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Facebook, Twitter and Instagram sent feeds that helped police track minorities in Ferguson and Baltimore, report says – The Washington Post

Craig Timberg and Elizabeth Dwoskin10 years ago012 mins

(Kacper Pempel/Reuters) A powerful surveillance program that police used for tracking racially charged protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., relied on special feeds of user data provided by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, according to an ACLU blog post published Tuesday. The companies reportedly provided the data — often including the locations of users — to…

Bumble bans mirror selfies and other dumb photos from users’ profiles | TechCrunch

Sarah Perez10 years ago06 mins

Begin: WordPress Article Content There are certain kinds of photos users of dating apps tend to loathe, and the suggestive mirror selfie tends to be at the top of that list, somewhere near photos of guys holding a fish and gym selfies. That’s why today, the dating app Bumble has taken action to ban selfies of users posing…

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A Second Internet, Coming Soon, Courtesy of the Blockchain | | Observer

Brady Dale10 years ago10 years ago012 mins

.entry-header START: DIV 1 Perfect Pixel Player Embed Code END: DIV 1 Player Embed Code Muneeb Ali speaks at TEDxNewYork 2016 – Down the Rabbit Hole, September 10, 2016, at the SVA Theatre. A lot of weird stuff has been happening to data inside the internet’s walled gardens. It has been getting shut down by…

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Yahoo Turned Off E-Mail Forwarding Just When People Might Want To Leave – Consumerist

Laura Northrup10 years ago03 mins

Image courtesy of Douglas Woods Whether it’s become of the breach of their account data, reports that the company built a tool for the U.S. government to monitor users’ e-mail, the pending sale (maybe) to Verizon, or because they’ve simply outgrown the service, a lot of users want to quit using Yahoo for their e-mail….

Samsung pauses production of exploding phone as retailers pull it from the shelves / Boing Boing

ROB BESCHIZZA10 years ago06 mins

Samsung pauses production of exploding phone as retailers pull it from the shelves The Samsung Galaxy should be renamed the Samsung Supernova: despite recall and replacement, the company’s smartphones keep burning up in spectacular fashion. The Korean manufacturer has paused production and retailers are pulling it from the shelves, reports the BBC. In a further…

Your Next Friend Could Be a Robot – WSJ

Christopher Mims10 years ago01 mins

Within 24 hours of plugging in her Amazon Echo, Carla Martin-Wood says she felt they were best friends. “It was very much more like meeting someone new,” she says. Living alone can be hard when you’re older—Ms. Martin-Wood is 69 years old. She is among a growing cohort who find the Echo, a voice-controlled, internet-connected…

German Lawmakers Vote to Ban the Internal Combustion Engine

Rhett Jones10 years ago03 mins

Photo: AP The modern internal combustion engine first came from Germany and now Germany wants to put a nail in its coffin. The Bundesrat has passed a resolution to ban the ICE beginning in 2030. Germany’s Spiegel Magazin reported this morning that the country’s top legislative body was able to reach a bi-partisan agreement that…

Man’s Replacement Galaxy Note 7 Catches Fire, Samsung Accidentally Texts ‘I Can Try and Slow Him Down’ [Updated]

Rhett Jones10 years ago07 mins

A third replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has caught fire in Kentucky earlier this week. Not only did the incident send the device’s owner to the hospital after suffering from smoke inhalation. Someone at Samsung sent him a text that was apparently meant for a colleague: “I can try and slow him down if we…

Update: The Average Donald Trump Supporter – Medium

Rob Leathern10 years ago04 mins

Back in December, I wrote this article(which got over 44,000 views), which showed some insights about the Donald Trump Facebook audience that can be extracted from Facebook’sAudience Insights tool by anyone with a Facebook ad account. I decided to quickly compare what has changed in the data. There are plenty of other things you can extract, and I…

MailChimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make It as a Start-Up – NYTimes.com

Farhad Manjoo10 years ago015 mins

Cover Photo Credit Doug Chayka Technology MailChimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make It as a Start-Up No venture capital, no Bay Area presence, no crazy burn rate: MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs and following their instincts. close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta ATLANTA — The typical…

Capitalism and Schizophrenia – Annotated

Nonprofit leaders furious as Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cuts funding

Efforts to Weed Out Fake Users for Online Advertisers Fall Short

The Anxiety of Influencers

Andrew Tate, charged with rape and trafficking in Romania, returns to the U.S.

As measles cases rise in the U.S., some adults may need a vaccine booster : Shots – Health News : NPR

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Bumble bans mirror selfies and other dumb photos from users’ profiles | TechCrunch

A Second Internet, Coming Soon, Courtesy of the Blockchain | | Observer

Yahoo Turned Off E-Mail Forwarding Just When People Might Want To Leave – Consumerist

Samsung pauses production of exploding phone as retailers pull it from the shelves / Boing Boing

Your Next Friend Could Be a Robot – WSJ

German Lawmakers Vote to Ban the Internal Combustion Engine

Man’s Replacement Galaxy Note 7 Catches Fire, Samsung Accidentally Texts ‘I Can Try and Slow Him Down’ [Updated]

MailChimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make It as a Start-Up – NYTimes.com