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February 6 · Issue #28 · View online
Technology, Startups & the Future. I'm lucky when it comes to finding amazing content written by others and want to share that luck with you. Find me at http://twitter.com/bryceadams 💖
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I’m going to keep the commentary short and sweet this week, in exchange for a couple handfuls of great reads. Have a great week! 😎
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The Vigilantes of China’s Bike Sharing Economy
My favorite quote from an article in a while… Since that first hunt, hundreds of bike-sharing enthusiasts from all over China have followed Zhuang’s lead. “Once you play the game, you get addicted,” he says. “It’s even better than ‘Pokémon Go’ because it’s real.”
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Inside Libratus, the Poker AI That Out-Bluffed the Best Humans
For almost three weeks, Dong Kim sat at a casino and played poker against a machine. But Kim wasn’t just any poker player. And this wasn’t just any machine.
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What is success for Metorik?
I’ve been giving some thought recently to how I should define success for Metorik. Is it revenue? It is hiring? Or is it something greater than all of that? I wrote a bit about how I’m defining success for Metorik.
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Jawbone looks to drop consumer wearables for clinical services
Make way for one more pivot from Jawbone. The fitness band maker that originally started out in headsets and later made speakers, has abandoned selling and.. They [Jawbone] seem to be pretty quiet about it, but it does seem like the world has moved on and it’s time for Jawbone to either close up shop or pivot immediately.
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Apple to start making iPhone in India by June- Nikkei Asian Review
MUMBAI – Apple will start churning out iPhones in India as early as June, sources told The Nikkei Asian Review on Friday. The U.S. company will likely outsource production to Taiwanese partner Wistron, which has a manufacturing facility in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru.
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Line launches Slack rival
Line Works comes shortly after Facebook and Microsoft also leaped into the workplace chat app war. A bit of background here. Line is a hugely popular messaging app in Asia, like WhatsApp and Messenger. It boasts amazing emojis, over 200 million users, and is profitable. But as Whatsapp and Messenger start to take over Asia, while Line has yet to really penetrate the West, usage has been declining and it’s looking for alternative revenue streams. So they’ve launched a workplace chat application, similar to Slack. But that’s not the big news here. For me, this is an earlier indicator as to where Facebook may head next. Facebook Workplace is still in its early days, but it wouldn’t surprise me to see them spend more of their time building a Slack competitor. Consider this:
- Facebook’s pricing is cheap (from $3/user to as little as $1/user).
- They know how to and continue to build solid products.
- It’s familiar, so on-boarding is far easier.
- They have the infrastructure ready and can scale infinitely.
But Slack really is an incredible product with an impressive suite of integrations and tens of thousands of paid teams (each with a boatload of users they’re paying for).
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Why the falling cost of light matters
But the price of light alone tells a fascinating story: it has fallen by a factor of 500,000, far faster than official inflation statistics suggest. A thing that was once too precious to use is now too cheap to notice. Also worth noting - you can’t control or change the color of a wood fire from an app on your phone.
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