If you read one short book to your kid per day, they’ll enter kindergarten knowing 290,000 more words than kids whose parents didn’t read to them. The gap is even wider for kids who hear five books per day.

HT @BoSacks Jessica Pels, the editor, is trying to save the magazine from the jaws of Instagram.

HT @BoSacks 13.3m U.S. adults visited Vogue.com in Feb, an increase of 54% over Feb 2018. Vogue has 22.4m Instagram followers. 4.7m YouTube subscribers, w 1.5m views/hr during Met Gala.

A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands.

Facebook may soon know if you’re holding a Starbucks cup or drinking Grey Goose vodka.

The system will be fully open source and designed with newly developed secure hardware to make the system not only impervious to certain kinds of hacking, but also allow voters to verify that their votes were recorded accurately.

Twitch has over well over 100 million monthly active users, and so far on this karaoke service, the average singing time is about two hours.

Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant has a new trick: transmitting secure patient information between patients and caregivers. Developers can now use the Alexa Skills Kit to build HIPAA-compliant apps, opening the door for hospitals, insurers, digital health startups and others to manage patient data…

Amazon is now rolling out customer demographic analytics to third-party sellers, including age, income, gender and marital status.

Forget subscriptions, there is a bigger, messier battle looming in ad-supported streaming video.

From @nwquah