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An Uber driver just suffered an embarrassing loss to a flight of stairs
2018-03-27

An Uber driver in San Francisco took a wrong turn, and got their car stuck after attempting to drive down a flight of stairs. The poor car hung out there for several minutes before a tow truck arrived to rescue it. #Uber tries to drive down stairs, gets stuck in #SanFrancisco's #Castro. No injuries reported...

Snapchat’s new Explore feature makes Maps a social experience
2018-03-27

Snapchat recently announced it would be updating Snap Map to bring you notifications of what your friends (and Snapchat itself) are up to. This is one of Snapchat’s steps towards becoming more of a social network, as opposed to a person-to-person photo-sharing app. As reported by The Verge, you will now see a feed...

Chrome OS looks to replace Android on tablets. Good riddance
2018-03-26

For all of Android’s dominance on smartphones, Google’s never been able to nail the tablet experience. Now it seems companies are getting ready to give up on it altogether for a more sensible alternative: Chrome OS. Asus today announced the  Chromebook Tab 10.  It has a 9.7-inch, 2048 x 1536 display, 32 GB of...

Digital evolution’s most beautiful (and terrifying) contribution is mutant AI
2018-03-26

Machines have become deft at exploiting rules and seeking the greatest possible rewards in surprising and creative ways. Facebook’s AI once created its own language to make arguing with itself easier and another AI found a way to cheat at Q-bert which had eluded humans for decades. Yet, most of these tales of the...

Cook County sues Facebook: “It is the largest data-mining operation in existence”
2018-03-26

The hits just keep on coming for Facebook and its media-narrative frenemy Cambridge Analytica. Earlier today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it was investigating Facebook for its privacy practices, and now Cook County, Illinois, is suing the two companies, accusing them of misusing the data of millions of...

HBO’s “Silicon Valley” Takes A Jab At Facebook’s Russian Headache
2018-03-26

The hit cable series returned for season five, along with a subtle dig at Facebook’s ongoing drama involving Russia’s influence of the 2016 election. HBO’s Silicon Valley returned Sunday night, and with the premiere came a very subtle, and oh-so-topical, jab at Facebook.Read Full Story

What To Expect From Apple’s Big Education Event In Chicago On Tuesday
2018-03-26

The event will likely be an expression of Apple’s desire to recapture some of the hold on the market it’s lost to Google and Chromebook. It’s been a fun ride. Back in 2012, Apple became the most valuable company in the world, its revenues grew to unprecedented levels with the massive popularity of...

Facebook is taking its local news initiative global
2018-03-26

After a week of international headlines, Facebook is ready to focus on events a little closer to home. The social media network has just announced that it is taking its local news initiative international. Back in January, Facebook tweaked the site’s algorithm to give users a bigger dose of local news, perhaps...

The FTC is investigating Facebook’s privacy practices
2018-03-26

The Federal Trade Commission has opened a “non-public probe” into the company’s privacy practices. In a statement just posted on its website, the FTC wrote that it “takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook.” The...

Streetwear icon Virgil Abloh is Louis Vuitton’s new menswear designer
2018-03-26

Louis Vuitton has just made streetwear designer Virgil Abloh the artistic director of menswear, making Abloh one of the few black executives at the helm of a European heritage luxury brand. And by bringing on a designer whose work has centered on streetwear and its intersection with hip-hop and rap culture, Louis...

What To Expect From Apple’s Education Event In Chicago Tuesday
2018-03-26

The event will likely be an expression of Apple’s desire to recapture some of the hold on the market it’s lost to Google and Chromebook. Apple’s revenues grew to unprecedented levels with the massive popularity of the (larger) iPhone 6 circa 2013. Apple became the most valuable company in the...

TNW’s Big Spam: Pay me $3M and I’ll tell you about my love life
2018-03-26

Monday freakin’ fun day. Top trending tech news: 📞 Facebook said we allowed it to snoop on our calls (TNW) 🚗 Grab acquired Uber’s Southeast Asia operations (TNW) 📰 Zuck took out newspaper ads to apologize (BBC) What we’re talking about: Verge cryptocurrency asked users for $3M to reveal a...

Facebook tracking is present in 41% of the most popular Android apps
2018-03-26

In response to several privacy blunders, netizens are flocking to #DeleteFacebook. But research from AdGuard suggests that escaping Zuckerberg’s panopticon is easier said than done, as Facebook-built tracking software exists in a staggering number of apps. Facebook Audience Network is a tool used by developers, and...

What Recruiters Pay Attention To When They Look At Your Social Media
2018-03-26

You already know that recruiters stalk you on social media. Here are the things that they look out for. You probably already know recruiters are looking at your LinkedIn page, but what about your other social media platforms? You know, the ones where you post pictures of your latest vacation, share what you had for...

Here’s how to see if Facebook knows who you’ve called and texted
2018-03-26

If you’re using Facebook’s Messenger app today, it may have asked you for permission to track “your call and text history” to help “friends find each other on Facebook.” But Ars Technica reports that on earlier editions of Android, prior to version 4.1, Facebook’s apps...

Apple CEO: more data oversight needed in wake of Facebook scandal
2018-03-26

Apple CEO Tim Cook made the comments while attending the three-day China Development Forum in Beijing, where he was serving as co-chair, reports Bloomberg. When asked if the user of a user’s data should be restricted following the revelations that 50 million Facebook users unknowingly had their data shared with...

As Facebook runs ads apologizing, trust in company plummets
2018-03-26

The embattled social media network has taken to old-fashioned newspaper advertising to apologize for the data sharing scandal that has rocked the company for the past several weeks. The ad is signed by Mark Zuckerberg and states that if Facebook can’t protect users’ information, it doesn’t deserve...

Facebook says you allowed it to snoop on your call logs
2018-03-26

Following tips from some Facebook users Last week, Ars Technica reported that the social network was collecting call logs and text message history from Android devices on which its apps were installed, without users’ permission. The company is now denying that it does this. Per Ars Technica’s story, call and SMS...

More landing page optimization tips than you can handle! (45, to be precise)
2018-03-25

We all know that the websites we work on could be better — way better in fact — but it can be difficult to realize exactly how they could be improved. As an experienced digital marketer and SEO specialist, I  absolutely love A/B testing and conversion rate optimization (CRO) because they are two of the few tools...

Elon Musk deletes Facebook pages he didn’t even know he had
2018-03-23

Elon Musk has jumped on the #deletefacebook train, deleting the pages for SpaceX and Tesla from the disgraced social media site and erasing their millions-strong followings. In case you’ve been living in seclusion for the last week or so, Facebook has found itself embroiled in a scandal involving a data analysis...

Stocks keep dropping as fears of a trade war sink the Dow Jones even lower this week
2018-03-23

Wall Street is not having a good week. Stoked by fears of a global trade war and a selloff of tech stocks driven by Facebook’s data scandal, stocks tumbled again on Friday, with the Dow Jones finishing out its worst week in two years. Tariffs announced by President Trump have sparked a retaliatory response from...

Sonos is yanking its Facebook ads in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal
2018-03-23

While some Facebook users have been busy tweeting #DeleteFacebook in the wake of the company’s data-privacy scandal this week, one business is taking matters into its own hands. Sonos today announced that it is pulling advertising from Facebook–as well as Google and Twitter–and donating the money...

Elon Musk just deleted the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX
2018-03-23

I guess today is Delete Facebook Day. Elon Musk, after being questioned on Twitter, seems to have taken the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX, two companies he runs, offline. Musk, who has a reputation being cagily trolly online, replied to a WhatsApp cofounder’s tweet telling people to delete Facebook with...

Apple’s foldable iPhone: Here’s more evidence that it’s real
2018-03-23

Citing Asian supply-chain partners, Merrill Lynch analyst Wamsi Mohan claims that Apple is working on a foldable iPhone that can double as a tablet, possibly for a 2020 launch. While the sourcing is thin, the Korea Herald reported a similar rumor in October, pointing to LG Display as a potential supplier. Apple...

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