A team of software designers, technicians, conservators, architects, artists, artisans, working together as Factum Arte, are recreating works of art to be used by the public. Some of their work is already used by museums. The group makes its money by also producing works in the private market. The goal of their public efforts are … Read more
According to a recent report by Pew Research, young people are more often in favor of big government that provides a lot of social services. Pew’s research found that Americans from 18-50 are around 55% in favor of bigger government. Those over 50 and under 65 are the least in favor of bigger governments, and … Read more
The new president has so far racked up a travel bill of $20m. The rate, accumulated over Trump’s first 100 days, if continued would cost $294 million after 4 years, or over half a billion after 8. One of the top destinations for the president is his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which he calls … Read more
Amazon Prime now has 80m subs. The increase has been steady in the last 2 years. People like Amazon’s fast delivery, cheap prices, easy checkout, and good customer service. Read more
The app may be on every young person’s phone, but it’s losing money. When it launched its IPO this year, it raised $3.4b. But as of January, it’s lost $1.2b. Almost half of that loss was in 2016. It was growing at 15m new daily users in the first 3 quarters of 2016, but the … Read more
The chat app aims to hide even metadata, the graph of its users’ connections and activity (as opposed to just hiding the content of messages). Ricochet applies Tor-like tech to cloak the user’s device, not just web destinations. Messages also do not use a central server to send messages, so the data does not exist … Read more
Profits in the music industry are coming increasingly from streaming and subscriptions, looking at percentage, and even downloads are decreasing a little. CD and DVD sales are becoming less common relatively, but vinyl sales are up. Read more
“If you study Chinese products, you can get inspiration,” according to a woman who works for technology investment firm Andreessen Horowitz. She also works helping U.S. startups learn from Chinese tech. Connie Chan says Chinese tech is ahead of U.S. tech in everything from livestreaming (worth $5b) to messaging. For example, while Americans almost all … Read more
Now that Google is a sub-company inside Alphabet — which is run by founders Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin and Larry Page — Google is run by Sundar Pichai, and his earnings are up almost double from 2015. In 2016, he made $199.7m. $650k is his base pay, and $198.7m was a stock award. Google is reportedly … Read more
A formal judgement has approved the administrative measure, indicating that a permanent restriction is now in place for all language editions of the online encyclopedia in Turkey. Some are pointing towards Wikipedia’s depiction of Erdogan as a dictator as a cause: “Erdoğan detractors have noted that under Erdoğan, more journalists have been incarcerated in Turkey … Read more
For the first time in Japan, the country responded to a North Korean test by shutting down the rails for 10 minutes, effecting 13,000 passengers. Read more
Military Times reports that a U.S. defense official, speaking to them on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the plans. 3,000 to 5,000 are also figures previously reported by Reuters news agency and The Washington Post. 13,000 troop is the total number of combined U.S. and allied personnel NATO is looking at deploying, according to a … Read more