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| Mapping Twitch’s massive gaming universe |
| This post comes via Know More, Wonkblog's social media site.Depending on your age and hobbies, live gaming might be the biggest user of Internet traffic you've never heard of. The graphic below maps activity in December on Twitch, a social video platform where gamers chat, broadcast and watch videos about gaming. Read full article » |
| Netflix and ‘House of Cards’ could be the best thing ever to happen to Cuba’s Internet |
| You may have heard: Netflix is coming to Cuba.The service launched Monday to what's basically a tiny sliver of the population — those with credit cards and broadband access. But all this probably foretells a much bigger expansion in Internet access for Cuba, much sooner than anyone might have expected. Read full article » |
| SpaceX forced to scrub launch, next attempt now scheduled for Tuesday evening |
| Elon Musk's SpaceX was forced to scrub a planned launch Sunday evening in which it was to attempt to land the first stage of a rocket onto a platform floating in the Atlantic Ocean. In a tweet, Musk said that an Air Force radar went down, forcing the cancellation, and that the company will try again. Read full article » |
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| Want your start-up to be successful? Choose a short name and move to these cities. |
| Want to launch a start-up? Consider moving to Silicon Valley, near a university -- and keep your company’s name under three syllables.Those are the takeaways of a new study published recently in Science from M.I.T. business professor Scott Stern and doctoral candidate Jorge Guzman, who studied the growth of 1.5 million new firms in sunny, disruptive California. Read full article » |
| Sling TV launches nationwide, adds AMC |
| Sling TV launched its streaming service on Monday, saying that it will soon add AMC to its basic $20 online bundle of channels, which would make it the most complete offering of sports, news, premium shows and lifestyle channels for the Internet. Read full article » |
| Innovations: How one city that’s vulnerable to climate change is fighting back |
| Face it, climate change is upon us. And with the devastating toll associated with an increase in storms, heat and drought that have only intensified, much of the talk nowadays has shifted to interventions that can lessen the impact. Read full article » |
| Innovations: Why I’m confident that the tech industry is fixing its diversity quagmire |
| When Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, commented that women should have faith in the system to give them the raises they deserve, he knew he had misspoken. His words at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, last October, caused immediate outrage. In an e-mail exchange with me after he left the stage, he wrote: “I just gave a wrong and terrible answer to the question today. I blew the context completely and gave general career advice. I take equal pay for equal work — and an environment where women are comfortable to ask for a raise — as a given. The real lesson for me is that as a leader I need to talk/act on this issue vs. general words of encouragement and advice.” Read full article » |
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| Tim Wu on the FCC’s net neutrality proposal: ‘The middle of the road is for roadkill’ |
| In a 2003 paper, Tim Wu — you may remember him from his recent bid for New York lieutenant governor — coined the term "net neutrality." It's since become a familiar term as a Washington policy battle over the future of the Web has spilled over into the rest of the United States. Last week, federal regulators proposed a series of rules designed to protect net neutrality, the idea that all Internet traffic should be treated equally. The following Q&A with Wu has been edited for length and clarity. Read full article » |
| The Switchboard: DARPA warns cyberattacks against the U.S. military are on the rise |
| Published every weekday, the Switchboard is your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.Senator: Your futuristic car is putting your privacy and security at risk. A new report from Sen. Ed Markey (D- Mass.) warns about privacy and security risks associated with the increasing technical complexity of vehicles, the Switch reports. Read full article » |
| Docusign: Just sign here electronically |
| DocuSignSign here,and ask somebodyelse to do it, tooIt’s tax season, which probably means there are documents that need your signature. But if you don’t want to hunt down a fax machine or mess with scanners, consider adding your John Hancock via DocuSign’s mobile app. The app lets you save your signature by drawing on the touch screen or snapping a photo of your pen-and-paper signature with your phone — a process that requires you to get the lighting just so. You can also save a version of your initials, and request signatures from other people. (You need an account to use it.) Plus you can add your signature to documents saved in a Dropbox, Google Drive or Box account. Read full article » |
| Outlook: An update for smarter e-mail |
| OutlookMake that e-mailwork harderand smarterMicrosoft has updated its Outlook app for iOS and Android devices, adding many productivity features that can improve the way you use e-mail on your phone , especially your work e-mail. It adds a lot of features you can find elsewhere such as a priority inbox, the ability to set e-mails to come back to your inbox later and calendar integration. It draws all of those features together in a clean, seamless way and also supports multiple types of accounts. Read full article » |
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