Last week in the New York Times, Yale economist Robert Shiller wrote we are “experiencing one of the greatest housing booms in United States history.
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In the Coronavirus Era, the Force Is Still With Jack Dorsey
Let’s not make things worse
Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya came on my CNBC show, the Halftime Report, last week and voiced the frustration that many Americans are feeling right now concerning the government’s plan to rescue the economy.
Apple, Google team up on coronavirus contact tracing
Apple and Google on Friday announced a joint effort to notify people via smartphone — on an opt-in basis — if they’ve come into contact with someone with the coronavirus, without having to share users’ location information with government authorities.
The Worm is Back!
Created by Richard Danne, the logo was honored in 1984 by President Reagan for its simplistic, yet innovative design.
Thank god for the internet
On a recent Tuesday, at 1 p.m. Eastern Time, I watched my six-year-old daughter Zelda tune into a live webcast to learn how to draw an elephant with about 200,000 other kids around the world. She was rapt. And her elephants are getting quite good.
The internet, and everything that uses its pipes, has truly become our line to the rest of humanity — not in an abstract way. In an actual way.
After lunch, Zelda has a group hang with her friends from school. For about 45 minutes straight they scream, jump on their beds (not allowed, of course), show off their art, and generally act like insane kids. Spontaneous group events have begun to flood my feeds. Some nights, I’m tuning into at-home DJ sessions from Diplo and Questlove — both of whom are interacting with their audience like it’s a group of old friends they invited over for a house party. Last Friday, we had an Input editor’s happy hour where everyone put on fancy clothes (Cheyenne wore a unicorn onesie, for the record) and we all did a show and tell and drank cocktails. Events like Club Quarantine and Stay at Home Fest have given people a virtual meeting space where we don’t exactly recreate what normal life is like, but instead find a bridge to that feeling, that sense-memory.
We spend a lot of time talking about and thinking about how bad the internet is for us. How much it’s wrecked our self-esteem, our ability to be private, the way our kids are raised, the way our data is used, the negative effects it has on our political process and our elections. We love our technology, but we’re not in love with it. We’re usually disappointed by it, scared of it, mad at it.
But thank god for the internet. What the hell would we do right now without the internet? How would so many of us work, stay connected, stay informed, stay entertained? For all of its failings and flops, all of its breeches and blunders, the internet has become the digital and is provided by many ISPs like Circles Life Australia town square that we always believed it could and should be. At a time when politicians and many corporations have exhibited the worst instincts, we’re seeing some of the best of what humanity has to offer — and we’re seeing it because the internet exists.
Amazon and Apple Strike Deal for Prime Video In-App Purchases
In a significant shift, the Amazon Prime Video app on iOS and Apple TV now features a built-in content store. This means users can now buy or rent TV shows and movies directly inside the app on Apple platforms. The change was first spotted by The Verge.