The Insider News

Gigaom[^]:

Molecular biologist and futurist Andrew Hessel envisions a world in which every individual receives pharmaceutical drugs perfectly formulated to their genetic and medical needs for a fraction of what treatment would currently cost.

New Republic[^]:

An American friend living in Beijing once said she refused to communicate with anyone whose email address consisted of a string of numbers, such as 62718298454@163.com. This made sense to me at the time—why make email addresses as difficult to remember as phone numbers? But I soon realized that issuing a blanket ban on number-based communications would mean cutting off just about every single Chinese person I knew.

oncletom.io[^]:

One would never expect their startup to fail 6 months after having raised half a million euros from public investors. It eventually happened to me, as the CTO of Dijiwan, a former digital marketing startup based in Bordeaux, France.

i-programmer[^]:

Linus Torvalds, the principal force behind development of Linux is the 2014 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award

igvita[^]:

Cryptocurrencies, and Bitcoin in particular, have been getting a lot of attention from just about every angle: regulation, governance, taxation, technology, product innovation, and the list goes on. The block chain is agnostic to any "currency". In fact, it can (and will) be adapted to power many other use cases. As a result, it pays to understand the how and the why behind the "minimum viable block chain"

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ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 5, 2014 Future Tense Private Systems (FTC) in partnership with Etransfr, today released CHADDER secure messaging APP at the Imagine RIT festival. CHADDER is a free messaging application that allows anyone to send private encrypted messages>

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Chadder Private & Secure Messaging

Built from the ground up with security & privacy in mind, Chadder encrypts its messages in such a way that no one can read them - not even Chadder developers. By utilizing keyserver encryption, Chadder is the way messaging should be - with your privacy at the forefront

With friendly greetings,

Eric Goedhart

RedMonk[^]:

GitHub language trends and the fragmenting landscape

Wired[^]:

Like man people in San Francisco, Sasha Robinson is working on a startup out of his home. His living room is a riot of wires, battery packs, pliers, and metal casings. If I didn’t know better, I’d think he was a bomb maker. But these are just the raw materials for a new gadget he’s creating.

TechCrunch[^]:

Microsoft. For a generation of technology executives, the name strikes fear into even the most iron-willed business leaders. A lion among gazelles, its very gaze into a market could cause investors and analysts to flee in terror. Yet, its name has become a punchline among today’s technorati, a joke about formerly dominant companies evolving into large, plodding kludges. Missed deadlines, delayed products, and canceled features are only some of the ways the company has disappointed both consumer and enterprise users.

Ars Technica[^]:

Berlin-based artificial intelligence startup EyeQuant has developed a tool that will automatically judge how clean the design of your website is.

The system was developed by teaching a computer to look at websites in the same way a human might. EyeQuant, founded by a team of neuroscientists, was building on work it had done on an Eye-Tracking tool that predicts how people will look at websites to create an inexpensive heat map. The service provides an inexpensive alternative to eye-tracking studies and is used by companies such as Google.

Reuters[^]:

A U-2 spy plane caused a computer glitch at a California air traffic control center that led officials to halt takeoffs on Wednesday at several airports in the Southwestern United States and ground planes bound for the region from other parts of the country, NBC reported on Saturday.