Sorry for missing last week. Fortunately though, due to the extra week and a conscious effort, I mana
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April 17 · Issue #37 · 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 š
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Sorry for missing last week. Fortunately though, due to the extra week and a conscious effort, I managed to save up quite a lot of content for you this week. But thereās always a catch. I have a busy few weeks ahead, with a holiday coming up and Metorik keeping me super busy, so donāt expect to receive an issue of Pivoting any time soon. Iām making up for it by including so many good long reads today along with links to a few newsletters I subscribe to and enjoy! š
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Mark Zuckerbergās Makeover Is a Political Campaign Without the Politics
Zuckerberg, now a 32-year-old dad with one daughter and another on the way, has evolved considerably in the intervening decade. He hired speechwriters. He spruced up his uniform from Valley schlub to monochrome minimalism. He took on a series of annual self-improvement challenges that made him into a ālifestyle guruā for some male tech workers, according to the New York Times Style section. (The paper said his announcements āsometimes have the feel of software upgrades,ā but disciples admire Zuckerbergās ability to reinvent himself āas a better human being.ā)
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Instant recall
Inside Facebookās Menlo Park headquarters, the arrival of Instant Articles in the spring of 2015 was presented as a cause for celebration. Talking with reporters, executives described the fast-loading, natively hosted articles as a promising new creative format. A suite of publishing tools incubated in Facebookās now-defunct newsreading app Paper would find their way to Instant Articles, executives said, evolving the news posts shared on Facebook into immersive multimedia experiences.
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Mark Zuckerberg On Fake News, Free Speech, And What Drives Facebook
When Fast Company first wrote about Mark Zuckerberg, in the spring of 2007, he was just 22 years old and his young company, Facebook, had just 19 million users. Our magazine cover line, āThe Kid Who Turned Down $1 Billion,ā seems almost quaint in hindsight, given Facebookās $400 billion market cap today and its 2 billion global users. But it was Zuckerbergās first cover, and a lot has transpired since then.
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Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset
Bill Hinshaw is not a typical 75-year-old. He divides his time between his family ā he has 32 grandchildren and great-grandchildren ā and helping U.S. companies avert crippling computer meltdowns.
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How Union Bank was hacked and got its money back
Union Bank of India recently fell prey to hackingārobbing the lender of $171 millionābut the hackers made a silly mistake
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Amex, Challenged by Chase, Is Losing the Snob War
Amexās hold on the affluent fantasies of up-and-coming elites is starting to wobble as other credit card companies are beating it at its own game.
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Apple admits the Mac Pro was a mess
Apple hasnāt been paying much attention to its pro users lately, and the company finally seems to be owning up to it.
Speaking to a small gathering of news outlets yesterday, including BuzzFeed, Tā¦
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Meet the $21 Million Company That Thinks a New iPhone Is a Total Waste of Money
The guys behind iFixit want to show you how to fix everything from your iPhone to your toasterāfor free. By doing so, theyāve built a huge business. Even though Apple totally hates them.
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How I Made My Own iPhone ā in China!
I built a like-new (but really refurbished) iPhone 6S 16GB entirely from parts I bought in the public cell phone parts markets of Huaqiangbei. And it works!Iāve been fascinated by the cell phone parts markets in Shenzhen, China for a while. Iād walked through them a bunch of times, but I still didnāt understand basic things, like how they were organized or who was buying all these parts and what they were doing with them.
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Apple secretly working on glucose monitoring for diabetes
Apple has a super-secretive initiative to develop sensors that can noninvasively and continuously monitor blood sugar levels to better treat diabetes. Reminds me of what Google are trying to do with contact lenses that can analyse body data like this.
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Nintendo Discontinues the NES Classic Edition
After awful supply issues, Nintendoās plug and play NES gets a shorter than expected run at retailers. š¢
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After Years of Challenges, Foursquare Has Found its Purpose -- and Profits
Hiring the right leaders helped this once-buzzy company meet its potential. I believe Iāve written about this before, when Foursquare first released their new data-driven, enterprise/b2b-focused product. Really amazing to watch the company transform and pivot so successfully in real-time.
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Inside Blue Apronās Meal Kit Machine
The company has built an impressive high-tech operation but is spending heavily to lure customers who are always aĀ bad experience away from bailing.
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A YouTube Star, Reddit Detectives, and the Alt-Right Call Out a Fake News Story. Turns Out It Was Real.
A YouTube star scored a viral hit claiming The Wall Street Journal faked a story about YouTube. The allegation raced round the world, but it wasnāt true.
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Jeff Bezos Says He Is Selling $1 Billion a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space
Standing with a reusable booster and a model of a capsule for carrying humans into space, the billionaire disclosed that he had been financing his rocket company by selling shares in his company.
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Jon Russell
I love Jonās ability to compress all the tech news in Asia into a single weekly newsletter. Iāve been a subscriber for a couple years now and always look forward to it.
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Podcast Crew š
My friend Peter began this newsletter a few weeks ago but itās off to a great start and highly recommend if youāre into podcasts.
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Stratechery by Ben Thompson
As all of you should know by now, Iām a big fan of Ben and am an avid subscriber of his daily update, a paid (but extremely cheap) subscription where you get several amazing emails each week. On top of that, Ben does a weekly newsletter that anyone can subscribe to. I recommend both!
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Hacker Newsletter
A weekly newsletter of the best articles on startups, technology, programming, and more. All links are curated by hand from the popular Hacker News site. This is a solid newsletter and I get a bunch of good content from it every weekend.
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Of course, Iāll still be tweeting over the next few weeks, so please do come and follow me over there.
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