A hackable election: 5 things you need to know about e-voting
machines
As the U.S. heads toward an especially contentious
national election in November, 15 states are still clinging to outdated
electronic voting machines that don't support paper printouts used to audit
their internal vote counts.
(Related) Yes, Colorado makes the list.
E-voting: List of Vulnerable States
Perspective. TV ain’t
what is useta was.
CBS Relying Less on Ad Sales as 'Star Trek' Fuels Global
Growth
The network that never tires of calling itself
"the most-watched network" showed Thursday that despite a decline in
advertising sales at its CBS network and affiliated television stations,
overall revenue in the second quarter grew due to international licensing of
its upcoming new Star Trek series which will air exclusively on CBS All-Access, its
subscription-based digital service.
I’ll admit, this confused me a little.
Buttoned-down Unilever just paid $1 billion dollars for the Dollar Shave Club.
The scrappy startup, launched in 2012,
offered a blades-by-subscription service for as little as $3 a month and quickly
grew to a team of 45 engineers and 3.2 million subscribers.
… The deal is full
of intriguing details. Unilever paid five times what Dollar Shave Club was
expecting for revenues this year. Analysts had valued it for far less: in its
most recent funding round — a $90.7 million Series D in November 2015 —
Dollar Shave Club had been valued at $630 million, according to Pitchbook. While Dollar Shave Club represents a growing
share of the razorblades market, it is still tiny, it operates with low
margins, is made up of an irreverent albeit engineering-savvy team – and is, as yet,
unprofitable.
So why did a traditional consumer products company do a
deal that feels more like it belongs in the tech sector than the consumer
product industry?
… Absorbing
a disruptor. Dollar Shave Club
is an interesting illustration of the theory
of a disruptor breaking into a highly profitable and over-served industry
from the low-end; it’s not unusual for incumbents to seek to absorb these
rivals when they’re still relatively small.
… The best
explanation for it is that it is, indeed, a “Silicon Valley” play. Unilever’s
move is a signal of more fundamental changes in the consumer products industry.
Dollar Shave Club has shown that the shaving market
can still be transformed – thanks to an online subscription model, a memorable
brand, and a strong consumer experience.
And now a question for IT Architecture students; Should
all of your devices see the same files?
Asked another way; Why wouldn’t you want all your devices to see the
same files?
Apple and Oracle vets’ Upthere raises $77 million to put a
new spin on personal cloud storage
… Upthere is
different, and it marks a pretty interesting departure from where the rest of
the market is going.
… So the team set
out to tackle this problem at its root. Instead of relying on on-device storage, the
Upthere founding team came together in 2012 and decided to look at how it
could create a service that directly writes to the cloud and allows you to
(mostly) bypass local storage. That way,
all of your devices see the same
files, be those documents, music files, photos or anything else. As you make updates or upload new
documents, all the other machines see those changes in real time.
For my students.
Select the proper tool for the research job.
8 Search Tricks That Work on DuckDuckGo but Not on Google
A new tool for my nephew.
Everything You Need to Know About Deezer Music
Deezer has been around since 2007 but wasn’t made fully
available in the United States until July 2016. For once, users in the U.S. were one of the
last to receive access to a service and, having tried Deezer for myself, all I
can say is, “It’s about time!”
… Deezer is
actually good enough to compete with the big boys.
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