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  • Social Media Suchtmechanismen

    Dass Likes und Shares und Herzchen eine Belohnung für das Unterbewusst darstellen hat man mittlerweile schon häufiger gehört. Man kann sogar lernen, wie man Produkte designen kann, um solches Verhalten zu triggern. Im Ergebnis davon steigern Produkt-Owner die Metrik “Customer Engagement” um den Preis, dass Jugendliche wie Abhängige vor Ihren Mobiltelefonen hängen um mehr Herzchen oder Schlumpfbeeren zu bekommen.

    Arte strahlt gerade eine Miniserie darüber aus, wie diese Silicon Valley Apps süchtig machendes Verhalten für Ihre Zwecke nutzen und zufällige, kleine Belohnungen an Ihre Benutzer ausgeben. Die Serie nennt sich Dopamin, und ist damit nach dem Hormon benannt, das dafür sorgt, dass wir immer mehr wollen. Die 8 Folgen widmen sich 8 verschiedenen Apps und sind jeweils 8 Minuten lang:

    via T3n

  • The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market right now.

    Raytracing with MySQL

    WTF of the day. The most advanced MySQL raytracer on the market right now. A raytracer, written in a single SELECT statment, that MySQL is able to process into an image. Pure Demoscene spirit here, whatever it is, make it run an animation or raytrace some spheres, something beautiful it was not meant to produce in first place.

    via BoingBoing.

  • SAP Sets Course with Next-Generation Leadership Team

    This morning, SAP’s Bill McDermott announced he would be stepping down as CEO of the company. Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein would follow as co-CEOs, with a handover period until end of this year. Jennifer and Christian are the youngest CEOs and will certainly drive forward the companies transformation. This is the official announcement:

    Bill McDermott, Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein
    Bill McDermott, Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein

    Bill McDermott is stepping down as CEO of SAP. SAP Executive Board Members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein have been appointed co-CEOs. Read the news.

    Source: SAP Sets Course with Next-Generation Leadership Team | SAP News

  • macOS Catalina: Update Probleme

    Mein Haupt-Macbook Pro von 2014 ist von der Problematik betroffen. Wer bis jetzt noch nicht ge-updated hat, will vielleicht noch ein paar Tage warten.

    Zu macOS Catalina laufen hier weiterhin zahlreiche Fehlerberichte ein, sodass wir damit rechnen, dass Apple zeitnah ein erstes Update für das neue Mac-Betriebssystem veröffentlichen wird. Unter den gemeldeten Problemen findet sich viel „Kleinkram“, allerdings machen auch drei bisher nicht gelöste, größere Unstimmigkeiten Benutzern zu schaffen. In seltenen Fällen kommt es dabei auch zu Totalausfällen der […]

    Source: macOS Catalina: Update läuft nicht für alle Nutzer glatt › ifun.de

  • Kong acquires Insomnia

    Kong, a vendor of cloud native Microservice and API Gateway Software and Services, acquires Insomnia. Goal of the acquisition is offer new api testing capabilities, that Kong plans to turn into an end to end API lifecycle management product.

  • Sony confirms PlayStation 5

    Surprise! Sony’s Playstation 5 will be called: Playstation 5!

    Along with new haptic feedback tech that replaces rumble in controllers.

    Source: Sony confirms PlayStation 5 name, holiday 2020 release date – The Verge

  • Contentstack raises $31.5 million

    Contentstack raises $31.5 million

    ContentStack, which claims to have invented “Headless CMS”, raised $31.5m in a Series A funding.

    ContentStack
    ContentStack raises $31.5m

    Contentstack, the tech startup that powers omnichannel content, digital experiences and personalized customer journeys, has raised $31.5 million in Series A funding to scale sales and marketing to reach more industries and geographies, as well as to build out the partner ecosystem […]

    Source: Contentstack raises $31.5 million in Series A funding | Startups News | Tech News

  • Microsoft is all in on Hardware

    thenextweb.com has a rundown of Surface Laptop, Surface Duo, Surface Earbuds, Neo and everything else Microsoft announced at their Surface event this week.

    Here’s a quick rundown of Microsoft’s exciting new hardware for the coming year, including Surface laptops, earbuds, a foldable phone, and more.

    Source: Surface Duo, Neo, and everything else at Microsoft’s packed hardware event

    The Verge has a summary in 11 minutes:

  • California cracks down on deepfakes

    It was obvious Deepfakes came to stay, when they first surfaced in the shape of Pornography on Reddit in 2017.

    Meanwhile, it appears, the issue has become that much of an issue it needs legislation. California now cracks down on political and pornographic deepfakes and passed two new bills, that a) will make deepfakes illegal and b) will allow anyone affected to sue the creator.

    Source: California cracks down on political and pornographic deepfakes

  • What Gizmodo ‘Knows’ About Facebook

    What Gizmodo ‘Knows’ About Facebook

    This Friday, Gizmodo accused Facebook of suppressing stories they published on their platform. The evidence is based on staff observations, including Family and Friends. All together, the allegations don’t appear to be very reliable, yet imaginable. Facebook acts weird all too often, and in this case Gizmodo claims the case was about news over Mark Zuckerberg, the companies CEO.

    Mark Zuckerberg

    On Friday, Gizmodo uncovered shocking new evidence that Facebook is using its platform to suppress stories about CEO Mark Zuckerberg… or maybe his janky, busted-ass website is just bugging out again for no reason. It’s hard to say, really. That’s sort of the problem.

    Gizmodo, Friday Oct. 4, 2019

    Unrelated to these new findings, Facebook has plenty of other issues, that should make them a company not to work with. The incident, and the pure possibility such a case of influence is possible, is another indicator to why society develops fear over Big Tech. The answer once more may be another call to , however, as long as Facebook has the reach and the attention, this won’t change.

    Source: What We ‘Know’ About Facebook