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During a time of rising racial tension, ham-fisted tweets and in-app moments of silence don’t cut it. By Max Becherer/A.P. Images. Last weekend, protesters gathered to rally at the Baton Rouge police department, the Louisiana State Capitol, and the convenience store where, days earlier, 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a black man, was shot at point-blank range…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” America’s Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer The head of the project hoped the machine would help bring about world peace. Google Metadata Dr. Samuel H. Caldwell (standing) went on to create the Sinotype in 1959, ten years after this photograph was taken AP…
Sam Kronick has a bunch of rocks arrayed in front of him on a raised desk in his Oakland studio. He’s an artist and his plan is to sketch the rocks, but not with pen and paper. He and his artistic partner Tara Shi are going to do a 3D scan of them so that…
On a Friday in February, a visitor to the website 4chan posted child porn photos to the “international” channel. 4chan may be notorious for the offensive images that get posted there, but it turns out there are limits even on that free-wheeling board. According to a police affidavit, 4chan flagged the post, recorded the Internet…
Apple promises that your iMessage conversations are safe and out of reach from anyone other than you and your friends. But according to a document obtained by The Intercept, your blue-bubbled texts do leave behind a log of which phone numbers you are poised to contact and shares this (and other potentially sensitive metadata) with law enforcement when compelled by…
Sept. 27, 2016 6:40 p.m. ET Speaking to advertising executives on Tuesday, Facebook Inc. FB 0.01 % executives downplayed controversy over the company’s miscalculation of a video metric and called for ad buyers to focus on metrics tied to business outcomes. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the social network had been overestimating…
The demise of Blackberry’s handset making division follows efforts to compete with other smartphones. The Canadian company released its first Android smartphone last year, which was followed with the Dtek50 this summer, billed as “the world’s most secure Android smartphone”. However, it has failed to reverse a trend of falling revenues since 2010, when the company was at its…
Surrounded by a swirl of controversy after published reports connected him to an alt-right political organization, the 24-year-old Oculus exec has issued a statement saying he’s sorry his actions “are negatively impacting the perception of Oculus and his partners.” A post on Luckey’s Facebbook page appeared late Friday night, denoting the amount of money he…
SpaceX plans to build a “self-sustaining city” on Mars, according to its founder Elon Musk. But, while we now know a lot more about how SpaceX plans to get to Mars, details about how people will actually survive up there remain sketchy. Musk dropped the news on Tuesday during an address at the International Astronautical…
Even among tech companies, whose product announcements are geared to be grandiose, Elon Musk’s Mars-colonization rollout feels like something new. In a video shared Tuesday at a space exploration conference in Guadalajara, Musk outlined his plan: Before this century is out, a small team of humans will open a spacecraft door, step onto red ground…