Enough is enough, already! [Photo: courtesy of Instagram]Is Instagram the first (and last) thing you look at daily? Well, starting today, Instagram wants to help you stop scrolling. A new feature will signal when users have seen all new posts in the last 48 hours with a notice that says “You’re All...
He brought home a title in 2016, fulfilling a promise to his home-state fans. But not everything is peaches and cream. Decision 3.0 was so very 2018: A tweet from LeBron James’s management company–sent just as he was about to board a private jet for a trip to Europe–announced he’s...
The bug temporarily unblocked the users for eight days at the end of May and beginning of June. It’s not on the scale of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but Facebook once again has egg on its face thanks to a privacy problem.Read Full Story
The giant telecom said the merger wouldn’t lead to substantially higher consumer prices. Well.. AT&T says it’s raising the price of its DirecTV Now streaming pay TV offering by $5 per month to $40 for the basic service and $75 for a premium package. The rationale: “. . .we’re bringing...
Looks like Instagram is on a feature-adding frenzy of late. The latest, spotted in a small test pool, allows users to (apparently) ask their followers questions and receive answers. The details: First spotted yesterday by Android Police, the feature appears to allow users to ask questions to their followers via...
Tesla has a habit of flubbing production deadlines and accruing losses. On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to rejoice over producing 7,000 Model 3 cars in a single week and meeting a self-sanctioned production deadline it promised during its last quarterly earnings statement. But before the CEO could...
When the tech giant first bought wind from a farm in Iowa in 2010, it pioneered a new way for big corporations to access green energy. Now dozens of other companies, from Nike to Walmart, are following their lead. Four miles from the town of Albany in southeast Georgia, in an area filled with farms, construction will...
Plastic utensils and cocktail picks have also been outlawed. The ban came into effect Sunday–and isn’t just limited to straws. Plastic utensils and cocktail picks have also been outlawed, reports CNBC. Seattle is the first major city to outlaw plastic straws. Under the new rules, establishments will need...
Many were scams or a joke or simply cryptocurrencies that failed to materialize. That’s according to the website Dead Coins, which tracks ICOs of cryptocurrencies across the globe (via CNBC). The site has found that more than 800 cryptocurrencies are now worth less than a cent. That’s despite ICOs taking...
Amazon’s unrelenting efficiency, obsession with automation, and brutal pricing strategies have helped it disrupt or dominate industry after industry, which began with books way back in 1997. Over the next year, it’s bringing those tactics to bear on the organization’s latest target: the advertising industry. To...
For a completely free tool, Google Analytics packs in an amazing amount of data-driven information for anyone with an interest in web traffic stats. Since practically anyone dealing in digital content or online sales should have an acute interest in those numbers, the Google Analytics Certification: Get Certified in 2...
Certain governments have been censoring web content for years; with China, Iran and Turkey among the biggest offenders. But if there was something unique about Russia’s block of the Telegram messaging service in April, it was the extent to which the government was willing to go to. Russia went for a wholesale,...
Facebook and Twitter have, within a few hours of each other, revealed new ad transparency measures this week. In both cases, the company in question reveals more details about what ads each account or page is running. It’s also offering further insights on political ads. Trouble is, it all depends on how much effort...
The former “America’s Next Top Model” and “Dancing with the Stars” contestant weighed in on Twitter. Pornhub recently added closed captioning so that the horny and hearing impaired among us can more fully enjoy the adult platform’s offerings. Deaf activist and former...
A patent from Facebook came to light earlier this week, depicting technology that Facebook would use to quietly activate a user’s microphone in order to listen to them as they watch ads. How hard can I “nope” out of that? The details: The patent, filed earlier this month, was originally discovered by Metro. It...
Over 100,000 escorts and allies are using Switter now. Before the passage of FOSTA (Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) earlier this year, critics had warned that it could put sex workers at risk. The law was meant to deter internet sex trafficking by targeting online content...
Google’s UK-based sister company, DeepMind, recently developed an AI that can render entire scenes in 3D after having only observed them as flat 2D images. Broad strokes: AI researchers at the cutting-edge are trying to teach machines to learn like humans. Rather than see the world in pixels, we look around our...
THE ROCK – the world’s most charismatic steroid user – has just released a product he described on Instagram as “the WORLD’S FIRST over the ear headphones engineered for HARDCORE TRAINING.” Apart from, THE ROCK, they aren’t really, are they? Are they? Are they really, THE ROCK? In fact, other famous...
Mike Rognlien outlines how to figure out when it’s time to move on and the best way to do it. The average American worker holds between 10 and 15 jobs during their lifetime, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and if you want your salary to not become stagnant, experts suggest you change jobs every...
As of early this morning, the account was still visible, with Twitter users meticulously going through his tweets and posting screenshots. More than 13 hours after a gunman killed five people at the Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, Twitter has suspended the apparent account of the suspect, Jarrod W. Ramos,...
14% of respondents said it’s “very important” that people on social media know they are living their best life. Sorry to be the one to tell you this, but your friends are jerks. Or at least 36% of them are.Read Full Story
At least two Facebook patents describe listening to users’ TVs. Facebook says it will “never” deploy the technique, but other firms are using similar methods. Amid persistent rumors that Facebook is spying on you through your phone’s microphone—rumors that the company has denied...
We heard back in February about Google’s plans to build a game streaming platform, codenamed Yeti. Now, Kotaku has a scoop on hardware that’s being developed at the company to complement this upcoming service. It isn’t yet clear if Google’s gaming contraption will be a high-powered console like a PS4 or Xbox...
Quite possibly the best thing about being a YouTube Red/Premium/Google Play Music subscriber is the ability to watch videos in a floating picture-in-picture (PiP) window on my phone. That allows me to continue watching a video while chatting, browsing the web, or doing pretty much any activity. I’ll soon be losing...
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