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Mark Zuckerberg vows to stop moving fast and breaking things
2019-04-30

The CEO told developers at the company’s F8 conference that Facebook will rebuild itself around user privacy. At the company’s developer conference in San Jose, California, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described what he called the “next chapter” in Facebook’s history, meaning the...

Instagram will soon let creators tag products in posts for sale
2019-04-30

Users can click the tags to go to an e-commerce page to buy the products. Facebook’s Instagram said it will soon start testing a new feature that will let users click and buy products shown in the posts of popular creators like Kylie Jenner.Read Full Story

Facebook’s Oculus Quest and Rift S will ship May 21 for $399
2019-04-30

The Quest trades some resolution for mobility–it uses no tether to a PC–while the (tethered) Rift S offers new features for PC gamers. Facebook says its new Oculus Quest and Rift S VR headsets will begin shipping May 21–each for $399.Read Full Story

This airline satisfaction report contains a surprising detail about travel
2019-04-30

Wait, what? Grumbling while traveling is practically an Olympic sport, so when the American Customer Satisfaction Index Travel Report for 2018-2019 came out on Tuesday, the results should not have been a surprise. And yet: It turns out that most domestic travelers are satisfied with their experiences. Um,...

How to watch Mark Zuckerberg’s F8 keynote today
2019-04-30

Zuckerberg’s keynote kicks off at 10 am PDT/1 pm EDT today. Facebook’s annual developers conference kicks off today with a keynote by none other than Zuck himself. In prior years F8 was always dedicated to showing off the latest plans Facebook had for its three main services: Facebook, Instagram, and...

Meet the fake people who will soon crowd your timelines
2019-04-30

A remarkable advance in artificial portrait generation adds a new potential layer of deception to online fraudsters, astroturfers, and propagandists. Alarm bells went off for Twitter user @ravenvanderrave, a nom de guerre for a consistent naysayer about the electric-car company Tesla, after a purported journalist with...

Mark Zuckerberg is moonlighting as an industrial designer
2019-04-30

He recently designed a product for his wife that helps her avoid looking at her phone. Mark Zuckerberg is many things: computer scientist, Facebook CEO, billionaire so focused on making more money that he’ll undermine American democracy to do it. Now, he can add another title to the list: industrial...

Here’s why Alphabet stock just fell off a cliff
2019-04-30

Google is having a lousy morning, but all hope is not lost. Google is having a lousy morning, but all hope is not lost.Read Full Story

How Facebook plans to keep your data private while opening it up to researchers
2019-04-30

Ever since the 2016 US presidential elections, social network Facebook has been at the receiving end of criticism for its outsized influence on worldwide electoral processes, and threats to democracy from the spread of fake news. Now more than a year after Facebook announced a new initiative to aid independent...

Tumblr’s Head of Culture and Fashion shares the platform’s most curious subcultures
2019-04-30

Valentine Uhovski started his career as an editor and journalist, and has written for the likes of The Wall Street Journal and Interview Russia. He’s now in his eighth year manning the helm of Tumblr‘s Culture and Fashion verticals. Since joining, he’s helped to foster and shape Tumblr‘s community of millions...

Retired Dogecoin CEO Elon Musk trolls Ethereum and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin
2019-04-30

Elon Musk has been trolling the Ethereum cryptocurrency and its co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Twitter. The Tesla founder simply tweeted the word “Ethereum” early this morning, but shortly later took it back (hehe). jk — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 30, 2019 In response, Vitalik invited Musk to an Ethereum...

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...

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