{"id":1999,"date":"2018-04-08T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2018-04-14T20:36:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T17:36:57","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-april-8th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-april-8th-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 April 8th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Feds Seize Backpage.com and Affiliated Websites in Crackdown &#8211; Time | <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5231855\/feds-seize-backpage-other-websites\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Amazon Makes Hiring Push in Riyadh After Saudi Prince\u2019s Visit &#8211; Bloomberg | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-04-05\/amazon-makes-hiring-push-in-riyadh-after-saudi-prince-s-visit\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Apple&#8217;s Global Operations Now Powered by 100% Renewable Energy &#8211; CleanTechnica | <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2018\/04\/09\/apples-global-operations-now-powered-by-100-renewable-energy\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Amazon spent close to $23B on R&amp;D in 2017, outpacing fellow tech giants \u2013 GeekWire | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2018\/amazon-spent-close-23b-rd-2017-outpacing-fellow-tech-giants\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vevo\u2019s channel was hacked, not YouTube \u2014 there\u2019s a difference &#8211; Polygon | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2018\/4\/10\/17220114\/vevo-hack-despacito-youtube\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Earth\u2019s Wonders Like You\u2019ve Never Seen Them Before \u2013 Planet Stories \u2013 Medium | <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/planet-stories\/earths-wonders-like-you-ve-never-seen-them-before-ac9e2f39aa56\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Steam tweaks privacy settings, will soon let you be invisible while online &#8211; Polygon | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2018\/4\/11\/17225188\/steam-appear-invisible-setting\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Why Facebook&#8217;s 2011 Promises Haven&#8217;t Protected Users &#8211; WIRED | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/why-facebooks-2011-promises-havent-protected-users\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>UAE Government Launches Blockchain Strategy 2021 &#8211; Cointelegraph | <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/uae-government-launches-blockchain-strategy-2021\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gmail is getting a brand new look \u2014 take a peek &#8211; Business Insider Nordic | <a href=\"https:\/\/nordic.businessinsider.com\/google-gmail-new-look-design-screenshots-2018-4\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jPEYpryMp2s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feds Seize Backpage.com and Affiliated Websites in Crackdown &#8211; Time | Link Amazon Makes Hiring Push in Riyadh After Saudi Prince\u2019s Visit &#8211; Bloomberg | Link Apple&#8217;s Global Operations Now Powered by 100% Renewable Energy &#8211; CleanTechnica | Link Amazon spent close to $23B on R&amp;D in 2017, outpacing fellow tech giants \u2013 GeekWire | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}