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Google Summons the Power of YouTube and the Cloud in Bid to Shake up Gaming
At this year's Game Developers Conference, Google introduced its game-streaming service called Stadia touted as an industry wake-up call and taking aim at not only incumbents Sony, Nintendo, and...
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As AI Dominates More of Our Lives, How Design Can Mitigate Unethical Behavior
Last April, former President Barack Obama released a video warning us not to believe everything we see and hear on the internet, at least many thought it was from the ex-president. In actuality, it...
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The Movement Aimed at Freeing Us From Digital Distractions and Reigniting Our...
As I sit down to write this article, I'm immediately distracted by an explosive opinion piece that has crossed my desk, requiring me to tweet excerpts to my followers. I'm also uneasy about the music...
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Mark Zuckerberg To Make Case To Developers That Privacy Is A Good Thing
On a May morning, Mark Zuckerberg, weeks after an intense grilling by members of Congress, made what would be his first public address, telling a room full of developers: We have real challenges to...
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Facebook Touts Privacy Future, But Critics Question Sincerity
"Today we are going to talk about building a privacy-focused social platform," said Mark Zuckerberg as he began his keynote address at this year's F8 developer conference. Facebook's soon-to-be...
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HiHello Tackles the Professional Networking Problem: What to Do With All...
Recently, I've begun doing a bit of KonMari'ing in my home and eventually it led me to several boxes unnecessarily taking up space. In them were hundreds of business cards that have accrued over the...
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Square Banks on Developer Platform to Woo Larger Sellers in March Upmarket
“The journey is one of peaks and valleys,” Carl Perry remarked, describing in a cautiously optimistic tone the progress made with the developer program he manages at Square. For more than six years,...
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Zendesk’s New Developer Platform Lets Brands Incorporate Customer Chat...
"If you don’t reach them on channels where they communicate, you’ll lose them," Mikkel Svane told me in an interview three years ago. It was at that time when Zendesk's chief executive detailed how...
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Facebook’s VR (Dys)topia
As I watched Facebook unveil the latest developments in virtual reality at last month's Oculus Connect developer conference, there were two things going through my mind. First, there's excitement in...
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Introducing Filed
I'm a news junkie—I admit it—and spend countless hours at work, on my commute to and from, and even during my personal time scouring the internet looking for what's going on in the world. Whether it's...
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Qualcomm Writes 5G’s Next Chapter With New Chips, Previews Key CES Theme
Like the "chicken-and-egg" metaphor, many are wondering when 5G will start to take off. Carriers such as T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint and AT&T have added support to their respective networks but...
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Square’s Online Store Opens up to Large Sellers With New Developer Tools
Square’s efforts to attract large sellers to its platform are gaining traction based on its latest quarterly earnings report. The company says that its mid-market sellers grew by 43 percent annually,...
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Google Challenges Amazon’s Product Search Dominance With New Shopping Graph
Amid all the flurry of news Google announced at its 2021 I/O developer conference, one thing stood out to me: the launch of the Shopping Graph. The announcement may not be as glamorous as, say,...
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Web3, Ransomware Attacks, Facebook and Apple Woes Defined Tech’s 2021
With the dawn of a new year approaching, let’s look back at what’s changed in the world of tech over the past 12 months. In my role as the Senior Editor for Technology and Science at Flipboard, I’m...
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‘Like, Comment, Subscribe’ Details YouTube’s Existential Struggles, Creator...
Many books have been written about tech’s biggest platforms. From Hatching Twitter to How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars, Elon Musk, Super Pumped, No Filter, and An Ugly Truth, deep reporting provides...
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Square Banks on Developer Platform to Woo Larger Sellers in March Upmarket
“The journey is one of peaks and valleys,” Carl Perry remarked, describing in a cautiously optimistic tone the progress made with the developer program he manages at Square. For more than six years,...
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Zendesk’s New Developer Platform Lets Brands Incorporate Customer Chat...
“If you don’t reach them on channels where they communicate, you’ll lose them,” Mikkel Svane told me in an interview three years ago. It was at that time when Zendesk’s chief executive detailed how the...
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Facebook’s VR (Dys)topia
As I watched Facebook unveil the latest developments in virtual reality at last month’s Oculus Connect developer conference, there were two things going through my mind. First, there’s excitement in...
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Introducing Filed
I’m a news junkie—I admit it—and spend countless hours at work, on my commute to and from, and even during my personal time scouring the internet looking for what’s going on in the world. Whether it’s...
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Welcome to the New TheLetterTwo.com
Five years ago, I wrote a similar post to what you’re about to read regarding what you’ll see on thelettertwo.com. When I started writing more than 15 years ago, my blog was separate from my website....
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