A four-year-old video: “The Story of Elon Musk”

Before he became more jerky (!) 00:04 Elon Musk’s Early Life and Intellectual Curiosity 01:44 Elon Musk’s early entrepreneurial ventures and work ethic 03:20 Elon Musk focused on bigger visions beyond PayPal. 05:03 Elon Musk’s challenges with personal and professional setbacks. 06:46 SpaceX’s fourth rocket launch attempt saved the company from bankruptcy 08:27 Elon Musk … Read more

A video: “Why Elon’s Super App Is Destined To Fail

  Summarized by merlin.app: 00:01 Elon Musk aims to turn X into an all-encompassing super app. 01:46 Public hesitance and past failures have hindered super app success in America. 03:26 Google’s failed attempt with Google+ 05:03 Big tech companies struggle to launch successful new products in different industries 06:39 Apple Card’s success and its impact … Read more

Erdoğan is after Musk to persuade him building a Tesla factory in Türkiye

Erdoğan asks Musk to build Tesla factory in Türkiye Well, Musk loves autocrats. Let’s see if he will be persuaded. Thodex cryptocurrency boss jailed for 11,196 years in Turkey for fraud, Cost of living in İstanbul rises 80,6 percent in a year Turkey’s official inflation rate rises by over 10 points in August Turkey hikes … Read more

#Cyberculture agenda: “Elon Musk’s transition to the Dark Side…

Elon Musk completes his transition to the Dark Side with a salute to extremists The Next Web by Tristan Greene Elon Musk, the PT Barnum of tech, just became the living, breathing embodiment of a shitpost when he and White House Advisor Ivanka Trump had a playful exchange on Twitter where they apparently bonded over a … Read more

Elon Musk show in Turkey… President Erdoğan met with Elon Musk…

Nowadays, AKP leadership is into different PR moves- like praising Atatürk. Musk’s appearance seems to be another one. Erdoğan meets Musk amid local car efforts Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a meeting with world-leading Silicon Valley technology and research entrepreneur Elon Musk on Nov. 8, a few days after the launch of a joint venture to produce the country’s … Read more

#cyberculture agenda: A British citizen used a Google doc to disseminate tactical vote…

Meet the woman who created a Google doc on how to tactical vote  Mashable! by Liza Hearon The resistance is alive in Britain, and it’s armed with a spreadsheet. A super detailed, exquisitely crafted Google spreadsheet called “How to Vote to Stop the Tories” started doing the rounds on social media almost immediately after a snap … Read more

#Cyberculture agenda: “#DeleteUber: Users angry at Trump Muslim ban scrap app…

#DeleteUber: Users angry at Trump Muslim ban scrap app  AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH)   Uber provided rides at JFK airport while other taxi drivers held strike over Trump’s ban on Muslim travellers. 2 big names in video games take on Trump’s immigration ban Mashable! by Adam Rosenberg   The Trump administration’s immigration ban has prompted a … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: KickassTorrents might be back at https://katcr.co/

KickassTorrents ex-staffers brought the torrent site back from the dead The Next Web by Mix   Back in July, millions of pirates got their hearts broken when their go-to torrent site KickassTorrents suddenly shut down following the arrest of alleged founder Artem Vaulin – but it seems not all is lost. A group of devoted ex-staffers has kicked off a … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: We might be exposed to a coordinated SM campaign in the #Aleppo drama…

Those “final messages” from Aleppo Syria look more like a coordinated social media campaign than a cry for help@AnissaNow pic.twitter.com/GzASdXPwNU — IN THE NOW (@IntheNow_tweet) 14 Aralık 2016   Trump meets with tech leaders: Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Tesla, Intel  Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin   Photo: Donald Trump speaks as PayPal co-founder … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: A big loss: “Ian “Debian” Murdock dies after threatening suicide

A Brief History of Debian – The Debian Manifesto debian.org [ previous ] [ Contents ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ A ] [ next ] Written by Ian A. Murdock, Revised 01/06/94 Debian Linux is a brand-new kind of Linux distribution. Rather than being developed by … Read more

Journalism agenda: With 40,000 paid subscribers, Dutch journalism platform The Correspondent becoming a success story….

‘The Correspondent’ is winning crowdfunded journalism with 40,000 paid subscribers The Next Web by Bryan Clark Today, Dutch journalism platform The Correspondent announced it just reached 40,000 paying members. The feat is nothing short of amazing considering it started without a website — or any content for that matter — crowdfunded $1.7 million dollars, and continued to leverage this early … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: “Data-Driven Web Survival Guide…”2015: The Year of the Learner…

Italy Launches Largest Ever Pirate Site Blockade TorrentFreak   Alongside the United Kingdom, Italy is the most aggressive country in the world when it comes to blocking websites on copyright infringement grounds.   Data-Driven Web Survival Guide The Purple Box by Andy Kahl   If we’re going to make it through what’s sometimes described as a data-collection … Read more

Cyberculture agenda: Detekt- A New Malware Detection Tool… “…wild world of Twitter bots

Detekt: A New Malware Detection Tool That Can Expose Illegitimate State Surveillance  EFF.org Updates by Eva Galperin Recent years have seen a boom in the adoption of surveillance technology by governments around the world, including spyware that provides its purchasers the unchecked ability to target remote Internet users’ computers, to read their personal emails, listen in … Read more