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Getty Advertisement – Continue Reading Below You may have sensed a certain gullibility in the air last night, a potent strain with pungent notes of paranoia and confusion. (And just a touch of embarrassment in the finish.) That’s because it’s fake Facebook legal status season again. Has it really been a year? This time…
Claim: Posting a legal notice on your Facebook wall will protect your copyright and privacy rights. FALSE Example: [Collected via e-mail, January 2015] [Collected via Facebook, May 2012]For those of you that do not understand this posting, Facebook is now a publicly traded entity. Anyone can infringe on your right to…
It is often said, “the Internet is running out of phone numbers,” as a way to express that the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses, to those who are unfamiliar with Internet technologies. IPv4 addresses, like phone numbers are assigned hierarchically, and thus, have inherent inefficiency. The world’s Internet population has been growing and…
The miserable lack of diversity in Silicon Valley is so exhaustively documented by now that we’ve nearly run out of ways to point it out. It’s most conspicuous at the top echelons, where the money is invested and recouped—and longtime VC John Doerr just made the problem glaringly obvious. http://valleywag.gawker.com/marc-andreesse… Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers…
By WashPostPR September 22 at 2:01 PM All Washington Post content will be formatted as Instant Articles. Complete feed of stories from The Post available every day The Washington Post today became the first new partner to launch on Facebook’s Instant Articles platform. The Post will send 100% of its stories to Facebook so that…
At a Marriott hotel in Atlanta, the soap dispensers have a little bit of a race problem. An African-American guest of the Dragon Con sci-fi and fantasy convention visited a bathroom in the event’s host hotel and discovered the soap dispenser, from a British company called Technical Concepts, wouldn’t sense his hands. When his friend, a white…
Every so often, someone (always a man) sends me a casual tweet asking why he can’t retweet me. Of course, the obvious answer is that my account is locked—a tiny optional blessing of Twitter’s functionality that means I’m not searchable to the world outside. The more complex answer relates to why my account is locked…
Photo Shereen Way and her daughter Gloria, 4 Credit Andrew Renneisen for The New York Times Shereen Way did not think twice about posting a photo on Instagram of her 4-year-old daughter wearing a green dress and pink Crocs sandals. Crocs, which Ms. Way had identified with a hashtag, pulled the snapshot from Instagram and…
“There’s one thing that I have in common with every person in this room. We’re all trying really hard to figure out how to save the world.” The speaker, Cat Lavigne, paused for a second, and then she repeated herself. “We’re trying to change the world!” Lavigne was addressing attendees of the Effective Altruism Global…
Well mommies, it happened. I learned what it’s like be a nursing mom and attend a conference with my baby. A tech conference (Dreamforce). In Moscone Center. In San Francisco. For two hours. Since I had been to Moscone Center and seen children present at other conferences, I figured it would not be a…