Adam E. Williams | #RoadmapForSuccess
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Month: January 2020
Month: January 2020
Toyota makes a big bet on secretive flying taxi startup Joby Aviation – #Toyota #JobyAviation #flyingcars #flyingtaxis #startup #RoadmapforSuccess
Joby Aviation, a California-based aerospace company that has been working on electric aircraft for over a decade, just closed its latest round of financing with $590 million in venture capital funding — and a major new partner. Toyota will work with Joby to design and build a fleet of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft
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Instagram messages on the web could pose an encryption challenge – #facebook #instagram #messenger #web #encryption #privacy #RoadmapforSuccess
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s a relatively slow week on the platforms-and-democracy beat, so let’s talk about something small but fascinating in its own way: the arrival of Instagram messages on the web. An unfortunate thing about being a xennial who grew up using (and loving) the world wide web is that
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Verizon promises that it won’t track you with OneSearch, its new privacy-focused search engine – #microsoft #verizon #bing #onesearch #search #privacy #RoadmapforSuccess
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon and its subsidiaries have become known for massive data breaches, privacy blunders, and oddly named web entities, but now the internet service provider has launched a new search engine that it says will definitely not share your search results with advertisers or tailor results based on your
Read MoreVerizon launches OneSearch, a new privacy-focused search engine powered by Microsoft Bing – #microsoft #verizon #bing #onesearch #search #privacy #RoadmapforSuccess
Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo/Oath) today announced OneSearch, a new privacy-focused search experience for consumers. First of all, OneSearch is not a brand-new search engine built from the ground up. Instead, it is a custom search engine built on top on Microsoft Bing. The main highlight of OneSearch is that it doesn’t track, store, or share
Read MoreCookie Control: Google to drop support for third party cookies in Chrome
In an effort to “re-architect the standard the web”, Google announced that it’d drop support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years. Third-party cookies are one of the mechanisms used to track users across the web and the company wants to put a full stop to it to make the Chrome browser “privacy-preserving”. “This
Read MoreValve Index sold out everywhere after Half-Life announcement – #valve #index #halflife #VR #virtualreality #alyx #RoadmapforSuccess
The announcement of the upcoming VR title Half-Life: Alyx blew most of us away last November, but the results are staggering. Since the announcement, the $900+ Valve Index VR headset has sold out everywhere except Japan. Revealed through an article by RoadToVR, Valve’s stock of virtual reality headsets is running dry. The Full Kit package
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Google just bought a startup that will help it list physical stores’ products online – #google #startup #pointy #online #retail #products #shopping #RoadmapforSuccess
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is expanding its grasp on retailers. In a blog post today, Google announced that it’s purchased Pointy, a Dublin-based startup that helps local retailers sell their products online. The deal is expected to close in the weeks to come. Currently, Pointy allows sellers to either use an
Read MoreMinecraft mod creates huge in-game Harry Potter RPG – #microsoft #minecraft #harrypotter #rpg #mod #RoadmapforSuccess
Despite Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment definitely working on their Harry Potter RPG game, it is taking the publisher a long time to admit it. Thankfully, for those wishing to get their wizarding on, Minecraft modders Floo Network are working to bring you into a more cubic version of Hogwarts. Shown off through an in-depth YouTube
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Elon Musk: ‘Teslas will soon talk to people if you want. This is real’ – #tesla #elonmusk #electricvehicles #talkingcars #sentrymode #RoadmapforSuccess
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk says that Tesla cars will “soon” be able to talk to nearby pedestrians. In a tweet announcing the functionality, the CEO shared a short clip of a Model 3 driving past while its speaker plays a clip saying “Well don’t just stand there staring, hop in.”
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23andMe sold the rights to a drug it developed from its genetic database – #23andMe #drugs #pharmaceuticals #Almirall #crowdsource #dna #genetics #database #RoadmapforSuccess
Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The genetics testing company 23andMe licensed the rights to a drug it developed in-house to a Spanish pharmaceutical company, Bloomberg reported. This is the first time that the company has directly sold a product it created using the genetic information collected from users. 23andMe has already shared genetic data with
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