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A pair of women ride a LimeBike scooter. Photo by the author The Bay Area serves as America’s sandbox. The tech world’s most far-fetched ideas are often sketched and tested here, and if they’re successful, they’ll spread throughout the country. The latest trend to materialize here is motorized scooters you can rent through an app….
Yesterday, Google confirmed a major redesign for Gmail was on the way. We’d seen drafts of a redesign dating back nearly a year ago and heard some descriptions of the new look, but after yesterday’s news, several sources shared images of the new design itself – including some new features. Other than the addition of…
Harry Roberts recently wrote a piece about how third parties can cripple your performance. In this article, I want to show you how it isn’t all doom and gloom: there are a number of strategies can be employed to deliver 3rd party scripts in a manner which limits their negative effects on performance.Running a site…
The “simple” act of initiating an HTTP request can incur many roundtrips before the actual request bytes are routed to the server: the browser may have to resolve the DNS name, perform the TCP handshake, and negotiate the TLS tunnel if a secure socket is required. All accounted for, that’s anywhere from one to three…
Over ten thousand people watched the second day of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying in front of Congress today on The Washington Post’s Twitch channel. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where it was discovered that the political data firm hired by President Trump gained access to private information of 50 million Facebook users, Mark Zuckerberg testified…
Our nation’s present uproar over the deleterious effects of social media on society and fretting about the decline of trusted news outlets is nothing new. What’s new is the fact that the straightforward ways to prop up the Real Journalism industry have never been more obvious. For two decades, professional thinkers—most of them employed in…
Graphic: Getty The vast majority of Facebook user data that was harvested by Cambridge Analytica came from Americans. But smaller countries are actually better at demonstrating just how big the problem got. Access to just 53 users in Australia reportedly allowed data firms to potentially capture information on over 310,000 people. According to data obtained…
CEO Sundar Pichai Photo: Eric Risberg (AP) A Department of Defense partnership has drawn ire from the Google’s employees, and thousands have now signed a petition urging CEO Sundar Pichai to shut it down. Google’s involvement in Project Maven, first reported last month by Gizmodo, was intended to help the Pentagon use artificial intelligence to…
close story-meta Photo Thousands of Google employees have signed a letter to Sundar Pichai, the company’s chief executive, protesting Google’s role in a program that could be used to improve drone strike targeting. Credit Michael Short/Bloomberg WASHINGTON — Thousands of Google employees, including dozens of senior engineers, have signed a letter protesting the company’s involvement…
Ingraham may have erred terribly in assailing a Parkland survivor, but she has the support of the man in charge of Fox News. ‘’Rupert has been annoyed by what he perceives as cowardly behavior by his executives,’’ says one person close to the mogul. react-text: 222 /react-text By Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images. When…