Issue #8 - Cash App & Hip Hop, Free Markets Destroy, New-New LinkedIn, Creator Controllers, Pharrell, & ROMderful
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September 18, 2020
📰 News
🎙️ Cash App's hip hop connection is fr
🧱 Free Markets Destroy - A project from the Washington Policy Center
👺 This 2010 presentation from SoftBank's Masayoshi Son is big dick energy
🔫 Fornite threw an Epic shot at the fruit we all love to hate
👑 Here's an NYT profile on WeChat, the super app of super apps
🗒️ On the heels of Roam Research buzz (not a note-taking app apparently), here's a neat essay on what's missing in note-taking apps
🇯🇵 Visual report of Fukushima approximately one decade later
😷 Amidst the demand, PPE is redesigned, and a new service for face mask recognition
🐖 In false prophet fashion, Elon destroys naysayers and builds tools to control minds (one day)
🕺 No surprise that TikTok is redefining remixes, but a big surprise that they're being sold to Oracle
🗝️ Arctic World Archive is on a mission to preserve data for the next 500 years
👀 From Luckey, the inventor of Oculus, an AI surveillance military drone that pushes us one step closer to a state-controlled society
👄 The latest in deepfakes are advancements in lip-sync
🤖 A Primer on Algorithms and Bias from Farnam Street
👾 Virtual artists, like LoL's K/DA, are the future of music
🇰🇷 Who would have thought K-Pop would conquer Algeria too
🎵 The 41 Most Anticipated Albums of Fall 2020 by Pitchfork
🍜 Everybody knows where to go to get the best cheap food when they travel to a new city (Hint: Chinatown)
📁 Winamp skins are such a vibe
🕹️ Products
Loupedeck - Physical control consoles for creators
Polywork - The New-new LinkedIn
Hourone - Synthetic characters as a service
Fluent - Learn French while you browse
Diffbot- An AI scraping the whole web whose customers include DuckDuckGo & Snapchat
Bulletin - Wholesale marketplace for indie brands
Ready - A new type of calendar
Dropbase - Turn spreadsheets into live databases
Here - Creative video workspaces
Stir - Tools for creators to run better businesses
Nuggs - Tesla of chicken nuggets
Clover - Digital notebooks designed for creatives
Podcastle - Convert news/articles to a podcast using machine learning
Localingual - Hear voices from different countries across the world
Fey - A beautiful tool for traders and investors
🎧 Music
Pharrell Williams - Entrepreneur ft. JAY-Z
ROMderful - "Tired of The Games" ft. TOBi
Adam Snow - 9 to 5 ft. Freddie Gibbs & Tedy Andreas
Disclosure, Kehlani, Syd - Birthday
Choosey & Exile - Low Low ft. Aloe Blacc
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