When you’ve tried all of the conventional advice and you still find yourself scrolling through Facebook, try one of these methods. You’re constantly distracted, and you’ve tried every conventional method to beat it, from time blocking to the Pomodoro Technique and installing extensions to...
The normally apolitical, all-smiles-all-the-time host of “The Tonight Show” showed a new side in his tweet about the president. When the Waffle House Hero, James Shaw Jr., earned national acclaim for saving a bunch of lives with his bare hands, Donald Trump let three weeks pass before calling him. In...
Following the lead of both Opera and Google, Microsoft has announced it’s bringing native adblocking to its Edge for Android web browser. Microsoft has already began rolling out the feature to those running the beta version of Edge for Android. Those using the stable version of the browser will receive the feature...
Researchers built an algorithm that could spot a love match from public social media data. A new deep learning algorithm called CoupleNet analyzes the tweets of two users and estimates how compatible the duo would be. It’s a different approach than dating sites and apps like Match.com or Tinder that rely on...
It also can spy on your television viewing history using your phone’s mic. The New York Times has an interesting piece titled “What 7 Creepy Patents Reveal About Facebook.” And that headline is pretty spot on. Among its creepiest patents:Read Full Story
We all have “that Facebook friend.” Several of them, most likely. The kind who religiously shares and comments on his own “On This Day” stories, tagging you in any that are related to you, of course. He also dutifully shares his “Friendiversary” and “Year in Review” videos, continuously proving the...
Slack has finally addressed two of the biggest complaints with the app: statuses that never expire, and the relative clunkiness in composing new direct messages. The features were found hidden in the existing app by Jane Manchun Wong, a student and researcher based in Boston. Slack has long offered the ability for...
DJ Khaled tops the list of nominees with a total of six. Raise a glass to the perpetuity of awards season, because the BET Awards are happening tonight at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles. Viacom-owned BET Networks will broadcast the event, with red carpet coverage beginning at 6 p.m. ET (3 p.m. Los Angeles...
“On this screen, we have added a photo gallery. You can clearly see how it is inspired by Don Norman’s first level of visceral design, and how it utilizes some foundational Gestalt principles, helping achieve our graceful degradation strategy for pre-webkit browsers. It’s very gestural, intuitive, designed for...
When Facebook announced that it would be launching a dating app, shares in Match group (which owns Tinder), immediately plunged by 22 percent — later to recover after its positive profit announcement. Clearly, investors — as yet — are undecided on whether users are going to abandon the likes of Tinder, Bumble,...
Would you be willing to equip your bedroom or living room with an internet-connected microphone that could record and send all your conversations to the data-hungry server of a giant tech company or to a random person in your contact list? That is basically the privacy and security risk you’re taking when you bring...
Voice automation is on everyone’s mind this year, and for good reason. Siri, Alexa, and their peers have sparked visions of a science-fiction-like future and generated excitement around their potential to help simplify our lives with a widely accessible, responsive user interface. Yet this technology is still in its...
Facebook wants to help you spend less time on Facebook. Yes, you read that right. The discovery comes courtesy of developer Jane Manchun Wong. She found code in Facebook’s Android app for a feature called “Your Time on Facebook,” as first reported by TechCrunch. Facebook has since confirmed the feature is in...
LinkedIn is a unique kind of toxic nightmare. The type that, if it were a real city or town, would be the desolate setting of a video game where you blast its mutated inhabitants with railguns. Highlighting the weapons-grade twattery of the residents of LinkedIn-upon-Thames is my current favorite Twitter account,...
One marketer and privacy expert says consumer brands should double down on customer service, not Amazon-esque data tracking, to differentiate themselves. I work in marketing, which means I’m always trying to sell you something. It’s a tough business, made even more so by the fact that people react...
New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, had pledged to sign the bill if it made it to his desk. New York’s state legislature was working on passing a law that would have made so-called revenge porn a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail. But the bill was just effectively killed, and now its...
“The model most businesses are set up on is an old one. It’s the 9-to-6, these are the rules, don’t bring your personal baggage to work.” Earlier this week at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, Rebecca Minkoff appeared on a Girls Lounge panel with Sophia Amoruso, Dee Poku-Spalding,...
The African American writer was the first science fiction author to win the MacArthur Fellowship. Octavia Butler is one of the best science fiction writers of all time, and the first science fiction author to win the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. She also happens to be one of the very few women and very few...
Online harassment monitor Smyte was purchased by Twitter. Yesterday, news broke that Twitter had snapped up the online trust and safety startup Smyte, to help address its own online harassment issues, which sounded like great news. Smyte uses a combination of machine learning and human moderators to identify and...
Online harassment monitor Smyte was purchased by Twitter. Yesterday, news broke that Twitter had snapped up the online trust and safety startup Smyte, to help address its own online harassment issues, which sounded like great news. Smyte uses a combination of machine learning and human moderators to identify and...
#00000000000000000021e800c1e8df51b22c1588e5a624bea17e9faa34b2dc4a You know how geeky the cryptocurrency community is, when this is the trending hashtag on Twitter. This long sequence is a ‘block hash’ — a cryptographic number that is produced when new transactions are validated and written on the Bitcoin...
The researchers behind Wildbook are using AI and new backing from Microsoft to turn even your whale-watching photos into weapons against extinction. The animal kingdom is getting its very own social network, but instead of vacation pics and baby announcements, it will be filled with data that could help...
As it promised at its I/O Conference last month, Google has now enabled Continued Conversations in its voice-activated Assistant, so you don’t have to invoke it with a ‘Hey Google’ for every new command. That should make Google’s app and smart speakers a little less awkward to use, especially when you’ve got...
YouTube announced today it would be adding new options for creators to make money from their content. Most of the options are reminiscent of what other platforms have tried, but they could still alleviate a problem YouTubers have been facing for over a year. Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, introduced...
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