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select all June 19, 2018

Facebook Researchers Use Powerful AI to Fix Blinking in PhotosUsing powerful algorithms to solve our most frustrating global issues.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 19, 2018

Miranda Kerr, Like You, Didn’t Like Her Husband’s Redesigned SnapchatKerr immediately questioned her husband, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, about the redesigned app.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 18, 2018

Astrology, the World’s Oldest, and Newest, Meme TrendAcross social media — particularly on Instagram — a rash of new accounts have emerged wanting to tell you about your celestial self through memes.

By Dayna Evans

select all June 18, 2018

Amazon Investors to Amazon: Please Stop Doing Business With CopsActivist investors want to make sure that facial-recognition tech is used responsibly.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 15, 2018

Russian Cybersecurity Firm Severs Ties With Europol Over ‘Malicious’ ActivityThe alleged Russian conspirators have found themselves at odds with the European Union.

By Mack DeGeurin

select all June 15, 2018

I Saw Jake Paul Live and All I Got Was a Creeping Sense of Existential DreadHere’s everything you probably didn’t miss at Jake Paul’s Team 10 Live show in New York City.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 15, 2018

When It Comes to News, Users Are Switching From Facebook to Other FacebookWhatsApp and Instagram are popular alternatives.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 14, 2018

Facebook’s Policy Head Is Leaving the CompanyWell, he tried?

By Brian Feldman

select all June 14, 2018

Instagram Will No Longer Notify People When You Screenshot Their StoriesGreat news!

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 14, 2018

Apple Closes Security Loophole, Sets Up Another Fight With Law EnforcementApple narrowly avoided the Supreme Court in 2016. Will it do so again?

By Brian Feldman

select all June 14, 2018

This Vermont Librarian Took Equifax to Court … and WonEquifax now has to pay for Jessamyn West’s identity to be monitored for two years.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 13, 2018

There Are Two Forward Paths to Virtual Reality; Both Make You Look Like a DorkVR may become mainstream not by hitting a sweet spot between ease of use and technical powerhouse, but, more likely, by being one or the other.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 13, 2018

You Can Look Now, the Raccoon Is FineAfter two days of climbing a skyscraper in Minnesota, the raccoon is finally safe.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 13, 2018

Kim Kardashian West Tried to Convince Twitter to Give Us an Edit ButtonKanye West apparently “loves” Jack Dorsey. Who knew!

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 12, 2018

Tesla Laying Off Thousands of EmployeesElon Musk said in an email that the company is laying off 9 percent of its staff.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 12, 2018

Stop-and-Frisk and Broken Windows Haven’t Gone Away— They’ve Moved OnlineAs the number of in-person stop-and-frisk arrests decline, young men of color in urban areas find themselves lumped into police gang databases.

By Mack DeGeurin

select all June 11, 2018

Uber Building Tech to Tell When You Are DrunkThe company applied for a patent that would allow a user’s phone to track things like swaying or typos as indications of intoxication.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 11, 2018

The Coming Sad Decline of the Post–Net Neutrality InternetNet neutrality is dead. But the internet’s been dying for a while.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 11, 2018

This Fall Tesla ‘Will Begin to Enable Full Self-Driving Features’ in Its CarsElon Musk tweeted that this summer’s Tesla software update would be another step toward “full self-driving features.”

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 8, 2018

Japan Just Lost 80 Percent of Its AirbnbsBad news if you had a trip to Japan planned.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 8, 2018

David Simon Tells Jack Dorsey to ‘Die of Boils’ Over Twitter LockoutThe Wire creator has been locked out of his Twitter account and is refusing to delete any of his controversial tweets.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 8, 2018

Yahoo Messenger Joins AIM in Messenger HeavenThe service will be shuttered in July.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 8, 2018

Sushi Striker Is a Manic Puzzle Game Committed to the BitNintendo’s latest puzzle game takes place in a world without fish.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 7, 2018

Google Will Continue Defense Work, But Not on ‘Technologies That Cause Harm’The company won’t use AI to violate human rights, which is the least we can ask.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 7, 2018

Facebook Bug Might Have Had Users Post Private Things PubliclyThe glitch affected 14 million people.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 7, 2018

Good News, Google’s Salad Emoji Is Vegan NowGoogle removed the egg from its salad emoji.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 6, 2018

Detroit: Become Human Is a Total, Transfixing MessA game about humans role-playing as robots that want to be human.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 6, 2018

Hour-long Video Could Be Coming to InstagramYouTube … but make it Instagram.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 5, 2018

Uber CEO Wants Employees to ‘Have the D’Uber’s got the D!

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 5, 2018

Please Stop the ‘What Do You Do?’ Meme: An InterventionThis is not a meme. It’s a humblebrag.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 4, 2018

Apple’s Memoji Lets You Create Personal Animoji, So Basically a 3-D BitmojiAnimoji will now also have “tongue detection.”

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all June 4, 2018

Facebook Gave Device-Makers Privileged Access to User DataThe access remained even after Facebook claimed it had fixed the issue.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 1, 2018

Google Says It Won’t Renew Military ContractsThe controversial drone AI program made numerous employees resign.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 1, 2018

Facebook Will Remove Its Trending SectionThe feature was a big headache for Facebook.

By Brian Feldman

select all June 1, 2018

What to Expect From Apple Next WeekIncluding new AR tech and Apple’s attempts to get you to use your phone less.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 31, 2018

What Is Stationhead, the Streaming App That Will Air Kanye’s New Album Tonight?It’s debuting at midnight tonight.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 31, 2018

Twitter Blames ‘Beats by Dre’ Ad Barrage on ‘Minor Issue’An explanation for why you couldn’t escape LeBron James in that ‘Beats by Dre’ ad on Thursday.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 31, 2018

How to Succeed in Advertising (and Transform the Internet While You’re At It)Programmatic built the modern internet. And Right Media, inventors of the first ad exchange, built programmatic advertising.

By Adrianne Jeffries

select all May 30, 2018

You Could Soon Use Snapchat to Log in to Other AppsA good idea, if true.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 30, 2018

Google Changes Motto From ‘Don’t Be Evil’ to ‘Be Skynet’The only thing that can bring opposing armies together … is Google.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 29, 2018

Google Maps … Please ChillI don’t need to save five minutes.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 29, 2018

#WeezerCoverAfrica Campaign Concludes With Weezer Covering ‘Africa’Bless the rains.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 29, 2018

You Can Now Dial 911 From the Uber AppA feature the app probably should have introduced years ago.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 25, 2018

Teacher Writes Diss Track Dissing Jake Paul’s Diss Track Dissing Teachers“I make about 35k a year, son!”

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 25, 2018

Snapchat Updates Mapping Feature to Be More PrivateA nice update from Snapchat.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 25, 2018

Google, Facebook Already Facing Lawsuits Under New European Privacy LawThe E.U.’s new data-privacy law went into effect today — and Google and Facebook are already facing legal complaints.

By Jake Swearingen

select all May 25, 2018

My Ex Blocked Me on Social Media — But He Forgot About VenmoI can’t see pictures of his dog anymore, but I know that he still has the same sh*tty taste in alcohol.

By Melania Hidalgo

select all May 24, 2018

Twitter Was Better in 2008, So Let’s All Just Live ThereTen years ago, barely anybody used Twitter, and those who did didn’t know what it was for. It was great!

By Jake Swearingen

select all May 24, 2018

You Can Now See Who’s Paying for Political Ads on Facebook and InstagramFacebook starts attaching disclosure statements to political advertising.

By Jake Swearingen

select all May 24, 2018

Amazon Alexa Reportedly Secretly Recorded Conversation and Sent It to a RandoA family in Portland was horrified when a man in Seattle called and said he’d heard their private conversations.

By Madison Malone Kircher

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