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May 4, 2018
Vine Follow-up V2 Put on Indefinite Hold
It’s time to move on to other apps.
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Brian Feldman
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May 4, 2018
Customer Gets Stolen Puppy Back From Amazon Driver After Emailing Jeff Bezos
Bezos said the driver in question will no longer be working with the company.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
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May 4, 2018
How Should We Talk to Alexa Around Our Kid?
Two new parents try to figure out whether it’s okay to yell at Alexa in front of their child.
By
Jake Swearingen
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May 4, 2018
Facebook Debates a Subscription Model
How much is your privacy worth?
By
Brian Feldman
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May 4, 2018
Instagram Is Trying to Make It Easier to Buy Things in the App
Some users can now link their accounts to a credit card.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
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May 3, 2018
Twitter Says You Should Change Your Password After Bug Exposed Them
Internal logs stored the passwords, exposing them to employees.
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Brian Feldman
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May 3, 2018
Elon Musk Would Rather Field Questions From YouTube Than Wall Street
“Boring, boneheaded questions are not cool.”
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Brian Feldman
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May 2, 2018
The Best Infinity War Meme Is About Wong Ghosting
“Uh, you guys have fun.”
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Brian Feldman
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May 2, 2018
Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down
The now-infamous data firm is closing its doors amid the ongoing Facebook scandal.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
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May 2, 2018
Facebook Agrees to Civil-Rights Audit
Facebook wants you to know that it cares.
By
Brian Feldman
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May 2, 2018
The Spoiler-y
Avengers
Meme Taking Over Your Feed
It’s about the end of the movie.
By
Brian Feldman
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May 2, 2018
Red Dead Redemption 2
Trailer: ‘We’re More Ghosts Than People’
A close read of the newly released trailer for Rockstar’s upcoming game, out October 26, 2018.
By
Jake Swearingen
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May 1, 2018
Everything You Need to Know From Today’s Big Facebook Announcements
A dating app, privacy protections, and group video chat.
By
Brian Feldman
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May 1, 2018
Amazon Now Offering Home Security Starter Packs
For less than $1,000, Amazon will set up a security system for you.
By
Jake Swearingen
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May 1, 2018
Facebook Announces Function to Stop Facebook From Tracking You Around the Web
Now you can tell Facebook to forget about you.
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Brian Feldman
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May 1, 2018
The New
Despicable Me
Meme Mercifully Has Nothing to Do With Minions
In case you were wondering why Twitter is full of people talking about “gorls.”
By
Madison Malone Kircher
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May 1, 2018
Facebook Has a Dating App Now
Mark Zuckerberg said the dating-app feature will only show you people you don’t know.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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May 1, 2018
For a Moment, Facebook Thought Every Post Might Be Hate Speech
A new tool for monitoring hateful content on the platform cast too wide a net.
By
Brian Feldman
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Apr. 30, 2018
15 Arrested for Suspected
PUBG
Cheating, Fined $5 Million
More like Hacker Known’s Battlegrounds.
By
Brian Feldman
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Apr. 30, 2018
WhatsApp Founder Leaving Company to Collect Rare Porsches
Jan Koum announced he’s leaving the Facebook-owned company he co-founded.
By
Madison Malone Kircher
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Apr. 30, 2018
I Had to Teach My Alexa That Eggplants Were Fruit
Egg-plant, egg-plahnt. Let’s call the whole thing off.
By
Renée Reizman
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Apr. 30, 2018
Logan Paul Says He’s Done Vlogging Daily
He’d also really like you to buy a sweatshirt, thank you!
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Apr. 27, 2018
Are Smart-Home Products Actually a Good Investment?
A veteran real-estate agent explains whether smart-home tech can boost your home’s value.
By
Jake Swearingen
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Apr. 27, 2018
Dozens of Wikipedia Articles Are Being Vandalized Because of Todd Howard
Todd Coward, show yourself.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 27, 2018
How Soulja Boy Ended Up Hawking Dragon Dildos on Twitter
Crank that.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 26, 2018
Amazon Is Raising the Price of Prime to $119
The annual fee goes up on May 11.
By
Brian Feldman
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Apr. 26, 2018
I Was a Human Siri
Who are virtual assistants for, and how do we relate to them?
By
Emily Lever
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Apr. 26, 2018
A Close Read of Facebook’s Disingenuous Apology Ad
Facebook will only admit that “something happened.”
By
Brian Feldman
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Apr. 26, 2018
Snapchat Is Still Trying to Make Spectacles Happen
Its new smart glasses are even more expensive than the company’s previous pair … which flopped.
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Madison Malone Kircher
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Apr. 25, 2018
Facebook Had a Great First Quarter, Believe It or Not
That’s what monopoly power gets you.
By
Brian Feldman
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Apr. 25, 2018
Joy-Ann Reid’s ‘I Was Hacked’ Story Doesn’t Add Up
The host’s past comments come back to haunt her.
By
Brian Feldman
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Apr. 25, 2018
Amazon Debuts Echo Dot Kids Edition and Parental Controls
Your favorite always-on recording device just got an update meant for your children.
By
Jake Swearingen
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Apr. 25, 2018
Gmail Gets a Major Face-lift and Productivity Boost, Starting Today
It’s the first major redesign since 2012 to the world’s most popular email service.
By
Jake Swearingen
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Apr. 24, 2018
Snapchat Tests Rolling Back Its Controversial Redesign
The much-criticized changes have hounded the company for months.
By
Brian Feldman
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Apr. 24, 2018
Posts Indicate Suspect in Toronto Attack Was Radicalized on 4chan
Alek Minassian seems to have spent a lot of time on 4chan.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 24, 2018
Amazon Will Deliver Packages to Trunk of Your Car
Jeff Bezos wants to put it in your trunk.
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Jake Swearingen
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Apr. 23, 2018
Kanye West, Galaxy Brain
Let’s unpack what Kanye West’s been doing on Twitter, rubbing elbows with the far right.
By
Brian Feldman
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Apr. 23, 2018
Tech Companies Want to Get in on the Ground Floor of Smart-Home Construction
Why sell someone a smart speaker when you can get them to buy a house with your smart speakers embedded in the walls?
By
Jake Swearingen
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Apr. 23, 2018
The Man Who Invented the Pop-up Ad on the Original Sin of Advertising
A conversation with the inventor of the pop-up ad on the web’s lost decade.
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Noah Kulwin
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Apr. 23, 2018
Glitch Capitalism: How Cheating AIs Explain Our Stagnant Present
American society has come to follow the same logic as glitch-hunting AIs, and in the process become vulnerable to huge inequalities and injustices.
By
Malcolm Harris
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Apr. 23, 2018
Report: Amazon Is Making a Robot to Follow You Around the House
Alexa … with wheels.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 23, 2018
An Important Message From Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins made waves with this powerful post about what it truly means to be human.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 20, 2018
How Does Siri Actually Know What I’m Saying?
A simple guide to how voice assistants process speech, and how they know you’re talking to them.
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Joseph Frankel
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Apr. 20, 2018
One of YouTube’s Biggest Clients Is Back to Buying Ads
Procter & Gamble has returned, but will screen every video before putting ads on it.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 20, 2018
Trump’s Two Favorite Things, James Comey and Amazon, Unite
The former FBI head will speak at Amazon next week.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 20, 2018
Gimlet’s New Show Is About the Human Side of AI
Kristen Wiig and Alia Shawkat star in a new fiction podcast that explores the humor and terror of voice assistants.
By
Charley Locke
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Apr. 20, 2018
Why Wikipedia Puts Its Users First
The Wikimedia Foundation’s executive director, Katherine Maher, weighs in on incentive-based media models.
By
Noah Kulwin
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Apr. 20, 2018
Can You Speedrun Nintendo Labo? There’s Only One Way to Find Out.
If it’s a game, you can speedrun it.
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Brian Feldman
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Apr. 20, 2018
YouTube Has Turned Into a Merch-Plugging Factory
As it gets harder and harder to make money from YouTube ads, vloggers are turning to merch to pay the bills.
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Chris Stokel-Walker
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Apr. 19, 2018
YouTuber Could Go to Prison for Feeding Toothpaste Oreos to Homeless Man
The popular YouTuber made a couple thousand bucks, and also made a guy vomit.
By
Brian Feldman
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