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November 2015

Facebook DAUs by quarter: more than 1bn people visit Facebook every day (Business Insider)

Facebook’s daily average user growth has been astounding.

Source: Facebook DAUs by quarter – Business Insider Deutschland

TensorFlow, Google’s latest machine learning system, open sourced for everyone (Google Research Blog)

Deep Learning has had a huge impact on computer science, making it possible to explore new frontiers of research and to develop amazingly useful products that millions of people use every day…

Source: Research Blog

Bank of England Chart on Probability of certain Professions being replaced by Robots (Business Insider)

Good news for hairdressers. Bad news for accountants.

Source: Bank of England chart on robots taking jobs – Business Insider Deutschland

iPad Pro Benchmarking Review showing remarkable Performance: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS (Ars Technica)

There’s some promise here, but iOS makes this a very different kind of computer.

Source: iPad Pro review: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS | Ars Technica

Interesting & critical Profile of SoftBank’s Masatoshi Son: “Here comes the Son” (The Economist)

Masayoshi Son has always bounced back from setbacks, but his latest big moves are raising eyebrows…

Source: Here comes the Son | The Economist

Background Read: Tsū Social Network – Cash Cow or Pyramid Scheme? (Victor Balasa)

If you’re an Internet gadabout, you’ll probably have heard about Tsu.co or Tsū, the social network that’s been getting a lot of hype, and hate, lately. Throughout its year-long existence, the social network exotically called Tsū has been plagued by naysayers and, just recently, had its API and

Source: Tsū Social Network – Cash Cow or Pyramid Scheme? [Op-Ed] – Hongkiat

Facebook user data: government requests by country (Business Insider)

Authorities in the U.S. made more than 17,000 requests to Facebook for user data in the first half of 2015, setting a new record.

Source: Facebook user data: government requests by country

Virtual Reality will have a massive Impact on us already within the next Decade (Andre Cramer)

When reading about future, and specifically in this context, near-term future predictions, you often get a conservative impression. It seems people mostly see the future like a slightly enhanced version of the present. People tend to think that the big and significant societal transformation either has already taken place or will happen in a more distant future.

In my opinion things are quite a bit different. The world will be changing much faster than the majority of people imagine today. There is a high probability that technology will change the world and our immediate life conditions faster than ever before within the next ten years. There are some technologies on the agenda with the potential to render the world pretty much unrecognizable compared to today.  Continue reading “Virtual Reality will have a massive Impact on us already within the next Decade (Andre Cramer)”

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Chart of Most Popular Apps with Millennials (Business Insider)

More than three-quarters of Snapchat’s users in the United States are between the ages of 18 and 34.

Source: Apps that are most typically millennial – Business Insider

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