A snapshot of links shared on my Twitter account @WinObs for today
- Survey of 6,100 US teens 47% say Snapchat is their preferred social network, 24% Instagram, 9% Facebook, 7% Twitter (Rani MollaRecode)
- The Turing Test and MoH Airborne are now free with Xbox Games with Gold
- ‘Dear Jeff’ Boston Globe shows how Amazon HQ2 can ‘help make our city better’
- Some Tools of a PFE
- Survey ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft have most likely reduced mass transit use and added to traffic in major US cities (Regina R. ClewlowPlanetizen)
- Study patent suit filings in East Texas dropped 60%+ in 90 days after SCOTUS limited venue shopping by patent trolls, compared to 90 days before the ruling (Joe MullinArs Technica)
- Microsoft TEAMS TEAMS Client Sign-in
- Requested Registry Access Is Not Allowed
- Skype for Business Phone Deployment and Management Tools
- OneNote for Android now supports fingerprint unlock for Notebook sections
- How Spotify's Discover Weekly makes recommendations a mix of collaborative filtering, natural language processing, and analyzing raw audio tracks (Sophia CioccaHacker Noon)
- Spotify UWP app for Windows Mixed Reality will come 'soon enough'
- Inside Alphabet's moonshot division, X, which wants to build the next Google by nurturing invention and innovation, finding radical but feasible solutions (Derek ThompsonThe Atlantic)
- All Sky Steve
- @WinObs Tweeted Links for October 14, 2017
- Surreptitious cryptocurrency miners hide on Politifact and hundreds of other sites (Devin ColdeweyTechCrunch)
- Study use of push notifications challenging due to lack of good engagement metrics, difficulty of personalization, and clunky tools (Laura Hazard OwenNieman Lab)
- First-Ever ITDev Connections 2017 Hackathon
- Your Computer Might Be Working for Currency Miners
- If Kaspersky Bothers You, So Must Its Rivals
- Security Sense You’ll Be Judged by Today’s Standards for Yesterday’s Breaches
- FAQs Passwords & Replicated Accts, Guest Access to Azure Service, Deployment Status for Azure Stack Dev Kit
- SpaceX seeks FCC approval to test satellite communications system in Seattle area
- SpaceX’s Elon Musk explains how his big rocket’s short hops will lead to giant leaps
- Relive the 2017 GeekWire Summit Our annual tech conference offers a glimpse into the future
- Microsoft Edge Now Available in Preview on Android Devices from the Google Play Store
- Important Lesson from Equifax You’re not Secure Until You’re Sure
- How to Set Office 365 Users Password Expiration Policy to Never Expire with PowerShell
- Windows 10 (Feature 2) Build Tracker for Mobile
- Go to Sleep, Alexa. It's Not OK, Google
- Amazon Would Team Up With Apple, Google on Alexa Voice Assistant
- Amazon Debuts Waterproof Kindle for Better Reading in the Bath
- Monetizing Windows with Premium Content for Office 365 Subscribers in the Photos App
- The impossible dream of USB-C
- BlackBerry signs patent licensing deal with low-end Android handset maker BLU and ends its litigation against the company (Reuters)
- Hiring Is Your Single Most Important Skill as a Founder
- Blastoff for 3-D printing How Virgin Orbit harnesses high tech for low-cost rockets
- 5 Ways to Cut IT Costs Without Impacting Performance
- Age of Empires Definitive Edition delayed less than a week before launch