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How a family’s Amazon Echo recorded and sent out their private conversation
2018-05-24

“I felt invaded,” one of the family members said. “A total privacy invasion. Immediately I said, ‘I’m never plugging that device in again, because I can’t trust it.'” When Amazon added the ability to send text messages from Echo speakers and other Alexa devices, it...

Family claims Amazon Echo recorded their private conversation, sent it to random person
2018-05-24

“I felt invaded,” one of the family members said. “A total privacy invasion. Immediately I said, ‘I’m never plugging that device in again, because I can’t trust it.'” When Amazon added the ability to send text messages from Echo speakers and other Alexa devices, it...

Google’s Duplex is a beacon of hope for people with social anxiety (like me)
2018-05-24

Google’s Duplex, an under-development AI system that makes phone calls on a person’s behalf has taken a bit of a beating in the media in the days since it was announced at the Mountain View company’s I/O event. Basically, Google’s AI team built a neural network capable of conducting real-world business over...

Twitter chews up, spits out Lean Cuisine’s latest campaign
2018-05-24

To many, having it all includes not feeling pressure from marketers to lose weight. Yesterday Lean Cuisine launched a new social campaign to help “women explore what having #ItAll means to them.” The brand teamed with an New York University social psychologist Emily Balcetis to test its theory that women...

Irish abortion referendum: Pro or con, citizens are flying #HomeToVote
2018-05-24

Irish voters are sharing their #HomeToVote stories on Twitter. Irish citizens from around the world are flying home to vote in Ireland’s abortion referendum, and many are documenting their journeys on Twitter using the #HomeToVote hashtag.Read Full Story

VICE VP Mark Adams on creating unforgettable branded content
2018-05-24

Judging by the lines to get in, not to mention those turned away at the door, people were excited to hear Mark Adams speak. Adams, the exuberant young VP and head of innovation at VICE, nearly missed the talk altogether. His plane was delayed, we’re told, and he sprinted, quite literally, from the airport. Adams’...

Facebook is about to ask every user a few big privacy questions
2018-05-24

When Facebook rolled out a similar screen to users in the European market, its simplicity wasn’t seen as purely positive. Facebook plans to send all its non-European users a full-screen privacy alert when they use the social network in the coming weeks, enabling them to review the information they’ve...

How Logitech’s CEO used a 40-year-old design philosophy to shape his company
2018-05-24

While on stage at TNW’s 2018 conference today, Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell spoke about his belief that everyone is a designer while they’re young, and that many companies, including his own, strive to achieve that same attitude again. As he puts it, we’re all naturally designers until we enter school. “Our...

Facebook now supports 2-factor authentication without SMS, here’s how to set it up
2018-05-24

If you have a Facebook profile – it doesn’t really matter if you use it a lot or not – it’s important to secure it with two-factor authentication so your account isn’t hacked. The social network has offered an SMS-based option to do so for a while, but a new feature lets you protect your account without...

The Power of the One-on-One Approach to List Building and Selling Online
2018-05-24

Bryan Harris, founder of Video Fruit, made $8,337 with 575 emails he collected from Facebook groups. Without a sales funnel, website, or advertising. Just by approaching potential clients the old school way, one-on-one. But marketers are too obsessed with scalability and automation. We want more fans, more traffic, a...

Launch your question into MIT’s Danielle Wood’s Answers session
2018-05-24

What is Space Enabled? What projects are you working on? What do you see as some of the most exciting projects in space exploration right now? How can satellite systems save the world? Ask all this and more to MIT Media Lab’s Director of Space Enabled, Danielle Wood. Danielle’s interest in space exploration...

What Elon Musk and Donald Trump don’t get about journalism
2018-05-24

An investigation into Tesla’s factory conditions sent the testy CEO into a Twitter rant that showcased a Trump-like misapprehension of how journalists work. I’m going to be late to the bank to deposit a few checks from ExxonMobil and the Democratic National Committee before my evening champagne tasting,...

Dear Elon Musk: Stop spreading fake news
2018-05-24

Elon Musk, a billionaire playboy whose parents weren’t murdered in front of him outside of a theater (yet still seems to think he’s Batman), today stopped rocketing cars at the sky long enough to rage-tweet his displeasure with journalists’ criticisms of Tesla. As best we can tell, it all started when Elon...

Square launches its Square Stand payments system in the UK
2018-05-24

Square, the payments company founded by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, is aggressively expanding in the UK. Today, it announced the British launch of the Square Stand, which turns an iPad into a full point-of-sale (POS) system. The Square Stand lets vendors process card payments, track sales, and manage inventory. Square...

Federal Judge rules Trump can’t block people on Twitter
2018-05-23

A Federal Judge today ruled that public access to Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account is protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution. That means, if you’ve been blocked, the president of the United States of America is personally denying your right to free speech. Plaintiffs, including The...

“Firesheep,” “Idiocy” Reveal Gaping Privacy Holes in Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, More
2018-05-23

This week, security experts put pressure on companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Google to close a gaping privacy hole. Read Full Story

Google and George Clooney Aim Satellites at Sudan, Become “Anti-Genocide Paparazzi”
2018-05-23

Ahead of an early January referendum, the two partners, along with Harvard and the United Nations, want Sudanese rebels to know that they are being watched. Read Full Story

Political Ads: Get Ready for the “Google Blasts”
2018-05-23

Google tells Fast Company that political campaigns have been talking to its ad network about saturating the Internet with ads in the last days before the midterm elections. Read Full Story

Netflix Preparing New Run at Social Media Features
2018-05-23

Two months ago, Netflix pulled the plug on its community features. Now, inspired by the gospel of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, the company is getting ready to dive into “social” again, but with a whole new mindset. Read Full Story

Politicians, Campaigns Have No Idea How to Go Viral
2018-05-23

Candidates are still skeptical about the role of social media. Even though Facebook boasts more than 130 million active users in the U.S., many campaigns are spending less than 5% of their budgets online. Here’s why that isn’t good enough. Read Full Story

For Millennials, Brands May Be as Important as Religion, Ethnicity
2018-05-23

Young people express themselves through identification with brands, according to a new survey by the world’s largest PR firm. Should you take it with a pinch of salt? Millennials–the generation born between 1980 and 1995–relate to brands in deep and complicated ways, according to a new study from...

What’s Behind Yahoo’s $55 Million Advertising Splurge in Israel
2018-05-23

Yahoo’s advertising war with Google and AOL has stepped up a notch with the purchase of Israeli-American firm Dapper for a reported $55 million. The move suggests that Sunnyvale is looking to hit Google where it hurts: Right in the customized ad pocketbook. Read Full Story

All this time, Trump was building an unconstitutional wall on Twitter
2018-05-23

Here’s some good news for President Trump’s most vocal Twitter critics. Here’s some good news for President Trump’s most vocal Twitter critics: A federal judge in New York has ruled that when Trump blocks Twitter users with opposing political viewpoints, it is a violation of the First...

Report: Google just beat Amazon in the smart speaker wars for the first time
2018-05-23

Google shipped 3.2 million Google Home devices. Amazon shipped 2.5 million Echo devices.  Well, that’s a first. Amazon released the first smart speaker, the Echo, on November 6, 2014. Google released its competing product, Google Home, two years later. Since then, Amazon has consistently sold more smart...

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