Catching Up: The Best Tech Stories of the Day (7/11)

Frederic Lardinois

11 Jul 2011 — 1 min read

Every weekday, we round up the best tech stories of the day. Some of these already got wide-spread attention, others remained under the radar. Most importantly, though, we try to select stories that go beyond the news and provide in-depth reviews and analysis.

Google+ Continues to Dominate the News

Today, we feature a number of stories about Google+ – which is almost inevitable these days, given that the launch of Google’s new social network was the biggest story of the summer so far. In addition, however, we also found interesting posts about smartphone use in the U.S., a discussion of Facebook’s attempts to control your social graph and an analysis of Google’s loss in the Nortel patent auction.

We are using Pearltrees to curate these stories. Just click on a pearl/headline that looks interesting to you and an overlay with the article will appear. Use the arrow buttons at the top of the screen to navigate between stories.

📝Google's surprise AI podcast hit

Google used to be a company where experimentation was encouraged -- or at least it felt like that from the outside. Now it's hard to remember when Google last launched a new product that was an immediate hit. But with NotebookLM and its AI podcasts, Google finally scored

🪧 Pressed words

I don't think anyone outside of Matt Mullenweg had the recent WordPress/WP Engine drama on their bingo card for this year. After a bit of early confusion, I think it's now clear that this is, in many ways, an extension of the open source discussions

🔒Now's the time to prepare for the post-quantum era

I've followed the development of quantum computing for the better part of the last decade. For the longest time, it's been "just around the corner" and with the advent of generative AI, any of the hype around the technology has receded into the background.

The week after CrowdStrike

It's been a week... Given everything that's happened lately, it's hard to believe that the CrowdStrike outages hit only a week ago. We're now deep in the clean-up phase of that particular disaster and while the blame for this particular incident falls

Google+ Continues to Dominate the News

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📝Google's surprise AI podcast hit

🪧 Pressed words

🔒Now's the time to prepare for the post-quantum era

The week after CrowdStrike