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YouTube is introducing three new ways to fine-tune your browsing experience on the platform. First, the Google-owned video service is rolling out topics and related videos on its homepage and under its “Up Next” tab. Second, it is giving users the ability to remove suggestions from channels they don’t want to...
The Carnegie Corporation of New York announces this year’s entrants to its list of great immigrants, as a counterbalance to increasingly anti-immigrant government policies that it’s fighting against. In honor of Independence Day, the Carnegie Corporation of New York has inducted 38 new immigrants into...
Ladies and gentlemen, the art of the soundbite. It’s smart for candidates to do some debate prep. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio has been consulting over WhatsApp with his debate-champion son, Dante. Senator Cory Booker has apparently been doing pushups. And it’s natural for them to practice pre-prepared...
Though WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, plenty of the app’s users are happy to ignore the fact the big blue parent network exists. Somewhat surprisingly, Facebook has been content to let WhatsApp do its own thing since its $19 billion purchase back in 2014. But there are signs this might be slowly changing Case in...
Scott clearly did not want to have any part of being a GIF in a Mitch McConnell tweet, and his resulting back-and-forth with the account was very . . . popcorn GIF. Being Mitch McConnell’s social media strategist must be a tough gig.Read Full Story
There’s some new competition for NSO, the Israeli company which boasts of its ability to take over phones and computers on behalf of high-paying government clients: Dozens upon dozens of spyware firms that offer a range of surveillance options. Last month, Facebook said that WhatsApp users were vulnerable to a...
NBC is letting cord cutters live-stream the Democratic debates online for free on its YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter channels. Here’s where to find them. Twenty candidates. Three television networks. One goal: Get through the next two nights without throwing your TV, computer, or smartphone out the window.Read...
Kim Kardashian West is at again with the cultural appropriation with her new intimates line Kimono—but someone on Twitter has way better name suggestions. Kim Kardashian West is taking on the shape wear and intimates industry with her new launch—and people are pissed. Not so much at the products...
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Transcribing interviews is a pain, there’s no doubt about it. Listening back to the conversation, it becomes painfully obvious how often people sniff, how incoherent their...
Wanna feel old? It’s been seven years since Doom-creator John Carmack first unveiled his ski-goggles contraption that would eventually become the Oculus Rift. A lot has happened in the years that have since passed, including Oculus’ 2 billion dollar acquisition by Facebook. What was then only a finicky but...
There’s some new competition for NSO, the Israeli company accused of helping the Saudi government track down Jamal Khashoggi. Last month, Facebook said that WhatsApp users were vulnerable to a sophisticated exploit capable of hacking into phones with little more than a few unanswered calls. The new exploit was...
The number of connections to kick-start the value of LinkedIn’s network is 30. Are yours the right ones? Having a robust professional network can be a game changer when thinking about your career journey. The people in your network can help make future connections, refer you for a job, provide advice, and so...
Facebook has agreed to hand over identifying information on French users suspected of using hate speech on its platform, making it the first deal of its kind between the social media giant and a government. According to Reuters, the decision appears to have been a result of successive meetings between Facebook chief...
If for some reason you decide you want to mute the president this week, Twitter has you covered. The first round of Democratic primary debates is taking place over two nights this week in Miami, where 20 candidates will face off against each other—10 candidates each night—in an attempt to win over...
The terms may be new to you, but you experience them nearly every day. When I visit my aging mother in the Midwest, I watch as she sits at her computer endlessly scrolling on Facebook. In earlier times, she would have been joyfully soaking up the time with her visiting kids and grandkids. Like many of us, her use of...
A platform-as-a-service company is only as good as its APIs, and Shopify has dozens of them. These expose a specific part of the Shopify’s product to third-party developers, who can then incorporate them into their own applications. And last week, at the annual Shopify Unite summit, the company announced it was...
IBM developer Nicholas Bourdakos recently created a new Code Pattern that lets just about anyone develop and train an AI model to recognize objects using computer vision. Bourdakos’ Code Pattern, called “Create a real-time object detection app using Watson Machine Learning,” relies on a tool called Cloud...
Hackers took control of British multinational retailer Tesco’s Twitter account yesterday, urging followers to send Bitcoin to a wallet address and promising to return twice the value received. Luckily, though, Tesco’s followers did not fall for the Bitcoin scheme as no funds were deposited in the wallet address...
Bumpr makes it easy to escape the self-imposed monopoly that stems from accessing the web with any single web browser. Google’s Chrome browser is remarkably convenient, especially if you use an Android smartphone, since it syncs to the cloud to not only keep your URLs straight, but feed much of your data into...
The majority of transactions running through the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) network haven’t anything to do with cryptocurrency. In fact, pretty much all of its current on-chain activity comes from weathersv.com, an automated weather service that simply copies data from another (centralized) weather site and...
Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. This June-ish roundup lands on the tasty Strawberry Moon! Since...
A flawed approach to page speed measurement is sabotaging ecommerce sites. There, I said it. Now I know this might be an exaggeration, but it really is time for a change. A historical focus on network-based metrics — bytes downloaded per page or assets per page, for example — and an excessive emphasis placed on...
User @CornyAssBitch’s choose-your-own-adventure Twitter game even has celebrities like Questlove and Chrissy Teigen playing. Twitter, take note. You’ve just landed the job of a lifetime: being Beyoncé’s personal assistant. Your only objective now is not to make the one foolish decision that...
YouTube has a reputation for feeding kids inappropriate videos. A digital literacy program from parent company Google hopes to combat it by teaching kids to spot and report it. The internet can be a disturbing, destructive place, especially for children. In just a few clicks, kids can find explicit images, racist...
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