Mark Zuckerberg buys 110 acres to add to his Hawaii Estate
By Brian Freeman from Newsmax Mark Zuckerberg has bought an additional 110 acres to add to his now 1,500-acre estate in Kauai, Hawaii, The Hill reported on Wednesday. The Facebook founder and CEO spent $17 million on the purchase. Zuckerberg and his wife…
Facebook ‘regrets’ putting confetti on Indonesia earthquake posts
BY JACK MORSE From Mashable When your reach is global, it’s perhaps difficult not to inadvertently stick your fingers in a few places they don’t belong — especially if you happen to be rocking the blithe self-assurance of one Mark…
Author Ryan Holiday on “the nature of world-altering success”
From TechCrunch It could be said that the first few years of this current tech boom were fueled by mostly harmless, relatively easy products—websites for sharing your photos, for looking up stuff, for connecting with old friends. And the people…
Most people worry robots will replace human jobs, just not their own
BY PATRICK KULP From Mashable Robots may be driving cars, appealing tickets, and working construction, but they don’t have a whole lot of popular support. That’s according to a new Pew Research study Wednesday that found around twice as many…
Business models will drive the future of autonomous vehicles
By S. Somasega From TechCrunch “The technology is essentially here… We have machines that can make a bunch of quick decisions that could drastically reduce traffic fatalities, drastically improve the efficiency of our transportation grid, and help solve things like…
400M people use Facebook Messenger audio and video calling each month
By Josh Constine From TechCrunch Facebook’s push for video goes well beyond the News Feed. On today’s earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said 400 million people are making audio and video calls each month, up swiftly from 300 million in just…
Facebook built censorship tool to get into China despite human rights risks
By Josh Constine From TechCrunch Facebook wants to be unbanned in China, so it’s built a censorship tool that could hide posts about prohibited topics from people in China, according to The New York Times‘ Mike Isaac. Rather than censor…