Google kills its Twitch killer–the YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week

Google kills its Twitch killer–the YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week

Google launched the standalone YouTube gaming vertical almost four years ago as a response to Amazon’s purchase of Twitch, and on May 30, Google will shut down the standalone YouTube Gaming app and the standalone gaming.youtube.com website. Google kills its Twitch killer—the YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week Here lies Google Inbox, a radical rethink of how email should work Google Fiber’s biggest failure: ISP will turn service off in Louisville View more stories The plan to shut down the gaming portal was announced in September, with a report from The Verge saying the site was dying because it simply wasn’t popular. Google is directing former YouTube Gaming users to a gaming sub-page on YouTube.com, which has some of the YouTube Gaming features intact, like the top live games list.

Source: arstechnica.com

Facebook removes Indian page, says it spread Iranian propaganda

Facebook removes Indian page, says it spread Iranian propaganda

Zaidi said his own Facebook account, which listed him as a manager of The Leaders News page, was taken down around March 26. An archived link of the “Info and Ads” section of The Leaders News’ Facebook page, saved by DFR Lab before the takedowns, shows it had seven managers from India, which is the “primary location of people who manage” the page. For instance, news of Facebook taking down The Leaders News only came to light from the DFR Lab post.

Source: qz.com

Show HN: Pair.sh – Pairing Made Simple

Show HN: Pair.sh – Pairing Made Simple

We will deliver you low latency pairing sessions as long as you have an Internet connection. Code like being together Pair.sh is made for pairing coding sessions, and many of our design decissions are made to ensure that you feel like typing on your partner’s keyboard. We have focused the design of Pair.sh on bandwidth usage and latency, and that’s the reason why we use latest technologies and codecs to ensure high quality pairing sessions with minimum latency.

Source: pair.sh

SaaS CTO Security Checklist

SaaS CTO Security Checklist

Someone with physical access to an employee computer can do a lot of harm in a very short amount of time, so locking all computers is a great habit. This is a good way to reinforce the habit of locking your computer for everyone. That person will then have to bring in cookies for the office!

Source: www.sqreen.com

Show HN: Draw “text-mode” diagrams using Braille characters

Show HN: Draw “text-mode” diagrams using Braille characters

This package provides a backend for Diagrams to render tactile Braille graphics. Additionally, a small frontend command-line program called brldia is provided which allows to create diagrams from a number of primitive functions and optional arguments. You can also combine various shapes into a single diagram:

See for a full list of available commands and options.

Source: github.com

Chinese Dominance of Rare-Earth Metals Threatens to Disrupt U.S. Manufacturing

Chinese Dominance of Rare-Earth Metals Threatens to Disrupt U.S. Manufacturing

China is preparing to limit the supply of rare earth metals crucial to many industries in the United States as their trade dispute intensifies, a commentary published in the People’s Daily newspaper warned on Thursday. China holds a strong monopoly on the global production and supply of rare earth metals. China is currently involved in more than 90 percent of the global production and supply of rare earth metals, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Source: globelynews.com

Healthy fat hidden in dirt may fend off anxiety disorders

Healthy fat hidden in dirt may fend off anxiety disorders

Summary: 10(Z)-hexadecenoic acid, a fatty acid found in the soil based bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae, interacts with immune cells to inhibit pathways that drive inflammation and increases resilience to stress. For the new study, Lowry and his team identified, isolated and chemically synthesized a novel lipid, or fatty acid, called 10(Z)-hexadecenoic acid found in Mycobacterium vaccae and used next-generation sequencing techniques to study how it interacted with macrophages, or immune cells, when the cells were stimulated. and characterization of a novel anti-inflammatory lipid isolated from Mycobacterium vaccae, a soil-derived bacterium with immunoregulatory and stress resilience properties

Rationale

Mycobacterium vaccae (NCTC 11659) is an environmental saprophytic bacterium with anti-inflammatory, immunoregulatory, and stress resilience properties.

Source: neurosciencenews.com

Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician (2011)

Lino Tagliapietra: Glass Magician (2011)

This 13-minute experimental film documents the glass blowing of maestro Lino Tagliapietra, widely considered to be the world’s best glass blower. Lino is from Murano, Italy, and is famous for teaching Italian glass-blowing secrets to American glass artists. This film documents their visit to the MIT Glass Lab in October 2010.

Source: erikdemaine.org

How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years

How Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years

Qualcomm had the right to unilaterally terminate a smartphone maker’s chip supply once the patent licensing deal expired. Qualcomm’s first weapon against competitors: patent licensing terms requiring customers to pay a royalty on every phone sold—not just phones that contained Qualcomm’s wireless chips. If another chipmaker tried to undercut Qualcomm’s chips on price, Qualcomm could easily afford to cut the price of its own chips, knowing that the customer would still be paying Qualcomm a hefty patent licensing fee on every phone.

Source: arstechnica.com

Data Is Plural – Structured Archive

Data Is Plural – Structured Archive

police-related data does your city publish?The Police Open Data Census, created by Code for America fellows in Indianapolis, is tracking “currently available open datasets about police interactions with citizens in the US,” including officer-involved shootings, use of force, and citizen complaints. [h/t Tom Johnson, who emailed Data Is Plural to praise how Albuquerque is sharing its data: “I have not found any other city in the world doing so in such billion pages of books (and booklike things). For each of its 1.8 billion pages, the dataset includes word frequencies, languages used, and sentence counts, among other Prussian horses.For his 1898 book, The Law of Small Numbers, statistician Ladislaus Bortkiewicz tabulated the number of Prussian cavalrymen killed by horse kicks each year between 1875 and 1894.

Source: docs.google.com