WhatsApp encrypts your chats, and that’s great. But for true privacy, you need to tweak the app to keep Facebook, stalkers—and even friends—from snooping. WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world. According to Statista, as of July 2019, 1.6 billion people were using the messaging...
Facebook doesn’t need any more bad press, but here we go again. According to a report by Bloomberg the company has paid “hundreds” of contractors to transcribe audio snippets from your conversations within its services – without making it sufficiently clear these clips were being recorded. The employees...
When Snap first revealed its Spectacles in 2016, they were something of a mini-phenomenon. Here was a pair of wacky sunglasses sold through wacky vending machines that could record video in a circular format. At the time, some thought pivoting into hardware could be the company’s defense against increasing...
Another chunk of the 119,756 Bitcoin stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has been mysteriously moved. Twitter-based transaction monitor @whale_alert signaled the transfer late yesterday, when the hackers’ wallet suddenly transferred just over 30 BTC ($351,000) to a fresh, previously unused Bitcoin...
What do a couple of kids pointing guns at an adult, a man about to fall off stairs, a group of people wearing pigeon masks, and a taxi driver pissing himself have in common? These are the type of unusual moments curated by a small Reddit community known as Google Maps Shenanigans. The subreddit, which recently...
San Francisco is hallowed ground for tech entrepreneurs. Every year thousands of founders travel to the city, set on starting the next unicorn. However, while the birthplace of Twitter and Uber certainly can provide connections, investors, and talent to help entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level,...
In a letter seen by Reuters, 23 job search websites in Europe are calling for an antitrust investigation into Google’s job searching tool. The letter, which will be sent to EU Competition Commissioner Margarethe Vestager today, demands the EU stop the company’s its unfair practices until the it has concluded a...
Arriving flights are still able to land at Hong Kong International Airport, though that may change if the protests grow. Officials at Hong Kong International Airport have announced that they have canceled all departures from the airport for the second day in a row, reports Bloomberg. Today’s cancelations are...
The fashion designer known for dressing British royals takes our career questionnaire. Fast Company: What’s your best habit, and your worst?Read Full Story
Yesterday, Automattic, the creator of WordPress, announced it had acquired Tumblr for “less than $3 million” from its previous owner, Yahoo. It’s an inauspicious fall from grace for the site, which was previously sold to the search giant for $1.1 billion. Why did Yahoo sell one of its prized possessions for a...
Google announced today that you can use the fingerprint sensor to sign in to some of its services when you’re using Chrome for Android. The company said this functionality is available for all Pixel users today, and will be rolling out to all using Android 7 or above in coming days. At the moment, you can go...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to step up its efforts to monitor social media platforms more aggressively in order to detect potential threats. The move, according to the Wall Street Journal, clashes with Facebook’s privacy policies and “possibly its attempts to comply with a record $5...
From Android to iOS, and from Twitter to Slack, almost every app now has a dark mode. The only app that hasn’t joined the dark side is Facebook’s main app. However, according to reliable app leaker Jane Manchun Wong, the social network giant is now testing dark mode on its Android app Wong also took to twitter to...
CNN has obtained a draft of an executive order that could potentially censor huge portions of the internet. In an attempt to stop a perceived “bias” against conservatives, Trump’s plan attempts to strip certain protections from companies like Facebook and Twitter, particularly those protected under Section 230...
Wordpress parent company Automattic is taking embattled free blogging site Tumblr off Verizon’s hands for perhaps less than 2% of what it was once worth. In 2013, Yahoo snapped up free blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Now it’s worth less than 2% of that sum, with Automattic, Inc., the parent of...
After spending a few years doing pretty much nothing of note with the site, Verizon’s offloading Tumblr to Automattic, the company that owns WordPress. However, despite the new management, the site apparently won’t reinstate its NSFW content. We have big news to share today: @tumblr is joining Automattic, and we...
In a new campaign with Google, pop culture’s resident scientist Bill Nye breaks down why we have such a hard time letting go of something. While brand loyalty certainly plays a role in the almost tribe-like mentality some people have around certain companies or products, there could be another factor at play:...
Loss of truth also inevitably means loss of trust, arguably the single most important factor in the employer-employee relationship. Here’s how to fight back. Earlier this month, a video clip surfaced on Instagram of Mark Zuckerberg delivering a short, troubling speech. In it, he touched on Facebook’s...
Whether you’re privacy conscious or just on the hunt for the perfect grilled-cheese sandwich, the best search engine for you might not be Google. You’d be hard-pressed to find the cross section of living people who have searched for something on the web and who haven’t ever—never, ever,...
“Rot in hell you pervert,” wrote one. “Go to hell, child rapist,” said another. These were all tweets directed to Jeffrey Epstein, a publicist at the Walt Disney Company, whose sole connection to the late disgraced financier is his name. Imagine sharing a name with the most loathed human being on the planet,...
If you’ve already got a full-time job but are looking for something new, these 3 tips can help you be more efficient in your job search. Hop on Google to look for job search advice, and you’ll find plenty of articles, podcasts, and LinkedIn posts with tips that require hours each day to implement.Read...
As his first comedy special, ‘My Favorite Shapes,’ premieres on HBO, comedian Julio Torres dissects his own creative process for your benefit. Self-selected nicknames are always a risky proposition. Few have ever been as accurate, though, as Julio Torres’ Instagram handle: Space Prince Julio.Read...
Research shows that a CEO’s stance on social issues can impact a job seeker’s perception of the company, but not in a simple way. Chief executives around the globe have become increasingly vocal about social and political issues. In the U.S., many have criticized Donald Trump’s hardline stance on...
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