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Why everyone is suddenly interested in the definition of suborning perjury
2019-01-18

A bombshell BuzzFeed report claims Trump told his lawyer to lie to Congress. It has everyone talking about just what it means to suborn perjury. On Thursday night, the Merriam-Webster Twitter account helpfully tweeted a link to the definition of a relatively obscure legal term: suborn.Read Full Story

Here’s what Google, Strava, and more will reveal at TNW2019
2019-01-18

The best way to learn what to expect at any conference is to check out the speaker lineup. At TNW2019, our diverse list of exciting speakers attract everyone in tech – marketers, developers, designers, and everything in between. For those in the dark, TNW2019 is our annual technology festival in Amsterdam. 17,500...

Twitter oops! Your protected tweets may actually have been public
2019-01-18

Check your privacy settings! If you have been spending time trolling people from your private Twitter account, in the words of Ricky Ricardo, you may have a little ‘splainin’ to do.Read Full Story

Adopt these habits to achieve work-life balance this year
2019-01-18

Schedule work-free hours and plan for busy periods. Anyone who works is apt to struggle in one regard or another. For some, it’s a matter of dealing with a bad boss or obnoxious coworkers. For others, it’s perpetual deadlines. But the single greatest challenge workers faced last year was none other than...

You can now install a new designer kitchen with a few clicks
2019-01-18

Installing your new Parisian-inspired kitchen will run you $24,530. Imagine if home renovations weren’t an absolute, all-consuming nightmare, and instead you could pick a kitchen design you liked, buy it, and have it installed? That’s the vision behind a collaboration between two digitally native home...

Facebook ousts hundreds of fake news accounts tied to Russia
2019-01-18

Facebook today removed multiple accounts, Pages, groups, and Instagram profiles that were related to Russian networks. The accounts in question were masquerading as news organizations and interest pages to spread misinformation. The pages and accounts were linked to employees of defamed Russian state publication...

Twitter bug exposed some Android users’ private tweets since 2014
2019-01-18

Today, Twitter disclosed a bug persisting from 2014 on its platform that affected protected tweets and accounts on Android. The company said the bug – active between November 2014 and January 2019 – switched off the “Turn your tweets private” option when users made changes to their account, like updating the...

Here’s what Google says search results will look like when EU copyright laws kick in
2019-01-18

The European Union is inching closer to enacting sweeping copyright legislation that would require platforms like Google, Facebook to pay publishers for the privilege of displaying their content to users, as well as monitoring copyright infringement by users on the sites and services they manage. That’s set to open...

Leak: The Pixel 3 ‘Lite’ brings back the headphone jack and keeps the camera
2019-01-18

We’ve been hearing rumblings of a midrange Pixel 3 ‘Lite’ for a few months now, but a new leak by Andro News seems to all but confirm the phone is on the way – and it’s already looking interesting enough for me to want one. The video gives a rather thorough preview of the pre-production phone’s design...

Are Facebook employees writing positive Portal reviews on Amazon?
2019-01-17

Facebook employees like Portal! Earlier today, New York Times tech reporter Kevin Roose took to Twitter with a funny story. It looked like Facebook employees were writing positive reviews for Facebook’s video chat device Portal on Amazon.Read Full Story

Michael Cohen paid someone to make a fake Twitter account that called him sexy
2019-01-17

President Trump’s former lawyer wanted people to know he was good looking. For all you people out there who think Michael Cohen, President Trump’s now-disgraced former lawyer, has sex appeal, do I have a Twitter account for you. It’s called “WomenForCohen,” and when it’s not...

This AI generates images of food just by reading the recipe
2019-01-17

It nails down pastas, rices, and soups, but makes hamburgers look like “hamberders.” Screw AI that makes fake humans look real, learns every language on earth, and predicts crimes–AI will only really arrive when it is capable of generating an entire foodie porn Instagram channel by...

Facebook just purged hundreds of fake accounts linked to a Russian news network
2019-01-17

This is just the last announcement in its crackdown on “inauthentic” behavior. Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher published a blog post this morning saying the company has discovered and removed hundreds of pages and accounts it deemed to be “inauthentic.” The...

Report: WhatsApp surpasses Facebook as the social network’s most popular app
2019-01-17

In recent years, Facebook has arguably been the most popular app in a lot of major markets across the globe. However, WhatsApp, one of the apps it acquired, has surpassed it in terms of monthly active users. According to a report released by analytics firm App Annie, the chat app overtook Facebook last September....

Tim Cook: It’s time for the shadowy world of data brokers to end
2019-01-17

The Apple CEO is calling on Congress to give Americans more control over their data. Many people I’ve spoken to have a pretty good understanding that companies like Facebook and Google have a massive amount of data on them. And most of those people also understand that companies like Facebook and Google package...

Google won’t let other companies use the Home Hub’s best feature
2019-01-17

“Ambient EQ” underscores the tension between Google’s hardware ambitions and its third-party ecosystem. When Google released the Home Hub smart display last October, product lead Ashton Udall was emphatic about the importance of a feature called Ambient EQ, which measures the room’s...

Big Raisin is not going to let millennials kill it off without a fight
2019-01-17

Can millennials be wooed back to snacking on raisins? Sun-Maid, America’s number-one dried-grape brand, has ambitious plans to reignite their interest. (Hint: sour raisins.) Millennials are guilty of “killing” a number of food products: American cheese, mayonnaise, canned tuna, and other products...

Facial recognition for chimps searches the internet for stolen baby apes
2019-01-17

Algorithms can be trained to recognize ape faces as well as human faces. Now ChimpFace is being deployed to help track down poachers who put the animals up for sale online. After poachers capture a baby chimp in Nigeria or the Ivory Coast–typically in a brutal process that involves killing the parents and other...

Study shows Facebook users still don’t understand tracking
2019-01-17

The Pew Research Center today released the results of its latest survey of Facebook users, this time about the ad categories they’ve been assigned by the site’s algorithms. The users’ surprising ignorance of the information Facebook accrues highlights the disconnect between the platform and its users. According...

Why does Mark Zuckerberg need 2,263% more personal protection than Tim Cook?
2019-01-17

In 2017 Zuckerberg’s security cost $7.3 million, while Cook’s cost just $310,000, according to filings. Has Facebook’s mishandling of it users’ personal information made CEO Mark Zuckerberg a marked man? You might think that judging by the copious amounts of cash Facebook spends to protect...

Google is finally raising G Suite’s price
2019-01-17

The company thinks that the current version of its venerable suite is worth a buck or two more per month. When Google first started introducing browser-based productivity tools such as Docs and Sheets, they had something in common with much of what the company offers: They were free. In 2007, however, Google launched...

How I made ends meet as an unpaid intern (and why it was worth it)
2019-01-16

Internships are inexorably tied to the career landscape in the U.S. and across the globe, even though many of them don’t pay. Before Autumn Adeigbo launched her eponymous eco-fashion brand for professional women, she was a hard-working student at Parsons dreaming of a career as a designer. And like many of her...

Why you should select one word to focus on all year
2019-01-16

The word itself is not what is so powerful, but the time that you take to choose it. Through the process of selecting a word, you come face-to-face with your values and identify the things that will help move you forward to where you want to be. If you were searching social media at the beginning of the year, you may...

This clever lamp uses surgeon’s tech to eliminate annoying shadows
2019-01-16

Balmuda’s $540 The Light doesn’t create shadows or glare. There are few things that bother me more than bad lighting–in the living room, the kitchen, and especially when I’m working at a desk. When I’m drawing, I’m annoyed to no end when shadows obscure my work surface or,...

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