Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/31/science/spacex-astronauts-arrival.html
May 31, 2020 at 07:24AM
Nineteen hours after launching, two NASA astronauts will arrive at the International Space Station.
Sunday, May 31, 2020
Saturday, May 30, 2020
SpaceX Lifts NASA Astronauts to Orbit, Launching New Era of Spaceflight
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/science/spacex-nasa-astronauts.html
May 31, 2020 at 02:06AM
The trip to the space station was the first from American soil since 2011 when the space shuttles were retired.
May 31, 2020 at 02:06AM
The trip to the space station was the first from American soil since 2011 when the space shuttles were retired.
Live SpaceX NASA Launch Updates
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/science/spacex-launch-nasa.html
May 30, 2020 at 06:27PM
Here’s what you need to know about Saturday’s second launch attempt of NASA astronauts in the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
May 30, 2020 at 06:27PM
Here’s what you need to know about Saturday’s second launch attempt of NASA astronauts in the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
In Lockdown, a Neighborhood Opens Up
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/technology/bernal-heights.html
May 30, 2020 at 12:00PM
Grab a hyperlocal bakery loaf and a copy of the kids’ newspaper, and we can discuss over stoop cocktails.
May 30, 2020 at 12:00PM
Grab a hyperlocal bakery loaf and a copy of the kids’ newspaper, and we can discuss over stoop cocktails.
Twitter Had Been Drawing a Line for Months When Trump Crossed It
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/technology/twitter-trump-dorsey.html
May 30, 2020 at 12:00PM
Inside the company, one faction wanted Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief, to take a hard line against the president’s tweets while another urged him to remain hands-off.
May 30, 2020 at 12:00PM
Inside the company, one faction wanted Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief, to take a hard line against the president’s tweets while another urged him to remain hands-off.
Friday, May 29, 2020
While Twitter Confronts Trump, Zuckerberg Keeps Facebook Out of It
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/technology/twitter-facebook-zuckerberg-trump.html
May 30, 2020 at 12:44AM
The companies have similar policies on the limits of what they allow users to post. But Facebook is more permissive when the user is President Trump.
May 30, 2020 at 12:44AM
The companies have similar policies on the limits of what they allow users to post. But Facebook is more permissive when the user is President Trump.
A Trump vs. Twitter Week
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/technology/trump-twitter-warning.html
May 29, 2020 at 08:08PM
It’s a pandemic, protests against police brutality are gripping the country, and the president of the United States and Twitter are battling it out.
May 29, 2020 at 08:08PM
It’s a pandemic, protests against police brutality are gripping the country, and the president of the United States and Twitter are battling it out.
South Korean Ends Yearlong Tower Protest After Samsung Apologizes
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/world/asia/south-korea-protest-tower-samsung.html
May 29, 2020 at 05:49PM
After 355 days perched atop a Seoul traffic tower, Kim Yong-hee, who says he was fired for labor activism, climbed down.
May 29, 2020 at 05:49PM
After 355 days perched atop a Seoul traffic tower, Kim Yong-hee, who says he was fired for labor activism, climbed down.
Google Rescinds Offers to Thousands of Contract Workers
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/technology/google-rescinds-job-offers-to-contract-workers.html
May 29, 2020 at 04:14PM
The company made the cost-cutting move as it navigates a slump in advertising created by the pandemic.
May 29, 2020 at 04:14PM
The company made the cost-cutting move as it navigates a slump in advertising created by the pandemic.
Twitter Places Warning on Trump Minneapolis Tweet, Saying It Glorified Violence
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/technology/trump-twitter-minneapolis-george-floyd.html
May 29, 2020 at 03:45PM
The president’s tweet, which implied that protesters in Minneapolis could be shot, could not be viewed without reading a brief notice, and users were blocked from liking or replying to it.
May 29, 2020 at 03:45PM
The president’s tweet, which implied that protesters in Minneapolis could be shot, could not be viewed without reading a brief notice, and users were blocked from liking or replying to it.
Twitter Warns that Trump Tweet Could Spur Violence
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/technology/twitter-president-trump.html
May 29, 2020 at 12:51PM
The move by the social media platform is likely to spur more tension with the White House and prompt criticism from the president’s supporters.
May 29, 2020 at 12:51PM
The move by the social media platform is likely to spur more tension with the White House and prompt criticism from the president’s supporters.
The President Versus the Mods
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/technology/trump-twitter.html
May 29, 2020 at 12:04PM
President Trump’s taking aim at Twitter for fact-checking his tweets is part of a long tradition upheld by aggrieved internet trolls. The stakes are high.
May 29, 2020 at 12:04PM
President Trump’s taking aim at Twitter for fact-checking his tweets is part of a long tradition upheld by aggrieved internet trolls. The stakes are high.
Pandemic Forces Car Dealers to Do the Unthinkable: Sell Online
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/business/car-dealers-sell-online-coronavirus.html
May 29, 2020 at 12:00PM
Dealerships have long resisted e-commerce, but with many showrooms closed, the dynamic is changing.
May 29, 2020 at 12:00PM
Dealerships have long resisted e-commerce, but with many showrooms closed, the dynamic is changing.
Who Will Own the Cars That Drive Themselves?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/business/ownership-autonomous-cars-coronavirus.html
May 29, 2020 at 10:00AM
Fleets of vehicles roaming streets waiting to be hailed are more efficient. But the coronavirus has made people think twice about the future of car ownership even when autonomous tech arrives.
May 29, 2020 at 10:00AM
Fleets of vehicles roaming streets waiting to be hailed are more efficient. But the coronavirus has made people think twice about the future of car ownership even when autonomous tech arrives.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Why President Trump's Order on Social Media Could Harm Him
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/politics/trump-jack-dorsey.html
May 29, 2020 at 02:06AM
Without certain liability protections, companies like Twitter would have to be more aggressive about policing messages that press the boundaries — like the president’s.
May 29, 2020 at 02:06AM
Without certain liability protections, companies like Twitter would have to be more aggressive about policing messages that press the boundaries — like the president’s.
Trump’s Proposed Order on Social Media Could Harm One Person in Particular: Trump
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/politics/trump-social-media-executive-order.html
May 28, 2020 at 09:38PM
Without certain liability protections, companies like Twitter would have to be more aggressive about policing messages that press the boundaries — like the president’s.
May 28, 2020 at 09:38PM
Without certain liability protections, companies like Twitter would have to be more aggressive about policing messages that press the boundaries — like the president’s.
Facebook and Its Secret Policies
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/technology/facebook-polarization.html
May 28, 2020 at 09:20PM
Facebook should be making its policy choices in fair and transparent ways. But is it?
May 28, 2020 at 09:20PM
Facebook should be making its policy choices in fair and transparent ways. But is it?
Twitter Comes Under Attack From Trump’s Supporters
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/technology/trump-twitter.html
May 28, 2020 at 03:18PM
After the social media company labeled two of the president’s tweets as inaccurate on Tuesday, his adherents pounced.
May 28, 2020 at 03:18PM
After the social media company labeled two of the president’s tweets as inaccurate on Tuesday, his adherents pounced.
Defying Trump, Twitter Doubles Down on Labeling Tweets
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/technology/trump-twitter-fact-check.html
May 28, 2020 at 06:55PM
Twitter continued fact-checking posts even as President Trump threatened to limit protections for social media companies.
May 28, 2020 at 06:55PM
Twitter continued fact-checking posts even as President Trump threatened to limit protections for social media companies.
A.C.L.U. Accuses Clearview AI of Privacy ‘Nightmare Scenario’
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/technology/clearview-ai-privacy-lawsuit.html
May 28, 2020 at 06:05PM
The facial recognition start-up violated the privacy of Illinois residents by collecting their images without their consent, the civil liberties group says in a new lawsuit.
May 28, 2020 at 06:05PM
The facial recognition start-up violated the privacy of Illinois residents by collecting their images without their consent, the civil liberties group says in a new lawsuit.
A.C.L.U. Accuses Clearview AI of Privacy ‘Nightmare Scenario’
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/technology/clearview-ai-privacy-lawsuit.html
May 28, 2020 at 06:05PM
The facial recognition start-up violated the privacy of Illinois residents by collecting their images without their consent, the civil liberties group says in a new lawsuit.
May 28, 2020 at 06:05PM
The facial recognition start-up violated the privacy of Illinois residents by collecting their images without their consent, the civil liberties group says in a new lawsuit.
Executive Order Is Expected to Curtail Protections for Social Media Companies
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/politics/trump-executive-order-social-media.html
May 28, 2020 at 09:14AM
The move is almost certain to face a court challenge and signals the latest salvo by President Trump to crack down on online platforms.
May 28, 2020 at 09:14AM
The move is almost certain to face a court challenge and signals the latest salvo by President Trump to crack down on online platforms.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/moocs-online-learning.html
May 26, 2020 at 10:00AM
The pioneering online learning networks offer hard-earned lessons for what works and what doesn’t with online education.
May 26, 2020 at 10:00AM
The pioneering online learning networks offer hard-earned lessons for what works and what doesn’t with online education.
Twitter Comes Under Attack From Trump’s Supporters
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/technology/trump-twitter.html
May 28, 2020 at 12:55AM
After the social media company labeled two of the president’s tweets as inaccurate on Tuesday, his adherents pounced.
May 28, 2020 at 12:55AM
After the social media company labeled two of the president’s tweets as inaccurate on Tuesday, his adherents pounced.
Space Out and Explore the Universe Without Leaving Home
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/technology/personaltech/techtip-nasa-apps.html
May 27, 2020 at 08:53PM
If NASA’s new 2020 missions have inspired an interest in science and celestial objects, these apps and sites can open a whole new batch of worlds.
May 27, 2020 at 08:53PM
If NASA’s new 2020 missions have inspired an interest in science and celestial objects, these apps and sites can open a whole new batch of worlds.
Oh No, Here Comes the Transportation Hellscape
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/technology/public-transportation-cities-pandemic.html
May 27, 2020 at 09:24PM
How tech companies and cities can work together to make transit more appealing and effective.
May 27, 2020 at 09:24PM
How tech companies and cities can work together to make transit more appealing and effective.
Live SpaceX Launch: Latest Updates
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/science/spacex-launch-nasa.html
May 27, 2020 at 07:25PM
Follow SpaceX's launch of NASA astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
May 27, 2020 at 07:25PM
Follow SpaceX's launch of NASA astronauts aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Instagram Wants Its Influencers to Make More Money
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/style/instagram-influencer-monetization-live-igtv.html
May 27, 2020 at 06:00PM
The platform announced updates aimed at helping creators monetize their audience.
May 27, 2020 at 06:00PM
The platform announced updates aimed at helping creators monetize their audience.
Canadian Court to Rule on Extradition of Huawei Executive to United States
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/world/canada/huawei-extradition-meng-wanzhou.html
May 27, 2020 at 03:47PM
A Vancouver judge is expected to decide whether U.S. charges against Meng Wanzhou constitute a crime in Canada, a ruling that could open the way for her extradition.
May 27, 2020 at 03:47PM
A Vancouver judge is expected to decide whether U.S. charges against Meng Wanzhou constitute a crime in Canada, a ruling that could open the way for her extradition.
Tired of Plastic? These Businesses Have Ideas for You
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/climate/plastic-alternative-business.html
May 27, 2020 at 12:00PM
Companies are developing alternatives to single-use plastic, and with options including seaweed and mushroom tissue, consumer interest isn’t disappearing, even during the coronavirus pandemic.
May 27, 2020 at 12:00PM
Companies are developing alternatives to single-use plastic, and with options including seaweed and mushroom tissue, consumer interest isn’t disappearing, even during the coronavirus pandemic.
A New Conundrum for Fact-Checking Trump on Twitter
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/trump-twitter-scarborough.html
May 27, 2020 at 04:34AM
The social media company came under fire — again — for not removing Mr. Trump’s posts that contain falsehoods.
May 27, 2020 at 04:34AM
The social media company came under fire — again — for not removing Mr. Trump’s posts that contain falsehoods.
Twitter Labels Trump's Tweets for First Time
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/twitter-trump-mail-in-ballots.html
May 27, 2020 at 04:29AM
Twitter added a link to two of President Trump’s tweets in which he had made false claims about mail-in ballots, urging people to “get the facts.”
May 27, 2020 at 04:29AM
Twitter added a link to two of President Trump’s tweets in which he had made false claims about mail-in ballots, urging people to “get the facts.”
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
How SpaceX Got to Launch NASA's Astronauts to Orbit
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/science/spacex-launch-nasa.html
May 27, 2020 at 12:08AM
A successful launch on Wednesday could forever change how the world thinks about getting people to space.
May 27, 2020 at 12:08AM
A successful launch on Wednesday could forever change how the world thinks about getting people to space.
Amazon Misses a Shopping Opportunity
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/amazon-grocery-shopping.html
May 26, 2020 at 09:16PM
The best shopping ideas now are coming from big box stores. Where are Amazon’s innovations?
May 26, 2020 at 09:16PM
The best shopping ideas now are coming from big box stores. Where are Amazon’s innovations?
Step Chickens and the Rise of TikTok ‘Cults’
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/style/step-chickens-tiktok-cult-wars.html
May 26, 2020 at 08:12PM
Fandoms are forming around a new kind of influencer: the charismatic cult leader.
May 26, 2020 at 08:12PM
Fandoms are forming around a new kind of influencer: the charismatic cult leader.
Uber and Lyft Drivers Sue for New York Unemployment Benefits
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/business/economy/uber-drivers-unemployment-benefits.html
May 26, 2020 at 05:43PM
In the latest challenge over their labor status, gig workers say the state is illegally failing to pay them jobless benefits in a timely way.
May 26, 2020 at 05:43PM
In the latest challenge over their labor status, gig workers say the state is illegally failing to pay them jobless benefits in a timely way.
When the C.E.O., Already Facing a Crisis, Gets the Coronavirus
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/ceo-coronavirus-booking-holdings-fogel.html
May 26, 2020 at 12:00PM
Business cratered at Booking Holdings, the online travel giant. Then its chief executive found out he was sick, too.
May 26, 2020 at 12:00PM
Business cratered at Booking Holdings, the online travel giant. Then its chief executive found out he was sick, too.
China's Coronavirus Tracking Apps Stir Privacy Fears as They Linger
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/china-coronavirus-surveillance.html
May 26, 2020 at 11:45AM
With the disease there mostly under control, officials are looking for new uses for the government software that’s now on many phones.
May 26, 2020 at 11:45AM
With the disease there mostly under control, officials are looking for new uses for the government software that’s now on many phones.
Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/technology/moocs-online-learning.html
May 26, 2020 at 10:00AM
The pioneering online learning networks offer hard-earned lessons for what works and what doesn’t with online education.
May 26, 2020 at 10:00AM
The pioneering online learning networks offer hard-earned lessons for what works and what doesn’t with online education.
Monday, May 25, 2020
Virgin Orbit Launch: 1st Attempt to Blast Off From Beneath Jumbo Jet
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/science/virgin-orbit-launch-time.html
May 25, 2020 at 06:06PM
The company, founded by Richard Branson, aims to show it can send small satellites to orbit from virtually anywhere.
May 25, 2020 at 06:06PM
The company, founded by Richard Branson, aims to show it can send small satellites to orbit from virtually anywhere.
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Virgin Orbit Pushes Back First Rocket Launch From Jumbo Jet
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/science/virgin-orbit-launch.html
May 24, 2020 at 12:00PM
The company, founded by Richard Branson, aims to show it can send small satellites to orbit from virtually anywhere.
May 24, 2020 at 12:00PM
The company, founded by Richard Branson, aims to show it can send small satellites to orbit from virtually anywhere.
Saturday, May 23, 2020
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Tech Is a Citadel. Del Seymour Built a Drawbridge.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/style/del-seymour-tenderloin-san-francisco-tours-coronavirus.html
May 22, 2020 at 02:07AM
A former drug dealer whose nonprofit helped transform the Tenderloin district joins the front lines of San Francisco’s coronavirus response.
May 22, 2020 at 02:07AM
A former drug dealer whose nonprofit helped transform the Tenderloin district joins the front lines of San Francisco’s coronavirus response.
A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/technology/ben-shneiderman-automation-humans.html
May 21, 2020 at 10:09PM
A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention.
May 21, 2020 at 10:09PM
A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention.
Robots! (Don’t Get Too Excited.)
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/technology/robot-deliveries.html
May 21, 2020 at 07:25PM
Robots are cool. But we should be skeptical of emerging technology.
May 21, 2020 at 07:25PM
Robots are cool. But we should be skeptical of emerging technology.
Delayed Moves, Poolside Videos and Postmates Spon: The State of TikTok Collab Houses
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/style/tiktok-collab-houses-quarantine-coronavirus.html
May 21, 2020 at 05:21PM
Gen Z influencers are settling into life in a shuttered Los Angeles.
May 21, 2020 at 05:21PM
Gen Z influencers are settling into life in a shuttered Los Angeles.
Bethenny Frankel’s Dark Journey to Find Medical Masks
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/technology/bethenny-frankel-medical-masks-coronavirus.html
May 21, 2020 at 12:00PM
New York officials tapped the reality television star to find masks for medical workers. She found a global bazaar of ex-cons and exaggerations.
May 21, 2020 at 12:00PM
New York officials tapped the reality television star to find masks for medical workers. She found a global bazaar of ex-cons and exaggerations.
Poor Americans Face Hurdles in Getting Promised Internet
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/technology/coronavirus-broadband-discounts.html
May 20, 2020 at 09:22PM
Broadband companies like Charter and Comcast vowed to help low-income people during the pandemic. But taking them up on the offer hasn’t always been easy.
May 20, 2020 at 09:22PM
Broadband companies like Charter and Comcast vowed to help low-income people during the pandemic. But taking them up on the offer hasn’t always been easy.
Not Everyone Hates Remote Learning. For These Students, It’s a Blessing.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/nyregion/coronavirus-students-schools.html
May 20, 2020 at 09:08PM
“At home, it seems to be a bit easier to focus on all the work,” said one eighth grader who was struggling in school. “Everything in general is easier.”
May 20, 2020 at 09:08PM
“At home, it seems to be a bit easier to focus on all the work,” said one eighth grader who was struggling in school. “Everything in general is easier.”
You Don’t Need Flying Cars to Save Lives
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/technology/you-dont-need-flying-cars-to-save-lives.html
May 20, 2020 at 08:40PM
Technology with potentially the biggest impact is often humdrum stuff that drags businesses and government agencies into the age of Google Maps and Zoom.
May 20, 2020 at 08:40PM
Technology with potentially the biggest impact is often humdrum stuff that drags businesses and government agencies into the age of Google Maps and Zoom.
How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/technology/plandemic-movie-youtube-facebook-coronavirus.html
May 20, 2020 at 12:00PM
Conspiracy theories about the pandemic have gained more traction than mainstream online events. Here’s how.
May 20, 2020 at 12:00PM
Conspiracy theories about the pandemic have gained more traction than mainstream online events. Here’s how.
A City Locks Down to Fight Coronavirus, but Robots Come and Go
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/technology/delivery-robots-coronavirus-milton-keynes.html
May 20, 2020 at 07:00AM
Like many other places, a community 50 miles outside London went into quarantine. A fleet of delivery robots has been helping with the groceries.
May 20, 2020 at 07:00AM
Like many other places, a community 50 miles outside London went into quarantine. A fleet of delivery robots has been helping with the groceries.
The Hot New Thing in Clubby Silicon Valley? An App Called Clubhouse
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/clubby-silicon-valley-app-clubhouse.html
May 20, 2020 at 02:10AM
For all the high-minded talk among techies, their new favorite app is an invite-only (so far) social network for mingling with one another.
May 20, 2020 at 02:10AM
For all the high-minded talk among techies, their new favorite app is an invite-only (so far) social network for mingling with one another.
‘Way Too Late’: Inside Amazon’s Biggest Outbreak
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/amazon-coronavirus-workers.html
May 20, 2020 at 12:53AM
A warehouse in the foothills of the Poconos has had more known Covid-19 cases than any of Amazon’s others after missing early opportunities to protect workers.
May 20, 2020 at 12:53AM
A warehouse in the foothills of the Poconos has had more known Covid-19 cases than any of Amazon’s others after missing early opportunities to protect workers.
U.S. Is Using Taiwan as a Pressure Point in Tech Fight With China
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/business/economy/china-taiwan-huawei-tsmc.html
May 19, 2020 at 11:21PM
The Trump administration is challenging Chinese access to Taiwan’s high-tech supply chain — and, by extension, Beijing’s influence over the island it claims as its territory.
May 19, 2020 at 11:21PM
The Trump administration is challenging Chinese access to Taiwan’s high-tech supply chain — and, by extension, Beijing’s influence over the island it claims as its territory.
Tesla Owners Try to Make Sense of Elon Musk’s ‘Red Pill’ Moment
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/elon-musk-tesla-red-pill.html
May 19, 2020 at 11:12PM
A liberal status symbol now has a founder who is moving to the right.
May 19, 2020 at 11:12PM
A liberal status symbol now has a founder who is moving to the right.
A Little E-Commerce Has Big Ripples
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/online-shopping-effects.html
May 19, 2020 at 08:07PM
Online shopping has changed our behavior, reordered the nature of work and challenged our cities.
May 19, 2020 at 08:07PM
Online shopping has changed our behavior, reordered the nature of work and challenged our cities.
Where Group Prayer Meets Group Fitness
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/style/religious-fitness-wellness-streaming-coronavirus.html
May 19, 2020 at 04:40PM
In the midst of a pandemic, faith-based wellness programs have been grounding for some religious followers.
May 19, 2020 at 04:40PM
In the midst of a pandemic, faith-based wellness programs have been grounding for some religious followers.
A.C.L.U. Warns Against Fever-Screening Tools for Coronavirus
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/health/coronavirus-aclu-fever.html
May 19, 2020 at 12:41PM
A report by the civil liberties group contends that reliance on thermal cameras and temperature-sensing guns to resume work at factories and offices and to encourage travel is flawed and intrusive.
May 19, 2020 at 12:41PM
A report by the civil liberties group contends that reliance on thermal cameras and temperature-sensing guns to resume work at factories and offices and to encourage travel is flawed and intrusive.
Disney's Head of Streaming, Kevin Mayer, Becomes TikTok C.E.O.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/business/media/tiktok-ceo-kevin-mayer.html
May 19, 2020 at 02:24AM
Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
May 19, 2020 at 02:24AM
Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
SoftBank in Crisis Amid Record Losses
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/technology/softbank-jack-ma.html
May 18, 2020 at 10:27PM
Its flagship tech fund is underwater, annual losses are huge and a key board member departed, as the firm faces the coronavirus and a tech slump.
May 18, 2020 at 10:27PM
Its flagship tech fund is underwater, annual losses are huge and a key board member departed, as the firm faces the coronavirus and a tech slump.
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Brain
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/technology/mark-zuckerberg-coronavirus.html
May 18, 2020 at 07:35PM
What Facebook’s C.E.O. is doing to confront the coronavirus — and what he’s afraid of.
May 18, 2020 at 07:35PM
What Facebook’s C.E.O. is doing to confront the coronavirus — and what he’s afraid of.
Rooms by the Hour for People Weary of Quarantine
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/style/rooms-by-the-hour.html
May 18, 2020 at 06:52PM
An app offering short-term rentals called Globe says demand is way up.
May 18, 2020 at 06:52PM
An app offering short-term rentals called Globe says demand is way up.
Coronavirus Contact Tracing Jobs Are on the Rise
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/health/coronavirus-contact-tracing-jobs.html
May 18, 2020 at 06:03PM
Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have been exposed to Covid-19. Here’s what it’s like.
May 18, 2020 at 06:03PM
Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have been exposed to Covid-19. Here’s what it’s like.
Friday, May 22, 2020
SpaceX Gets Go-Ahead for NASA Astronaut Launch Next Week
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/science/spacex-nasa-launch.html
May 23, 2020 at 12:39AM
The agency confirmed its mission was proceeding smoothly, but made the announcement amid the puzzling departure of a top NASA official.
May 23, 2020 at 12:39AM
The agency confirmed its mission was proceeding smoothly, but made the announcement amid the puzzling departure of a top NASA official.
Why All the Shouting About Google?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/technology/google-antitrust.html
May 22, 2020 at 08:17PM
Here’s the one question that matters: Does Google rig the system to squash its rivals and hurt us?
May 22, 2020 at 08:17PM
Here’s the one question that matters: Does Google rig the system to squash its rivals and hurt us?
Robots! (Don’t Get Too Excited.)
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/technology/robot-deliveries.html
May 21, 2020 at 07:25PM
Robots are cool. But we should be skeptical of emerging technology.
May 21, 2020 at 07:25PM
Robots are cool. But we should be skeptical of emerging technology.
Grandmother’s Refusal to Remove Photos From Facebook Tests Privacy Law
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/business/facebook-privacy-law-grandmother.html
May 22, 2020 at 06:10PM
A Dutch court ruled a woman violated Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation after refusing to take down photos of her grandchildren from social media.
May 22, 2020 at 06:10PM
A Dutch court ruled a woman violated Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation after refusing to take down photos of her grandchildren from social media.
Amazon Angles to Grab Back Customers
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/technology/amazon-coronavirus-target-walmart.html
May 22, 2020 at 05:29PM
After losing some online shoppers to rivals during the pandemic, the retail giant is turning back to faster shipping times and big sales.
May 22, 2020 at 05:29PM
After losing some online shoppers to rivals during the pandemic, the retail giant is turning back to faster shipping times and big sales.
Can You Gather With God Over Zoom?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/arts/quaker-meeting-zoom.html
May 22, 2020 at 12:00PM
Quakerism goes virtual, offering an intimate window into silent worship.
May 22, 2020 at 12:00PM
Quakerism goes virtual, offering an intimate window into silent worship.
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Facebook Starts Planning for Permanent Remote Workers
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/technology/facebook-remote-work-coronavirus.html
May 22, 2020 at 02:20AM
The move is a stark change from an office-centric culture. But there’s a catch: Salaries are likely to change to match local costs of living.
May 22, 2020 at 02:20AM
The move is a stark change from an office-centric culture. But there’s a catch: Salaries are likely to change to match local costs of living.
Tech Is a Citadel. Del Seymour Built a Drawbridge.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/style/del-seymour-tenderloin-san-francisco-tours-coronavirus.html
May 22, 2020 at 02:07AM
A former drug dealer whose nonprofit helped transform the Tenderloin district joins the front lines of San Francisco’s coronavirus response.
May 22, 2020 at 02:07AM
A former drug dealer whose nonprofit helped transform the Tenderloin district joins the front lines of San Francisco’s coronavirus response.
A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/technology/ben-shneiderman-automation-humans.html
May 21, 2020 at 10:09PM
A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention.
May 21, 2020 at 10:09PM
A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention.
Robots! (Don’t Get Too Excited.)
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/technology/robot-deliveries.html
May 21, 2020 at 07:25PM
Robots are cool. But we should be skeptical of emerging technology.
May 21, 2020 at 07:25PM
Robots are cool. But we should be skeptical of emerging technology.
Bethenny Frankel’s Dark Journey to Find Medical Masks
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/technology/bethenny-frankel-medical-masks-coronavirus.html
May 21, 2020 at 12:00PM
New York officials tapped the reality television star to find masks for medical workers. She found a global bazaar of ex-cons and exaggerations.
May 21, 2020 at 12:00PM
New York officials tapped the reality television star to find masks for medical workers. She found a global bazaar of ex-cons and exaggerations.
Delayed Moves, Poolside Videos and Postmates Spon: TikTok Collab Houses Today
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/style/tiktok-collab-houses-quarantine-coronavirus.html
May 21, 2020 at 12:00PM
Gen Z influencers are settling into life in a shuttered Los Angeles.
May 21, 2020 at 12:00PM
Gen Z influencers are settling into life in a shuttered Los Angeles.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Three Steps to Successful DevOps
Source: https://gigaom.com/2020/05/20/three-steps-to-successful-devops/
May 20, 2020 at 06:14PM
May 20, 2020 at 06:14PM
On a recent Voices in Innovation podcast, GigaOm’s VP of Research Jon Collins talked to Harbinder Kang, Global Head of Developer Operations at Finastra, about how to implement DevOps successfully in any organization. Harbinder outlined some fantastic tips based on his experiences working with global organizations and outlined an easy-to-follow three-step process for those just starting on their DevOps journey.
Below is a transcript of their conversation, edited for brevity and clarity, including all of Harbinder’s hints and recommendations:
Jon: Hi Harbinder, thanks for taking the time to chat with me today. What were your early experiences of development and how did you move to become an expert in DevOps?
Harbinder: I started out working at a startup in the fintech space with 50 people, selling enterprise software. At a startup you find yourself being thrown around trying different things: customer support, QA, build development, going on-site, and all the rest.
I found myself gravitating towards the whole build engineering release space before people called it DevOps. The project at the time had an Adhoc build Perl script, and we never had it working properly at any given time. And then I just decided to put continuous integration into place. So, I implemented Cruise Control over a weekend and brought CI to the project. I did a lot of projects after that. It kind of snowballed.
Along the way, I found myself in other areas of the delivery process: test automation, test strategies, understanding what it means to work within both a waterfall methodology and an Agile methodology. This leads to where I am now, being able to look at DevOps holistically for projects and understanding what it takes and what the business wants when it comes to transforming. Recently I’ve been working on Operational performance of production and what that means in the DevOps space, and the engineering practices it takes to make highly available software.
Jon: You stand on one side of the development process, asking ‘how can we make this better’?
Harbinder: Yeah, and I’ve learned to work with stakeholders beyond the development group: the R & D group and the operations group also. Where I am now, for example, implementing
continuous delivery practices, you need to work with the larger enterprise, you need to work with heavyweight processes and controls, you want to be able to push to production on a daily basis. You can’t ignore those elements of the organization. Today, although it’s far more holistic with the teams I work with to achieve those goals, it’s still essentially the same process.
Jon: Where do you start and what do you see as the key elements of pain your organization still faces?
Harbinder: The approach I like to take is a holistic view first. In my role now I’m more top-down at least to start with. I use two tools for this:
- The Metrics You Find in the State of DevOps Report
DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics allow me to have a very balanced conversation with both engineering and the business. It puts tension at the right points between throughput and stability.
So you can have a discussion with development, and they’ll be asking for a build that runs in nanoseconds. Then you could talk to a change approval team: they want change approval boards and they’ll make you wait a week before you push into production because it’s all about stability.
Using these metrics helps the business understand what it actually wants to do and helps to focus on system-level outcomes. If you don’t do that I’ve found you can fall into common pitfalls: you can use metrics that optimise locally, at the cost of an overall outcome, and they don’t end up linking back to business outcomes. I’ve found it a good framework to use as the foundation for improvement.
- Value Stream Maps
They allow us to take a step back, forget the technology, the process and the people for a second, and just map out what’s going on and discover what the set of constraints are that are actually affecting us, rather than anecdotally what we feel may be the case.
We begin to pick up where the biggest waste exists and it may not necessarily be where stakeholders ask you to focus.
It will also break a siloed approach to thinking, because by necessity you are going to different stakeholders across the value stream and getting different versions of the value stream. You then put it all together into a consistent view.
From there we get into: “This is where we are, what do we want to do?”:
- Is this long-lived software where we just look to optimise margins and profitability and productivity, where there is no goal to change the software architecture investment, where we are optimizing and the technical debt isn’t going to change?
- Or is it a new project, where the organization has aspirations for growth, there is ideation, and the organization wants internet scale, continuous delivery and the system to be available at all times.
- In the middle, you’ve got products that have been successful in one model, typically software that was sold in a licencing situation and the client has an aspiration of moving it across into a managed service and that’s a really interesting challenge at that point.
I’ve found using this framework allows me to attack all three of these problems.
In DevOps, there’s a set of constraints you need to be aware of, within what you need to do, and it’s not always in your hands in terms of the outcomes the business wants. For example, you can throw all the DevOps tooling and automation at a product, but if it’s a very lumpy, heavily customized product, there’s only so far you’re going to get in operational performance if you’re not looking at the cost of ownership: it may not be a profitable model. It’s a very nuanced conversation.
Jon: This is fascinating. It’s about how to make sure value continues to be delivered over time. Getting stakeholders on the side at all is a big challenge for many in DevOps, so what would you say to organizations who really really struggle with even starting conversations?
Harbinder: Working across the business there are places where that conversation is still a sticking point and there are projects where the stakeholders have got past that point and have aspirations for change.
It boils down to that, but there’s also a lot of projects in the middle. I’ve found technology is not the hard part, engineering human behavior is a lot harder to navigate. So, I think the approach has to be the same in each case. There has to be a level of buy-in: if it doesn’t exist, you’re dead on arrival and are setting yourself up for failure. These conversations have to be had.
Executive sponsorship in a large enterprise is very important. If you are trying to enact this change at too low a level of seniority without exec sponsorship you can’t force the issue. And ultimately I’ve found, having worked with executives that buy into this and those that don’t, I find them to be the one compelling factor. Some executives say: Why do I want to change things? If you can shift the attitude to: let’s do this, I want to work with you. Once they start engaging and having conversations about what needs to be better, the flood gates open. I have the privilege of working at the moment with a CTO at the moment who gets this, evangelizes this, and facilitates this. Without that, you’re not going to be successful.
Jon: The Value Stream Mapping technique could be a really powerful way of both gaining executive buy-in, because you can say: look this is what it looks like and this is what we want to do. Building on that you can illustrate the power of change and demonstrate where you have improved business outcomes by improving the value stream?
Harbinder: The Value Stream is a great way to talk to the business, it takes the jargon out of the conversation, it doesn’t require you to understand the technicalities, it lets you have a very balanced conversation that is very easy to understand.
On the other hand, the DORA Metrics are a great way to start talking to engineering and other teams about a balanced approach to delivery. The DORA Metrics are a great acid test as well for the business side of the house, to see if they get it or not. Do those metrics resonate with them or not? It’s a great way to test if the business is ready to have that conversation in addition to any value stream mapping you’ve been doing.
Jon: You mentioned the shifting left, starting to get into deciding what to do in the first place and then making sure you are doing the correct thing and doing it across development and engineering. In your experience what lessons can be learned, what can operational engineering gain particularly in this world of container engineering, how far right can we go?
Harbinder: We tackle this a lot at the moment.
I believe a mature DevOps model is one in which you are able to collapse it all the way down to service teams owning their feature from cradle to grave and taking responsibility for it while it lives in production and defending its availability.
I’ve been very fortunate recently to realize that site reliability practices help start that conversation. These are the questions you start to answer:
- Do you understand your service level objectives for your service on a regular, say weekly, basis?
- Do you understand how you are adhering to that, what are the fluctuations of that?
- Are you established enough to have an error budget for that place, once you do, do you govern yourself by it?
- Do you pace your feature development in balance with your operational performance?
- If you start exceeding your error budgets are you rebalancing in favor of stability?
And once those same engineers are the ones responding to those incidents to avoid customer impact, the conversations become so relevant to them. They suddenly want:
- To bring in engineering practices to make their lives easier
- Good monitoring practices
- A good incident response platform
- Blameless post-mortems that allow them to learn and build resilience into this system
Those conversations are so much easier to have when service teams own production. They are accountable, but ideally, you need to support them with, for example, a cloud operations team. But the difference is that the cloud operations team isn’t the first one to take the call, the service team is, and if they need help, they go to the cloud operations team. It’s more the shift in responsibility, they will always need other teams’ support, but they’re on call.
Jon: Given everything we’ve talked about, from all your years of experience, what’s the key that unlocks everything around sponsorship, around best practice, around understanding the right metrics?
Harbinder: There are three steps:
- Make sure you’re having a holistic conversation, that acknowledges all the needs and definitions of value within the organization.
- Be top down with your approach – have the conversation with different stakeholders, gauge appetite for change, be realistic if it’s going to happen or not.
- Form communities bottom up – I strongly believe in community practices, guilds, coalescing around topics of improving and sprouting change, using open-source, proof of concepts and giving people the chance to fail, so they have a space where they can try to do things better, then try to connect the two.
I think, ultimately, you need to find the excuse to bring DevOps into your organization that is compelling to those at the top and at the bottom.
However you do that – Agile implementations, Cloud Adoption, New product launches – seek out the opportunities to start the conversation and anchor yourself to them.
You can listen to the entire conversation here.
Where Group Prayer Meets Group Fitness
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/style/religious-fitness-wellness-streaming-coronavirus.html
May 19, 2020 at 04:40PM
In the midst of a pandemic, faith-based wellness programs have been grounding for some religious followers.
May 19, 2020 at 04:40PM
In the midst of a pandemic, faith-based wellness programs have been grounding for some religious followers.
A.C.L.U. Warns Against Fever-Screening Tools for Coronavirus
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/health/coronavirus-aclu-fever.html
May 19, 2020 at 12:41PM
A report by the civil liberties group contends that reliance on thermal cameras and temperature-sensing guns to resume work at factories and offices and to encourage travel is flawed and intrusive.
May 19, 2020 at 12:41PM
A report by the civil liberties group contends that reliance on thermal cameras and temperature-sensing guns to resume work at factories and offices and to encourage travel is flawed and intrusive.
Disney's Head of Streaming, Kevin Mayer, Becomes TikTok C.E.O.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/business/media/tiktok-ceo-kevin-mayer.html
May 19, 2020 at 02:24AM
Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
May 19, 2020 at 02:24AM
Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
SoftBank in Crisis Amid Record Losses
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/technology/softbank-jack-ma.html
May 18, 2020 at 10:27PM
Its flagship tech fund is underwater, annual losses are huge and a key board member departed, as the firm faces the coronavirus and a tech slump.
May 18, 2020 at 10:27PM
Its flagship tech fund is underwater, annual losses are huge and a key board member departed, as the firm faces the coronavirus and a tech slump.
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Brain
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/technology/mark-zuckerberg-coronavirus.html
May 18, 2020 at 07:35PM
What Facebook’s C.E.O. is doing to confront the coronavirus — and what he’s afraid of.
May 18, 2020 at 07:35PM
What Facebook’s C.E.O. is doing to confront the coronavirus — and what he’s afraid of.
Rooms by the Hour for People Weary of Quarantine
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/style/rooms-by-the-hour.html
May 18, 2020 at 06:52PM
An app offering short-term rentals called Globe says demand is way up.
May 18, 2020 at 06:52PM
An app offering short-term rentals called Globe says demand is way up.
Coronavirus Contact Tracing Jobs Are on the Rise
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/health/coronavirus-contact-tracing-jobs.html
May 18, 2020 at 06:03PM
Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have been exposed to Covid-19. Here’s what it’s like.
May 18, 2020 at 06:03PM
Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have been exposed to Covid-19. Here’s what it’s like.
Now More Than Ever, Facebook Is a ‘Mark Zuckerberg Production’
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/technology/zuckerberg-facebook-coronavirus.html
May 16, 2020 at 12:00PM
For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others. Then Facebook’s problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.
May 16, 2020 at 12:00PM
For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others. Then Facebook’s problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.
U.S. Is Said to Plan to File Antitrust Charges Against Google
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/technology/google-antitrust-investigation.html
May 16, 2020 at 04:19AM
The case may be joined by state attorneys general in what would be one of the biggest antitrust actions by the United States since the late 1990s.
May 16, 2020 at 04:19AM
The case may be joined by state attorneys general in what would be one of the biggest antitrust actions by the United States since the late 1990s.
Amazon Makes No Promises on Bezos Testimony
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/technology/jeff-bezos-amazon-testimony-congress.html
May 16, 2020 at 02:36AM
The company said it would be happy to send someone to testify. But it never mentions Jeff Bezos.
May 16, 2020 at 02:36AM
The company said it would be happy to send someone to testify. But it never mentions Jeff Bezos.
Get Ready for a Covid-19 Vaccine Information War
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/coronavirus-vaccine-disinformation.html
May 15, 2020 at 10:48PM
Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
May 15, 2020 at 10:48PM
Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
Using Tech to Teach — Smartly
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/technology/coronavirus-distance-learning.html
May 15, 2020 at 07:30PM
Technology — if we keep it in its place — can empower creative teachers to shine.
May 15, 2020 at 07:30PM
Technology — if we keep it in its place — can empower creative teachers to shine.
T.S.M.C. Is Set to Build a U.S. Chip Facility, a Win for Trump
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/trump-tsmc-us-chip-facility.html
May 15, 2020 at 06:19AM
The White House has called for building up U.S. manufacturing and criticized a tech supply chain centered in China.
May 15, 2020 at 06:19AM
The White House has called for building up U.S. manufacturing and criticized a tech supply chain centered in China.
Amazon’s Showdown in France Tests Its Ability to Sidestep Labor
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/amazon-unions-france-coronavirus.html
May 15, 2020 at 02:01AM
The pandemic has intensified the push-pull between labor and the retail giant, which is required by European law to deal with unions — and has prospered anyway.
May 15, 2020 at 02:01AM
The pandemic has intensified the push-pull between labor and the retail giant, which is required by European law to deal with unions — and has prospered anyway.
China’s ‘OK Boomer’: Generations Clash Over the Nation’s Future
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/china-bilibili-generation-youth.html
May 15, 2020 at 12:05AM
A commercial extolling Chinese youths has set off a debate over whether they are too nationalistic — and their prospects too limited — for the country’s good.
May 15, 2020 at 12:05AM
A commercial extolling Chinese youths has set off a debate over whether they are too nationalistic — and their prospects too limited — for the country’s good.
Helping the Environment, One Small Sensor at a Time
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/climate/environment-sensor-technology.html
May 14, 2020 at 11:13PM
New York City nonprofits are using a cloud-based service from the start-up Temboo that helps monitor storm-water runoff and other environmental factors.
May 14, 2020 at 11:13PM
New York City nonprofits are using a cloud-based service from the start-up Temboo that helps monitor storm-water runoff and other environmental factors.
The Joys of Fixing Your Own Stuff
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/fixing-gadgets-diy.html
May 14, 2020 at 07:29PM
With jobs lost and stores closed, people are now reviving their old gadgets on their own.
May 14, 2020 at 07:29PM
With jobs lost and stores closed, people are now reviving their old gadgets on their own.
TikTok Broke Privacy Promises, Children’s Groups Say
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/tiktok-kids-privacy.html
May 14, 2020 at 07:00AM
Twenty consumer groups said the video app had failed to make some changes it agreed to carry out last year to settle federal charges.
May 14, 2020 at 07:00AM
Twenty consumer groups said the video app had failed to make some changes it agreed to carry out last year to settle federal charges.
Watch These Rover Models Wiggle Out of Alien Sand Traps
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/science/nasa-rovers.html
May 14, 2020 at 06:03AM
A choreography of swimming, walking and rolling could help future rovers avoid getting stuck in loose soil on the moon or Mars.
May 14, 2020 at 06:03AM
A choreography of swimming, walking and rolling could help future rovers avoid getting stuck in loose soil on the moon or Mars.
Where Is My Driverless Car?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/driverless-cars.html
May 13, 2020 at 07:44PM
The technology is tricky, and driverless cars may never fix all the problems we hoped they would.
May 13, 2020 at 07:44PM
The technology is tricky, and driverless cars may never fix all the problems we hoped they would.
Two New Cars, Designed From the Inside Out
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/business/byton-canoo-ev.html
May 13, 2020 at 01:00PM
Byton and Canoo offer radically distinct approaches to the way cars work for their owners. Canoo even does away with the idea of ownership.
May 13, 2020 at 01:00PM
Byton and Canoo offer radically distinct approaches to the way cars work for their owners. Canoo even does away with the idea of ownership.
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
The Hot New Thing in Clubby Silicon Valley? An App Called Clubhouse
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/clubby-silicon-valley-app-clubhouse.html
May 19, 2020 at 11:38PM
For all the high-minded talk among techies, their new favorite app is an invite-only (so far) social network for mingling with one another.
May 19, 2020 at 11:38PM
For all the high-minded talk among techies, their new favorite app is an invite-only (so far) social network for mingling with one another.
Tesla Owners Try to Make Sense of Elon Musk’s ‘Red Pill’ Moment
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/19/technology/elon-musk-tesla-red-pill.html
May 19, 2020 at 11:12PM
A liberal status symbol now has a founder who is moving to the right.
May 19, 2020 at 11:12PM
A liberal status symbol now has a founder who is moving to the right.
Monday, May 18, 2020
SoftBank in Crisis Amid Record Losses
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/17/technology/softbank-jack-ma.html
May 18, 2020 at 10:27PM
Its flagship tech fund is underwater, annual losses are huge and a key board member departed, as the firm faces the coronavirus and a tech slump.
May 18, 2020 at 10:27PM
Its flagship tech fund is underwater, annual losses are huge and a key board member departed, as the firm faces the coronavirus and a tech slump.
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Brain
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/technology/mark-zuckerberg-coronavirus.html
May 18, 2020 at 07:35PM
What Facebook’s C.E.O. is doing to confront the coronavirus — and what he’s afraid of.
May 18, 2020 at 07:35PM
What Facebook’s C.E.O. is doing to confront the coronavirus — and what he’s afraid of.
Rooms by the Hour for People Weary of Quarantine
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/style/rooms-by-the-hour.html
May 18, 2020 at 06:52PM
An app offering short-term rentals called Globe says demand is way up.
May 18, 2020 at 06:52PM
An app offering short-term rentals called Globe says demand is way up.
Coronavirus Contact Tracing Jobs Are on the Rise
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/health/coronavirus-contact-tracing-jobs.html
May 18, 2020 at 06:03PM
Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have been exposed to Covid-19. Here’s what it’s like.
May 18, 2020 at 06:03PM
Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have been exposed to Covid-19. Here’s what it’s like.
Now More Than Ever, Facebook Is a ‘Mark Zuckerberg Production’
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/technology/zuckerberg-facebook-coronavirus.html
May 16, 2020 at 12:00PM
For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others. Then Facebook’s problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.
May 16, 2020 at 12:00PM
For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others. Then Facebook’s problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.
U.S. Is Said to Plan to File Antitrust Charges Against Google
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/technology/google-antitrust-investigation.html
May 16, 2020 at 04:19AM
The case may be joined by state attorneys general in what would be one of the biggest antitrust actions by the United States since the late 1990s.
May 16, 2020 at 04:19AM
The case may be joined by state attorneys general in what would be one of the biggest antitrust actions by the United States since the late 1990s.
Amazon Makes No Promises on Bezos Testimony
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/technology/jeff-bezos-amazon-testimony-congress.html
May 16, 2020 at 02:36AM
The company said it would be happy to send someone to testify. But it never mentions Jeff Bezos.
May 16, 2020 at 02:36AM
The company said it would be happy to send someone to testify. But it never mentions Jeff Bezos.
‘Double Rainbow Guy’ Paul Vasquez Is Dead at 57
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/style/double-rainbow-paul-vasquez-dead.html
May 16, 2020 at 12:50AM
His unbridled joy at the sight of two concentric rainbows made him a YouTube star.
May 16, 2020 at 12:50AM
His unbridled joy at the sight of two concentric rainbows made him a YouTube star.
Get Ready for a Covid-19 Vaccine Information War
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/coronavirus-vaccine-disinformation.html
May 15, 2020 at 10:48PM
Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
May 15, 2020 at 10:48PM
Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
Using Tech to Teach — Smartly
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/technology/coronavirus-distance-learning.html
May 15, 2020 at 07:30PM
Technology — if we keep it in its place — can empower creative teachers to shine.
May 15, 2020 at 07:30PM
Technology — if we keep it in its place — can empower creative teachers to shine.
T.S.M.C. Is Set to Build a U.S. Chip Facility, a Win for Trump
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/trump-tsmc-us-chip-facility.html
May 15, 2020 at 06:19AM
The White House has called for building up U.S. manufacturing and criticized a tech supply chain centered in China.
May 15, 2020 at 06:19AM
The White House has called for building up U.S. manufacturing and criticized a tech supply chain centered in China.
Amazon’s Showdown in France Tests Its Ability to Sidestep Labor
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/amazon-unions-france-coronavirus.html
May 15, 2020 at 02:01AM
The pandemic has intensified the push-pull between labor and the retail giant, which is required by European law to deal with unions — and has prospered anyway.
May 15, 2020 at 02:01AM
The pandemic has intensified the push-pull between labor and the retail giant, which is required by European law to deal with unions — and has prospered anyway.
China’s ‘OK Boomer’: Generations Clash Over the Nation’s Future
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/china-bilibili-generation-youth.html
May 15, 2020 at 12:05AM
A commercial extolling Chinese youths has set off a debate over whether they are too nationalistic — and their prospects too limited — for the country’s good.
May 15, 2020 at 12:05AM
A commercial extolling Chinese youths has set off a debate over whether they are too nationalistic — and their prospects too limited — for the country’s good.
Helping the Environment, One Small Sensor at a Time
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/climate/environment-sensor-technology.html
May 14, 2020 at 11:13PM
New York City nonprofits are using a cloud-based service from the start-up Temboo that helps monitor storm-water runoff and other environmental factors.
May 14, 2020 at 11:13PM
New York City nonprofits are using a cloud-based service from the start-up Temboo that helps monitor storm-water runoff and other environmental factors.
The Joys of Fixing Your Own Stuff
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/fixing-gadgets-diy.html
May 14, 2020 at 07:29PM
With jobs lost and stores closed, people are now reviving their old gadgets on their own.
May 14, 2020 at 07:29PM
With jobs lost and stores closed, people are now reviving their old gadgets on their own.
TikTok Broke Privacy Promises, Children’s Groups Say
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/tiktok-kids-privacy.html
May 14, 2020 at 07:00AM
Twenty consumer groups said the video app had failed to make some changes it agreed to carry out last year to settle federal charges.
May 14, 2020 at 07:00AM
Twenty consumer groups said the video app had failed to make some changes it agreed to carry out last year to settle federal charges.
Watch These Rover Models Wiggle Out of Alien Sand Traps
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/science/nasa-rovers.html
May 14, 2020 at 06:03AM
A choreography of swimming, walking and rolling could help future rovers avoid getting stuck in loose soil on the moon or Mars.
May 14, 2020 at 06:03AM
A choreography of swimming, walking and rolling could help future rovers avoid getting stuck in loose soil on the moon or Mars.
Where Is My Driverless Car?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/driverless-cars.html
May 13, 2020 at 07:44PM
The technology is tricky, and driverless cars may never fix all the problems we hoped they would.
May 13, 2020 at 07:44PM
The technology is tricky, and driverless cars may never fix all the problems we hoped they would.
Two New Cars, Designed From the Inside Out
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/business/byton-canoo-ev.html
May 13, 2020 at 01:00PM
Byton and Canoo offer radically distinct approaches to the way cars work for their owners. Canoo even does away with the idea of ownership.
May 13, 2020 at 01:00PM
Byton and Canoo offer radically distinct approaches to the way cars work for their owners. Canoo even does away with the idea of ownership.
A Flower Shop Reinvented to Reopen
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/business/coronavirus-small-business-california-reopening.html
May 13, 2020 at 01:08AM
How a small florist in Oakland, Calif., navigated a minefield of rules to sell on the make-or-break Mother’s Day weekend.
May 13, 2020 at 01:08AM
How a small florist in Oakland, Calif., navigated a minefield of rules to sell on the make-or-break Mother’s Day weekend.
Uber Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Grubhub
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/technology/uber-grubhub-deal.html
May 13, 2020 at 01:01AM
A deal would unite two large players in food delivery as more people order in meals during the pandemic.
May 13, 2020 at 01:01AM
A deal would unite two large players in food delivery as more people order in meals during the pandemic.
Making Workplaces ‘Safe,’ and Weird
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/technology/making-workplaces-safe-and-weird.html
May 12, 2020 at 09:37PM
Businesses are using safety technologies to try to protect employees. But they may not work.
May 12, 2020 at 09:37PM
Businesses are using safety technologies to try to protect employees. But they may not work.
This Was Supposed to Be the Year Driverless Cars Went Mainstream
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/technology/self-driving-cars-coronavirus.html
May 12, 2020 at 07:49PM
Perfecting the technology has taken longer than expected. The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult.
May 12, 2020 at 07:49PM
Perfecting the technology has taken longer than expected. The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult.
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Brain
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/technology/mark-zuckerberg-coronavirus.html
May 18, 2020 at 07:35PM
What Facebook’s C.E.O. is doing to confront the coronavirus — and what he’s afraid of.
May 18, 2020 at 07:35PM
What Facebook’s C.E.O. is doing to confront the coronavirus — and what he’s afraid of.
Rooms by the Hour for People Weary of Quarantine
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/style/rooms-by-the-hour.html
May 18, 2020 at 06:52PM
An app offering short-term rentals called Globe says demand is way up.
May 18, 2020 at 06:52PM
An app offering short-term rentals called Globe says demand is way up.
Coronavirus Contact Tracing Jobs Are on the Rise
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/health/coronavirus-contact-tracing-jobs.html
May 18, 2020 at 04:55PM
Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have been exposed to Covid-19. Here’s what it’s like.
May 18, 2020 at 04:55PM
Tens of thousands of people across the United States have applied for the job of cold-calling strangers who may have been exposed to Covid-19. Here’s what it’s like.
seo क्या है और इसे क्यों use करते हैं
Source: http://digitalmediabulletin.com/2020/05/17/seo-kya-hai/
May 17, 2020 at 09:03PM
वैसे तो ज़्यदातर लोग seo के नाम से अच्छे से परिचित होंगे seo मतलब search engine optimization मतलब seo एक ऐसा साधन है जिसकी मदद से हम किसी website या blog को ऑप्टिमाइज़ करके गूगल या किसी सर्च इंजन में...
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May 17, 2020 at 09:03PM
वैसे तो ज़्यदातर लोग seo के नाम से अच्छे से परिचित होंगे seo मतलब search engine optimization मतलब seo एक ऐसा साधन है जिसकी मदद से हम किसी website या blog को ऑप्टिमाइज़ करके गूगल या किसी सर्च इंजन में...
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Sunday, May 17, 2020
seo क्या है और इसे क्यों use करते हैं
Source: http://digitalmediabulletin.com/2020/05/17/seo-kya-hai/
May 17, 2020 at 09:03PM
वैसे तो ज़्यदातर लोग seo के नाम से अच्छे से परिचित होंगे seo मतलब search engine optimization मतलब seo एक ऐसा साधन है जिसकी मदद से हम किसी website या blog को ऑप्टिमाइज़ करके गूगल या किसी सर्च इंजन में...
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May 17, 2020 at 09:03PM
वैसे तो ज़्यदातर लोग seo के नाम से अच्छे से परिचित होंगे seo मतलब search engine optimization मतलब seo एक ऐसा साधन है जिसकी मदद से हम किसी website या blog को ऑप्टिमाइज़ करके गूगल या किसी सर्च इंजन में...
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Saturday, May 16, 2020
Now More Than Ever, Facebook Is a ‘Mark Zuckerberg Production’
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/technology/zuckerberg-facebook-coronavirus.html
May 16, 2020 at 12:00PM
For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others. Then Facebook’s problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.
May 16, 2020 at 12:00PM
For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others. Then Facebook’s problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.
Friday, May 15, 2020
U.S. Is Said to Plan to File Antitrust Charges Against Google
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/technology/google-antitrust-investigation.html
May 16, 2020 at 04:19AM
The case may be joined by state attorneys general in what would be one of the biggest antitrust actions by the United States since the late 1990s.
May 16, 2020 at 04:19AM
The case may be joined by state attorneys general in what would be one of the biggest antitrust actions by the United States since the late 1990s.
Amazon Makes No Promises on Bezos Testimony
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/technology/jeff-bezos-amazon-testimony-congress.html
May 16, 2020 at 02:36AM
The company said it would be happy to send someone to testify. But it never mentions Jeff Bezos.
May 16, 2020 at 02:36AM
The company said it would be happy to send someone to testify. But it never mentions Jeff Bezos.
U.S. Delivers Another Blow to Huawei With New Tech Restrictions
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/business/economy/commerce-department-huawei.html
May 15, 2020 at 08:19PM
New rules announced by the Commerce Department Friday morning threaten to inflict more pain on Huawei and upset an already rocky U.S.-China relationship.
May 15, 2020 at 08:19PM
New rules announced by the Commerce Department Friday morning threaten to inflict more pain on Huawei and upset an already rocky U.S.-China relationship.
Using Tech to Teach — Smartly
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/technology/coronavirus-distance-learning.html
May 15, 2020 at 07:30PM
Technology — if we keep it in its place — can empower creative teachers to shine.
May 15, 2020 at 07:30PM
Technology — if we keep it in its place — can empower creative teachers to shine.
Thursday, May 14, 2020
T.S.M.C. Is Set to Build a U.S. Chip Facility, a Win for Trump
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/trump-tsmc-us-chip-facility.html
May 15, 2020 at 02:10AM
The White House has called for building up U.S. manufacturing and criticized a tech supply chain centered in China.
May 15, 2020 at 02:10AM
The White House has called for building up U.S. manufacturing and criticized a tech supply chain centered in China.
Amazon’s Showdown in France Tests Its Ability to Sidestep Labor
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/amazon-unions-france-coronavirus.html
May 14, 2020 at 09:04PM
The pandemic has intensified the push-pull between labor and the retail giant, which is required by European law to deal with unions — and has prospered anyway.
May 14, 2020 at 09:04PM
The pandemic has intensified the push-pull between labor and the retail giant, which is required by European law to deal with unions — and has prospered anyway.
Get Ready for a Covid-19 Vaccine Information War
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/coronavirus-vaccine-disinformation.html
May 13, 2020 at 09:07PM
Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
May 13, 2020 at 09:07PM
Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
The Joys of Fixing Your Own Stuff
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/fixing-gadgets-diy.html
May 14, 2020 at 07:29PM
With jobs lost and stores closed, people are now reviving their old gadgets on their own.
May 14, 2020 at 07:29PM
With jobs lost and stores closed, people are now reviving their old gadgets on their own.
China’s ‘OK Boomer’: Generations Clash Over the Nation’s Future
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/china-bilibili-generation-youth.html
May 14, 2020 at 10:06AM
A commercial extolling Chinese youths has set off a debate over whether they are too nationalistic — and their prospects too limited — for the country’s good.
May 14, 2020 at 10:06AM
A commercial extolling Chinese youths has set off a debate over whether they are too nationalistic — and their prospects too limited — for the country’s good.
TikTok Broke Privacy Promises, Children’s Groups Say
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/tiktok-kids-privacy.html
May 14, 2020 at 07:00AM
Twenty consumer groups said the video app had failed to make some changes it agreed to carry out last year to settle federal charges.
May 14, 2020 at 07:00AM
Twenty consumer groups said the video app had failed to make some changes it agreed to carry out last year to settle federal charges.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
How NASA’s Future Rovers Might Escape Alien Sand Traps
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/science/nasa-rovers.html
May 14, 2020 at 01:20AM
A choreography of swimming, walking and rolling could help future rovers avoid getting stuck in loose soil on the moon or Mars.
May 14, 2020 at 01:20AM
A choreography of swimming, walking and rolling could help future rovers avoid getting stuck in loose soil on the moon or Mars.
Why Should You Bother with Value Stream Management?
Source: https://gigaom.com/2020/05/07/why-should-you-bother-with-value-stream-management/
May 07, 2020 at 04:22PM
May 07, 2020 at 04:22PM
What is Value Stream Management?
Value Stream Management (VSM) is the TLA du jour among software development tools, so is it relevant to your organization? We can separate this question into three parts: philosophy, approach, and benefits. First, a bit of history: like so many dev practices, the term originated in manufacturing, specifically lean engineering. The core principle is to consider not only a process as a whole, but also each step, in terms of the value it brings. It should be possible to log not only the benefits (e.g. features built, problems solved) but also the costs, measured as time spent, people/hand-offs involved, and so on.
The relevance to DevOps pipelines and approaches may be self-evident to organizations looking to scale their efforts. DevOps is used by many enterprises as an innovation mechanism, based on a belief that iterative, continuous, fast delivery is key to success. But scaling DevOps across the organization comes with pitfalls, including loss of efficiency, a lack of coordination between stakeholders, increased bottlenecks, and prioritization difficulties. All of which can hold back deployment, and undermine the very reason for doing DevOps in the first place.
Enter VSM, which can help to achieve more consistent and productive pipelines. The core notion is to think of activities across development and operations in terms of a ‘value stream’ (rather than a pipeline or workflow), in which value should be measurable, and maximized, at every stage. This enables bottlenecks to be identified from a tactical perspective, plus the overall process can be assessed in terms of hand-offs, repetition, and other criteria, enabling it to be improved as a whole.
What Does This Mean in Practice?
Key to the success of Value Stream management is measuring the DevOps pipeline in terms of how well it meets the needs of its users and customers. It helps DevOps managers measure what is important, in terms of pipeline efficiency, effectiveness of results, and overall business value. In addition, it enables and encourages that all-important link between technology and business decision-makers, as they look to collaborate, set priorities, and drive delivery.
From a principles and tooling perspective, VSM incorporates the following aspects:
- Value Stream Mapping: modeling the steps of a pipeline in a measurable fashion, for example using a graphical tool
- Value Stream Efficiency: measuring pipeline steps, pulling in information to identify bottlenecks across development, testing, and deployment
- Value Stream Effectiveness: creating measures and dashboards that link to return on investment (ROI), customer satisfaction, and other business-facing criteria
Who Can Use VSM and What Can it Achieve?
If you’re wondering what VSM could achieve for you and your organization, we’ve outlined a few stakeholder-specific cases below.
Chief Information Officers (CIO)
What can it achieve? If you are looking to deliver on a board-level strategy of digital transformation, VSM enables you to offer a constructive response to board strategy, while keeping atop of decision making.
How can you achieve it? Show how VSM can deliver on both agility and governance, demonstrating value without undermining the potential for innovation. CIOs can use VSM as a route to remove risk and increase control of technology-based innovation in the face of consumerization and Shadow IT.
Business Leaders
What can it achieve? If you need to drive more effectiveness from your technology investments, VSM offers a conduit to conversations around measurable software delivery, based on business outcomes
How can you achieve it? Engage with the IT teams and work together to deliver both efficiency and effectiveness using VSM and agree on delivery metrics that link to key areas of business strategy such as growth or customer experience.
IT Development or IT Operations Leaders
What can it achieve? VSM can increase efficiency, freeing up time and money from process overheads, which can be better spent on innovation goals.
How can you achieve it? VSM can be a way to request more structure and control in the development process, reducing the level of conflict across the deployment wall. Consider tools and mechanisms that can deliver management information both in terms of process efficiency and resulting business impact. Also, find different ways to present information to different stakeholder groups, enabling intercommunication and supporting broader decision making.
Adopting a Staged Approach
Different organization types can view and deploy VSM according to their own experience and maturity. For example:
- Enterprises with early-stage DevOps practice can use VSM to set out a framework for DevOps best practice, which can then be replicated across the organization as additional departments and projects adopt it. For these organizations, we would advise deploying the minimum necessary VSM mechanisms you need to start DevOps on the right foot, implementing an approach that builds in process efficiency measurement and business value from the outset.
- Mature DevOps organizations, and organizations that have implemented DevOps across development and operations, can use VSM to achieve greater efficiency and governance. For these organizations, you can use VSM to define core processes and toolchains to meet your needs, consolidating existing DevOps toolchains and practices. VSM can also drive automation decisions for testing, security, and governance aspects of the DevOps cycle, so you can justify the spend on tools via overall cost savings.
Conclusion
“Value” has many meanings, and by following a process that defines what it means for different parts of your organization, you will build a better understanding of your development process and its value to your whole business. This is no silver bullet: by breaking down development and deployment into discrete steps, VSM can help you make small changes that incrementally improve production and development processes. These adjustments can be easy to implement, but, repeated throughout an organization, can create exponential improvement.
These techniques can lead to better efficiency and good governance, which can create a huge variety of positive outcomes for an organization. Happier customers, bigger profits, higher productivity, happier staff, and better internal communication can all be by-products of using VSM. Note however that while VSM tools enable organizations to collate, and visualize information, it is equally important to have a business-facing, value-oriented mindset across the software delivery process and beyond.
You can read more about VSM in our report Research Byte: Value Stream Management. And stay tuned – we’re producing a Key Criteria Report and Radar to help you set strategy and evaluate vendors. If you have any questions or feedback, you can find the author, Jon Collins, on Twitter.
Get Ready for a Covid-19 Vaccine Information War
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/coronavirus-vaccine-disinformation.html
May 13, 2020 at 09:07PM
Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
May 13, 2020 at 09:07PM
Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a Covid-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists.
Where Is My Driverless Car?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/driverless-cars.html
May 13, 2020 at 07:44PM
The technology is tricky, and driverless cars may never fix all the problems we hoped they would.
May 13, 2020 at 07:44PM
The technology is tricky, and driverless cars may never fix all the problems we hoped they would.
What Pandemic Scams Are People Falling For
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/technology/personaltech/pandemic-scams.html
May 13, 2020 at 12:00PM
Fraudsters see opportunities to target us in these uncertain times. Here are their most popular schemes and how we can protect ourselves.
May 13, 2020 at 12:00PM
Fraudsters see opportunities to target us in these uncertain times. Here are their most popular schemes and how we can protect ourselves.
Two New Cars, Designed From the Inside Out
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/business/byton-canoo-ev.html
May 13, 2020 at 01:00PM
Byton and Canoo offer radically distinct approaches to the way cars work for their owners. Canoo even does away with the idea of ownership.
May 13, 2020 at 01:00PM
Byton and Canoo offer radically distinct approaches to the way cars work for their owners. Canoo even does away with the idea of ownership.
Helping the Environment, One Small Sensor at a Time
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/climate/environment-sensor-technology.html
May 13, 2020 at 12:00PM
New York City nonprofits are using a cloud-based service from the start-up Temboo that helps monitor storm-water runoff and other environmental factors.
May 13, 2020 at 12:00PM
New York City nonprofits are using a cloud-based service from the start-up Temboo that helps monitor storm-water runoff and other environmental factors.
Newsroom: Social Networks See Boosts in Engagement Among US Users, but Not Equally
Source: https://www.emarketer.com/newsroom/index.php/social-networks-see-boosts-in-engagement-among-us-users-but-not-equally/
May 12, 2020 at 07:01AM
Instagram and Snapchat add more minutes than Facebook per day, narrowing gap May 12, 2020 (New York, NY) – More time spent at home during the pandemic means more time […]
May 12, 2020 at 07:01AM
Instagram and Snapchat add more minutes than Facebook per day, narrowing gap May 12, 2020 (New York, NY) – More time spent at home during the pandemic means more time […]
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
A Flower Shop Reinvented to Reopen
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/business/coronavirus-small-business-california-reopening.html
May 13, 2020 at 01:08AM
How a small florist in Oakland, Calif., navigated a minefield of rules to sell on the make-or-break Mother’s Day weekend.
May 13, 2020 at 01:08AM
How a small florist in Oakland, Calif., navigated a minefield of rules to sell on the make-or-break Mother’s Day weekend.
‘Double Rainbow Guy’ Paul Vasquez Is Dead at 57
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/style/double-rainbow-paul-vasquez-dead.html
May 12, 2020 at 08:20PM
His unbridled joy at the sight of two concentric rainbows made him a YouTube star.
May 12, 2020 at 08:20PM
His unbridled joy at the sight of two concentric rainbows made him a YouTube star.
This Was Supposed to Be the Year Driverless Cars Went Mainstream
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/technology/self-driving-cars-coronavirus.html
May 12, 2020 at 07:49PM
Perfecting the technology has taken longer than expected. The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult.
May 12, 2020 at 07:49PM
Perfecting the technology has taken longer than expected. The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult.
Making Workplaces ‘Safe,’ and Weird
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/technology/making-workplaces-safe-and-weird.html
May 12, 2020 at 07:35PM
Businesses are using safety technologies to try to protect employees. But they may not work.
May 12, 2020 at 07:35PM
Businesses are using safety technologies to try to protect employees. But they may not work.
Uber Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Grubhub
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/technology/uber-grubhub-deal.html
May 12, 2020 at 07:29PM
A deal would unite two large players in food delivery as more people order in meals during the pandemic.
May 12, 2020 at 07:29PM
A deal would unite two large players in food delivery as more people order in meals during the pandemic.
Monday, May 11, 2020
Why Should You Bother with Value Stream Management?
Source: https://gigaom.com/2020/05/07/why-should-you-bother-with-value-stream-management/
May 07, 2020 at 04:22PM
May 07, 2020 at 04:22PM
What is Value Stream Management?
Value Stream Management (VSM) is the TLA du jour among software development tools, so is it relevant to your organization? We can separate this question into three parts: philosophy, approach, and benefits. First, a bit of history: like so many dev practices, the term originated in manufacturing, specifically lean engineering. The core principle is to consider not only a process as a whole, but also each step, in terms of the value it brings. It should be possible to log not only the benefits (e.g. features built, problems solved) but also the costs, measured as time spent, people/hand-offs involved, and so on.
The relevance to DevOps pipelines and approaches may be self-evident to organizations looking to scale their efforts. DevOps is used by many enterprises as an innovation mechanism, based on a belief that iterative, continuous, fast delivery is key to success. But scaling DevOps across the organization comes with pitfalls, including loss of efficiency, a lack of coordination between stakeholders, increased bottlenecks, and prioritization difficulties. All of which can hold back deployment, and undermine the very reason for doing DevOps in the first place.
Enter VSM, which can help to achieve more consistent and productive pipelines. The core notion is to think of activities across development and operations in terms of a ‘value stream’ (rather than a pipeline or workflow), in which value should be measurable, and maximized, at every stage. This enables bottlenecks to be identified from a tactical perspective, plus the overall process can be assessed in terms of hand-offs, repetition, and other criteria, enabling it to be improved as a whole.
What Does This Mean in Practice?
Key to the success of Value Stream management is measuring the DevOps pipeline in terms of how well it meets the needs of its users and customers. It helps DevOps managers measure what is important, in terms of pipeline efficiency, effectiveness of results, and overall business value. In addition, it enables and encourages that all-important link between technology and business decision-makers, as they look to collaborate, set priorities, and drive delivery.
From a principles and tooling perspective, VSM incorporates the following aspects:
- Value Stream Mapping: modeling the steps of a pipeline in a measurable fashion, for example using a graphical tool
- Value Stream Efficiency: measuring pipeline steps, pulling in information to identify bottlenecks across development, testing, and deployment
- Value Stream Effectiveness: creating measures and dashboards that link to return on investment (ROI), customer satisfaction, and other business-facing criteria
Who Can Use VSM and What Can it Achieve?
If you’re wondering what VSM could achieve for you and your organization, we’ve outlined a few stakeholder-specific cases below.
Chief Information Officers (CIO)
What can it achieve? If you are looking to deliver on a board-level strategy of digital transformation, VSM enables you to offer a constructive response to board strategy, while keeping atop of decision making.
How can you achieve it? Show how VSM can deliver on both agility and governance, demonstrating value without undermining the potential for innovation. CIOs can use VSM as a route to remove risk and increase control of technology-based innovation in the face of consumerization and Shadow IT.
Business Leaders
What can it achieve? If you need to drive more effectiveness from your technology investments, VSM offers a conduit to conversations around measurable software delivery, based on business outcomes
How can you achieve it? Engage with the IT teams and work together to deliver both efficiency and effectiveness using VSM and agree on delivery metrics that link to key areas of business strategy such as growth or customer experience.
IT Development or IT Operations Leaders
What can it achieve? VSM can increase efficiency, freeing up time and money from process overheads, which can be better spent on innovation goals.
How can you achieve it? VSM can be a way to request more structure and control in the development process, reducing the level of conflict across the deployment wall. Consider tools and mechanisms that can deliver management information both in terms of process efficiency and resulting business impact. Also, find different ways to present information to different stakeholder groups, enabling intercommunication and supporting broader decision making.
Adopting a Staged Approach
Different organization types can view and deploy VSM according to their own experience and maturity. For example:
- Enterprises with early-stage DevOps practice can use VSM to set out a framework for DevOps best practice, which can then be replicated across the organization as additional departments and projects adopt it. For these organizations, we would advise deploying the minimum necessary VSM mechanisms you need to start DevOps on the right foot, implementing an approach that builds in process efficiency measurement and business value from the outset.
- Mature DevOps organizations, and organizations that have implemented DevOps across development and operations, can use VSM to achieve greater efficiency and governance. For these organizations, you can use VSM to define core processes and toolchains to meet your needs, consolidating existing DevOps toolchains and practices. VSM can also drive automation decisions for testing, security, and governance aspects of the DevOps cycle, so you can justify the spend on tools via overall cost savings.
Conclusion
“Value” has many meanings, and by following a process that defines what it means for different parts of your organization, you will build a better understanding of your development process and its value to your whole business. This is no silver bullet: by breaking down development and deployment into discrete steps, VSM can help you make small changes that incrementally improve production and development processes. These adjustments can be easy to implement, but, repeated throughout an organization, can create exponential improvement.
These techniques can lead to better efficiency and good governance, which can create a huge variety of positive outcomes for an organization. Happier customers, bigger profits, higher productivity, happier staff, and better internal communication can all be by-products of using VSM. Note however that while VSM tools enable organizations to collate, and visualize information, it is equally important to have a business-facing, value-oriented mindset across the software delivery process and beyond.
You can read more about VSM in our report Research Byte: Value Stream Management. And stay tuned – we’re producing a Key Criteria Report and Radar to help you set strategy and evaluate vendors. If you have any questions or feedback, you can find the author, Jon Collins, on Twitter.
Let’s Clean Up the Toxic Internet
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/technology/coronavirus-plandemic-misinformation.html
May 11, 2020 at 07:32PM
If we understand how conspiracy theories spread online, we can help stop them.
May 11, 2020 at 07:32PM
If we understand how conspiracy theories spread online, we can help stop them.
Employers Rush to Adopt Virus Screening. The Tools May Not Help Much.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/technology/coronavirus-worker-testing-privacy.html
May 11, 2020 at 12:00PM
Symptom-checking apps and fever-screening cameras promise to keep sick workers at home and hinder the virus. But experts warn they can be inaccurate and violate privacy.
May 11, 2020 at 12:00PM
Symptom-checking apps and fever-screening cameras promise to keep sick workers at home and hinder the virus. But experts warn they can be inaccurate and violate privacy.
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Virus Conspiracists Elevate a New Champion
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/technology/plandemic-judy-mikovitz-coronavirus-disinformation.html
May 10, 2020 at 01:26AM
A video showcasing baseless arguments by Judy Mikovits, including attacks on Anthony Fauci, has been viewed more than eight million times in the past week.
May 10, 2020 at 01:26AM
A video showcasing baseless arguments by Judy Mikovits, including attacks on Anthony Fauci, has been viewed more than eight million times in the past week.
Friday, May 8, 2020
Israeli Army’s Idea Lab Aims at a New Target: Saving Lives
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/world/middleeast/coronavirus-israel.html
May 07, 2020 at 09:51PM
The country has engaged defense contractors, doctors, engineers, scientists — and most of the senses — in its battle against the coronavirus.
May 07, 2020 at 09:51PM
The country has engaged defense contractors, doctors, engineers, scientists — and most of the senses — in its battle against the coronavirus.
Senators Want to Know Amazon Retaliated Against Coronavirus Whistle-Blowers
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/technology/amazon-coronavirus-whistleblowers.html
May 07, 2020 at 09:27PM
Democratic senators sent a letter to the company asking for more details after it fired four employees who raised health concerns about its warehouses.
May 07, 2020 at 09:27PM
Democratic senators sent a letter to the company asking for more details after it fired four employees who raised health concerns about its warehouses.
Your iPhone Costs Too Much
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/article/iphone-costs.html
May 07, 2020 at 07:46PM
It’s a failure that all the energy and marketing muscle goes to the Lexus of smartphones, not the Corollas. This is starting to change.
May 07, 2020 at 07:46PM
It’s a failure that all the energy and marketing muscle goes to the Lexus of smartphones, not the Corollas. This is starting to change.
How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/employee-monitoring-work-from-home-virus.html
May 07, 2020 at 06:50PM
As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us.
May 07, 2020 at 06:50PM
As we shelter in place in the pandemic, more employers are using software to track our work — and us.
Eager to Corral the Coronavirus, U.K. Tests a Disputed Tracing App
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/world/europe/uk-coronavirus-contact-tracing.html
May 07, 2020 at 05:27PM
The British government’s tool to track infected people puts it at odds with Apple and Google on privacy.
May 07, 2020 at 05:27PM
The British government’s tool to track infected people puts it at odds with Apple and Google on privacy.
Electric Trucks Will Be True Signal of Electric Vehicle Era
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/business/electric-pickup-trucks.html
May 07, 2020 at 01:00PM
Electric Hummers and Cybertrucks, as well as the next generation of S.U.V.s, will signal the arrival of the E.V. era in America if they start to sell in big numbers.
May 07, 2020 at 01:00PM
Electric Hummers and Cybertrucks, as well as the next generation of S.U.V.s, will signal the arrival of the E.V. era in America if they start to sell in big numbers.
Is This the Future of the Fashion Show?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/02/fashion/coronavirus-digital-fashion-show.html
May 07, 2020 at 08:20AM
The first “high fashion runway show entirely from home” just took place, complete with famous models and designers. The clothes were the least of it.
May 07, 2020 at 08:20AM
The first “high fashion runway show entirely from home” just took place, complete with famous models and designers. The clothes were the least of it.
SpaceX Changes to Starlink Satellites Earn Astronomers’ Praise
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/science/spacex-starlink-astronomy.html
May 07, 2020 at 02:56AM
Some astronomers who have criticized the company’s orbital internet constellation were encouraged by the measures it announced.
May 07, 2020 at 02:56AM
Some astronomers who have criticized the company’s orbital internet constellation were encouraged by the measures it announced.
People Are Panic-Buying Meat, Toilet Paper … and Pelotons?
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/peloton-boom-workout-virus.html
May 07, 2020 at 01:41AM
With gyms closed and nowhere to go, more people are shelling out $2,245 for the workout bike.
May 07, 2020 at 01:41AM
With gyms closed and nowhere to go, more people are shelling out $2,245 for the workout bike.
An E-Commerce Future, Ready or Not
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/technology/coronavirus-online-shopping.html
May 06, 2020 at 07:47PM
All this online shopping might stick. Here’s what this could mean for our budgets and spending habits.
May 06, 2020 at 07:47PM
All this online shopping might stick. Here’s what this could mean for our budgets and spending habits.
With Galleries Closed, a Moment for Net Artists to Shine
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/arts/net-artists-galleries-coronavirus.html
May 06, 2020 at 07:08PM
Shuttered museums are rushing to create meaningful interactions online, but artists have been doing this since the 1990s.
May 06, 2020 at 07:08PM
Shuttered museums are rushing to create meaningful interactions online, but artists have been doing this since the 1990s.
Newsroom: eMarketer and Business Insider Intelligence are now Insider Intelligence
Source: https://www.emarketer.com/newsroom/index.php/emarketer-and-business-insider-intelligence-are-now-insider-intelligence/
May 06, 2020 at 07:01AM
May 6, 2020 (New York, NY) – “Insider Intelligence†is being announced today as the brand name of the newly-formed parent company of eMarketer and Business Insider Intelligence (BII), both […]
May 06, 2020 at 07:01AM
May 6, 2020 (New York, NY) – “Insider Intelligence†is being announced today as the brand name of the newly-formed parent company of eMarketer and Business Insider Intelligence (BII), both […]
First Quarter Earnings Were Terrible, But Executives Offer Some Hope
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/business/economy/coronavirus-earnings-first-quarter.html
May 06, 2020 at 03:51AM
While the pandemic has made it hard to offer forecasts, some corporate leaders said things might be getting a little better — or at least no worse.
May 06, 2020 at 03:51AM
While the pandemic has made it hard to offer forecasts, some corporate leaders said things might be getting a little better — or at least no worse.
A $5 Billion Proposal to Fight Online Child Sexual Abuse
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/child-abuse-legislation.html
May 06, 2020 at 01:34AM
New legislation would try to curb the illegal imagery with record levels of funding for law enforcement. The bill, coming in response to a Times investigation, also calls for a new oversight position in the White House.
May 06, 2020 at 01:34AM
New legislation would try to curb the illegal imagery with record levels of funding for law enforcement. The bill, coming in response to a Times investigation, also calls for a new oversight position in the White House.
California Sues Uber and Lyft, Claiming Workers Are Misclassified
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/technology/california-uber-lyft-lawsuit.html
May 06, 2020 at 01:32AM
The ride-hailing companies are accused of defying a new state law that says gig workers should be treated as employees.
May 06, 2020 at 01:32AM
The ride-hailing companies are accused of defying a new state law that says gig workers should be treated as employees.
Barack Obama to Celebrate Graduating Seniors in at Least 3 Events
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/barack-obama-virtual-commencement-speech-coronavirus.html
May 05, 2020 at 11:32PM
“Even if we can’t get together in person this year, Michelle and I are excited to celebrate the nationwide Class of 2020,” the former president said in announcing his commencement schedule.
May 05, 2020 at 11:32PM
“Even if we can’t get together in person this year, Michelle and I are excited to celebrate the nationwide Class of 2020,” the former president said in announcing his commencement schedule.
Adam Neumann, WeWork’s Former Chief, Sues SoftBank
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/business/adam-neumann-softbank-lawsuit.html
May 05, 2020 at 10:15PM
The lawsuit accuses SoftBank of improperly backing out of an offer to buy shares held by Mr. Neumann, employees and other investors.
May 05, 2020 at 10:15PM
The lawsuit accuses SoftBank of improperly backing out of an offer to buy shares held by Mr. Neumann, employees and other investors.
Why Rural America’s Digital Divide Persists
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/technology/rural-america-digital-divide-coronavirus.html
May 05, 2020 at 07:40PM
The pandemic is making clear that rural Americans are left behind. Less clear is how to fix it.
May 05, 2020 at 07:40PM
The pandemic is making clear that rural Americans are left behind. Less clear is how to fix it.
Parking Lots Have Become a Digital Lifeline
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/technology/parking-lots-wifi-coronavirus.html
May 05, 2020 at 05:53PM
With cafes and libraries closed, Americans without internet access are sitting outside them to get free and fast connections.
May 05, 2020 at 05:53PM
With cafes and libraries closed, Americans without internet access are sitting outside them to get free and fast connections.
One of Amazon’s Most Powerful Critics Lives in Its Backyard
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/technology/amazon-pramila-jayapal.html
May 05, 2020 at 01:42AM
Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington tried to keep her concerns about the company private. Now she’s going public.
May 05, 2020 at 01:42AM
Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington tried to keep her concerns about the company private. Now she’s going public.
An Amazon Vice President Quit Over Firings of Employees Who Protested
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/business/amazon-tim-bray-resigns.html
May 05, 2020 at 01:06AM
Tim Bray, an engineer who had been a vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, said the firings were “evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.”
May 05, 2020 at 01:06AM
Tim Bray, an engineer who had been a vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, said the firings were “evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.”
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