{"id":2181,"date":"2018-07-15T16:05:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2018-07-21T19:53:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T16:53:37","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-july-15th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-july-15th-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 July 15th, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Open offices are as bad as they seem\u2014they reduce face-to-face time by 70% | Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/07\/in-open-offices-workers-chat-70-less-are-less-productive-and-email-more\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>UK spaceport proposed for Sutherland site &#8211; BBC News | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-44839536\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Prime Day: Amazon website crashes shortly after deals go live | <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/16\/technology\/amazon-website-down-prime-day\/index.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Amazon workers strike in Germany, joining action in Spain and Poland &#8211; Reuters | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-amazon-com-germany-strike\/amazon-workers-strike-in-germany-joining-action-in-spain-and-poland-idUSKBN1K61OY\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Microsoft to end support for Skype &#8216;classic&#8217; following new desktop release &#8211; CNET | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/microsoft-to-end-support-for-skype-classic-following-new-desktop-release\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Netflix stock slammed after earnings, as subscriber growth and revenue fall short &#8211; MarketWatch | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/netflix-stock-slammed-after-second-quarter-subscriber-numbers-and-revenue-fall-short-2018-07-16\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>12 New Moons Found Orbiting Jupiter &#8211; National Geographic | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2018\/07\/news-12-new-moons-found-jupiter-79-planets-space\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Walmart and Microsoft team up to fight Amazon &#8211; CNN Money | <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/17\/technology\/amazon-walmart-microsoft\/index.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google&#8217;s job hunting service comes to UK &#8211; BBC News | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-44853472\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Marwan Fawaz Steps Down as CEO of Google-Owned Nest &#8211; Digital Trends | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/home\/nest-ceo-steps-down\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google\u2019s first private trans-Atlantic subsea cable will connect the U.S. and France in 2020 &#8211; 9to5Google | <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2018\/07\/17\/google-dunant-private-subsea-cable-us-france\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google to appeal after EC fines it \u20ac4.34bn over Android competition breach &#8211; as it happened | Business | The Guardian | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2018\/jul\/18\/uk-inflation-cost-of-living-wages-google-fine-fed-chair-business-live\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger is happy to be independent of Dell &#8211; Business Insider | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/vmware-ceo-pat-gelsinger-dell-reverse-merger-2018-7\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Project \u2018Fuchsia\u2019: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android &#8211; Bloomberg | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-07-19\/google-team-is-said-to-plot-android-successor-draw-skepticism\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter launch the Data Transfer Project &#8211; VentureBeat | <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/07\/20\/facebook-google-microsoft-and-twitter-launch-the-data-transfer-project\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wanted: Inspiring name for Europe&#8217;s 2020 Mars rover &#8211; BBC News | Link<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open offices are as bad as they seem\u2014they reduce face-to-face time by 70% | Ars Technica | Link UK spaceport proposed for Sutherland site &#8211; BBC News | Link Prime Day: Amazon website crashes shortly after deals go live | Link Amazon workers strike in Germany, joining action in Spain and Poland &#8211; Reuters | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}