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April 3 · Issue #36 · 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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Not too much to share today but enough to keep you occupied for a couple hours. Have a great week! 👋
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The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence
The reason this matters is that pure technology is hard enough to manage: the price we pay for technology progress is all of the humans that are no longer necessary. The Industrial Revolution benefitted humanity in the long run, but in the short run there was tremendous suffering, interspersed with wars that were far more destructive thanks to technology.
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Mossberg: Yes, you’ve still got mail
In 1998 it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email — the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying. Back then, it was perfectly plausible that…
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He Turned His Home Into a Reality Television Show
The Times’s tech columnist, Farhad Manjoo, grapples with technology’s shortcomings yet embraces it to an extreme degree at home.
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SpaceX launches first recycled rocket in test of cost-cutting model| Reuters
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket recovered at sea from its maiden flight last year blasted off again from Florida on Thursday in the first successful launch of a recycled orbital-class booster, which scored a double feat with another return landing on an ocean platform.
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Why Canada’s hacker king is very afraid
University of Toronto professor and counterespionage hacker Ron Deibert has made plenty of enemies—including Canada’s own intelligence services
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Amazon’s store of the future is delayed. Insert ‘Told ya so’ from skeptical retail execs
Well, Amazon is still trying to get Store No. 1 right. Recode previously reported that the technology required help behind the scenes from humans, in cases where the computers weren’t sure about which item a person grabbed.
And, on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company won’t open the first store, in Seattle, by the end of this month like the company had originally planned. The store is currently only open to Amazon employees; Amazon has said it would open to the public in “early 2017.”
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Oculus Co-Founder and Rift Creator Palmer Luckey Departs Facebook
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, the man behind the Rift concept and its first prototypes, is leaving the company three years after selling to Facebook.
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How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons
The start-up has undertaken an extraordinary experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice an independent work force to maximize company revenue.
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