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Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook needs help protecting the elections
2018-09-13

We’re now less than two months out from the US midterm elections, and the pre-emptive assurances about security from social media sites, particularly Facebook, are now colored by a sense of urgency. Today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg released a massive blog post detailing the steps the company has already taken to prevent...

How Google is breaking EU privacy law, according to a new complaint
2018-09-13

A new legal complaint argues that personal data is being dispersed across wide networks of ad providers in violation of Europe’s privacy regulation. Ad customization technology used by Google and other companies is in violation of Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation, according to a complaint...

Jeff Bezos is donating money to fix a problem his company perpetuates
2018-09-13

What good is philanthropy without introspection? Insanely rich human being Jeff Bezos announced today his intention to do something he rarely ever does: philanthropy. On Twitter, he posted a screenshot of an announcement pledging to donate $2 billion to fund “existing non-profits that help homeless families,...

Henry Cavill’s weird and wonderful Instagram adieu to Superman
2018-09-13

Henry Cavill confirms news about his departure from the DC Universe with an odd–and oddly charming–Instagram video. What: A mesmerizing Instagram videoRead Full Story

This is how Google motivates its employees
2018-09-13

Part of the tech giant’s success comes from employees’ ability to take risks without feeling insecure or embarrassed. Google is consistently rated as being a top employer, and the culture it created helps to attract and retain top talent. The company optimizes its talent by designing and motivating...

Google mysteriously removes cryptocurrency wallets from Play Store
2018-09-13

Google removed at least three major cryptocurrency wallets from its Play Store overnight. While the reason for their removal is not immediately clear, Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Ver is blaming Google’s new cryptocurrency mining policy. Over the last 12 hours, cryptocurrency wallet apps Bitcoin Wallet (managed by...

Tim Armstrong is out at Oath
2018-09-13

Armstrong will be replaced by Oath’s current COO, K. Guru Gowrappan, who will assume CEO duties on October 1. Armstrong is soon to be the ex-CEO of Verizon’s Oath, the division formed when AOL and Yahoo merged under one banner. Verizon had high hopes for Oath, its digital advertising unit, but has yet to...

Google to kill Inbox early next year
2018-09-12

According to a report by Fast Company, Google is giving its popular bundled email client service, Inbox the axe early next year. In March 2019, we’ll have to say our goodbyes. First launched in 2014, Inbox was sort of the antithesis to its name. It was, on the one hand, the same thing as Gmail, at least from the...

Inbox, Google’s playground for email innovation, is going bye-bye
2018-09-12

Four years ago, Google took a fresh look at email. With Gmail looking more and more like Inbox, it’s declaring “mission accomplished.” Back in 2014, the folks at Google responsible for Gmail did something unexpected: They introduced a new email app. On the back end, Inbox was the same thing as...

Is Bill Gates throwing some shade at Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy?
2018-09-12

“There are aspirations and then there are plans.” Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both quit Harvard and went on found companies that made them billions. Both have pledged to use their vast fortunes–the former via Microsoft money, the latter from Facebook–to improve humanity. But their...

Trusting your gut is great, says designer Nicola Formichetti. Until it gets you fired.
2018-09-12

The creator of Nicopanda and frequent Lady Gaga collaborator explains the importance of going with your creative instinct–but maybe not always. Listen to the latest episode of Fast Company‘s podcast Creative Conversation featuring fashion director and designer Nicola Formichetti on Apple...

Nintendo is rolling out its Switch Online service next week
2018-09-12

Nintendo today announced it would finally be debuting the Online service for the Switch. The service, which was announced shortly after the Switch itself, will go live on September 18. #NintendoSwitchOnline memberships will start on 9/18. You can sign-up for a 7-day free trial from Nintendo #eShop at launch! We will...

Consider these 3 things before you join a professional association
2018-09-12

Say goodbye to awkward networking events. Social media might have made it easier for us to find people’s contact details–and send messages to strangers that you want to connect with. But it is also chock full of noise and peddlers, which can make it difficult to establish genuine business relationships...

Google Street View cars are now mapping pollution around the world
2018-09-12

Pollution can vary block to block–and now Google is helping track that info in cities like Houston and Mexico City. Four years ago, a few Google Street View cars in Denver took part in an experiment: As the cars made their usual rounds capturing photos block by block, they also used sensors from a company...

Facebook and Google may be fined in the EU if they don’t remove terrorist content
2018-09-12

The tech firms may have one hour to take down content—or else! The European Commission is drafting new rules that would require tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google to take down terrorist propaganda within one hour after being notified of its presence or face serious fines.Read Full Story

This AI dreams in postapocalyptic cityscapes
2018-09-12

It’s like seeing Google Maps hallucinate. If I were to ask you to draw a street, you might pull out a piece of paper and a pen, put down a few lines to make a road, then add a series of rectangles to divide lanes. Maybe you’d go so far as to draw a car or a stoplight. But whatever you ended up with would...

Safebook is Facebook, except totally, gloriously empty
2018-09-12

Treat yourself to a benign cruise through blue-gray boxes, with nary a notification in sight. The internet is a morass of things you don’t want to see, but can’t stop looking at. The artist and researcher Ben Grosser has a solution: Safebook.Read Full Story

This is why Bumble banned all photos of guns
2018-09-12

Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd has never strived for neutrality. Banning photos of guns seemed like the next logical step. Last month, Twitter took flak for its latest bout of inertia when the platform opted not to permanently ban Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. It was yet another show of Twitter’s...

The dark history of our obsession with productivity
2018-09-12

Americans have been on a quest to get the most out of every working minute since the nation’s founding, often at the detriment of the people doing the work. You know it’s bad when you start typing “obsession with” in the Google search bar and the first auto-completion prompt is...

Why we’re building a social network supported by people, not advertisers
2018-09-12

The designers behind Are.na explain the thinking that led to their nascent social platform, winner of the 2018 Innovation By Design General Excellence award. In the early days of the World Wide Web, technologists believed that networked personal computers would lead to an unprecedented spread of knowledge. They...

Google fights global expansion of the EU’s right to be forgotten
2018-09-12

Google is fighting French lawyers in the European Union court to avoid expanding the scope of “right to be forgotten” judgment globally. The company said that broadening the scope is “completely unenvisagable” and “imposing on the values of different countries.” To recap, the right to be forgotten...

Amazon is packing its search results with sponsored ads
2018-09-12

As with Google searches, most users won’t go beyond the first page of product search results on Amazon–so brands are spending big buck to appear there. If you do a search for almost anything on Amazon, the first few results you are likely to see now are sponsored ads which are paid for by companies to...

The airplane of the future might have synthetic spider silk inside it
2018-09-12

It sounds crazy, but the innovative material is lightweight, strong, and sustainable–exactly what the aviation industry should be looking for. Air travel is a disaster for the environment. Currently, the aviation industry accounts for over 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions. A single flight between New York...

Plex is killing off its Cloud streaming service this November
2018-09-12

Plex is shuttering its Cloud offering – which lets you stream content stored in your Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive storage straight to your connected devices – at the end of November. The decision follows multiple technical issues with the service since it launched in 2016, which prompted the company to stop...

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