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...
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 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...
In a Twitter clash with CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, Facebook essentially admitted today that it doesn’t believe in shutting down pages on the site that repeatedly promote fake news. Darcy had asked why the company didn’t shut down the page for InfoWars, the conspiracy-laden media platform helmed by...
Columnist Daniella Greenbaum announced her resignation on Twitter after a controversial post she had authored was taken down. A weird thing that seems to keep happening lately is the tendency of center-right writers to misconstrue editing for censorship. The job of a columnist is not to simply yell their opinions in...
Facebook this week unveiled the schedule for its funded news shows, and it could use a little diversity — the entire slate is dominated by two shows. I really hope you like Anderson Cooper and/or Fox News, because both of those combined take up about 80 percent of the schedule — Fox News in particular is on every...
The human brain is a formidable machine. Get yourself doing the same task over-and-over-and-over, and your brain will start shaping itself around that task. If you’re an interface designer, chances are you’ll build a special eye for type sizes, alignment, color tones. If you’re focused in UX, your brain will...
The moral and economic decline of Detroit’s elite offers an important cautionary tale for Silicon Valley. There was a time when California’s Santa Clara Valley, bucolic home to orchards and vineyards, was known as “the valley of heart’s delight.” The same area was later dubbed...
According to employee reviews on Indeed, salary and perks are just a small part of why they love to work at these companies. Facebook’s privacy and fake news woes notwithstanding, the social network giant topped the list of best workplaces as rated by Indeed’s latest survey.Read...
The move comes after the fatal Uber crash in Arizona earlier this year. The layoffs affect self-driving car test drivers in Pittsburgh and comes in the wake of the fatal Uber self-driving car collision in Arizona earlier this year, reports CNBC. The move follows the layoffs of 300 safety drivers in that state earlier...
“In the world of technology, you better stand behind your people because your people are your most valuable asset.” The company’s president and chief legal officer Brad Smith told CNBC that Microsoft doesn’t want to move jobs overseas, but may have to if it can’t hire the skilled...
Loon and Wing, two of Google X’s moonshot projects, “graduated” yesterday to become full companies under the Alphabet banner. Loon was an ambitious Google X project to establish a network of balloons in the stratosphere to relay internet connectivity to people in remote regions. Meanwhile, Wing saw the use of...
Twitter today announced it’d be removing locked accounts from users’ follower counts. If you’ve noticed a precipitous drop in follower counts today, it’s not you — it’s your followers. Reports surfaced earlier this week that Twitter had suspended a multitude of fake accounts in the months of May and June...
The two projects, part of the Google X innovation initiative, are now freestanding “Other Bets” companies. Another pair of Google’s “moonshots” is graduating from the experimental stage into full-fledged companies.Read Full Story
It’s not as wild as it sounds. According to one designer, autonomous furniture could vastly improve the way disabled people get around their homes. Life hacks aren’t just for the productivity-obsessed. They’re a necessary part of life for differently-abled people navigating a world that was not...
Twitter shut down many accounts that had previously been locked because of unconventional behavior. President Trump likes to tout his massive Twitter following as a sign of his influence. But thanks to a big-time ongoing purge by Twitter of shady users, Trump’s following is going down, by a lot.Read Full Story ...
Facebook is developing a “Talk the Walk” AI capable of giving walking directions without knowing a user’s location. What it is: A team comprised of a researcher from the University of Montreal in Canada and Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) scientists recently published a white paper describing a...
Facebook is rolling out a new ad format that uses augmented reality to encourage you to sample some of the products on display. The details: The ads appear similar to every other Facebook ad out there, appearing as a promoted tile on your Newsfeed — except they have a “Tap to Try it On” option (presumably with...
The world is isn’t making progress on the UN’s 17 benchmarks for a more just and environmentally sound society–and the U.S. has abdicated any leadership. You very likely do not need a comprehensive data set to tell you that by the measures of social fairness and sustainability, the world is not...
Talk the Walk features two bots–a tourist and a guide–communicating in natural language, with the guide helping the tourist find a specific location in New York. Imagine a tourist and a guide exchanging texts as the visitor tries to find the Manhattan coffee shop where she’s meeting a friend. Text...
The #BlackLivesMatter hashtag has been used nearly 30 million times. And its hashtag has become one of the most successful of all political and social issue hashtags on Twitter since its inception, a study by Pew Research has found. As of May 1, 2018, the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag has been used nearly 30 million times...
Cozy up to a blog called McMansion Hell, for starters. You may not have heard of it, but the San Francisco-based nonprofit organization Electronic Frontier Foundation is basically like the ACLU, but for digital rights like privacy and free speech. Since 1990, EFF has helped fight for things like the right to repair...
An ex-Apple employee is alleged to have stolen hardware and software secrets from Apple shortly before resigning, with plans to move back to China to work for XMotors. The Chinese-owned electric vehicle company has denied receiving data about Apple’s Project Titan car project from a former Apple employee who...
The invite-only app lets members collaborate with Target designers–and see their ideas in stores. I’m looking at an app, and I could swear it’s Instagram. I see large square photos in an endless feed. Avatars appear in round circles. You can tap a heart to like something. Inside any post, there...
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