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John Gilmore, an American entrepreneur and civil libertarian, once famously quipped that “the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” This notion undoubtedly rings true for those who see national governments as the principal threats to free speech. However, events of the past week have convinced me that one of the fastest-growing…
Updated Sept. 24, 2016 9:56 a.m. ET IN AN UNMARKED BUILDING on a quiet side street just off the beach in Venice, California, 26-year-old Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel stands in a small conference room. He’s draped a towel over a mysterious object sitting on a table. He is eager to the point of jitters. “You…
Hey everyone — there have been questions about Chris Ziegler and his absence from The Verge in the past few weeks. I want to provide answers for those who have been worried about him. First, Chris accepted a position at Apple. We wish him well. Second, the circumstances of Chris’ departure from The Verge raised…
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has secretly been spending some of his Facebook millions on funding an unofficial Donald Trump supporters group that “shitposts” anti-Hillary Clinton memes and images. In a report tonight on The Daily Beast, 24-year-old Luckey is revealed as a financial backer for Nimble America, an organization that promotes Trump in the forthcoming presidential election…
On Tuesday evening, KrebsOnSecurity.com was the target of an extremely large and unusual distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack designed to knock the site offline. The attack did not succeed thanks to the hard work of the engineers at Akamai, the company that protects my site from such digital sieges. But according to Akamai, it was nearly double the…
Updated Feb. 25, 2015 4:02 p.m. ET Google Inc. nurtured YouTube into a cultural phenomenon, attracting more than one billion users each month. Still, YouTube hasn’t become a profitable business. The online-video unit posted revenue of about $4 billion in 2014, up from $3 billion a year earlier, according to two people familiar with its financials,…
YouTube Heroes is a program designed to recognize and reward the global community of volunteer contributors. The volunteers help create the best possible YouTube experience for everyone by: Heroes also unlock exclusive rewards along the way. The YouTube Heroes program is offered everywhere YouTube is available. Subscribe to the YouTube Help channel for video tips, tricks,…
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Image: Gizmodo / Google People use their phones for messaging more than almost anything else. That’s why companies like Apple, Facebook, and Snapchat are dumping truckloads into making it easier and more fun to send messages. In May at I/O, Google announced Allo, its latest foray into the brave new world of messaging. Now, the…
The car you rented from Turo for the day You quit your day job last week. The time was right to drop everything and pursue your passion. You aren’t meant to work for someone else. You’re too smart. The time is right for you to start a company. You floundered at a 500-person company for two…