Yelp data shows 60% of business closures due to the coronavirus pandemic are now permanent

Posted on September 16, 2020 by HeyJK

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Yelp on Wednesday released its latest Economic Impact Report, revealing business closures across the U.S. are increasing as a result of the coronavirus pandemic’s economic toll.  As of Aug, 31, 163,735 businesses have indicated on Yelp that they have closed.

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Microsoft’s underwater server experiment resurfaces after two years

Posted on September 16, 2020 by HeyJK

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Back in 2018, Microsoft sunk an entire data center to the bottom of the Scottish sea, plunging 864 servers and 27.6 petabytes of storage 117 feet deep in the ocean.

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Doctors Are Preparing to Implant the World’s First Human Bionic Eye

Posted on September 16, 2020 by HeyJK

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The team is now preparing for what they claim will be the world’s first human clinical trials of a bionic eye — and are asking for additional funding to eventually manufacture it on a global scale.

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Marketing & Sales

Posted on September 15, 2020 by HeyJK

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McKinsey & Company is committed to protecting your information in accordance with its privacy policy. Learn more McKinsey & Company is committed to protecting your information.

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Apple Leadership Bubblegum Cards

Posted on September 15, 2020 by HeyJK

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Mark Gurman put together a nice rundown of Apple’s executive leadership for Bloomberg last week. I feel like it’s better thought of (and would have been better presented) as a directory, not as a story. A who’s-who guide to Apple’s executive leadership.

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Testing begins on an autonomous ‘Mayflower’ ship ahead of its Atlantic voyage

Posted on September 11, 2020 by HeyJK

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Humans aren’t the only ones to have had their travel plans ruined by the coronavirus. A robot-powered boat that was due to cross the Atlantic this month has been forced to delay its voyage until next April after the virus caused complications in its development.

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The surprising traits of good remote leaders

Posted on September 10, 2020 by HeyJK

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Fifteen years ago, Steven Charlier, chair of management at Georgia Southern University in the US, had a hunch that in-person charisma and leadership skills don’t translate virtually. “Before I became an academic, I worked for IBM for a number of years on a lot of virtual teams,” he says.

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A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?

Posted on September 10, 2020 by HeyJK

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I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that respect. I know that my brain is not a “feeling brain”. But it is capable of making rational, logical decisions.

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Study: “LinkedIn is Basically a Money Pit” Because of Ad Fraud

Posted on September 8, 2020 by HeyJK

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The LinkedIn Ads network is likely awash in mistaken clicks and bot traffic that make the platform’s value extremely dubious, according to a new study from global digital agency RMG that the company shared exclusively with me.

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How to get back ‘Other’ storage on the iPhone or iPad

Posted on September 8, 2020 by HeyJK

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Apple has recently made changes to how iOS handles the mysterious “other” storage on iPhone and iPad, but it’s still not obvious how you can get back some of that space for yourself. Here’s how to do it.

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GDPR Violation: ScribD acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn

Posted on September 8, 2020 by HeyJK

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In early August, ScribD announced the acquisition of SlideShare for an undisclosed amount. I personally never registered to either services, no clue what ScribD except I think I heard the name before. Received this email on my personal inbox index a few days after the annoncements.

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Most favorited Hacker News posts of all time

Posted on September 4, 2020 by HeyJK

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Web Design in 4 minutes

Posted on September 4, 2020 by HeyJK

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Let’s say you have a product, a portfolio, or just an idea you want to share with everyone on your own website. Before you publish it on the internet, you want to make it look attractive, professional, or at least decent to look at. What is the first thing you need to work on?

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Online Privacy Should Be Modeled on Real-World Privacy

Posted on September 3, 2020 by HeyJK

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This new ad from Apple touting iPhone privacy protection is good, and genuinely funny.

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Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy

Posted on September 3, 2020 by HeyJK

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For a decade, Carlos Silva has been gluing, nailing, and re-zippering shoes and boots at Stern Shoe Repair, a usually well-trafficked shop just outside the Metro entrance at Union Station in Washington, D.C. On a typical day, he would arrive at 7 a.m. and stay until 8 p.m.

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Apple could finally launch ‘AirTags’ in October

Posted on September 1, 2020 by HeyJK

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Apple’s long-rumored “AirTags” may finally launch before the end of 2020, with a report claiming Apple will be launching the item-tracking accessories during an event in late October.

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About Applebot

Posted on September 1, 2020 by HeyJK

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Applebot is the web crawler for Apple, used by products including Siri and Spotlight Suggestions. It respects customary robots.txt rules and robots meta tags. It originates in the 17.0.0.0 net block. User-agent strings will contain “Applebot” together with additional agent information.

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Welcome to masterWiki: stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow.

Posted on September 1, 2020 by HeyJK

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Welcome to masterWiki: stolen from MasterClass, republished as wikiHow. MasterClass is $180; masterWiki is free.

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Engineer creates ‘AI Jesus’ which goes on to make terrifying apocalyptic prophecy

Posted on August 28, 2020 by HeyJK

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An engineer has created a so-called “ AIJesus ” that has poured over The Bible and produced its own bizarre verses. It developed its vocabulary by reading the holy text and no other literature.

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Facebook apologizes to users, businesses for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect its customers’ privacy

Posted on August 27, 2020 by HeyJK

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Facebook has apologized to its users and advertisers for being forced to respect people’s privacy in an upcoming update to Apple’s mobile operating system – and promised it will do its best to invade their privacy on other platforms.

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