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Facebook says a bug caused it to save users’ deleted videos
2018-04-03

As the #DeleteFacebook movement gained steam in the previous weeks, one user who chose to download all his Facebook data before deleting his account noticed that Facebook still had copies of takes of a video he had shot but never published to the site, New York magazine reported. The draft videos were recorded...

Google bans cryptocurrency mining extensions in the Chrome Web Store
2018-04-03

In an effort to prevent malicious sites from using your computer’s processing power to mine cryptocurrency without your knowledge, Google is blocking all extensions that include mining scripts in the Chrome Web Store. The danger with such scripts is that they can hog your system resources, and cause your computer to...

Facebook’s VR Avatars Just Got A More Realistic Upgrade
2018-04-02

The second version of Facebook’s Spaces avatars could help users feel more comfortable spending time with their friends in virtually reality. Facebook sees virtual reality as very much a social experience, an extension of people’s normal social-networking activity. That’s why it has put a lot of...

Google Home Exec Says Some Of HomePod’s Magic Is Just Marketing
2018-04-02

Google Home Max product manager Chris Chan cast doubt upon some of Apple’s claims about its new smart speaker. I did a blind sound test. In the wake of the clatter over Apple’s new HomePod speaker (and after I wrote a few articles about its sonic capabilities), Google invited me out to Mountain View...

Zuckerberg claps back against Apple CEO’s ‘glib’ commentary
2018-04-02

Mark Zuckerberg, who has been in FEMA-caliber damage control mode since the reveal of the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke a couple weeks ago, today gave an interview to Vox. Among other topics, he responded to criticism from Apple CEO Tim Cook in the strangest way possible. Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein asked...

Trump’s wall won’t stop China’s AI
2018-04-02

The US will levy trade tariffs on China this week designed to target “largely high-technology products.” In retaliation for the taxation, China announced it would raise duties on 128 US imports. Begun, the trade wars have. President Trump, over Easter weekend, let loose on Twitter with his usual barrage of...

These Are Facebook’s Top 11 Questions For Job Candidates
2018-04-02

The social media giant uses these questions to streamline its hiring process and pick the strongest candidates for each role. This year, Facebook came in at #1 on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list. And that wasn’t the first time–the social media giant has made the list handily for the past...

Report: Google to launch a cheaper Pixel phone this summer
2018-04-02

Remember when Google sold Nexus phones? Back then, the stock Android experience also meant an affordable price, something which was has disappeared since Google started directly competing with the iPhone and Galaxy series with its Pixel phones. Now it seems the company could be looking to recapture that...

Mark Zuckerberg: Tim Cook is “extremely glib”
2018-04-02

A week after Apple CEO Cook said “some well-crafted regulation is necessary” in light of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and that Apple was better off than Facebook because it doesn’t sell user data to advertisers, Facebook’s CEO has struck back. Zuckerberg told Vox’s Ezra...

Walmart just opened its first high-tech “small” store in China
2018-04-02

The company announced it has opened its mini store in Shenzhen on Monday, reports Reuters. The brick-and-mortar store is designed to help the company compete against online retailers in the country. The store is part of a “smart retail” trend in China, which sees retailers and tech giants teaming up to...

Elon Musk’s April Fools’ joke was Tesla going bankrupt
2018-04-02

Despite Tesla having a horrible March, Musk wasn’t afraid to jinx things by joking about the company’s demise. The Tesla CEO took to Twitter yesterday to announce the company was going bankrupt: Important news in a few hours … — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 1, 2018 Tesla Goes BankruptPalo...

A Pre-Scandal Mark Zuckerberg Said Users Trusted Facebook To Protect Their Privacy
2018-04-02

In an interview released for the first time today, the Facebook CEO discussed privacy with Freaknonomics Radio last summer. It was a simpler time. Last summer, months before Mark Zuckerberg was feeling the intense pressure of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, the Facebook CEO said he knew his site’s users...

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2018-04-01

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How Facebook Blew It
2018-04-01

A months long investigation uncovered concerns that Cambridge Analytica may have used improperly obtained academic data to craft its psychometric profiles. In early 2014, a couple years before a bizarre election season marred by waves of false stories and cyberattacks and foreign disinformation campaigns, thousands of...

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