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You've probably heard of GrubHub. It is an online and mobile food ordering delivery marketplace that picks up food from restaurants and brings it to people's homes. People use it for the convenience of not having to go get the food themselves. Unfortunately, it appears that GrubHub is doing things that harm small restaurants. An article on The New Food
Twitter has finally come up with a plan to deal with the tweets of government officials and political figures who post content that breaks Twitter's rules. It involves a new notice attached to the tweet that will provide additional clarity. Twitter will not remove those tweets, or suspend the account (in most cases). Twitter explained it's reasoning this way: Serving
YouTube posted information today about ways they are giving users more control over their Homepage and Up Next videos. This appears to be done in response to users telling YouTube that they wanted more control over what they see. Connecting our users with the content they love is important to us. We want to help viewers find new interests and
Axios announced earlier today that LinkedIn would announce algorithm changes to favor conversations in its Feed that cater to professional interests, as opposed to elevating viral content. Senior Director of Product Management at LinkedIn, Pete Davies, later confirmed what Axios reported. He posted an article on the LinkedIn Newsroom titled “What's in your LinkedIn Feed: People You Know, Talking About
Eben Upton, Chief Executive Raspberry Pi Trading, posted on the official Raspberry Pi website that Raspberry Pi 4 is now on sale starting at $35. You can get yours from their approved resellers, or from the Raspberry Pi Store in Cambridge. To support Raspberry Pi 4, we are shipping a radically overhauled operating system, based on the forthcoming Debian 10
Back in Columbus at the Blubrry Podcasting Studio for the week, yes my container arrived and for the most part, no damage discovered beside a few small items that I did not pack properly. Very pleased and I have a large percentage of the gear unpacked awaiting install into racks etc to put the studio back together. Very excited to
We will see if my container has been put through the washing machine cycle on Saturday. Have my fingers crossed that my household goods have made the ocean, rail, trucking journey with minimal rock and roll. Lots of travel in the pipeline. The show goes on the road on Monday for a month. Lot's of fun ahead. Subscribe to the
Apple has launched a 15-inch MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program. It is limited to MacBook Pros that were sold during a specific period of time. The reason for the recall is safety concerns about the battery overheating. The recall does not affect any other 15-inch MacBook Pro units or other Mac notebooks. Apple has determined that, in a limited number
Well, that didn't take long! The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will hold a hearing about Facebook's Libra project on July 16, 2019. Reuters reported that the hearing will explore the Libra project as well as any data privacy considerations it may raise. This comes after Senate Banking Committee members wrote to Facebook asking for information
Google announced that they are investing $1 billion in housing across the San Francisco Bay Area. They chose this location because Google is one of the Bay Area's largest employers. Google wants to help solve the problem of a chronic shortage of affordable housing options for middle and low-income residents. First, over the next 10 years, we'll repurpose at least
Facebook announced Libra, its very own cryptocurrency powered by blockchain technology. It is also introducing Calibra, a digital wallet for Libra. The wallet will be available in Messenger, WhatsApp and as a standalone app. Facebook expects to launch these products in 2020. For many people around the world, even basic financial services are still out of reach: almost half of
The YouTube Kids app was designed for children who were age 13 or younger. According to Bloomberg, most of the children who are watching YouTube don't use YouTube Kids. Children who do watch YouTube Kids tend to shift over to YouTube's main site before they hit thirteen, according to multiple people at YouTube familiar with internal data. One person who
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