Next up: Ford CEO Alan Mullaley

I’m setting things up for my vacation but some of my posts aren’t appearing in the timeline. They DO appear at Leo.social which is my micro.blog site. Maybe there’s a lag?

Untitled 25 August 2018

Triple threat: toot, tweet, and micro.blog… all from my Apple Watch. Technology, what a concept.

Untitled 25 August 2018

Let’s try this again. Drafts ➡️ micro.blog.

Leo’s News Links

Google is buying Fossil’s smartwatch tech for $40 million | TechCrunch 20 January 2019

Rumors about a Pixel Watch have abounded for years. Such a device would certainly make sense as Google attempts to prove the viability of its struggling wearable operating system, Wear OS. Seems the company is finally getting serious about the prospect. Today Fossil announced plans to sell its smartwatch IP to the software giant for […]

To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet - The New York Times 20 January 2019

So that future generations won’t miss out on hearing the instruments, three sound engineers are producing the “Stradivarius Sound Bank” — a database storing all the possible tones that four instruments selected from the Museo del Violino’s collection can produce.

773M Password ‘Megabreach’ is Years Old — Krebs on Security 20 January 2019

As we can see above, Collection #1 offered by this seller is indeed 87GB in size. He also advertises a Telegram username where he can be reached — “Sanixer.” So, naturally, KrebsOnSecurity contacted Sanixer via Telegram to find out more about the origins of Collection #1, which he is presently selling for the bargain price of […]

Native Advertising in the Fake News Era | Research 19 January 2019

Michelle Amazeen, a Boston University School of Communication assistant professor of advertising. Her new research, based on an online experiment she conducted, revealed that most people can’t tell native advertising apart from actual news articles. Even though her online survey divulged to participants that they were viewing advertisements, many people—more than 9 out of 10 […]

Julia Reda – Copyright negotiations hit a brick wall in Council 19 January 2019

Today, Council firmly rejected the negotiating mandate that was supposed to set out Member States’ position ahead of what was supposed to be the final negotiation round with the European Parliament, Politico reports. National governments failed to agree on a common position on the two most controversial articles, Article 11, also known as the Link […]

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