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Along with the ability to hail a ride from our phones, the app era has pioneered a great cultural shift, a mass willingness to, say, let a stranger spend the night in our homes or meet up with a cute random guy after just a few texts. But our newfound propensity for trusting strangers from…
Dropbox just delivered some bad news for Mailbox users. The company will shut down its popular email app along with its its photo storage app Carousel, Dropbox announced Monday. Mailbox will be closed on Feb. 26, 2016; Carousel will shut down March 31, 2016. Reasons for closing the two apps were vague. Dropbox CEO Drew…
Photo Hillary Clinton addressed guests at the Saban Forum held by the Brookings Institution in Washington on Sunday. Credit Mark Wilson/Getty Images WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton said on Sunday that the Islamic State had become “the most effective recruiter in the world” and that the only solution was to engage American technology companies in blocking…
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., the owner of the most local TV stations in the country, has purchased and next spring will relaunch the defunct mobile news site Circa, the company announced Monday. Sinclair has hired John Solomon, formerly the vice president for content and business development for The Washington Times, to lead the effort as chief…
More people know how to use Facebook, which was started in 2004, than natively speak any single language; the particular syntax of Google’s email service, which soft-opened the same year, is familiar to about three times as many people as live in the United States; Pinterest won’t say how many people use its app, but…
Eep! Denny’s Tumblr, I luv you, but no. The Denny’s social media accounts tend to be surprisingly enjoyable, but a recent Tumblr post really missed the mark by referencing Jessica Jones‘ Purple Man to promote $4 pancakes. It’s depressing to see anyone make light of Kilgrave’s mind control, since his power is analogous to the manipulation many…
(For Gorditas only) The Story of the Man Who Won 100,000x Lifetime Taco Bell Cards (with tweets) · jwherrman · Storify.
The decision by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to gradually give away 99 percent of their Facebook fortune is big news not just for the huge sum involved—about $46 billion—but for how the couple chose to achieve their philanthropic goal. Rather than set up a private foundation or charitable trust as Bill and Melinda Gates did, the Chan…
As the old saying kind of goes, reports of the impending demise of CEO Marissa Mayer at Yahoo are greatly exaggerated. And so are rumors that the board of the Silicon Valley Internet giant is poised to sell off the entire core business. Consider the Wall Street Journal’s reporting last night that there is some…
Dec. 2, 2015 7:00 a.m. ET Veteran tech site Engadget is getting a face-lift and a new outlook on life. The 11-year-old blog is unveiling a significant redesign of its site on Wednesday amid a move to broaden its focus beyond gadgets and consumer technology and re-establish itself in the crowded tech news space. Engadget,…