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Alphabet sees stock fall 7% after reporting slowing growth
2019-04-30

Alphabet’s stock has grown 24% this year, but the company isn’t likely to become a trillion-dollar company quite yet. Alphabet, Google’s holding company, reported slowing growth in the first quarter, and missed analyst expectations on revenues.Read Full Story

DHS: We didn’t ask for lists of family separation protests provided by a cybersecurity firm
2019-04-30

The records seem to be referring to hundreds of protests organized on Facebook against the Trump administration’s family separation policy last year. A cybersecurity company called LookingGlass Cyber Solutions provided the Department of Homeland Security with a list of hundreds of protests against the Trump...

Twitter troll tricks Uber’s support account into tweeting the n-word
2019-04-30

Uber apologized after its support account tweeted the n-word after a Twitter user switched their name to that slur. Uber apologized Monday after its support Twitter account tweeted the n-word. The tweet was in response to a Twitter user who adopted the slur as their username and then tweeted at the support...

IBM’s Call For Code hackathon takes aim at California’s wildfire problem
2019-04-30

IBM and 42 Silicon Valley are hosting a hackathon in early May to come up with solutions to California’s wildfire problem. The company hopes to get developers, engineers, designers, and emergency-responders together to brainstorm solutions as part of its annual Call For Code challenge. The Call For Code Global...

Dead Facebook users could outnumber the living by 2069
2019-04-29

Within the next 50 years, Facebook could feel more like a place for the dead than the living. According to academics from the University of Oxford, by 2069, the dead could outnumber the living on the social network.   The number of dead users on Facebook is growing at an unstoppable rate. In 2012, eight years after...

Artificial intelligence should get the same ethical protections as animals
2019-04-29

It might be a long time before we create an AI that can explain its feelings to us. But we could create ones as sophisticated as animals much sooner. How will we treat them? Universities across the world are conducting major research on artificial intelligence, as are organizations such as the Allen Institute, and...

The top social media dos and don’ts for recruiters
2019-04-29

It seems like the world is getting more social all the time: social media boasts nearly 3.2 billion users worldwide, representing a 13 percent increase year-over-year, with Facebook, YouTube, and WhatsApp leading the charge in terms of user bases. Considering that it represents nearly half the population of planet...

TurboTax may not want you or Google to see its free offering
2019-04-26

TurboTax’s Free File Program page included code telling search engines not to index the page. If you had trouble finding TurboTax’s Free File Program site, which lets you file your taxes without paying a fee if your income is below a certain threshold, that may be because the company told search engines...

The Google Street View robot takes better selfies than you
2019-04-26

Damn you, big corporation, for producing such a photogenic robot. For the last six years, Mario Santamaria has practiced a strange pastime. Whenever Google digitizes a new museum–from the British Museum of London to the Peoria Historical Society of Peoria, Illinois–he clicks through the digital museum...

Audi, Google, Hertz, and the Avengers: Endgame brand tie-in marketing machine
2019-04-26

Over 22 movies, Marvel’s brand tie-in strategy has remained consistent, even as the product partners change. After 21 films released over more than a decade, the first cycle of the Marvel Cinematic Universe nears its dramatic end with the release of Avengers: Endgame. And what better way to mark this...

The golden age of influencer marketing is yet to come
2019-04-26

In an age when traditional media channels have lost their power to capture our attention, marketing professionals are forced to adapt. Prime TV airtime is no longer the most desired advertising real estate — now brands are willing to pay millions of dollars for an influencer ad campaign on Instagram. How did we get...

Work at one of these 5 companies if you want better work-life balance
2019-04-25

Indeed just published a ranking of companies that offer the best work-life balance for those who are looking to jump ship and land in calmer waters. The struggle is real, people.Read Full Story

Here’s what Democratic presidential hopefuls say about AI on Twitter (not much)
2019-04-25

In the era of Trumpian politics the public forum is no longer the evening news or the morning paper: it’s Twitter. We decided to see which politicians were embracing the platform to discuss what we feel will be one of the most important issues of their potential presidency: artificial intelligence. What we found...

This reinvented screwdriver is the tool to end all tools
2019-04-25

The designers behind the Spinner Drive claim their universal screwdriver can handle any job. There’s no single screwdriver that can do everything, which why any worthy toolbox will have a variety of them for different uses, from assembling an engine to fixing a small home appliance. Until now, at least: The...

Tech brings out the worst in us. What if it was designed to bring out the best?
2019-04-25

Tristan Harris, cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, wants to push tech companies to rethink how they manipulate users. While people worry about the moment when AI will become smarter than humans and jobs will disappear, we’re already crossing another boundary in technological progress....

TikTok is no longer banned in India — but the app is still unavailable
2019-04-25

A week-long ban of popular social video creation app TikTok in India has been reversed, according to a report by Reuters, citing two lawyers involved in the case. The Android and iOS apps, however, are yet to return to Apple and Google’s app stores. The Madras High Court moved to lift the ban on the condition that...

TikTok is no longer banned in India — but the apps are still unavailable
2019-04-25

A week-long ban of popular social video creation app TikTok in India has been reversed, according to a report by Reuters, citing two lawyers involved in the case. The apps themselves, however, are yet to return to Apple and Google’s app stores. The Madras High Court moved to lift the ban on the condition that...

The former lead designer of Gmail just fixed Gmail on his own
2019-04-25

The free Chrome extension Simplify will give you the Gmail you want. Michael Leggett is even more annoyed with Gmail than you are.Read Full Story

These home security startups aren’t afraid of Amazon and Google
2019-04-25

Companies like August and SimpliSafe say they’ve got a plan to survive as the tech giants scale up their smart home ambitions. In the business of smart home security, it’s tough not being Amazon or Google.Read Full Story

Facebook’s FTC fine will be a wrist slap, and its stock price shows it
2019-04-25

In the context of Facebook’s explosive ad business, the FTC’s “unprecedented” fine won’t rock the social network very much. The Federal Trade Commission said it would levy a “record-setting” fine against Facebook for the company’s many privacy sins. But, it turns...

Facebook earnings stained by possible $5 billion FTC fine; stock skyrockets anyway
2019-04-24

The advertising and social networking company defied a consent decree and is currently negotiating the $3 billion to $5 billion fine amount with the FTC. Facebook’s first-quarter earnings are highlighted by an accounting allowance for a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fine that could be as large as $5 billion....

Amazon lets some Alexa workers see exactly where you are
2019-04-24

Amazon’s way of improving Alexa is even creepier than we thought. After reporting a couple of weeks ago on how Amazon lets some workers listen to Alexa voice recordings, Bloomberg is back with a follow-up that says those workers can access users’ locations as well. In some cases, the Alexa audit team can...

Study confirms: Twitter is not real life
2019-04-24

This survey from the Pew Research Center uses hard data to explain some stark differences between the extremely online and those who tune Twitter out. Here are some of the top stories from Friday, April 5, 2019:Read Full Story

Trump met with Jack Dorsey to discuss his number of Twitter followers
2019-04-24

The president’s followers have fallen as Twitter works to remove spam accounts. The president met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey yesterday after ranting about the company on Twitter earlier that morning, reports the Washington Post. Trump had taken to the platform earlier in the day to accuse Twitter of not...

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