Its Borders Shut, New Zealand Prods Local Tourists to ‘Do Something New’
Nadine Toe Toe and her family run Kohutapu Lodge and Tribal Tours in Murupara, a northeastern village of about 2,000…
Chrome Blocks The Great Suspender, But There’s Hope for Your Lost Tabs
Photo: Mark Lennihan (AP) Google has reportedly blocked the popular extension The Great Suspender and removed it from its Chrome…
Regional ISPs Are Skeptical That SpaceX’s Starlink Can Deliver On Its Internet Promises
A SpaceX rocket carrying Starlink satellites a few seconds after launch on June 3, 2020.Photo: SpaceX Some regional internet service…
Wikimedia Foundation announces CEO Katherine Maher will step down as of April 15, says its annual budget doubled to estimated $140M in 2021 under her leadership (Felix Salmon/Axios)
Felix Salmon / Axios: Wikimedia Foundation announces CEO Katherine Maher will step down as of April 15, says its annual…
Infinitus, which provides a machine-generated voice calling service for healthcare companies contacting customers, has come out of stealth with $21.4M Series A (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Infinitus, which provides a machine-generated voice calling service for healthcare companies contacting customers, has come out…
Ford will increase its investment in autonomous vehicles to ~$7B over 10 years through 2025, $5B of that from 2021 onward, as part of its Ford Mobility efforts (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Ford will increase its investment in autonomous vehicles to ~$7B over 10 years through…
Johnson Wins Vaccine Spat With E.U., but a Struggle Over Northern Ireland Looms
That struck some in Brussels as rich, given that last September, Mr. Johnson threatened to override Britain’s landmark treaty with…
Substack co-founder says Facebook and Twitter getting into paid newsletters is a positive thing for writers and the media ecosystem, implores them to go all in (Hamish McKenzie/Substack Blog)
Hamish McKenzie / Substack Blog: Substack co-founder says Facebook and Twitter getting into paid newsletters is a positive thing for…
Google Wants to Beat Apple at Its Own Game
Photo: Alastair Pike (Getty Images) On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that the Google was “exploring an alternative” to to the anti-ad-tracking…
Twitter will move its offline analytics, data processing, and ML workloads to Google's Cloud after agreeing to an expanded multiyear partnership (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Twitter will move its offline analytics, data processing, and ML workloads to Google’s Cloud after…