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I admit it: I’m an optimist. I wanted Elon Musk to show me a strong Mars plan with real finances and real life-support design. I was hoping he’d talked some of his billionaire friends into financing this Mars dream. I wanted the dream to be real. Optimists, of course, are frequently disappointed, which is why…
Buyer beware: It’s not just Samsung smartphones that are blowing up. The company’s washing machines are catching fire, too. On Sept. 28 the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a statement warning consumers about exploding washing machines from the Korean giant. The news comes just as Samsung struggles to manage a massive recall of…
We live in an era of increasing automation. Machines help us not only with manual labor but also with intellectual tasks, such as curating the news we read and calculating the best driving directions. But as machines make more decisions for us, it is increasingly important to understand the algorithms that produce their judgments. We’ve…
Technology has become more ubiquitous in the advertising industry than sneakers, beards and novelty T-shirts, but one commentator says that rather than be a boon for business all the wizardry’s actually proven a disaster. Author block Author block Controversial US Professor, David Carroll (pictured below), a specialist in media design from The New School’s Parsons, believes all the tech…
In presidential debates, there is really only one winner: Twitter. As Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton threw punch after punch during Monday’s first presidential debate, Twitter landed the deciding blows. (Well, Twitter and the fact-checkers.) It was hard to keep up during the most-tweeted debate ever, but we did our best to collect the…
Here at the Daily Dot—and around the web, really—it’s common to refer to “Twitter” as a unified whole. Twitter is freaking out over something. Twitter is roasting someone. Twitter is confused, overjoyed, outraged. But this ignores and even obscures the simple fact that Twitter has long been fractured into myriad cliques and cabals. There are…
This was supposed to be a rant about why it makes no sense for Salesforce to buy Twitter. But like the kids say, life comes at you fast*. So now we’re on to Disney. It’s not insane to imagine that Disney would think about maybe kinda taking a look at Twitter, as Bloomberg is reporting….
Today the PressForward team is pleased to announce the release of PressForward 4.1, an update to our WordPress plugin that enables the aggregation of RSS / ATOM feeds and the curation of web publications. Version 4.1 of PressForward serves as the first step toward the release of a complete PressForward Application Programming Interface (API). The…
CBS Interactive, Condé Nast, ESPN, Hearst and News Corp to anchor the cooperative of more than 25 magazine, TV, newspaper and native digital brands New York, NY—(September 26, 2016)—Digital Content Next (DCN), the only trade association exclusively dedicated to trusted, high-quality digital content brands, today announced the creation of a cooperative digital advertising marketplace, TrustX, designed to…
Although The Washington Post partners with Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP, which help speed mobile load times, it’s also striking out on its own.Over a two-month period, a team of Post engineers cobbled together a proprietary tech solution called Zeus that sped mobile page-load times by 75%. Viewability improved by 20% in current tests…