Wed. 10/31 - Facebook's Earnings Are Not a Disaster




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Summary: <p><strong><em>Facebook earnings were not a disaster, another Alphabet employee is out because of scandal, Waymo has a permit to test real driverless cars on California roads, and if you don’t know what computational notebooks are, let me tell you about them. </em></strong></p><p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="http://tiny.website/" target="_blank"><strong>Tiny.website</strong></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/ridehome" target="_blank"><strong>DataDogHQ.com/ridehome</strong></a></li> </ul><p><br></p><p>Links:</p><ul> <li> <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/30/close-friendsbook/" target="_blank">Zuckerberg says the future is sharing via 100B messages &amp; 1B Stories/day</a> (TechCrunch)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.axios.com/executive-accused-of-harassment-at-alphabet-x-unit-is-out-6f583d1e-91e3-4a8b-ae2b-51fd4517ec74.html" target="_blank">Scoop: Executive accused of harassment at Alphabet 'X' unit is out</a> (Axios)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/30/us-carriers-esim-support-later-this-year/" target="_blank">Verizon, AT&amp;T, and T-Mobile Won't Support eSIM Until Later This Year</a> (MacRumors)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/30/18042328/gmail-ios-accounts-view-google" target="_blank">Gmail for iOS now lets you view all of your accounts in a single inbox</a> (The Verge)</li> <li> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/10/waymos-excruciatingly-gradual-launch-process-explained/" target="_blank">Waymo’s excruciatingly gradual launch process, explained</a> (Ars Technica)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2018/10/30/on-mute-how-facebook-fell-behind-on-voice-technology/#7978c5df3b50" target="_blank">How Facebook Failed To Build A Better Alexa (Or Siri)</a> (Forbes)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/30/google-accel-back-ethos-series-b-funding-round-now-valued-at-100m.html" target="_blank">Google, Accel and Jay Z invest in life insurance start-up Ethos, valuing it at more than $100 million</a> (CNBC)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07196-1" target="_blank">Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice</a> (Nature)</li> </ul> <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/34f8474/podcast/sponsor/acugia/url/https%3A%2F%2Fflipboard.com%2F">https://flipboard.com/</a>