If you look past the raft of misattributed, inspirational quotes plastered over your uncle’s Facebook profile, there are actually some gems out there. You know, phrases that, well, contain actual wisdom. One of these nuggets, and a favorite of mine, is a quote attributed to Martin Mull: “writing about music is...
When you’re busy cooking, looking up a recipe on your phone or watching it on YouTube can be a messy affair with sticky hands. You can do all this and more – hands-free – by snapping up a Google Home Hub for just $87, down from the original price of $149. The smart display has Google Assistant built-in to help...
With the huge EU elections around the corner, the issue of fake news has started to crop up again in headlines — and Facebook seems determined to make up for its mistakes from when the platform was abused in the 2016 US Presidential election. It’s now created a dedicated ‘war room‘ to fight misinformation...
The Chinese equivalent of WhatsApp, WeChat, has updated its terms of service to ban merchants from fundraising by using tokens or cryptocurrencies. The Tencent-operated chat messaging app quietly revised its policy last month; the new policy will take effect on May 31. Merchants violating the update will have their...
Google‘s developer conference, Google IO, is set to kick off today at 10 am PT / 4.30 pm CET / 10.30 pm IST. The company will expectedly announce new mid-range Pixel devices, Android Q, new Nest Hub Max smart display, and updates to Stadia gaming platform. How to watch: You can head to this link to see the live...
There’s plenty of evidence that shows annual reviews don’t improve an employee’s performance. A workplace expert suggests alternatives that companies can adopt instead. Back in the day, managers and employees across a wide variety of industries and employer sizes lived and died by the annual...
Starting today, Twitter will now let you add pictures, videos, or GIFs to your retweets with comments. This update is rolling out to its iOS, Android, and mobile web app worldwide. In a strange way of showing off the feature, the company responded to one of the users’ older tweets demanding the feature, with a GIF....
Wix is looking for two agencies to battle for the highest ranking on Google for the query “Wix SEO”. The winner takes home $25K. Think you have what it takes?
For this year’s Met Gala, celebrities and designers paid homage to camp in the most ostentatious of ways. This year’s Met Gala and accompanying Costume Institute exhibition opted for an often hard-to-describe theme: camp. Not like “let’s go camping in the woods,” but as in...
We’re not sure if the royal baby’s name actually will help “unify the U.S. and the U.K.,” but this hint is certainly bringing together all of Twitter to make jokes. The royal baby has arrived in the United Kingdom, bringing along with him sporting speculation about what his name will...
Siri and Alexa are great for music, but terrible for thirsty brands. Voice assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, and Google Assistant can do all kinds of useful things, from playing music and creating reminders to controlling lights and thermostats, but they still have some major blind spots....
The company has started announcing new user-friendly features made possible by the Chromium framework. Microsoft has rebuilt its Edge web browser on the Chromium framework–the same open-source framework used in Google’s Chrome browser–and now the company is adding some user-friendly features made...
It’s a boy! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are now the proud parents of a human baby boy. Like happy families all over the globe, the royal couple announced the news on Instagram to their nearly six million followers—specifically, the @SussexRoyal account they launched on April 2.Read Full Story
Think Facebook is getting better at moderating political content? Think again. Many times over, Facebook has admitted that it missed the mark on rampant misinformation being shared on its platform, as well as foreign interference that may have had an impact on political elections. The company has also vowed to do...
A new report from Reuters has revealed how contract workers for Facebook and Instagram are looking at your private posts to help the social media platforms train their AI systems. Reuters suggests contractors are annotating the posts based on five “dimensions”: the content of the post (selfie, food, landmarks),...
He will be replaced by Facebook head of design Luke Woods. Instagram’s Ian Spalter has stepped away from his position as the company’s head of design. Spalter shaped the look and feel of one of the world’s most influential social media platforms and oversaw its design team at a time of tremendous...
Rick Osterloh has shaped the modern era of Google gadgets. Signs of progress are tangible, but the vision is much bigger. When Google senior VP of devices and services Rick Osterloh greets me at his offices and leads me up a sweeping staircase to a second-floor conference room, he doesn’t have to begin our chat...
He will be replaced by Facebook head of design Luke Woods. Today, Instagram’s Ian Spalter is stepping down from his position as the company’s head of design. Spalter shaped the look and feel of one of the world’s most influential social media platforms and oversaw its design team at a time of...
He will be replaced by Facebook Head of Design Luke Woods. Today, Instagram’s Ian Spalter is stepping down from his position as the company’s head of design. Spalter shaped the look and feel of one of the world’s most influential social media platforms and oversaw its design team at a time of...
Ocasio-Cortez’s support signals that the younger, far-left wing of the party may be warming up to Warren’s ideas. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has voiced support for presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up parts of the tech industry, including Amazon and...
A new study finds that by 2050, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook. Here’s how the company is designing user experiences to face the billions of dead users to come. By 2050, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook. That’s a conservative estimate, according to a study published by...
By 2050, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook. How should the company design for an avalanche of dead users? By 2050, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook. That’s a conservative estimate, according to a study published by researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, which aimed to estimate...
Someone finally finds your lunch pics useful. Google Maps has gained a nifty new feature, reports 9to5Google. As spotted by a Twitter user, Google maps now offers a “popular dishes” section in a restaurant’s listing under the “Menu” header. The “popular dishes” section...
The cockiness of youth seeps into the digital realm too. Generation Z, that is, the group of people who are currently between the ages of 16 and 24, are cocky when it comes to online security—even though they have no right to be. That’s according to a recent Harris Poll that surveyed 3,000 adults in the...
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