Snapzu

Wednesday 20 February 2019

American investor Jim Rogers warns of severe economic downturn and forecasts grim future for Japan

American investor Jim Rogers warns of severe economic downturn and forecasts grim future for Japan

Prominent American investor Jim Rogers has warned in a new book that the worst economic downturn in his lifetime is around the corner and that Japan’s future is in jeopardy unless it takes serious steps to deal with staggering debt and a declining birth rate. In an interview with The Japan Times in Tokyo on Tuesday, the chairman of Rogers Holdings Co. Inc. said that even though the United States and China are poised to reach a trade agreement, any euphoric mood will be temporary.
Read more: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/20/business/american-investor-jim-rogers-warns-severe-economic-downturn-forecasts-grim-future-japan/#.XG0XWuGTLnE?source=Snapzu

Razer Cuts 2% of Workforce in Realignment, Phone Division Future...

Razer Cuts 2% of Workforce in Realignment, Phone Division Future...

Over the weekend, Razer announced that it was closing the Razer Game Store as a part of company realignment plans. What the news surrounding that closure missed was that the realignment will include layoffs from the company, possibly in the phone division, leaving its future in limbo. We received an anonymous tip suggesting that Razer had laid off the majority of its mobile device and hardware engineer staff on Friday, as well as some in marketing. The tip also said that some will remain with Razer to work on last Razer Phone 2 (review) updates, but that a future Razer Phone 3 has been cancelled.
Read more: https://www.droid-life.com/2019/02/19/razer-cuts-2-of-workforce-in-realignment-phone-division-future-questionable/?source=Snapzu

If you call this firm a “patent troll,” it might sue for defamation

If you call this firm a “patent troll,” it might sue for defamation

We're not going to say that Automated Transactions LLC is a "patent troll," but several others have. The American Bankers Association has called ATL a troll. The Credit Union National Association called ATL a troll—they even illustrated the accusation with a picture of a troll. Individual lawyers, legal commentators, and banks have all described ATL as a troll. Inventor and ATL founder David Barcelou got so fed up with people labeling his firm a patent troll that he sued about a dozen individuals and organizations for libel in 2016. Last year, a New Hampshire state judge dismissed Barcelou's lawsuit.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/02/if-you-call-this-firm-a-patent-troll-it-might-sue-for-defamation/?source=Snapzu

Tidal floods driven by climate change may hurt small businesses

Tidal floods driven by climate change may hurt small businesses

Sea level rise, driven by climate change, is causing increased flooding during high tides along much of the U.S. coastline. Though such floods are usually minor, a new study suggests that car traffic patterns could help reveal how floods harm an area’s business revenues. Tidal flooding events “are not one in a hundred years or one in a thousand years. They’re once a week,” says Miyuki Hino, an environmental social scientist at Stanford University.
Read more: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tidal-floods-climate-change-hurt-small-businesses?source=Snapzu

Bill Gates: Taxes on rich should be 'much higher' but capitalism still works — here's why

Bill Gates: Taxes on rich should be 'much higher' but capitalism still works — here's why

With a net worth of $97 billion, capitalism has been good to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and he thinks it's a good system. Still, "There's no free lunch here. You'd have to collect more money," Gates told CNN's Fareed Zakaria on Sunday.That money should come from rich people in the form of higher taxes, he said. "As you go about doing this additional collection, of course you want to be progressive. You want the portion that comes from the top 1 percent or top 20 percent to be much higher," Gates said.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/19/bill-gates-taxes-on-rich-should-be-much-higher-but-capitalism-works.html?source=Snapzu

Your cable company may soon be forced to be more transparent about your bill

Your cable company may soon be forced to be more transparent about your bill

Customers dazzled by too-good-to-be-true cable and internet deals could soon get a break. Legislation introduced this month by U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo, a Democrat from California, and Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, would require phone, cable and internet providers to include all charges in advertised prices.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-cable-company-may-soon-be-forced-to-be-more-transparent-about-your-bill-2019-02-19?source=Snapzu

Tuesday 19 February 2019

Zuckerberg says merging WhatsApp, Instagram & Messenger chats will improve security, create an iMessage-like experience

Zuckerberg says merging WhatsApp, Instagram & Messenger chats will improve security, create an iMessage-like experience

A report last week suggested that Facebook is planning to combine Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram messaging into a single, unified platform. During Facebook’s Q4 2018 earnings call this evening, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that this is something the company is considering but said it’s not happening this year. Last week’s report explained that merging Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp threads, users would be able to easily communicate across platforms. Further, the change would broaden the availability of end-to-end encryption, something that Zuckerberg addressed on today’s call.
Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/30/facebook-combine-messenger-instagram-whatsapp/?source=Snapzu

Monday 18 February 2019

Return of wolves to Germany pits farmers against environmentalists

Return of wolves to Germany pits farmers against environmentalists

EU regulations outlaw killing of wolves unless people are in danger or there is ‘no satisfactory alternative’
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/17/germany-wolves-farmers-environmentalists?source=Snapzu

When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived

When India Kicked Out Coca-Cola, Local Sodas Thrived

Some still reign today.
Read more: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-thums-up?source=Snapzu

Payless is closing all its 2,100 US stores

Payless is closing all its 2,100 US stores

Payless is the latest retail chain to close up shop in the United States. The discount shoe store will close all 2,100 of its locations in the United States and Puerto Rico in the coming months, a spokesperson told CNN Business on Friday. Liquidation sales will begin on Sunday and stores will begin closing in March, though most will say open until May.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/15/business/payless-closing-stores-bankrupt/index.html?source=Snapzu

Consumerism in crisis as millennials stay away from shops

Consumerism in crisis as millennials stay away from shops

Christmas may seem like a distant memory, but retailers won’t forget it in a hurry: it was the worst on the UK high street since 2008. Marks & Spencer and Debenhams saw sales fall, while the likes of specialist retailer Halfords and discounter B&M also struggled. Even that most Christmassy of stores, John Lewis, is forecasting a dive in profits after discounting to keep up with competitors. Put simply, the British high street is a horror story just now. Debenhams, founded in 1778, has seen its share price drop more than 90% over the past year. HMV has gone into administration for the second time in six years and is seeking a buyer.
Read more: https://theconversation.com/consumerism-in-crisis-as-millennials-stay-away-from-shops-109827?source=Snapzu

Sunday 17 February 2019

How US Politics Sustains US Capitalism

How US Politics Sustains US Capitalism

And why a true transition to socialism requires a wholly different politics.. Until their contradictions explode coexisting economic and political systems sustain one another. “Normal” politics includes precisely the process of working out social conflicts such that the economic system is sustained. Whatever its form, the state’s tasks include that sustenance. When politics and the state can no longer perform adequately, the system totters. Only then can movements for system change seriously contest the existing system and press for transition to another.
Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/08/19/how-us-politics-sustains-us-capitalism?source=Snapzu

The EU's new copyright laws threaten to destroy the internet

The EU's new copyright laws threaten to destroy the internet

The EU's new copyright laws will force all websites to check all posts to see if anything ever published might be a copyright violation. That will include photos, videos, words, tweets, memes, source code -- you name it.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-eus-new-copyright-laws-threaten-to-destroy-the-internet/?source=Snapzu

LA Times demands that reporters sign away rights to books, movies and other works they create while working at the paper

LA Times demands that reporters sign away rights to books, movies and other works they create while working at the paper

The LA Times Guild has been negotiating a new contract with the newspaper, but has hit a wall thanks to an unprecedented demand from the paper's owners: they want writers to sign away the rights to nonfiction books, novels, movies and other works they create separate from their reporting for the paper. The newspaper is also demanding the right to use reporters "byline, biography and likeness" to market these works.
Read more: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/strike-strike-strike.html?source=Snapzu

A Universal Basic Income Might Hurt Poor People More Than Help

A Universal Basic Income Might Hurt Poor People More Than Help

In recent years, the concept of a universal basic income (UBI)—governments providing every single citizen with a cash transfer sufficient to ensure a minimum standard of living—has gained a diverse following in countries around the world. The concept is particularly popular among those concerned about the effects of technology and automation on employment. In fact, Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley start-up incubator, is currently funding a randomized, controlled trial of a UBI in two states.
Read more: https://psmag.com/economics/a-universal-basic-income-might-hurt-poor-people-more-than-help?source=Snapzu

Saturday 16 February 2019

Revealed: Facebook enables ads to target users interested in 'vaccine controversies'

Revealed: Facebook enables ads to target users interested in 'vaccine controversies'

Facebook enables advertisers to promote content to nearly 900,000 people interested in “vaccine controversies”, the Guardian has found. Other groups of people that advertisers can pay to reach on Facebook include those interested in “Dr Tenpenny on Vaccines”, which refers to anti-vaccine activist Sherri Tenpenny, and “informed consent”, which is language that anti-vaccine propagandists have adopted to fight vaccination laws.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/15/facebook-anti-vaccination-advertising-targeting-controversy?source=Snapzu

An Open Letter To Game Developers From America's Largest Labor Organization

An Open Letter To Game Developers From America's Largest Labor Organization

If an investor was searching for the country’s most explosively successful commodity, they might look to the ground for natural resources or to Wall Street for some new financial instrument. But, the most meteoric success story can be found virtually all around us—in the booming video game industry. Growing by double digits, U.S. video game sales reached $43 billion in 2018, about 3.6 times greater than the film industry’s record-breaking box office.
Read more: https://kotaku.com/an-open-letter-to-game-developers-from-americas-largest-1832652654?source=Snapzu

Uber sues to overturn New York City’s cap on new ride-hail drivers

Uber sues to overturn New York City’s cap on new ride-hail drivers

Uber filed a lawsuit on Friday to overturn New York City’s first-in-the-nation law capping the number of ride-hail drivers that operate on its streets. The law, which went into effect last August, paused the issuance of new licenses to drivers for 12 months. But Uber wants the law overturned for fear that the city will ultimately make the cap permanent.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/15/18226599/uber-nyc-driver-cap-lawsuit-de-blasio?source=Snapzu

Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenue as They Fuck Over 800 Employees

Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenue as They Fuck Over 800 Employees

Activision Blizzard, a company of more than 9,000 employees who’ve built some of the world’s most popular games, is a few things. They are a company who bragged about having a “record year,” on an earnings call this afternoon, a quarter where only raking in $2.4 billion in revenue was considered a disappointment. They are a company who granted a $15 million signing bonus and a $900,000 salary to a high-ranking executive who joined last month. And they are a company who just laid off around 800 employees, or 8% (!!!) of its total workers.
Read more: https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/yw83kg/activision-blizzard-reports-record-revenue-as-they-fuck-over-800-employees?source=Snapzu

Apple Releases 2018 Conflict Minerals Report, Remains 'Deeply Committed' to Responsible Sourcing

Apple Releases 2018 Conflict Minerals Report, Remains 'Deeply Committed' to Responsible Sourcing

Apple said it remains "deeply committed" to upholding human rights across its global network of suppliers and "works to safeguard the well-being of people involved in its supply chain and to protect the places where materials are sourced." Apple commits to use minerals in its products that do not directly or indirectly finance armed conflict or benefit armed groups.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/02/15/apple-2018-conflict-minerals-report/?source=Snapzu

This $5.9 million floating home lets you ride out sea-level rise in style

This $5.9 million floating home lets you ride out sea-level rise in style

Just $5.9 million will let you float above the water in self-sufficient, air-conditioned comfort. Miami-based Arkup LLC is showing off its new livable yacht at this weekend's Miami Yacht Show.
Read more: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-bz-solar-powered-floating-home-20190214-story,amp.html?__twitter_impression=true?source=Snapzu

Feds tell Alfonso Ribeiro he can't copyright 'Carlton' moves

Feds tell Alfonso Ribeiro he can't copyright 'Carlton' moves

"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star Alfonso Ribeiro has been denied a copyright for the "Carlton" dance, which he's suing two videogame makers over. The denial from the U.S. Copyright Office was revealed Wednesday in a motion to dismiss Ribeiro's lawsuit against Take-Two Interactive, the makers of NBA 2K16, which Ribeiro says illegally makes use of the dance.
Read more: https://www.apnews.com/f07e1ed0e9284fd3a411b4cf0eb1bb57?source=Snapzu

Breaking: JP Morgan Launches its own Cryptocurrency

Breaking: JP Morgan Launches its own Cryptocurrency

JP Morgan is the first US bank to launch a Cryptocurrency. In a surprise move, the investment bank has launched a stablecoin like token which will be used anywhere from settling cross border payments to using the bank’s treasuries.
Read more: https://blockmanity.com/news/breaking-jp-morgan-launches-its-own-cryptocurrency-jpm-coin-pegged-to-the-us-dollar/?source=Snapzu

Friday 15 February 2019

You don’t need to quit your job to make/create

You don’t need to quit your job to make/create

“I want to debunk the myth that originality requires extreme risk taking and persuade you that originals are actually far more ordinary than we realize.” – Adam Grant
Read more: https://makermag.com/2019/02/12/you-dont-need-to-quit-your-job-to-make/?source=Snapzu