In early 2016, Microsoft launched Tay, an AI chatbot that was supposed to mimic the behavior of a curious teenage girl and engage in smart discussions with Twitter users. The project would display the promises and potential of AI-powered conversational interfaces. However, in less than 24 hours, the innocent Tay...
The fine is the first known case under the city-state’s new rules on short-term property rentals, reports Reuters. The rules, introduced last year, state that private home rentals are subject to a minimum rental period of three months, while public housing rentals are subject to a minimum rental period of six...
As the #DeleteFacebook movement gained steam in the previous weeks, one user who chose to download all his Facebook data before deleting his account noticed that Facebook still had copies of takes of a video he had shot but never published to the site, New York magazine reported. The draft videos were recorded...
In an effort to prevent malicious sites from using your computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrency without your knowledge, Google is blocking all extensions that include mining scripts in the Chrome Web Store. The danger with such scripts is that they can hog your system resources, and cause your computer to...
The second version of Facebook’s Spaces avatars could help users feel more comfortable spending time with their friends in virtually reality. Facebook sees virtual reality as very much a social experience, an extension of people’s normal social-networking activity. That’s why it has put a lot of...
Google Home Max product manager Chris Chan cast doubt upon some of Apple’s claims about its new smart speaker. I did a blind sound test. In the wake of the clatter over Apple’s new HomePod speaker (and after I wrote a few articles about its sonic capabilities), Google invited me out to Mountain View...
Mark Zuckerberg, who has been in FEMA-caliber damage control mode since the reveal of the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke a couple weeks ago, today gave an interview to Vox. Among other topics, he responded to criticism from Apple CEO Tim Cook in the strangest way possible. Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein asked...
The US will levy trade tariffs on China this week designed to target “largely high-technology products.” In retaliation for the taxation, China announced it would raise duties on 128 US imports. Begun, the trade wars have. President Trump, over Easter weekend, let loose on Twitter with his usual barrage of...
The social media giant uses these questions to streamline its hiring process and pick the strongest candidates for each role. This year, Facebook came in at #1 on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list. And that wasn’t the first time–the social media giant has made the list handily for the past...
Remember when Google sold Nexus phones? Back then, the stock Android experience also meant an affordable price, something which was has disappeared since Google started directly competing with the iPhone and Galaxy series with its Pixel phones. Now it seems the company could be looking to recapture that...
A week after Apple CEO Cook said “some well-crafted regulation is necessary” in light of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and that Apple was better off than Facebook because it doesn’t sell user data to advertisers, Facebook’s CEO has struck back. Zuckerberg told Vox’s Ezra...
The company announced it has opened its mini store in Shenzhen on Monday, reports Reuters. The brick-and-mortar store is designed to help the company compete against online retailers in the country. The store is part of a “smart retail” trend in China, which sees retailers and tech giants teaming up to...
Despite Tesla having a horrible March, Musk wasn’t afraid to jinx things by joking about the company’s demise. The Tesla CEO took to Twitter yesterday to announce the company was going bankrupt: Important news in a few hours … — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 1, 2018 Tesla Goes BankruptPalo...
In an interview released for the first time today, the Facebook CEO discussed privacy with Freaknonomics Radio last summer. It was a simpler time. Last summer, months before Mark Zuckerberg was feeling the intense pressure of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, the Facebook CEO said he knew his site’s users...
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A months long investigation uncovered concerns that Cambridge Analytica may have used improperly obtained academic data to craft its psychometric profiles. In early 2014, a couple years before a bizarre election season marred by waves of false stories and cyberattacks and foreign disinformation campaigns, thousands of...
Starting today you can use Google Maps on Android, iOS, and desktop to assist you in finding everyone’s favorite hide-and-seek champion, Waldo. To start the search, you’ll need to update the mobile app (or visit Google Maps on the web) and press play when presented with a waving Waldo. For Android users, you can...
This Google April Fools’ extravaganza involved lots of work, a quick turnaround, and the noble goal of engaging a billion people rather than annoying them. Once you hear about it, it’s the most obvious thing in the world. Of course Google was going to get around to incorporating Where’s Waldo?...
How many websites are you familiar with that are truly global? You can probably think of a few, and some of the largest online companies will likely come to mind including Facebook, Amazon, eBay, a couple of travel sites and maybe a few others. There’s a lot of potential in specific local markets throughout the...
A group of researchers, as part of a social experiment, paid liberals and conservatives on Twitter to follow a bot for a month that tweeted political views from the other side. Shockingly, rather than softening their own views or learning to understand the opposition, most participants dug in deeper. We’re not...
A few months ago Facebook implemented a big change in its algorithm that impacted what kind of content it would surface to users. In a move that sent shivers down the spines of media professionals, Facebook said it would de-prioritize publisher content in favor of posts between connections. For many publishers that...
A new 4K HDR player didn’t improve Apple’s standing in the streaming TV wars last year. According to IDC, Amazon’s Fire TV line led the way in 2017 streaming player shipments, followed by Google’s Chromecast in second place and Roku players in third place. That presumably leaves Apple TV in...
This month’s top stories can help employers improve how they interview, and predict when their team members might be about to quit. This month, a Google recruiter shared how to rethink your organization’s interview process, we learned which telltale signs indicate employees are getting ready to leave,...
We talked to Scovell, whose memoir, “Just the Funny Parts,” is on sale now, about what’s improved for women in the industry since the ’80s—and everything that hasn’t. When Nell Scovell learned that young girls in India are almost twice as likely to die as boys, she despaired....
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