Business, Spoken
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Apple Proves Again That It’s Turning Into a Modern-Day IBM
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Trump Finally Says Something Coherent About ‘the Cyber’
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday when Donald Trump was asked during a televised interview how he would deal with ISIS’s spread online he responded with a fairly incoherent answer that amounted to “the cyber is so big.” Today, during a much publicized speech on national security in Philadelphia, he said one of his first directives as president would be to “conduct a thorough review of all United States cyber defenses and identify all vulnerabilities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Apple and Google Face Long Battle With the EU
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Repeat After Me: Humans Run the Internet, Not Algorithms
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Why Utility Poles Are So Important to the Future of the Internet
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The Ad-Blocking Browser That Pays the Sites You Visit
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Facebook Just Proved It Isn’t Hooli From Silicon Valley
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How Apple—and the Rest of Silicon Valley—Avoids the Tax Man
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White House Proposes a New Immigration Rule for Entrepreneurs
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Facebook Gives Away Machine Vision Tools of the Future
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Uber Now Offers Retirement Funds. But Will Drivers Even Care?
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Tesla’s Model S Now Does an Even Loonier 60 MPH in 2.5 Seconds
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The Rio Olympics Are Where TV Finally Sees the Future
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This Money-Saving App Bugs Retailers and Gets You Refunds
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The Internet’s Safe Harbor Just Got a Little Less Safe
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CAN’T AFFORD CODING CAMP? THE FEDS MAY HAVE A LOAN FOR YOU
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A Lot of People Are Saying Trump’s New Data Team Is Shady
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No One Can Stop Ad Blocking. Not Even Facebook
Starting today, Mark Zuckerberg and company are giving you a way of providing more information about what ads you do or don’t want to see on its social network, and they promise to adjust your News Feed accordingly. Which is nice. But that’s not all. More controversially, inside your web browser, the company will try to slip its ads past your ad blocker by digitally disguising them as organic content. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It’s About to Get a Lot Easier for Apps to Talk to Each Other
Starting today, developers can embed IFTTT within apps and enable users to connect the hundreds of apps that the service supports. That means that the world of apps is about to get a bit more like the web. Just as any website can link to any other website, apps will readily exchange info with other apps. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It’s Really Hard to Make Money as an Olympian
THE OLYMPICS DRIVE athletes to get ever faster, higher, and stronger, to quote its Latin motto: “Citius, altius, fortius.” But while the Games show athletes at the peak of human potential, it rarely does much for their earning potential. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sponsors Are Playing Moneyball to Snag Unsung Olympians
The International Olympic Committee is now allowing athletes to enter into sponsorship agreements with companies that aren’t official Olympics sponsors. Yes, the committee has placed serious limitations on this arrangement. Athletes can’t talk about non-official sponsors or post about them on social media during the blackout period that started last month. And non-official sponsors aren’t allowed to mention the Olympics in their advertisements. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nike Didn’t Design Its Insane $1,200 Sunglasses for Mortals
For the 2016 Olympics, Nike teamed up with designers at VSP Global and optics gurus at Zeiss to create a pair of sunglasses that don’t work, or look, like the sunnies you wear. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices