#54 Daily Tech: Notable people
Using data from Morgane Laouenan et al., the map is showing birthplaces of the most "notable people" around the world. Data has been processed to show only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank. Click below to show people only from a specific category.
The iPhone SE is the most boring phone that ever existed. Almost nobody notices you have a new phone; when someone does, the conversation ends quickly and invariably in a sentence like “it’s just like the old one, only faster”.
Retool raises $45M at a $3.2B valuation
The explosion of cloud computing, broadband networks, smarter devices and a vogue for building SaaS startups has created a universe of software for businesses and consumers: Whatever it is that you want or need to do, there’s an app for that, as Apple once famously said.
Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink
Canon USA is being sued for not allowing owners of certain printers to use the scanner or faxing functions if they run out of ink.
Clayton Christensen famously demonstrated the Innovator's Dilemma by using data from the hard drive industry in the 1980s. At every point, companies failed to make the switch from 8-inch drives, to 5-inch drives, to 3.5-inch drives. Capacity and speed increased exponentially every year.
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