Spotify, Fitness Data, Zuckerberg, Supercomputers, Steroids - Five Things - Issue #340

A Spotify playlist tailored to your DNA is the latest example of brands cashing in on people’s search for identity.

Last week, life insurance company John Hancock Financial announced that it would only sell so-called interactive policies that allow customers to share fitness data in exchange for discounts.

A certain distaste for Facebook’s chief Mark Zuckerberg underlies much of the recent reaction to the company’s annus horribilis. Just last week, the company announced a data breach affecting 50…

I had a SGI computer once. Amazing piece of computing history.

Twenty years after McGwire and Sosa’s home run chase, it’s clear that other factors contributed to the power surge of ’98—some possibly more than PEDs did

null