Hi there! Hope you're having a splendid week thus far. Facebook's (well, their users) having a rough one with the recent data breach of over 500 million users on their platform, we'd like to say we're surprised but that's a conversation for a later day. Besides, it seems like far better time spent knowing if you were one of the hacked.
We've got some good reads for you so let's jump right in.
Note: For any articles behind the paywall, open them on an incognito/private window and you should be good to go.
Don’t pick up! India's 'missed call' culture and the (now defunct) industry around it 📞
In the age of expensive data, missed calls became more than just a cheap way to communicate. But in India, technology moves faster than you'd think.
Product design’s gender crisis: “If businesses don’t adapt they’ll become obsolete” 📉
Kinneir Dufort CEO Merle Hall talks about inequality in industrial design, untapped business potential and the studio’s new female-centred department.
“We’ve made no progress”: Silicon Valley investors are still ignoring women-led startups 👩
Claire Díaz-Ortiz, the woman who got the Pope on Twitter, has a plan to get women investing in women.
Netflix’s big bet on global content could change how we see the world 📺
As Netflix funds original, localized TV and movies, it could help shift our perceptions of places we may never visit.
Unionizing Amazon warehouses was never going to be easy 💪
Amazon beat the Bessemer union drive thanks to the hard realities of US labour politics.
4 days, 6 unicorns, $1.55 billion — A week like none other for Indian startups 💸
About six new startups, fintech startup CRED, social media startup ShareChat, wealth management company Groww, messaging platform Gupshup, social commerce startup Meesho and e-pharmacy PharmEasy — entered the unicorn club in the last six days.
The evolution of Google Maps colours - A case study 🗺️
It’s almost impossible to think of a time before we could enter an address into our smartphones and just go. Since its release in 2005, Google Maps have evolved and adapted to the wants and needs of our fast-paced and ever-changing society.
NFTs could usher in a 'creative and artistic renaissance' 🌟
The emergence of NFTs will trigger a wave of artistic innovation and allow creatives to sell avant-garde work directly to customers, according to digital designers.
Gamestop and bitcoin renew a push to digitze the stock market 🏦
Experiments in blockchain-based exchanges—with nearly instant, round-the-clock trading—are gaining steam, but critics warn of volatility and risk.
‘Master,’ ‘Slave’ and the fight over offensive terms in computing 🖥️
Nearly a year after the Internet Engineering Task Force took up a plan to replace words that could be considered racist, the debate is still raging.
A Comprehensive timeline of mathematics 🧮
This interactive timeline gives you a deep and culturally/chronologically contextualised view of Mathematics over the past four centuries.
Brazil needs vaccines. It also needs Huawei 📱
Western fears of Chinese political influence are overshadowing the real story behind Brazil’s “sudden” approval of Huawei bids to build its 5G network.
Honorary mentions
New ‘Heads Up’ feature nags distracted Android users to look up while walking 😲
A brief lesson on font legibility 🔤
Apple’s Find My network now offers new third-party finding experiences 🍏
The slowing chase on banks by regulators 💰
Google Play Store’s new UI gets rid of the hamburger menu 🍔
And that's the lot! Thanks for checking out what we had to share with you this week, we shall catch up with you next Wednesday.
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