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The latest startup to “catch Silicon Valley’s eye” is a company called Juicero that’s selling, essentially, a $700 Keurig for organic cold-pressed juice. Even though it offers the kind of overpriced, niche gizmo you’d find in a Hammacher Schlemmer catalog, the company is flush with $120 million in investment capital. Silicon Valley giants are betting…
Image: Getty I was kind of tired of the FBI vs. Apple story, but now it has a secret collective of morally ambiguous hackers, and I’m into it again. According to a report from the Washington Post, the Federal Bureau of Investigation paid a group of hackers a one-time fee to pinpoint a zero-day security…
Live Video Upload with the Graph API The Live API allows you to create stories on Facebook using live video content from a variety of sources. This allows you to go beyond mobile device cameras and bring in video from professional cameras, multi-camera setups and programmatic sources such as games or screencasts. If you would…
Facebook Messenger launched a pair of neat new features this week, and among those was one that’ll sound very familiar to any Snapchat user: Messenger now includes scannable codes that let you add another person as your friend. It was the latest in a long line of features that Facebook very clearly took inspiration from Snapchat…
Markdown formatting on Facebook? Is it real? So I was minding my own business on Facebook (read: spamming the shit out of anyone who’d want to come to my They Might Be Giants piano happy hour) when I noticed something. On events pages, there’s a button I haven’t noticed before. Wait… is that… Markdown? On…
It didn’t take a startling expose about mismanaged sexual assault claims for women to know that Uber is not the most female-friendly service in this, our sharing economy. But when BuzzFeed News got a hold of some leaked screen shots from Uber’s internal customer support interface, seeing the words “rape” and “sexual assault” appear more than 10,000…
Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Today, the popular messaging service WhatsApp turned on end-to-end encryption for all of its 1 billion users, a massive achievement which effectively blocks any third party—including WhatsApp itself—from reading users’ chats. The security facelift means that WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook will…
Recently, functional programming conference LambdaConf announced Curtis Yarvin would be speaking at the event. Yarvin, who writes online as “Mencius Moldbug,” is a prolific blogger whose devotees describe themselves as Neo-reactionary, or part of the “Dark Enlightenment.” A White supremacist movement, Neoreactionaries re-cast eugenics and scientific racism as “human biodiversity,” believe democratic government should be…
paging_filter Online publishing start-up Slant News is shutting down, sources confirmed to POLITICO Media. The publishing platform, founded in February last year, paid freelance writers 70 percent of the advertising revenue generated by the articles that they wrote for the site. Slant was co-founded by Amanda Gutterman, the former special projects editor for The Huffington…
An hour’s drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem. The plot has been owned by the Vogelman family for more than a hundred years, though the current owner, Joyce Taylor née Vogelman, 82, now rents it out. The acreage is…