Dec 152018
 

The Hackaday Superconference is over, which is a shame, but one of the great things about our conference is the people who manage to trek out to Pasadena every year to show us all the cool stuff they’re working on. One of those people was [Piotr Esden-Tempski], founder of 1 Bit Squared, and he brought some goodies that would soon be launched on a few crowdfunding platforms. The coolest of these was the iCEBreaker, an…

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Dec 152018
 

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:My new website, skimmedit ™ is just reddit but you can only read headlines and comment on what you think the article is about.Today’s News:

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Dec 152018
 

But y’know, maybe we will terminate positions post-merger if there’s a business case Cloudera founder Mike Olson has asked staffers to turn down recruiters’ advances ahead of the firm’s merger with Hortonworks – despite acknowledging there could be layoffs.…

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Dec 152018
 

The use of face recognition by companies raises a host of concerns about privacy and unfair watchlisting. Rolling Stone reported this week that face recognition was used on attendees at a Taylor Swift concert in Los Angeles to look for stalkers. Stalkers are a real problem, and we sympathize with how scary it must be for a celebrity to know that they are out there. Nonetheless, we have a number of concerns about where this…

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