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Alphabet and Google's very bad no good summer | The Verge
"Let's review what’s been happening at Alphabet in the past months. We’ve been seeing a lot of bad news come out lately, and I figured it’s time to try to make sense of it all — or at least to put all of the bad news in one place. The very latest is that the new head of hardware at Google, Rick Osterloh, has decided to kill the Project Ara modular smartphone project. It occurs to me that it’s just the latest in a string of missteps and corrections for both Alphabet and Google
You can look at all this as a company flailing, or you can look at it as a sign of a company that’s cleaning house and locking things down without being willing to publicly say so.There are reasons to see it both ways.
If you want to see this as just the external signs of a company that’s reorganizing a bit and cleaning up what had been a very, very cluttered house, you can easily cobble that story together. For example, back when former Nest boss Tony Fadell left, we examined the reasons why. According to Randy Komisar (who had served on Nest’s board), Fadell’s reputation as a hard person to work for was only part of the issue. Instead, he said, "The real story is Alphabet. This isn’t really about Tony Fadell. This isn’t really about Nest. Nest is still full of potential. This is about Google, and Google’s decision to build Alphabet."
Alphabet and Google's very bad no good summer | The Verge
Monday, September 05, 2016
Lenovo confirms that Chrome OS is coming to its Yoga Book | TechRadar
"Lenovo is gearing up to launch a Chrome OS-powered version of its new Yoga Book 2-in-1 that was announced at IFA 2016.
Talking to TechRadar, Matt Lazare, Yoga Book Campaign Manager at Lenovo, said that the cloud-based operating system will eventually join Windows 10 and Android Marshmallow as an option on its slim new device.
He said: "I can tell you that Chrome OS is something that we're thinking very seriously about, especially with the big upgrades coming down the road that will allow access to the Android app ecosystem.
"You should look for us to take this hardware platform in Yoga Book and make waves on that front. Obviously you'll hear more about that down the road."
You can check out our full interview with Lazare on everything Yoga Book here."
Lenovo confirms that Chrome OS is coming to its Yoga Book | TechRadar
Sunday, September 04, 2016
Making Profits on the Captive Prison Market - The New Yorker
"Earlier this year, I attended a prison trade show in Louisiana, which has the nation’s highest rate of incarceration. Cheery representatives from CrossBar, a Kentucky-based company, demonstrated the bendable electronic cigarettes that are sold in prison commissaries. I chatted with employees of Wallace International, which makes the automated front gates for jails. Sentinel, which makes ankle bracelets to track parolees, distributed slick handouts. A couple hundred more exhibitors were packed into a two-hundred-and-twenty-four-thousand-square-foot space in a New Orleans convention center, a space larger than three professional football fields, including the end zones. It was an education in the scale of the industry of profiting on America’s incarceration system.
A part of that industry was much discussed earlier this month, when the Department of Justice announced it would phase out its use of private prisons. Private prisons—both state and federal—represent just a small slice of the eighty billion dollars spent yearly on corrections, and they housed only about a hundred and thirty-one thousand inmates in 2014, compared with the 1.4 million inmates locked up in government-run facilities. But, because private prison companies routinely lobby Congress for lengthier prison sentences, the federal government’s announcement was seen as a modest victory for criminal-justice-reform advocates, whose long-term goal is to end mass incarceration.
Making Profits on the Captive Prison Market - The New Yorker
A part of that industry was much discussed earlier this month, when the Department of Justice announced it would phase out its use of private prisons. Private prisons—both state and federal—represent just a small slice of the eighty billion dollars spent yearly on corrections, and they housed only about a hundred and thirty-one thousand inmates in 2014, compared with the 1.4 million inmates locked up in government-run facilities. But, because private prison companies routinely lobby Congress for lengthier prison sentences, the federal government’s announcement was seen as a modest victory for criminal-justice-reform advocates, whose long-term goal is to end mass incarceration.
Making Profits on the Captive Prison Market - The New Yorker
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