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Can Mill’s tech-heavy food waste bin find its way into kitchens?

TechCrunch

But then again, neither were smoke detectors when Matt Rogers co-founded Nest in 2010, and that worked out pretty well. Rogers is back at it , this time with fellow Nest alumnus Harry Tannenbaum. The duo and their team at Mill have cooked up what is probably the world’s heaviest, most expensive, and most sophisticated kitchen waste bin.

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Antitrust regulators are using the wrong tools to break up Big Tech

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In fact, surveys have suggested that between seven and nine out of 10 Americans will check Amazon to compare the price of a purchase.) What we really need is disclosure of information about the growth and health of the supply side of Big Tech's marketplaces. It’s a nerve-wracking time to be a Big Tech company.

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The great dollar store backlash

The Hustle

She was standing in a Dollar General store a few miles from Cascade, Maryland, where she and a dozen other residents are suing a developer to stop a Dollar General from going up. It was horrible.” Cascade, a village of 840 people, has three dollar stores within five miles of town. It’s been there for nearly two years. Dollar General is invasive.

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A Way Forward with Communal Computing

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

PolySocial Reality (PoSR) is a theory described in a series of papers by Applin and Fisher (2010-ongoing) on the following: “[PoSR] models the outcomes when all entities in networks send both synchronous and asynchronous messages to maintain social relationships. Communal devices in our homes and offices aren’t quite right.

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Securing voting machines means raising funds

The Parallax

Experts say there is a straightforward response, however, to vulnerable voting-machine software. The problem is that it involves cooperation in Congress. This map shows which electronic voting systems are in use across the U.S., based on data from VerifiedVoting.org. Illustration by Pinguino Kolb/The Parallax. Following the 2016 election, the U.S.

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The Worst Possible Day: U.S. Telecommunications and Huawei

The Cipher Brief

Thomas Donahue is a Cipher Brief expert and former Senior Director for Cyber Operations on the U.S. National Security Council Staff. His article was originally published by National Defense University Press PRISM. Policy must consider the worst possible day, not the routine day. space program of the 1960s. space program of the 1960s.