Author: Andreas
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Amazon drone program
Amazon seems to become serious about their drone delivery program. At Re:Mars the company announced a hexacopter that shall start deliveries in a few months. Does this go into “Tech” or “Business”? And would a drone be able to deliver to your property? Source: A drone program taking flight
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Behavioral advertising efficiency
Researchers from U Minnesota, UC Irvine and CMU took a look into “behavioural based advertisement”, a segment that requires heavy tracking of users across websites through cookies. A report of their findings is here: Online Tracking and Publishers’ Revenues: An Empirical Analysis. Money quote: They found that despite the 40% “ad-tech” premium charged by behavioral…
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Leap Motion acquired by Ultrahaptics
The 2010 founded AR and VR company, that was leading in hand tracking devices for VR usage had a few moments that made the tech-headlines. According to many sources, Apple tried to acquire the company twice, with the second attempt as recently as 2018. Past week, the company sold for $30 million. Today, we’re announcing…
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Twitter comes back to the Mac
Twitter comes back to the Mac.
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notepad.exe
Until recently, notepad.exe was considered safe in terms of security vulnerability, mostly for its lack of features and therefore lack of attack surface. Until Vulnerability researcher at Google, Tavis Ormandy, took a closer look and popped a shell from notepad.exe. Awesome.
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McDonalds safes bees.
O_O. McDonalds safes bees. With the McHive. To give some tribute to the stereotype, we need to hope not all bees become bumblebees now. The McHive is keeping bees safe. Source: McDonald’s unveils tiniest replica ‘restaurant’ for bees
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Apple’s 2019 WWDC announcements
Good & Quick summary of everything announced at this years WWDC edition. A little bit of everything for everyone. Apple kicked off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose this morning with a two-and-a-half hour keynote, showing off everything the company has been working on for the past many months. Want to know everything…
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Google Cloud Is Down
Apparently Google was down the other day. Unfortunately, I was on a train in a really remote location and couldn’t verify what I picked up from Hacker News and tweeted. Meanwhile, there is a bit of broader coverage on Slashdot and The Verge, that hint at the size of the outage. Again, an outage like…
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Tech Days 2019
Tech Days Munich 2019 just started.