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Taxing Sharing: France’s latest digital economy tax targets Airbnb, Blablacar & others
Making a bit of money renting your room out on weekends? Filling the extra seats of your car to cover gas costs when you go visit your parents? The French government might start getting their share of the pie, as France’s Senate proposed this week. For people making more than 5,000€ per year off of…
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The Hidden Side of Instagram Perfect Pictures
La photographe thaïlandaise Chompoo Baritone s’est intéressée à ce qui se cache derrière tous ces filtres enjoliveurs et toutes ces mises en scène parfaites, pensées au millimètre près, qu’on peut trouver sur Instagram. A travers des photos de captures d’écran esthétiques, elle montre le décor complet de ces simulacres de réalités. Source: The Hidden Side…
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Podcast Science 228 – Deep learning
Une super émission de PodCast Science qui évoque le fonctionnement du Machine Learning et plus précisément du DeepLearning appliqué à la reconnaissance d’images. C’est très intéressant de voir les animateurs du podcast, parler et réagir sur ce sujet (qu’ils ne connaissent pas ou peu) avec un angle scientifique. Ils se sont beaucoup inspiré d’un super…
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Who Needs an Interface Anyway?
Startups are piggybacking on text messaging to launch services. In his rush to get his latest startup off the ground, Ethan Bloch didn’t want to waste time designing a smartphone app. He thought people would appreciate the convenience of not having to download an app and then open it every time they wanted to use…
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Evernote, the first dead unicorn
Unicorns are no longer so rare, and failure is part of a healthy economy’s means of turning over into new ideas and new leadership. With tech in the midst of a wide-ranging boom, there are other, more financially-stable and innovative companies hungry to hire away talent into positions better suited to the employees and the…
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The toxic side of free. Or: how I lost the love for my side project
This is a story about JS Bin. I’ve told one story of JS Bin before, and this is the b-side: the dark side. But remember with everything I share with you, JS Bin is the longest running live pastebin, and it’s not going anywhere. It will continue to run and serve its users. Even the…
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Cognitive biases that affect decisions – Business Insider
Your decisions may not be as rational as you think. Source : Cognitive biases that affect decisions – Business Insider
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MetaWearC Kickstarter Update | Projects + Guides
MBientlab a eu un petit soucis avec leur campagne KickStarter mais elle va continuer ! Et surtout ils ont un vrai produit ! Et je viens de lire: On the software side, we set our Android engineer loose on a Multiplatform C based API, that will put hooks in place for Linux, Mac, and Windows…
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Crowdsourcing vs Design Thinking
Aujourd’hui je vous présente l’étude détaillée de Aurélie Hemonnet-Goujot (de IAE Aix-en-Provence, Aix Marseille Université), Julie Fabbri (de l’Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay) et Delphine Manceau (de l’ESCP Europe). Toutes trois ont travaillé sur une étude comparative de deux démarches d’innovation externes dans la phase de recherche d’idées : le design thinking et le crowdsourcing. Présentation…
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Amazon’s answer to Apple TV: a Fire TV box with Alexa and 4K video support
Last week Apple sucked up most of the air in the tech press with its newest gadgets, which included a long-awaited, new Apple TV. This week, Amazon has some TV box news of its own. The e-commerce giant just announced a variety of updates to its Fire TV product line. The newest Fire TV set-top…
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