Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
As if to underscore the point, the company is making a tweak to its News Feed ranking system to increase the prominence of content from your friends and family over posts by news companies and other organizations. It is also warning news companies that their traffic might decline as a result of the change. These…
Inc.‘s 11th annual 30 Under 30 list features the young founders taking on some of the world’s biggest challenges. Here, meet Imgur. Let’s start with a few examples of what has been snail-mailed to Imgur, the image-sharing community once described as the world’s greatest procrastination site. There’s $400 worth of Silly Putty. An acrylic-on-canvas hand-painted Imgur logo that, when illuminated with…
Because Viv and her fellow digital assistants are female, their usage adds to the store of cultural knowledge about who women are and what women do. Every time you say, “Viv, order me a turkey club” or “Viv, get me an Uber,” the association between “woman” and “assistant” is strengthened. According to Calvin Lai, a…
The new BLU R1 HD is available to Prime members for just $49.99, featuring a beautiful 5” HD display, quad-core processor, and 4G LTE speed The new Moto G is available to Prime members for just $149.99, featuring a 5.5” full HD display, an octa-core processor with 2 GB of RAM, and 4G LTE speed Breakthrough pricing…
In fact, it has been a constant source of delight for me over the past year to get to continually tell hordes (literally) of people who want to – strap yourselves in, here it comes – control what their documents look like in ways that would be trivial in TeX, Microsoft Word, and every other…
It may be difficult to imagine, but just a few decades ago there was a time when citizens felt there wasn’t much to choose from when it came to politics in the US. Almost all politicians were seen to hover somewhere in the middle of the political spectrum. In that environment, it did not seem…
Sidewalk Labs, a secretive subsidiary of Alphabet, wants to radically overhaul public parking and transportation in American cities, emails and documents obtained by the Guardian reveal. Its high-tech services, which it calls “new superpowers to extend access and mobility”, could make it easier to drive and park in cities and create hybrid public/private transit options…
Photo Credit Bianca Bagnarelli ACCORDING to some prominent voices in the tech world, artificial intelligence presents a looming existential threat to humanity: Warnings by luminaries like Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom about “the singularity” — when machines become smarter than humans — have attracted millions of dollars and spawned a multitude of conferences. But this…
Generally, a lot people learned how to search on the internet from Ask Jeeves. Just last week we saw a story about a woman that always searched politely: It’s not a stretch to think that many people’s interaction with Google and other search providers are by asking a question, instead of putting in a topic….
‘I was drunk,’ ‘I was joking,’ ‘It’s free speech’: men are making awful excuses for why they harass women online. In Australia last year, a young woman named Olivia Meville faced an onslaught of Tinder shaming by strange men for simply posting a Drake lyric in her bio—“The type of girl that will suck you…