Fri. 01/24 - RIP Clayton Christensen

Quick Share is coming to challenge AirDrop, how iOS 13 has blown up location marketing, Google takes the wrapping of Dataset Search, an interesting eSports raise and, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.

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Links:

• Clayton Christensen, guru of disruptive innovation and Latter-day Saint leader, dies at 67 (DesertNews)
• Exclusive: Quick Share is Samsung’s alternative to AirDrop for Galaxy phones (XDADevelopers)
• Apple, Broadcom Strike $15 Billion Worth of Chip-Supply Deals (Bloomberg)
• Apple and Google’s tough new location privacy controls are working (Fast Company)
• Shlayer, No. 1 Threat for Mac, Targets YouTube, Wikipedia (ThreatPost)
• Google’s search engine for scientists upgraded for better data scouring (The Verge)
• Esports Training Site ProGuides Raises $5 Million In Seed Funding (Forbes)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Inside the World's Highest-Stakes Industrial Hacking Contest (Wired)
• We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. (NYTimes)
• The Secret History of Facial Recognition (Wired)
• Behind the Scenes at Rotten Tomatoes (Wired)
• Jobs, Cook, Ive—Blevins? The Rise of Apple’s Cost Cutter (WSJ)
• The Tesla Skeptics Who Bet Against Elon Musk (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• The Internet of Beefs (Ribbonfarm.com)
• The Hacker News Thread on The Internet of Beefs

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