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Facebook is basically done growing in the U.S., Canada, and Europe
2018-07-26

Facebook reported misses on revenue, daily active user count, and monthly active user count. Now the stock is in a free fall. Facebook shares are sliding after the company published its most recent quarterly earnings report. A lot has been riding on the company’s financials as it continues to take a beating in...

Facebook stock hammered after earnings miss, slow growth forecast
2018-07-26

Investors have clearly been looking for a reason to run away. Now, Facebook’s given away all its stock gains from the last quarter. Poof. There goes a quarter of really impressive stock gains.Read Full Story

These Venus-moon meet-up pics are the best thing on Instagram right now
2018-07-16

There’s still time to see Venus and the moon hang out. Venus and the crescent moon hung out last night, and since they are the celestial equivalent of Beyoncé and Jay Z, the paparazzi was all over it.Read Full Story

This startup is the perfect example of Korea’s vibrant crypto market
2018-07-16

Though cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications seem to have taken the entire world by storm, there are few places where this new technology has been embraced like South Korea. In part, thanks to changing regulations within the country, the overwhelming sentiment seems to indicate that crypto will soon become...

The simple way Apple and Google could fix notifications
2018-07-16

Psychological scientist Kostadin Kushlev, who studies the impact of our mobile tech on our lives, discusses the road to digital well-being. This article originally appeared on The Conversation.Read Full Story

Amazon’s European workers are striking on Prime Day
2018-07-16

The strike will see workers at a large Amazon facility just outside Madrid go on strike from now until July 18. Workers at Amazon’s warehouses in Spain have gone on strike today to protest working conditions, reports CNBC. The strike was organized by a group calling itself Amazon En Lucha and will see workers...

Dear Elon Musk, delete your Twitter account
2018-07-16

Right, we’re done here. Elon Musk has gone off the deep end and called British diver Vern Unsworth – who was instrumental in recently rescuing a Thai boys’ soccer team trapped in a cave – a pedophile, after Unsworth balked at the billionaire’s idea of using a small “submarine” to help bring the boys back...

How to check the security of your Google Chrome extensions
2018-07-15

The other day, a friend called me and said that his Google Chrome browser is acting weirdly and may need reinstalling. According to him, every time he searched for something on Google some unknown website appeared with suspicious results. I asked him to remove every Chrome extension and only add those few that he...

Listen to Google — UX and SEO are a match made in heaven
2018-07-14

To the layman UX and SEO (if they even understand what they mean) sound like two entirely unrelated things. The one is about some plumber jabbing away at their phone, while the other is about satisfying the algorithms of a company in Silicon Valley. But we know better. At its core they’re down to the same thing....

Academic expert says Google and Facebook’s AI researchers aren’t doing science
2018-07-14

The field of artificial intelligence, to those on the outside, must appear to be an orderly gathering of intellectuals collaborating at the cutting edge of technology. It’s not. If you dig beyond the hyperbole of Elon Musk and the wonders promised by Google, there’s a number of gnashing dissenters who’re happy...

Techies leave the likes of Apple and Amazon for greener pastures in the cannabis industry
2018-07-13

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have all suffered black eyes in the media as reports each were individually involved in dubious government projects have unfolded. If you’re a tech worker who is embarrassed to be seen in such amoral company, we’ve got a suggestion: consider selling weed instead. When California...

Facebook’s fight against fake news stops short of banning it
2018-07-13

As Facebook continues its alleged fight against fake news, it’s been undermined this week by a comment made by an executive that makes it seem as though the company isn’t actually going to do anything about the problem. In an interview with CNN reporter Oliver Darcy, Facebook‘s head of News Feed, John Hegeman...

These are the four startups anointed to present at the Sun Valley moguls’ confab
2018-07-13

Meet buzzy companies you need to know in autonomous driving, fashion, precision medicine, and drones. On Saturday morning, while you’re sleeping in or doing chores, four highly regarded but not widely known startups will have a chance to dazzle some of the media, tech, and finance machers still hanging out...

Much of the excitement and cool factor around Magic Leap is now gone
2018-07-13

Another less than revealing demo. A major tie-up with AT&T. A Google investment fading into the past. Will this company really deliver? I had grown accustomed to those periodic, breathless tweets about the wonder and promise of Magic Leap’s mixed reality glasses. These tweets, which started showing up in...

Controversial VC Shervin Pishevar tweets to help you any way he can
2018-07-13

The embattled VC recently started the Twitter campaign #HowCanIHelp–and it seems like he means it. Shervin Pishevar has been in quite the giving mood.Read Full Story

There’s only 1 Blockbuster store left
2018-07-13

It’s the end of an era as two more Blockbuster locations are set to close, leaving only one lonely location in the US. With no potential mates, the species is doomed to extinction. At the peak of Blockbuster’s popularity there were more than 9,000 locations dotting the US. Now there’s just one. Conservation...

Trailer: a new film on Silicon Valley’s most important failure
2018-07-13

General Magic is the most influential tech company you’ve never heard of. Even if you follow the doings of Apple, Amazon, and Google, you’ve probably never heard of General Magic. But it just might be one of the most important tech companies in the history of Silicon Valley. Why? General Magic was...

D.C. “boil water” advisory: Here’s what you need to know
2018-07-13

The advisory remains in effect until further notice. The local agency that oversees the water supply in the nation’s capital has issued a “boil water” advisory for residents who live within the city’s northern half. The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, or DC Water, said...

AT&T’s no-good week shows why it may regret its Google envy
2018-07-13

The last five days have been bad news for AT&T’s entertainment and tech ambitions. At what point in the last five days did AT&T have a moment of creeping doubt that this whole desire to be a player in Hollywood may not be worth the headaches?Read Full Story

The wild future of 4D design
2018-07-13

A manufacturing technique from MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab that is poised to disrupt everything from furniture to housing finally has market-viable products to showcase. And they are stunning. The future of 4D printing is here—and now available for purchase at New York’s Patrick Parrish...

The explosion of design tools has come at a cost
2018-07-13

Sketch, Framer, Figma, Adobe XD: Design tools are proliferating, but they don’t always simplify the design process. Here are five ways toolmakers can create a better design ecosystem for everyone, writes designer fund codirector Ben Blumenfeld. In the past few years, the number of digital design tools available...

Auspex International is the new Cambridge Analytica
2018-07-13

The company was founded and is run by former Cambridge Analytica staff. That’s because Auspex was founded and is run by former Cambridge Analytica staff. Their new data analysis company claims to be “ethically based” and offers “boutique geopolitical consultancy” services, reports...

AI is finding out when the person using your account isn’t you
2018-07-13

A few months ago, security researchers at 4iQ uncovered a 41-gigabyte file being sold on the dark web that contained 1.4 billion username and password combinations from online services such as Netflix, Last.FM, LinkedIn, MySpace, Zoosk, YouPorn, Minecraft, Runescape, and others. Unfortunately, this is something that...

When life gives you lemons, make a video of it rolling down a hill and get 4M views on Twitter
2018-07-13

When life handed Mike Saskasegawa a lemon, he did what anyone would do: made a video of it rolling down a hill. For context, Mike was walking home from after a run and saw a lemon rolling down a hill. He grabbed his smartphone and began to film it as it continued its journey down the street, along a sidewalk near his...

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