A snapshot of links shared on my Twitter account @WinObs for today
- Profile of Sreya Guha, a senior at a Palo Alto high school, who built Related Fact Checks website and Chrome plugin to help users find existing fact checks (Daniel FunkePoynter)
- Experts estimate that about 1,000 users, known as whales, control 40% of bitcoins, raising concerns whales may collude to manipulate cryptocurrency markets (Olga KharifBloomberg)
- Faster method to collect Send-as permissions
- Machine Learning Boosts Cloud Spending at U.S. Defense Dept.
- Microsoft Edge Pushes Past One Million Downloads on Android
- Hire a PI to solve blocking locks mysteries
- Touch Controls Coming Back to Google Home Mini
- Judge orders man to serve 29 months after he pleads guilty to online fraud
- The Moon Shines Brightly Among NASA’s 2017 Highlights
- Amazon Alexa Skills authenticated by Azure Active Directory and backed by ASP.NET Core 2.0 Web API hosted on Azure
- Week in Geek Podcast Elon Musk’s race to Mars takes some unexpected turns
- NHL to Seattle; Microsoft’s new cricket grounds; MLS Cup predictions; and more from the week in sports tech
- Experts say US is in danger of losing its status as the center of AI R&D, as GOP tax plan raises costs on graduates and immigration policy deters some (Will KnightMIT Technology Review)
- Facebook debuts Sound Collection tool for inserting copyright-free music into Facebook and Instagram clips, starts camera loaner program for 360 video creators (TechCrunch)
- Microsoft Releases First Cross-Platform SQL Operations Studio
- @WinObs Tweeted Links for December 8, 2017
- Alpine Superga Moonset
- Improving workforce management and technical readiness at Microsoft
- Music royalty tracker Kobalt acquires Songs Music Publishing for an estimated $160M; Songs expected to shut down with some execs moving to Kobalt (Ben SisarioNew York Times)
- Creating a sales productivity solution with PowerApps
- What is serverless computing
- Craigslist now lets sellers indicate they will accept cryptocurrencies as payment (Becky PetersonBusiness Insider)
- Collecting telemetry data privately
- Skype Room Systems v2 3.0.16.0 Update
- AMD Ryzen CPU Giveaway Win A Ryzen 5 1600X, Ryzen 5 1500X, or Ryzen 3 1300X
- TWC9 Always On, Visual Studio 2017 15.5, Channel 9 on YouTube, DNR #1500 and more… | This Week On Channel 9
- Sources Mashable to cut 13 from video unit, and Mashable Studios president to exit after sale to Ziff Davis; video strategy to focus on social and distribution (Sahil PatelDigiday)
- GateHouse Media acquires Boston Herald's operational assets for an undisclosed amount; company to continue day-to-day operations as usual (Boston Herald)
- Sources Apple to acquire music recognition app Shazam; one source puts the deal at about $400M; Shazam's post-money valuation after its 2015 funding was $1.02B (TechCrunch)
- The Sharing Economy Plays a Big Role in Conserving Resources
- Geek of the Week After 19 years at Amazon, senior principal engineer John Darrow is never bored