Saleh Blog

• Feds Seize Backpage.com and Affiliated Websites in Crackdown – Time | Link
• Amazon Makes Hiring Push in Riyadh After Saudi Prince’s Visit – Bloomberg | Link
• Apple’s Global Operations Now Powered by 100% Renewable Energy – CleanTechnica | Link
• Amazon spent close to $23B on R&D in 2017, outpacing fellow tech giants – GeekWire | Link
• Vevo’s channel was hacked, not YouTube — there’s a difference – Polygon | Link
• Earth’s Wonders Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before – Planet Stories – Medium | Link
• Steam tweaks privacy settings, will soon let you be invisible while online – Polygon | Link
• Why Facebook’s 2011 Promises Haven’t Protected Users – WIRED | Link
• UAE Government Launches Blockchain Strategy 2021 – Cointelegraph | Link
• Gmail is getting a brand new look — take a peek – Business Insider Nordic | Link

• China says Tiangong-1 space station to enter Earth’s atmosphere on Monday | Link
• Cloudflare launches consumer DNS service to speed up the internet | Link
• UberRush Is No More As Uber Kills Its On-demand Delivery Service – Digital Trends | Link
• China’s Tiangong-1 space lab breaks up over Pacific Ocean – CNN | Link
• DARPA is Open to Ideas For New Types of Drone Swarm Technology | Link
• Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel | Link
• Watch a Russian postal drone crash on it first flight — Quartz | Link
• YouTube HQ shooting: ‘Not terrorism at this point’ authorities tell NBC News – Euronews | Link
• Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress next week – Ars Technica | Link
• Google Now Matches 100% Of Its Power With Clean Energy – Fortune | Link
• Google Employees “Outraged” Their Tech Is Being Used to Build Better Killing Machines – Vanity Fair | Link
• SpaceX cut its latest Falcon 9 stream because it didn’t get a license | Link
• Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space company launches first rocket since fatal 2014 crash – ABC News | Link
• Best Buy says it was hit by same data breach as Sears and Delta | Link

April Fools’

• Google Maps needs your help finding Waldo – TechCrunch | Link
• Carriage introduces voice controlled device to order foods online | Link
• Google Introducing Bad Joke Detector | Link
• Google Gboard Physical Handwriting | Link
• Genetic Select by Lexus | Link
• Switch from British to U.S. dialogue at the touch of a button – Introducing Interp-Brit on BritBox | Link
• Introducing Roku Happy Streaming™ Socks | Link
• Introducing the New T-Mobile Sidekicks: The World’s First Smartshoephone | T-Mobile | Link
• Netflix Buys Seth Rogen’s Personal Autonomy in April 1 Announcement – Variety | Link
• Nvidia – Geforce Academy of Gaming | Link
• Razer’s Project Venom v2 | Link

• Apple’s Tim Cook Calls for More Regulations on Data Privacy | Link
• The FTC Is Officially Investigating Facebook’s Data Practices | Link
• Elon Musk’s next Boring Co. merch will be big Lego bricks made from tunnel rock | Link
• Philips lighting rebrands as Signify – News – Smart Home Geeks | Link
• Foxconn is buying Belkin and Linksys – SlashGear | Link
• NASA Delays Launch of James Webb Space Telescope to 2020 | Link
• Zuckerberg will reportedly appear before Congress on data privacy | Link
• Nvidia suspends all autonomous vehicle testing – TechCrunch | Link
• Nvidia launches self-driving simulation system, Kubernetes support – Seeking Alpha | Link
• FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network – TechCrunch | Link
• ‘PUBG’ will start testing its tiny ‘Savage’ map next week | Link
• Google to Shut goo.gl URL Shortener in Favour of Dynamic Links – Technology News | Link