You could soon order a Domino’s pizza online without a single
click
… One of the ten
new services announced at Domino's Abacus tech series event in Sydney is the
"zero click order" which is expected to be launched in coming months.
This service simplifies the order
process down to launching the Domino's mobile app which will count down 10
seconds before sending an order for the customer's favorite pizza or previous
order.
There are security measures in place for the service so
customers don't accidentally order pizzas, such as the choice to lock the app,
… Another new
service is the "on-time cooking" for pick up customers. With the use of a GPS customer tracker,
Domino's will only start making the pizza when the customer is in close
proximity to the store. This will help
to ensure that customers receive their pizzas fresh.
… The pizza chain
is also planning to cut delivery time down to ten minutes, with the program
first expected to roll out in Australia, followed by New Zealand, Japan and
Europe. The average delivery time
globally is 22 minutes.
… Earlier in
March, the company announced the launch of a four-wheeled autonomous delivery
vehicle known as Domino's Robotic Unit (DRU) to deliver pizza to customers'
doorsteps, but the service is still being trialed.
An interesting article for my Architecture students. What business is Microsoft in?
Microsoft Will Serve You Now
For all my twit students.
How to Check If Your Twitter Password Has Leaked & What
to Do Next
… if you have
taken precautions to stay safe from being hacked on Twitter, there’s a chance
that your details have been leaked. Twitter
itself has attempted to notify users who are affected by this, asking them to
change their passwords.
Check If Your Account is Compromised
The bad news is taken care of; let’s move to the good news. There’s actually one single place to check if
your account is among those compromised by this leak.
The leak was detected by
LeakedSource, a new database of over 1.8 billion leaked records across
different sites and sources. LeakedSource obtained a copy of the
Twitter leak and added it to its repository, thus making it possible for you to
search for your account.
Interesting. What
will be the impact of listing music that is no longer covered by a
copyright? Will they do that?
Enough With The Lawsuits: Berklee, MIT Lead Effort To Create
Ownership Rights Database For Music Industry
Berklee College of Music and the MIT Media Lab are leading
a new initiative they hope will one day solve complicated, expensive music
industry issues involving licensing, distribution and ownership rights.
Big names are signing on, including Spotify, Pandora, YouTube,
Netflix, Soundcloud, NPR and major record label/entertainment groups Sony,
Universal and Warner. If it succeeds,
this broad constellation of players believe it could change the many-layered,
multi-organism music ecosystem as we know it.
… “It’s one of the
few industries that I know where you can use something and it's OK to not
really know who to pay,” he said with a laugh. “Well we don’t think that that
should be acceptable.”
… “You're performing live, you're recording
music, your music is being streamed on Spotify or it's on YouTube. The amount of income streams that they have
for any piece of music they create is bewildering, and there really is no
simple way for you as a musician to know if what you're getting paid is
accurate,” he said.
It’s good to be a business in the gig economy.
Didi Chuxing Gets Investment of More Than $500 Million From
China Life
China’s top life insurer is making a big investment in the
country’s $25 billion homegrown competitor to Uber Technologies Inc., despite
already investing in Uber’s global operation, according to people familiar with
the situation.
China Life Insurance Co. is
plowing more than $500 million into Didi Chuxing Technology Co., after Apple Inc. made a $1 billion investment in the
firm, China’s biggest ride-sharing company, according to one of the people.
(Related)
Lyft’s $5.5 Billion Plan for World Domination
Perspective. It’s a
liberal thing. All good comes from the
state and therefore the state should control all. Remember, Al Gore invented the Internet and
Global Warming!
Rep Nancy Pelosi Says Thank Your Government For Creating
Smartphone Technology
U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
claimed at a Democratic National Convention Platform Hearing that the vast
majority of smartphone technology was “invented” by the federal government. Her argument was for more more research and
development spending in the federal budget.
Pelosi explained, “Anybody here have a smartphone? In this smartphone, almost everything came
from federal investments and research. GPS, created by the military,
flatscreens, LLD [sic], digital camera, wireless data compression, research
into metal alloys for strength and lightweight, voice recognition — the list
goes on and on…. They say Steve Jobs did a good idea
designing it and putting it together. Federal research invented it.”
Something my students need to know.
How to Upload Perfect Native Video on Each Social Network
Every social network worth its salt now supports videos. It’s
estimated that by 2019, 80% of the world’s Internet traffic will be used in
watching videos. If you want
people to pay attention to you on Facebook or other social profiles, you’d
better learn the tricks to upload perfect videos.
The biggest mistake you can make is to upload the same
video on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat by using a mass uploader like Buffer Video. What draws eyeballs on Twitter might not get
anyone interested on YouTube. Like with
anything else, you need to customize content for every type of audience.
Dilbert illustrates the power of social media.
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