A snapshot of links shared on my Twitter account @WinObs for today
- Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Reader to be sold to an investment group that includes a coalition of local unions and former alderman Edwin Eisendrath (Mitchell ArmentroutChicago Sun Times)
- Hyperloop One celebrates full-system test for transport in a vacuum tube
- Viewpoint snaps up Dexter & Chaney, its Seattle neighbor in cloud-based construction software
- Bitly sells a majority stake to Spectrum Equity for $63M; Spectrum's Pete Jensen and Parag Khandelwal and Bitly CEO Mark Josephson join board of directors (Anthony HaTechCrunch)
- Microsoft releases Windows 10 SDK Preview build 16232
- Windows 10 for PCs build 16232 ISO images are now available
- Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 16232 Released
- Major League Soccer tests video assistant referee during Sounders match; full rollout set for August
- Announcing Babylon.js 3.0
- In NASA simulation, people tote hardy, allergy-inducing molds to Mars
- LeakerLocker Ransomware Takes Different Approach
- Facebook Is Coming For Meetup, And Meetup Is Ready To Fight (Alex KantrowitzBuzzFeed)
- NASA Opens Media Accreditation for Upcoming Space Station Cargo Launch
- Newsday could not find 109 sources in 77 stories by police reporter Kevin Deutsch after a review of 600 stories, is attaching editor's note to stories online (Newsday)
- Introducing Backup and Sync for Google Photos and Google Drive
- Report Amazon is considering giving Alexa developers access to transcripts of what people say when their applications are used (Nick StattThe Verge)
- Design Patterns CommandMemento | Visual Studio Toolbox
- Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator
- Gavriella Schuster ‘Turn your great idea into the next big thing’
- Cyber Security Why Money Isn’t the Answer
- Samba Releases Security Updates
- A gentle introduction to functional programming for web programmers using F#
- Frank X. Shaw ‘Finding truth among artificial intelligence myths’
- Microsoft may have found cause of Surface Pro's 'sleeping problem', and is now testing a fix
- Resource Optimize Your Network for the Microsoft Cloud Course from MVA
- Photos from Global Domain Summit in China
- Fileless infections – Ransomware’s latest trick
- Net Neutrality Supporters Taking Action Today in Fight for Net Freedom
- Consulting giant Mercer invests in compensation data provider PayScale
- Tips for using Mixer, Microsoft’s interactive, livestreaming platform
- Windows Phone 8.1 Reaches End of Official Support & The Close of a Very Short Era
- Pilotfish.se owner tried to reverse hijack Pilotfish.com
- Senior NYT editor Dana Canedy appointed administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, succeeding Mike Pride (pulitzer.org)
- Day 3 of Inspire How you can turn your great idea into the Next Big Thing
- 70 mph and 5.3 seconds of magnetic levitation Hyperloop One hits a milestone
- Tip of the Day The Best of Defrag Tools – Windows Internals 7th Edition Part 1
- Microsoft HoloLens gets its first ever Patch Tuesday update
- WSJ announces a newsroom reorganization, with Deputy EIC Matt Murray promoted to exec editor; EIC Baker says it's not a job cutting exercise (Lukas I. AlpertWall Street Journal)
- Calling all game devs The Dream.Build.Play 2017 Challenge is Here!
