Twitter Takes Steps To Combat Stolen Nudes And Revenge Porn
The company issued new rules that prohibit uploading nonconsensual nudes and says it will lock the accounts of users who have posted them. Image: Twitter Twitter is cracking down on the scourge of...
View ArticleA Racist Troll Is Impersonating Me On Twitter And Twitter Isn't Doing...
It doesn’t bode well for their new anti-harassment initiative. Last night around 10 p.m., just before I went to bed, I received a series of tweets and emails from people I've never met before,...
View Article23andMe Will Now Use Your DNA To Develop Drugs On Its Own
The genetic testing company is becoming a pharmaceutical company too. 23andMe Co-Founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki Kimberly White / Getty Images Drug developers are paying millions to tap into the massive...
View ArticleApple Toughens Up Rules For Medical Research Apps
Apps have to make sure participants know what they’re getting themselves into. Apple Senior Vice President of Operations Jeff Williams announces ResearchKit onstage during an Apple special event at...
View ArticleThe Whisper Campaign That Torched A Guardian Story
The Guardian went too far in its claims of what Whisper could do and was doing. But so too, it seems, did Whisper. View Video › whisper.sh Yesterday, Guardian US was forced to print a doozy of a...
View ArticleYouTube Now Supports 360-Degree Videos
It is cool as heck. Via youtube.com YouTube is now an immersive video platform. On Friday, the streaming site enabled native support for 360-degree video, giving users the ability to upload clips that...
View ArticleSomeday, Doctors Could Prescribe You Video Games For Your Brain
This video game could actually be a medical therapy. Researchers are testing it in patients with cognitive disorders, like simultaneous autism and ADHD, although skeptics question so-called “brain...
View ArticleState Department Finally Cleans Malware From Emails Four Months After Hack
The move is an effort to sweep out the last traces of malware left over from a hack last fall with suspected Russian ties. Luis M. Alvarez / AP WASHINGTON — The State Department said Friday it was...
View ArticleTwitter Chokes Off Meerkat's Access To Its Social Network
Twitter cut off Meerkat’s viral lifeline — the social graph Twitter is cutting off Meerkat's ability to port people's social networks over from Twitter to its own service--the so-called social graph....
View ArticleUber Has Been Effectively Broken For Blind iPhone Users Since January
For more than six weeks, the ride-hailing app has been difficult — and in some cases impossible — to access for a group of people that relies on it heavily. Accessibility activists say they’ve...
View ArticleA DNA Testing Company Is Asking Its Users About #TheDress
23andMe is trying to understand the DNA behind the debate. 23andMe.com / Via 23andMe The genetic testing company 23andMe is polling its users about #TheDress in the hopes of figuring out how our genes...
View ArticleFacebook Explains What It Bans And Why
The social network updates community guidelines on hate speech, revenge porn, and bullying. AP Photo/Press Trust of India Facebook overhauled its Community Standards on Monday, clarifying how it...
View ArticleApple Will Open iPhone Trade-In Program To Android, BlackBerry
Soon you’ll be able to trade in your old Android or BlackBerry handset for credit toward a new iPhone. Google, Apple Android users looking to make the jump to iPhone will soon have one more incentive...
View ArticleUber CFO Brent Callinicos Is Stepping Down
The two-year veteran will stay on as an advisor. Eric Risberg / AP Brent Callinicos is stepping down as CFO of Uber, the ride-hailing company said Monday. Callanicos, who oversaw Uber's finances...
View ArticleHow I Learned To Love Apple's $10,000 Watch: Astride An $1,800 Personal Scooter
It’s the triumph of luxury come to the world of consumer electronics. Apple The most strident reaction to last week's debutante ball for the Apple Watch wasn't, as you might have expected, excitement...
View ArticleTwitter Is Limiting Porn In Top Search Results
Users can still tweet adult images and links, but “Top” searches for terms like “#porn” and “#vagina” draw very few results. Update: Twitter tells BuzzFeed News the limited search results seem to the...
View ArticleFacebook Aims Its Guns At Venmo, Launches Money Transfers
Users will now be able to send money to friends via Facebook’s chat feature, putting the company in direct competition with Venmo and other mobile money apps. Facebook / Via newsroom.fb.com Watch out...
View Article17 Things People Who Are Addicted To Meerkat Are Sick Of Hearing
SMH if you’re not a thinkfluencer using the latest in social video livestreaming, you might as well just get a flip phone. "Meerkat? Never heard of it." Let me guess – you aren't a thinkfluencer, eh?...
View ArticleWith Windows 10, Microsoft Looks To China For Growth
The operating system update will launch in 190 countries, and allows people with pirated versions of its products to upgrade. Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Satya Nadella Jason Redmond / Reuters After...
View ArticleThis Startup Is Designing Yeast To Make Brand-New Scents, Flavors
Rose perfume, the smell of fresh-cut grass, cosmetics: It’s all part of the brave new world of synthetic biology. Operators at Ginkgo shuttle samples between workstations on the foundry floor....
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