Here’s a fun exercise: take a list of the 20th century’s inventions and innovations in electronics, communications, and computing. Make sure you include everything, especially the stuff we take for granted. Now, cross off everything that can’t trace its roots back to the AT&T Corporation’s research arm, the Bell Laboratories. We’d wager heavily that the…

What’s she going to do? ‘Engage’ with people Mega-bucks CRM titan Salesforce has appointed a loftily titled “chief ethical and humane use officer” to counteract the problems of being a tech giant in 2019.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

A member of Congress asks how YouTube combats the spread of white supremacy. …read more Source:: CNet

The app is trying to de-clutter. …read more Source:: CNet

K8’s kitchen puts self-serve Istio on menu as managed offering takes shape KubeCon As a gathering of DevOps types at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 gets under way in Seattle, Washington, Google plans to tell anyone who will listen that its managed Kubernetes service, GKE, now can be ordered with Istio on the side,…

He did leave the open door to coming to China sometime in the future. …read more Source:: CNet

Whether you’re part of the #DeleteFacebook crowd or the ‘Time Well Spent’ movement, these are your best alternatives to the world’s largest social network. …read more Source:: CNet

Well, you know what we mean. Variable quality comes with increasing quantity Analysis “On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 25, our engineering team discovered a security issue affecting almost 50 million accounts,” said Facebook’s Guy Rosen in a security update in September.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Class V shareholders agree to sell or swap the stock Class C shares in Dell Technologies are to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange before the year is out, after it today removed an obstacle that was hindering its ability to do so.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Slack off, hipsters Microsoft shows no sign of yielding its enterprise chat and conferencing users to a hipster-friendly upstart like Slack. A snapshot of US businesses who use work chat shows that Microsoft’s Teams is taking advantage of Google’s enterprise missteps rather than those of Slack.… …read more Source:: TheRegister