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Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm

Joanna Stern8 years ago012 mins

Nope, I haven’t forgotten how to write. Nor did my editor go on vacation. You see, to share the pain of using an Apple laptop keyboard that’s failed afterfour months, I could only think of one idea: take all the broken letters out of my column. Then I realized that would make the whole thing unreadable. So to… Read with E’s ONRead with R’s ON Why is the breaking of my MacBook Air keyboard so insanely maddening? Let’s take a trip down Memory Lane… April 2015: Apple Inc. releases the all-new MacBook…

Brand safety and viewability tags slow publisher sites – Digiday

Jessica Davies8 years ago5 years ago09 mins

Visitors want fast websites, but advertisers want brand safety and viewable ads. In the end, ad concerns often end up winning at the expense of the user experience. According to data ad tech consultancy RedBud — examined for Digiday across 15 of the top 20 U.K. publishers — brand safety, viewability and verification tags represent…

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security

Brian Krebs8 years ago08 mins

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data. Facebook is probing a…

Kickstarter Union Opposed by Senior Staffers: Leaked Memo

Bryan Menegus8 years ago014 mins

Tuesday afternoon, a contingent of Kickstarter employees went public with their intention to unionize under the name Kickstarter United. According to an email provided to Gizmodo, however, senior staffers at the crowdfunding company are already attempting to push back against the plan to make Kickstarter the first major tech firm to have a union. “The…

Amazon is blocking ads for unprofitable products

Eugene Kim8 years ago03 mins

As Amazon steps up its effort to show Wall Street it can generate profits, the e-commerce giant is aggressively blocking money-losing products from advertising on its site. In recent months, Amazon has been telling more vendors, or brand owners who sell their goods wholesale, that if Amazon can’t sell those products to consumers at a…

Instagram Is Full of Conspiracy Theories and Extremism – The Atlantic

Taylor Lorenz8 years ago025 mins

When Alex, now a high-school senior, saw an Instagram account he followed post about something called QAnon back in 2017, he’d never heard of the viral conspiracy theory before. But the post piqued his interest, and he wanted to know more. So he did what your average teenager would do: He followed several accounts related to it…

The Sharing Economy Was Always a Scam – OneZero

Susie Cagle8 years ago033 mins

Founded in 2014, Omni is a startup that offers users the ability to store and rent their lesser-used stuff in the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland. Backed by roughly $40 million in venture capital, Omni proclaims on its website that they “believe in experiences over things, access over ownership, and living lighter rather than…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on a podcast with prominent anti-vaxxer – Recode

Kurt Wagner8 years ago06 mins

Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, and Amazon are all working to keep dangerous anti-vaccination rumors and hoaxes from getting attention. Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, unintentionally it seems, is doing the opposite. Dorsey, who has been on a media tear lately, sitting for interviews with lots of podcasters, tweeted on Tuesday that he had a “great conversation” with author…

Art Created Via Machine Learning Sells at Auction for £40,000 – DZone AI

Sarah Sinning8 years ago07 mins

“When you hear someone playing a piano, would you ever ask if the piano is the artist?” asks Mario Klingemann, an AI artist whose work Memories of Passerby I recently sold at auction for £40,000. Though his answer is ‘no,’ it may not actually be so simple, since instead of an inanimate machine, his medium…

Washington Post goes beyond cookie-based ad targeting with FeedBuilder – Business Insider

Lucia Moses8 years ago8 years ago08 mins

Cookie-based ad targeting that doesn’t work in a mobile-dominant world is being replaced by people-based advertising. The Washington Post is trying to get ahead of the trend with a new ad product, FeedBuilder, that creates multiple versions of an ad and then contextually targets them to people based on what they’re reading. The tech favors…

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Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm

Brand safety and viewability tags slow publisher sites – Digiday

Kickstarter Union Opposed by Senior Staffers: Leaked Memo

Amazon is blocking ads for unprofitable products

The Sharing Economy Was Always a Scam – OneZero

Washington Post goes beyond cookie-based ad targeting with FeedBuilder – Business Insider