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Astroturfing

Not all integrations are created equal: 4 layers of app integrations with SaaS platforms

Disclosure: This is one of those rare articles on this blog that’s entangled with my work as VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot. While it’s not specific to HubSpot this is an issue and a framework that I believe are broadly applicable across all SaaS platforms …

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Elon Musk Was Right: Cheap Cameras Could Replace Lidar on Self-Driving Cars, Researchers Find

Among the many tidbits of wisdom that Elon Musk dropped at a Tesla company investor event on Monday was the revelation that Lidar, a laser-based scanning technology that images objects in 3D, was friggin stupid, and that ...anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. …

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Computers in School

Ed-Tech Utopia Is Over – Education Next – EducationNext

For two decades, technology seduced us, sleek devices and clever apps promising us a better, tech-enabled life. Tech would liberate, enlighten, and most of all, connect us. Now that dream has shattered. The fevered claims of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and W…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Virtual Reality

Inside the making of Baobab’s latest VR short Bonfire

Baobab Studios took the wraps off its next original virtual reality creation yesterday, debuting a trailer for the short VR film Bonfire. The full episode will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this week. I was able to play the episode on the HTC…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Super Heroes

Avengers: Endgame: I binged every Marvel movie and I regret nothing – CNET

I'm ready for you guys now. Marvel Studios You know something? These Marvel movies are pretty good. Until about a month ago I'd never seen any of them all the way through. No Iron Man, no Captain America and definitely no Avengers: Infinity War. It was a …

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un Arrives in Russia for Meeting With Putin

If perception is indeed reality, North Korea has come to be perceived as now a player in Northeast Asia, meaning Kims carefully calibrated P.R. offensive is working much to Washingtons dismay, said Harry J. Kazianis, the director of Korean studies at the Cent…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

It’s Elon Musk vs. everyone else in the race for fully driverless cars

The Tesla CEO is forging his own path toward full autonomy At Tesla’s “Autonomy Day” event for investors on Monday, Elon Musk was full of trash talk for his competitors and their technology. LIDAR, the light beam sensor that practically everyone views as an e…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Protectionism

Why The Hell Are States Still Passing ISP-Written Laws Banning Community Broadband?

from the ill-communication dept We've long talked about the more than 750 towns, cities, and counties that have responded to US broadband market failure by building their own broadband networks. We've also talked at length about how data has shown these netw…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Electric Car

Ford invests $500 million in electric car startup Rivian

Enlarge/ Will startup Rivian be the first company to bring a battery electric truck to market? Deliveries start next year. 5 with 5 posters participating On Wednesday morning, Ford announced that it will invest $500 million in the electric vehicle startup R…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Filter Bubble

Ben Davis: Personalisation is not the end-game of marketing

I do not share the sentiments of those that say digital is merely a marketing ‘channel’, but I do believe that the noise about digital transformation has given rise to some thorny misconceptions. One is that personalisation is somehow the end-game of marketin…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Not all integrations are created equal: 4 layers of app integrations with SaaS platforms

Elon Musk Was Right: Cheap Cameras Could Replace Lidar on Self-Driving Cars, Researchers Find

Ed-Tech Utopia Is Over – Education Next – EducationNext

Inside the making of Baobab’s latest VR short Bonfire

Avengers: Endgame: I binged every Marvel movie and I regret nothing – CNET

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un Arrives in Russia for Meeting With Putin

It’s Elon Musk vs. everyone else in the race for fully driverless cars

Why The Hell Are States Still Passing ISP-Written Laws Banning Community Broadband?

Ford invests $500 million in electric car startup Rivian

Ben Davis: Personalisation is not the end-game of marketing

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