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According to a report from AllThingsD, lack of customers wasn ;t the only reason Google Reader will meet its untimely end on July 1st. It was also, for Google, a potential source of bungling that it wasn ;t worth shoring up. Google has run into so many privacy issues of late鈥擶i-Fi snooping chief among them, but there have been plenty of others鈥攖hat every team within the company needs compliance staff looking after them. Since Reader didn ;t even have a product manager stanley cup at the time stanley cup of its sentencing, it was unlikely that Google was going to staff up lawyers to keep its nose clean. https://gizmodo/was-a-rogue-engineer-res...sn-5559989 A few things become more clear. One, that Reader definitely wasn ;t profitable. Two, that Google more willing than ever to axe projects that don ;t help the bottom line. And three, that the company is currently in a position where it has access to so much of your information鈥攁nd such limited means to control it it鈥攖hat it worried it will do something untoward or illegal with it with stanley ca out even trying. An explanation like that may be cold comfort for bereaved Google Reader fans, but it downright chilly for the rest of us. [AllThingsD] GoogleGoogle Reader Gzxh Brian Selznick Unleashes Lightning and Automatons in Episode 51 of The Geek s Guide to the Galaxy
The new Apple Store in Palo Alto just opened a few weeks ago, and while its design is indisputedly gorgeous, some are complaining that the place is too loud. They ;re even using scientific instruments to try to prove it! Deep breath people. It not as bad as it sounds. We ;re going to get through this. Blogger and Palo Alto resident Jean-Louis Gass茅e is very fond of Apple Stores. So he was understandably thrilled when a new store came to his town, and equally dismayed at how loud the store was. And it wasn ;t just him: He heard others complain of the din inside the store. So Gass茅e decided to investigate. He returned to the Apple Store armed with the SPL Meter iPhone app, which measures the sound pressu stanley cup re of the store in decibels. On a relati stanley cup vely quiet Saturday evening, the noise level around the Genius Bar exceeded 75 dB. Outside, the traffic noise registered a mere 65 dB. It was 10 db noisier inside the store than on always-busy University Avenue! Then as if to justify his grievances, Gass茅e notes that he saw professional sound measuring equipment inside the store above . Proof of failure! Except no. Traffic in a real city usually clocks at a much louder 85 dB. Indeed, 75 dB is probably only a big deal for library-loving nerds from Stanford. Regular human conversation usually registers about 60-65 dB鈥攐r roughly the SPL that Gass茅e measured outside the Apple Store. It makes complete sense that the collected sound of many human conversat stanley tazas ions might b
According to a report from AllThingsD, lack of customers wasn ;t the only reason Google Reader will meet its untimely end on July 1st. It was also, for Google, a potential source of bungling that it wasn ;t worth shoring up. Google has run into so many privacy issues of late鈥擶i-Fi snooping chief among them, but there have been plenty of others鈥攖hat every team within the company needs compliance staff looking after them. Since Reader didn ;t even have a product manager stanley cup at the time stanley cup of its sentencing, it was unlikely that Google was going to staff up lawyers to keep its nose clean. https://gizmodo/was-a-rogue-engineer-res...sn-5559989 A few things become more clear. One, that Reader definitely wasn ;t profitable. Two, that Google more willing than ever to axe projects that don ;t help the bottom line. And three, that the company is currently in a position where it has access to so much of your information鈥攁nd such limited means to control it it鈥攖hat it worried it will do something untoward or illegal with it with stanley ca out even trying. An explanation like that may be cold comfort for bereaved Google Reader fans, but it downright chilly for the rest of us. [AllThingsD] GoogleGoogle Reader Gzxh Brian Selznick Unleashes Lightning and Automatons in Episode 51 of The Geek s Guide to the Galaxy
The new Apple Store in Palo Alto just opened a few weeks ago, and while its design is indisputedly gorgeous, some are complaining that the place is too loud. They ;re even using scientific instruments to try to prove it! Deep breath people. It not as bad as it sounds. We ;re going to get through this. Blogger and Palo Alto resident Jean-Louis Gass茅e is very fond of Apple Stores. So he was understandably thrilled when a new store came to his town, and equally dismayed at how loud the store was. And it wasn ;t just him: He heard others complain of the din inside the store. So Gass茅e decided to investigate. He returned to the Apple Store armed with the SPL Meter iPhone app, which measures the sound pressu stanley cup re of the store in decibels. On a relati stanley cup vely quiet Saturday evening, the noise level around the Genius Bar exceeded 75 dB. Outside, the traffic noise registered a mere 65 dB. It was 10 db noisier inside the store than on always-busy University Avenue! Then as if to justify his grievances, Gass茅e notes that he saw professional sound measuring equipment inside the store above . Proof of failure! Except no. Traffic in a real city usually clocks at a much louder 85 dB. Indeed, 75 dB is probably only a big deal for library-loving nerds from Stanford. Regular human conversation usually registers about 60-65 dB鈥攐r roughly the SPL that Gass茅e measured outside the Apple Store. It makes complete sense that the collected sound of many human conversat stanley tazas ions might b
