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- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says download Signal as US protests gain steam - Economic Times
- Work from home, but have no room? Buy an Airstream RV - USA TODAY
- 'Command & Conquer Remastered' updates 90s RTS action for 4K monitors - Engadget
| Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says download Signal as US protests gain steam - Economic Times Posted: 04 Jun 2020 07:19 PM PDT  Signal became one of the top 10 most downloaded social apps on iOS for the first time in the US on Wednesday, according to data from leading mobile data and analytics company App Annie. "Download Signal," tweeted Dorsey who took the game-changing decision to flag US President Donald Trump's controversial tweet on glorifying violence in the wake of the death of African-American George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on May 25. After Donald Trump threatened Twitter and other social media firms with an executive order, Dorsey said the fact-checking action against Trump tweets was his duty. While Twitter put out a "public interest notice" on Trump tweet for violating the platform's policies about glorifying violence, Facebook refused to take action when the tweet was cross-posted to its platform. According to a Vox report, Signal has been downloaded 121,000 times in the US since May 25, according to Apptopia. Community safety app Citizen has also been downloaded 234,000 times. Citizen was the fourth most downloaded iOS app of any kind, according to App Annie. Citizen was temporarily removed from the Google Play store on Wednesday but has been restored. "Signal was the eighth most downloaded social networking app on Tuesday, and ranked around the top 100 for apps overall," the report mentioned. Privacy centric messaging app Signal in February said it was mulling to go mainstream now and has put the $50 million infusion from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton - who left Facebook over differences with CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- to good use. Moxie Marlinspike -- who launched Signal -- has always talked about making encrypted communications easy enough for anyone to use. "The major transition Signal has undergone is from a three-person small effort to something that is now a serious project with the capacity to do what is required to build software in the world today," Marlinspike was quoted as saying in a Wired report. The investment by the WhatsApp co-founder Acton has enabled the team to add features that also attract regular folks looking for an alternative to WhatsApp and Telegram. |
| Work from home, but have no room? Buy an Airstream RV - USA TODAY Posted: 06 Jun 2020 05:58 AM PDT As many of us have tried to get creative to find new ways to make working at home palatable for us during a pandemic, you've got to love Jeremiah Owyang's solution. The independent tech analyst needed space to call his own, and found a great alternative to sky-high Silicon Valley rentals. He bought a small 22-foot Airstream RV on a 30-year loan, parked it in his back yard, and souped it up for video calls. The analyst surveyed the local real estate market, and found that rentals were charging at least $2,000 monthly. Instead, he got a 30-year-loan at $370 monthly for a $50,000 Airstream "Sport" trailer. "I own it. I can claim it as a business deduction and re-sell it at some point in the future," says Owyang.  As he said this week on Twitter: "I used to fly to conferences, now, I just walk to the backyard." He describes the "Tiny Airstream Studio" it as "29 steps from the house," and "a quiet place to work." It's also a production studio for the pandemic age, making lemonade from lemons for someone who needed to alter the way he works. "Because I make money from speaking at conferences, I needed to show people I have the setup," he says. "Yes, I have a studio in my backyard, how can I help you?" As he posted on his Medium blog post, "Now, like most, my primary stage is from my own home, umm err backyard. To ensure my message is best communicated to the market, having decent audio and visual setup is critical during this socially isolating pandemic." So in his backyard, he flips on the ring lights, turns on his Sony A6400 camera, attaches his Movo lavalier microphone to his shirt lapel, cranks open a video conference program, and he's ready to interview executives and give speeches. Beyond the camera, lav mic, Logitech webcam and Samsung 30-inch monitor, "the most important," tech tool in the trailer is his 1 gigabyte Comcast internet signal. "I have massive speed," he says. (He puts the internet also through an Orbi Mesh Wireless Router by Netgear.) "The setup is like a little executive suite." So much so that when people see him on their video program, they think "it's fake," and that he's inserted a background image. Finally, a client asked him point blank if he was in a trailer. "I was worried he would think he didn't pay us enough money," but that didn't happen. "There are different cultural reactions to being in a trailer," he says.  Luckily, most people responded with envy, not disdain. Recently, he has picked up gigs doing a keynote speech, from the Airstream about innovation culture for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and is scheduled to interview executives from the San Francisco data analytics company Splunk. Meanwhile, don't look for Owyang to be cruising this summer on the open road with his Airstream, like the unit is intended for. It's a permanent fixture in the backyard. "We don't take it out, it's a dedicated office," he says. Putting Airstream's to novel uses isn't totally unique. Zappos founder Tony Hsieh bought a bunch of them for workers and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a village of them in the desert. When all is said and done, "This is the future," says Owyang. "People are going to need dedicated, quiet places to work," and will need to seek out alternatives. That could include moving from a high-density, high rent location like San Francisco to lower cost out of state, and switching from a one bedroom apartment to a two or three bedroom, or getting a separate unit for a backyard like a Tuffshed or Airstream. For himself, "I'm commuting to work. It just happens to be 29 steps away from my house."  In other tech news this weekCurrent and former Facebook employees blast CEO Mark Zuckerberg for his stance on not labeling President Donald Trump's posts. Meanwhile, Snapchat said it would stop promoting Trump's posts. CES: The show will go on. Despite all those convention cancellations and the COVID threat that hasn't gone away, the CES, which draws massive crowds (over 175,000 in 2020) will go on next year, the organizers said, with more cleaning of booth areas and wider aisles. Zoom: No end-to-end encryption for free users so company can work with law enforcement. Meanwhile, in its earnings announcement this week, Zoom showed how a pandemic can help a small company, as it went from 10 million users in the year ago quarter to 300 million, and revenue jumped to $328.2 million from $122 million.  This week's Talking Tech podcastsPlease ditch FaceID on next iPhone Okay, you like FaceID even if I don't Real's latest: facial recognition for videos How to network in a pandemic Watch what you say on NextDoor: it's not private Follow USA TODAY's Jefferson Graham (@jeffersongraham) on Twitter |
| 'Command & Conquer Remastered' updates 90s RTS action for 4K monitors - Engadget Posted: 06 Jun 2020 08:20 AM PDT  25 years after Westwood Studios' first Command & Conquer game kicked off the hit real-time strategy series, gamers can roll back the clock with the Remastered Collection. Now available on both EA's Origin store and Steam for $20, it includes both both Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert, as well as their expansion packs: Covert Ops, Counterstrike and The Aftermath. The games are now playable in 4K with updates that touch the in-game graphics — you can switch back and forth between the old and new looks on the fly — as well as its music and cheesy FMV scenes that are now in HD with subtitles. For the launch, EA brought back an old friend from the Brotherhood of Nod.
Better yet, EA has released the source code for both titles under the GPL version 3.0 license, which should provide an assist for modders and level makers, and it's even including support for organizing add-ons via the Steam Workshop. Petroglyph developed the new remastered editions, and kicked things off with a mod of their own, a Nuke Tank that tweaks the game's Mammoth Tank to fire tactical warheads. In a Reddit post outlining the open source release EA producer Jim Vessella explained that the team wasn't able to fulfill one promise at launch, as LAN play is not yet available to truly bring the mid-90s feel. So far impressions seem to be largely positive with a Metacritic rating sitting at 83/8.8, although some players have had issues ranging from being unable to launch the title, online stability issues, and framerate stuttering. The developers said they're working on stabilizing the servers, and have some suggestions for reducing framerate problems — try installing on an SSD if you have one — while they gather more data. If that's too much to ask, you can of course play the classic versions for free. |
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