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“Black Panther” Is a Tipping Point That Can’t Be Ignored Or Explained Away
2018-02-21

Here’s what we can tell so far from the phenomenal success of Marvel’s record-breaking new hit. “Never in a million years did we imagine that you would come out this strong,” director Ryan Coogler wrote in a letter thanking audiences for the astounding success of Black Panther.Read Full...

Believe it or not, Snap and Twitter could eat into Facebook’s ad business
2018-02-21

Mark Zuckerberg’s company may be a money-printing powerhouse, but Twitter and Snap may soon eat into Facebook’s ad dollars. As GBH Insights analyst Daniel Ives told CNBC, there’s a number of factors that are boosting the prospects of both Twitter and Snap, at the expense of Facebook. By...

5 Ways To Prevent Decision Fatigue From Ruining Your Productivity
2018-02-21

Take these steps to stop yourself from making bad choices when you’re too tired to think. How many times a day do you open a new browser tab just to Google something quickly? 10 times? 20? 100?Read Full Story

TNW’s Big Spam: What do you call a week without a Wednesday?
2018-02-21

Q: What do you call a week without a Wednesday? Top trending tech news: 🚗 Uber officially launched Uber Express POOL (TechCrunch)⏰ Jeff Bezos bought a really expensive clock (TNW) 🎵 Spotify announced its first new hardware product (TNW) What we’re talking about: Jeff Bezos just installed a $42 million...

Shit programmers say, decoded
2018-02-21

We all know that product managers speak the same lingo to explain what they actually mean. But software engineers are just as culpable of a common dialect with hidden meaning. Here are eight of the most common programmer sayings, translated. Disclaimer: I’m a former PM. But with the help of Google SWE Pragya...

David Hogg “crisis actor” conspiracies are more proof that Big Tech has an impossible task
2018-02-21

If you searched David Hogg’s name on Google, YouTube, or Facebook yesterday, you very likely came across a number of disturbing posts. The student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has quickly emerged as a vocal proponent of gun control—and a fierce critic of politicians...

This Chrome extension matches LinkedIn profiles to open tech jobs
2018-02-21

CodeFights, the company that has made a business out of a matchmaking algorithm to pair software engineers with the right jobs based on skills, is launching a “sourcing assistant” that aims to make the process even smoother. They created a Chrome extension that uses machine learning to look at what...

How a French 16-year-old taught the world to build VR headsets for $100
2018-02-21

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus and the inventor of arguably the most successful commercial virtual reality headset, was only 17 when he completed his first prototype for the device. Fast-forward to the present day, and Luckey is now worth roughly $750 million at the age of 25, having sold his company to...

Baking mischief and delight into your products will make people love them
2018-02-21

One boozy night in 2010, two developers and an illustrator were sitting in a bar discussing how utterly annoying they found the game FarmVille. As you probably remember, FarmVille was that horribly addictive social network game that let you grow crops and raise livestock, polluting your Facebook newsfeed with endless...

Tesla’s cloud system was hacked to mine cryptocurrency
2018-02-21

The electric vehicle maker’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud account was hacked and installed with Stratum, a cryptocurrency mining software, reports CNBC. The so-called cryptojacking was allowed to happen because no password was set for Tesla’s Kubernetes admin console, leaving its AWS account exposed....

Google’s Reply app is shaping up to be the messaging assistant of my dreams
2018-02-21

Last week, we heard that Google was working on Reply, an AI-powered app that lets you reply to texts from various messaging apps by tapping on contextually meaningful replies right in your notifications. I just sideloaded a beta version of it earlier today, and it already looks pretty promising as an assistant that...

A $42 million ‘10,000 year clock’ is being installed on Jeff Bezos’ property
2018-02-21

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took to Twitter to announce that construction of the 10,000 year clock has begun on his property in Texas, with a view to encourage thinking about humanity in the long term. Conceived back in 1986 by American computer scientist Daniel Hills, the clock’s mechanism is designed to advance far...

The Essential Mockup Templates Bundle – Just $29
2018-02-21

Mockup templates are one of the best and most memorable ways to showcase your creative work. They help you present your work in an eye-catching and beautiful way making sure your work always stands out from the crowd. Mockup templates are the perfect way to achieve maximum impact without having to spend hours of time...

Can Making Fake News Train People To Spot It In Real Life?
2018-02-20

“Bad News” is a game that puts you in the position of creating misleading headlines and fake tweets. After people play it, they are more skeptical about the sources of their news. To win a new game, you earn badges for trolling, impersonation, and spreading conspiracy theories through a fake news site,...

Can Making This Fake News Game Train People To Spot It In Real Life?
2018-02-20

Bad News puts you in the position of creating misleading headlines and fake tweets. After people play it, they are more skeptical about the sources of their news. To win a new game, you earn badges for trolling, impersonation, and spreading conspiracy theories through a fake news site, Twitter bots, and Photoshop....

LinkedIn profiles unearthed diversity rankings for 100 tech companies
2018-02-20

Countless tech companies have pledged their commitment to diversity in recent years, but it’s largely only giants like Facebook and Google that have caved to pressure and published diversity reports. In the pursuit of transparency, a new initiative called Dear Tech People dug through tens of...

Snapchat copies Instagram for once, adds gif stickers
2018-02-20

Snapchat today announced it was bringing a few new features to its app, including gif stickers courtesy of GIPHY. Because social media is a tawdry pile of copied homework, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Snapchat is finally doing unto others what has been done unto it — Instagram just introduced this exact...

Kids who dab on Snapchat aren't actually helping cure cancer
2018-02-20

"Dab if you hate cancer" is the latest ~trend~ making it's way around Snapchat, but the Bitmoji-loving kids sharing these chain snaps aren't actually making a charitable impact. Participating in Snapchat's "screenshot and dab" trend is simple. Users screenshot an image, add their own dabbing Bitmoji, and forward it...

Are you sick? Google’s new AI may be able to tell just by looking at you
2018-02-20

Google is keen on the whole “Don’t Be Evil” thing, so it is using its new high-powered artificial intelligence for good. Researchers at the company have developed an AI that can hopefully predict the likelihood that a patient will suffer a heart attack or stroke simply by staring into the...

Google is tempting Italian university students with cryptocurrency lectures
2018-02-20

Google has cooked up an interesting new strategy to lure talent in to its university recruitment events: talking to students about cryptocurrency and blockchain. The search engine titan will be hosting a talk on the “Fundamentals and Some Recent Innovations in Crypto-Currencies” at the Polytechnic University of...

Sony and Uber are going to fight it out in Japan
2018-02-20

On Tuesday Sony announced it is partnering with several Japanese taxi firms to start a ride-hailing service in the country, reports CNBC. Sony will be using its AI expertise to help with the logistics of allocating its partners’ 10,000 vehicles across Tokyo. Shortly after the announcement, Uber CEO Dara...

KFCs in the U.K. are closed due to a chicken shortage
2018-02-20

The American fast-food chain had to shut most of its shops across the pond due to the shortage, reports Bloomberg. The company blames “teething problems” with DHL, its new delivery partner, for the shortage. In a statement, KFC said, “We know that this might have inconvenienced some of you over...

Amazon is giving Prime members 5% back on Whole Foods purchases
2018-02-20

But you need to make those purchases with its Visa rewards card, reports CNBC. The move is yet another benefit to being a Prime member and also aims to help undercut the “Whole Paycheck” view of the grocery chain. In order to get 5% back on Whole Foods purchases, a Prime member will need to …...

Google’s AI can now predict heart disease just by scanning your eyes
2018-02-20

As if Google doesn’t already have its fingers in enough pies, the company is now taking aim at cardiovascular disease with the help of machine learning. In a paper published in Nature’s Biomedical Engineering journal (PDF), the search giant’s health subsidiary Verily detailed a method to predict risks of heart...

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