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A Twitter bot that translates jungle sounds to existential questions might just help save the rainforest
2019-05-03

On Thursday, March 21, at 00:36, a cricket in Borneo chirped “fuck me and you and he he he and his and what he really?” At least, that is what a not-particularly-good speech-to-text algorithm turned some live jungle sounds into, and then posted to Twitter. Wed 13 Mar 02:58: uh? — Existential Jungle Bot...

Online extremism is taking a mental toll on researchers studying it
2019-05-03

Social media platforms do an indispensable job of connecting us with our families, friends and like-minded people. But of late, they have also become conduits for bad actors to hijack users’ attention to manipulate news, spew conspiracy theories, and propagate toxic viewpoints with an intent to radicalize...

17 Essential Tools for Graphic Designers
2019-05-03

Whether you are just getting into graphic design or you are an expert with years of experience, there are certain tools that you just can’t live without as a professional. This list covers the most essential hardware, software and equipment that every graphic designer should have on hand. Top Essential Tools for...

“Mayochella” memes: How Beyoncé fans took on Taylor Swift for her Billboard Awards performance
2019-05-02

Taylor Swift’s Billboard Music Awards performance inspired a round of scathing Twitter memes that accused her of ripping off Beyoncé. Last night’s Billboard Music Awards featured soaring performances from an eclectic collection of pop stars, including Mariah Carey, Khalid, and BTS with Halsey. Of...

These are the best airlines if you’re flying with a pet
2019-05-02

They aren’t the airlines you might expect. If your dog is an Instagram influencer and constantly churning out that sweet click-worthy content, at some point your pup is going to need a full digital detox and a vacation off the grid. And even if you’re a just normal dog lover who is moving across...

Want a blockchain job in big tech? This course might help you land one
2019-05-02

What do Facebook, Visa, Shell, IBM, and EY have in common (other than being stupid rich)? They’re all hiring blockchain talent. Indeed, blockchain jobs are popping up all over the place these days. If you ever thought about learning the ins and outs of distributed ledger tech, now might be a good time – and...

Here’s what Facebook announced at its F8 developer keynote
2019-05-01

As Facebook continues to weather a string of legal battles and harsh criticism for its never-ending privacy disasters and a generally lackadaisical attitude towards consumer data, the social networking site kicked off its annual F8 annual developer conference at San Jose yesterday. It took to the event to outline a...

Revenge of the nerds: Facebook is developing human-level AI to fight bullying
2019-05-01

Facebook might be taking its bullying problem a lot more seriously than you think. Rather than hire more humans to flag troubling content, it plans on developing AI with human level intelligence to do the job. An official company blog post today, on the subject of content moderation, laid out a road map for machine...

Your Google data is getting the auto-delete tool it always needed
2019-05-01

Google will soon let you delete past searches, location history, and other data on a regular basis. While Google has spent years insisting that users are in control of their privacy, it’s never given users a way to wipe old data automatically. If you wanted to keep Google from building up a lifetime of...

A controversial design strategy is helping sixth graders do better in school
2019-05-01

A study by researchers at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education found that when middle-school students use design-thinking strategies, they perform better. The value of design thinking, which has been popularized by design firm Ideo and the Stanford d. school, is hotly debated in the design...

The Bulbing Bankers Lamp is an intricately designed visual trick
2019-05-01

This flat, whimsical lamp looks 3D when the light is turned on. Made by Israeli designer Nir Chehanowski, this whimsical lamp creates an optical illusion via a flat acrylic sheet that’s been laser cut into an intricate, curving pattern. When the dimmable LED light is turned on, the glowing sheet looks...

Facebook’s redesign is pretty, airy, and more reason to ditch Facebook
2019-05-01

The redesign, which represents a shift toward an Instagram-like ethos, is little more than lip service to Facebook’s twin problems of privacy and misinformation. At its annual developer’s conference, Facebook announced a redesign of its website and mobile apps. Now, instead of a neverending news feed...

Facebook’s Secret Crush feature wants to help you find friends who are, like, totally obsessed with you
2019-05-01

Facebook announced at its F8 conference today a new feature to its Dating repertoire, this one apparently designed to help single minglers poach potential paramours from their Friends by adding them to an ostensibly private list of people you’re crushing on. Here’s how this is supposed to go down: You add up to...

Mark Zuckerberg vows to stop moving fast and breaking things
2019-04-30

The CEO told developers at the company’s F8 conference that Facebook will rebuild itself around user privacy. At the company’s developer conference in San Jose, California, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described what he called the “next chapter” in Facebook’s history, meaning the...

Instagram will soon let creators tag products in posts for sale
2019-04-30

Users can click the tags to go to an e-commerce page to buy the products. Facebook’s Instagram said it will soon start testing a new feature that will let users click and buy products shown in the posts of popular creators like Kylie Jenner.Read Full Story

Facebook’s Oculus Quest and Rift S will ship May 21 for $399
2019-04-30

The Quest trades some resolution for mobility–it uses no tether to a PC–while the (tethered) Rift S offers new features for PC gamers. Facebook says its new Oculus Quest and Rift S VR headsets will begin shipping May 21–each for $399.Read Full Story

This airline satisfaction report contains a surprising detail about travel
2019-04-30

Wait, what? Grumbling while traveling is practically an Olympic sport, so when the American Customer Satisfaction Index Travel Report for 2018-2019 came out on Tuesday, the results should not have been a surprise. And yet: It turns out that most domestic travelers are satisfied with their experiences. Um,...

How to watch Mark Zuckerberg’s F8 keynote today
2019-04-30

Zuckerberg’s keynote kicks off at 10 am PDT/1 pm EDT today. Facebook’s annual developers conference kicks off today with a keynote by none other than Zuck himself. In prior years F8 was always dedicated to showing off the latest plans Facebook had for its three main services: Facebook, Instagram, and...

Meet the fake people who will soon crowd your timelines
2019-04-30

A remarkable advance in artificial portrait generation adds a new potential layer of deception to online fraudsters, astroturfers, and propagandists. Alarm bells went off for Twitter user @ravenvanderrave, a nom de guerre for a consistent naysayer about the electric-car company Tesla, after a purported journalist with...

Mark Zuckerberg is moonlighting as an industrial designer
2019-04-30

He recently designed a product for his wife that helps her avoid looking at her phone. Mark Zuckerberg is many things: computer scientist, Facebook CEO, billionaire so focused on making more money that he’ll undermine American democracy to do it. Now, he can add another title to the list: industrial...

Here’s why Alphabet stock just fell off a cliff
2019-04-30

Google is having a lousy morning, but all hope is not lost. Google is having a lousy morning, but all hope is not lost.Read Full Story

How Facebook plans to keep your data private while opening it up to researchers
2019-04-30

Ever since the 2016 US presidential elections, social network Facebook has been at the receiving end of criticism for its outsized influence on worldwide electoral processes, and threats to democracy from the spread of fake news. Now more than a year after Facebook announced a new initiative to aid independent...

Tumblr’s Head of Culture and Fashion shares the platform’s most curious subcultures
2019-04-30

Valentine Uhovski started his career as an editor and journalist, and has written for the likes of The Wall Street Journal and Interview Russia. He’s now in his eighth year manning the helm of Tumblr‘s Culture and Fashion verticals. Since joining, he’s helped to foster and shape Tumblr‘s community of millions...

Retired Dogecoin CEO Elon Musk trolls Ethereum and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin
2019-04-30

Elon Musk has been trolling the Ethereum cryptocurrency and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Twitter. The Tesla founder simply tweeted the word “Ethereum” early this morning, but shortly later took it back (hehe). jk — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 30, 2019 In response, Vitalik invited Musk to an Ethereum...

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