A Century-Old Device May Be the Future of Electronics, and More Articles

Every Friday we publish our “Follow Friday” series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

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A Century-Old Device May Be the Future of Electronics – Gizmodo
By Maddie Stone

There’s a new device in the works over at DARPA, the agency known for pushing the technological envelope with mind-controlled prosthetics and drone-launching submarines. This latest innovation? The vacuum tube. You might remember it from the first time humans invented it, way back in 1904.

Audi teaming up with LG Chem, Samsung for electric SUV batteries – CNET
By Chris Paukert

Audi has announced that it is teaming up with LG Chem and Samsung SDI to manufacture high-capacity batteries for a new range of pure-electric SUVs. The German automaker and LG Chem previously announced a separate deal to develop batteries for gas-electric hybrid vehicles in August of last year.

Intercom Helps Businesses Track Whether Their Messages Are Actually Working – TechCrunch
By Anthony Ha

If you’re sending emails or other messages to your customers, there’s a standard way to measure your success — you look at whether they opened those messages, and whether the openers actually clicked. But that’s setting the bar kind of low isn’t it? I assume you’re usually trying to drive some sort of behavior, whether it’s making a purchase, trying out a new feature, reactivating an account, or whatever. That’s what customer communication company Intercom aims to measure with a new feature called Message Goals.