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Meerkat—the live video-streaming app that was the buzz of SXSW last year—is admitting defeat against rival Periscope. Recode reported yesterday (March 4) that the startup is changing direction to become a video social network where “everyone is always live.” “It was a fucking hard decision to say, ‘It’s not going to work, thank you everyone…
According to data provided by Uber to BuzzFeed News, the company received five claims of rape, and “fewer than” 170 claims of sexual assault directly related to an Uber ride as inbound tickets to its customer service database between December 2012 and August 2015. Uber provided these numbers as a rebuttal to screenshots obtained by…
My open Instant Articles feed Friday, February 26, 2016 by Dave Winer I believe this is the first public and live Instant Articles feed. http://scripting.com/fb/rss.xml As you can see it’s also RSS 2.0, something I’m quite proud of. When I was developing my Instant Articles feed, I desperately needed a working example to follow. It…
After 14 years I finally reported him. In the eyes of the law, my biggest mistake was not fearing him more. Gifs by KARBORN for Backchannel Early one evening last March, my best friend saw my name pop up in a text notification on her phone. The message, which appeared to come from my gmail…
Questions surround USA Today columnist’s account of airplane “hacking” incident A technology journalist who recently published a column for USA Today claiming to be the victim of a computer intrusion during a recent American Airlines flight was likely not hacked because of a security flaw or lapse involving the plane’s on-board wireless Internet service, according…
Despite the extensive online record of Goldberg’s activities, prosecuting him is much less straightforward than it might appear. On one hand, he told the FBI when he was arrested that he believed his “jihadist” contact “did intend to create functioning bombs and would actually attempt to use them to kill and injure persons.” On the…
Last night I posted a tweet: “Next time you want to post an essay to Medium, do the open web a favor and post it elsewhere. Anywhere. Tumblr. WordPress.com.” If I had more space I would have added Pastebin or Blogger. Really anywhere but Medium. I didn’t have room to explain, but people asked, so…
“Too slow,” where have we heard that one before? Getty Images cache miss 1613:single/related:1a31501ece0b7141312fc72c09a6000e empty There’s a story going around today that the Web is too slow, especially over mobile networks. It’s a pretty good story—and it’s a perpetual story. The Web, while certainly improved from the days of 14.4k modems, has never been as…
cache miss 76:single/related:84d703cc5bc68ed69388e6fe91d800d5 empty Google has a plan to speed up mobile Web browsing. The recently unveiled AMP—Accelerated Mobile Pages—project is an open source initiative that restricts certain elements of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to produce leaner Web pages “that are optimised to load instantly on mobile devices.” How much quicker is “instantly”? According to…
We see a lot of ridiculous tech products in our inboxes — everything from a connected toothbrush to a belt that loosens as you eat too much. But the Freewrite, which calls itself the “world’s first smart typewriter,” is ridiculous on another level. The Freewrite is a $500 word processor. The device, which has Wi-Fi,…