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| Feb 6, 2018 | League of Lawyers: Esports is creating a new class of white-collar jobs | Many old-school sports fans still might not take esports seriously. But the increased involvement of professional sports organizations such as the NBA, increased esports coverage on mainstream media, and increased regulation of leagues show... |
| Feb 6, 2018 | League of Lawyers: Esports is creating a new class of white-collar jobs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Many old-school sports fans still might not take esports seriously. But the increased involvement of professional sports organizations ... |
| Jun 20, 2017 | Nextdoor, now in 160,000 neighborhoods globally, expands to Germany | Nextdoor, the social network that connects you with people in your neighborhood, is taking another step up in its global growth, after launching in the Netherlands and the UK last year. Today, the company is opening for business in Germany,... |
| May 12, 2017 | Judge Threatens to Bar ‘Copyright Troll’ Cases Over Lacking IP-location Evidence | While relatively underreported, many U.S. district courts are still swamped with lawsuits against alleged film pirates.
The copyright holders who initiate these cases generally rely on an IP address as evidence. This information is collecte... |
| May 7, 2017 | Live concerts are music tech’s next frontier | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With recent speculation about Spotify soon going public (without an IPO) and the belated launch of Pandora Premium, the music streaming... |
| May 7, 2017 | Live concerts are music tech’s next frontier | With recent speculation about Spotify soon going public (without an IPO) and the belated launch of Pandora Premium, the music streaming space is increasingly nearing both maturity and saturation. The market is crowded by such giants as Appl... |
| May 7, 2017 | Real humans | Let’s pause for a moment, and take linguistic stock.
Technology has many societal impacts, but perhaps one of its most visibly evident is how the tools we use change how we communicate with each other — so, literally, how technology rewrite... |
| Apr 28, 2017 | Remote startup management from home: How to stay productive | How to stay productive and fight distractions
Managing your startup from home is not just about willpower. It’s also about making life as easy as possible, so that you can focus on work instead of resisting temptation.
Remote management is ... |
| Apr 20, 2017 | Damon Albarn Cut Every Reference to Trump on Gorillaz’s New Album | Gorillaz's first full-length project in seven years, Humanz, is out April 28. The four tracks we've heard from it so far—from January's "Hallelujah Money," released on the eve of Trump's inauguration, through the Vince Staples-fea... |
| Apr 7, 2017 | Revenge Pornster Craig Brittain Issues DMCA Notices Demanding Google Delist Entire Websites, Including Wikipedia | Former revenge porn site operator/lawyer impersonator Craig Brittain is once again engaged in some DMCA abuse. A couple of years ago, Brittain issued bogus DMCA notices in hopes of whitewashing his past. Along with posts at Popehat, Vice, H... |
| Mar 24, 2017 | Guy Who Wants Everyone To Believe He Created Bitcoin, Now Patenting Everything Bitcoin With An Online Gambling Fugitive | As you may recall, there was a giant fuss last year, when an Australian guy named Craig Wright not only claimed that he was “Satoshi Nakamoto” — the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin — but had convined key Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen tha... |
| Feb 3, 2017 | U.S. judge lifts gag order on WhatsApp subpoena | A federal judge in Brooklyn unsealed documents this week related to an investigation into a user of WhatsApp, the popular Facebook-owned messenger for smartphones.
The documents reveal a New York FBI agent used a grand jury subpoena to dema... |
| Feb 3, 2017 | U.S. judge lifts gag order on WhatsApp subpoena | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A federal judge in Brooklyn unsealed documents this week related to an investigation into a user of WhatsApp, the popular Facebook-owne... |
| Jan 23, 2017 | ‘WordPress for VR’: Meet the team trying to democratize virtual reality | At a recent workshop in Dumbo’s Made in NY Media Center, I expected to be a fish out of water. The class, dedicated to covering the basics of WebVR, an experimental JavaScript API for virtual reality on the web, was billed as catering to de... |
| Jan 20, 2017 | Policing For Dummies: DOJ/Baltimore PD Edition | Apologies to everyone in America. The Department of Justice can’t fix what’s wrong with the nation’s police departments. It’s up to those departments to make the changes and stick to them. There has to be a desire to change, otherwise all w... |
| Jan 18, 2017 | Do eight men really control the same wealth as the poorest half of the global population? | A new Oxfam Report has a number of startling claims about wealth inequality around the world – the world’s eight richest people control the same wealth as the poorest half of the globe’s population, Australia’s two richest billionaires are ... |
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| Jan 11, 2017 | YouTube improves video discovery by highlighting new talent on a weekly basis | YouTube announced today it’s making a change to a prominent video discovery feature on its site in order to showcase more videos made by newer creators and music artists. The company says that it will begin to highlight those video makers w... |
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| Jan 9, 2017 | Trolling as Politics: Online Harassment Under President Trump | In the month before the presidential election, soon-to-be First Lady Melania Trump announced her priority issue should her husband be elected President: cyberbullying. She apparently wasn’t joking. “Our culture has gotten too mean and too r... |
| Dec 27, 2016 | Dumbo prototyping firm Breakfast raises $36,000 for a political statement ring | After the presidential election, several of Hillary Clinton’s supporters refashioned the safety pin as a symbol of political protest (taking a page from those in the U.K. who oppose Brexit). And as many fashion trends do, the statement went... |
| Dec 11, 2016 | Once-Hot Yik Yak Lays Off 60% of Employees | The Verge reports that Yik Yak, an anonymous messaging app that swept college campuses in 2014 and 2015, has laid off about 50 workers, leaving only about 20. Yik Yak told The Verge the layoffs amounted to 60% of staff.
Layoffs were reporte... |
| Dec 10, 2016 | Anonymous messaging app Yik Yak lays off 60% of employees | The Verge reports that Yik Yak, an anonymous messaging app that swept college campuses in 2014 and 2015, has laid off about 50 workers, leaving only about 20. Yik Yak told The Verge the layoffs amounted to 60% of staff.
Layoffs were reporte... |
| Dec 10, 2016 | Anonymous messaging app Yik Yak lays off 60% of employees | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Verge reports that Yik Yak, an anonymous messaging app that swept college campuses in 2014 and 2015, has laid off about 50 workers,... |
| Nov 30, 2016 | 3 Biggest Threats to Your Tech Startup in 2017 and How to Fight Them | On Facebook and Twitter, via newspapers and blogs, or just over a coffee during the office’s morning break – every day we’re bombarded with a ton of news, and it’s rarely ever good.
Whether it’s Brexit pulling all our jobs out from under ou... |
| Nov 16, 2016 | When bias in product design means life or death | Carol E. Reiley Contributor
Carol E. Reiley is the co-founder and president of Drive.ai. She previously founded Tinkerbelle Laboratories.
During my Ph.D. studies, I developed a voice-activated human-robot interface for a surgical robotic sy... |
| Nov 15, 2016 | Twitter expands reporting and mute feature to curb abuse | Harassment on Twitter is so prevalent now that it's one of the reasons Disney declined to buy it
With Facebook and Google both coming under fire in the last week over false news about the election and its results, the general public seems r... |
| Nov 13, 2016 | Defining our relationship with early AI | Andrew Heikkila Contributor
Andrew Heikkila is a tech enthusiast and writer from Boise, Idaho.
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Technology, happiness on demand and the absurd human condition
Defining our relationship with early AI
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| Nov 13, 2016 | How President Trump could abuse big data and the surveillance state | Jon Stokes Contributor
Jon Stokes is one of the founders of Ars Technica, an author, and a former Wired editor. He currently hacks ruby at Collective Idea, and runs AllOutdoor.com.
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How President Trump could ab... |
| Nov 4, 2016 | Deportation harms the health of children who are left behind | It was just another day at the pediatrics clinic where I work. My next patient was a 7-year-old, here for his annual checkup. As I walked into the exam room, he was perched precariously at the edge of the examining table, staring at the gro... |
| Nov 2, 2016 | Does a pudgy ‘dad bod’ really make men live longer? Here’s the science | |
| Oct 24, 2016 | PINAC Director Sues Miami Beach Mayor Over Refusal To Release Social Media Blocklists | Executive director of Photography is Not a Crime (PINAC) Grant Stern is taking Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine to court over public records request denials. As Fusion’s Ethan Chiel reports, the mayor has been busy blocking critics on both T... |
| Oct 13, 2016 | BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
VentureBeat’s Bots Channel tracks the most important news and analysis from the exploding field of bots and messaging. Each week, we se... |
| Oct 12, 2016 | The Impossible Foods burger heads West | Impossible Foods makes its West Coast debut today, starting with Jardiniere and Cockscomb in San Francisco and Crossroads Kitchen in Los Angeles.
The startup, which has a whopping $182 million in venture capital so far for its plant-based b... |
| Oct 11, 2016 | Google acquires FameBit to connect YouTube creators with marketers | Google just announced that it has acquired FameBit, a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
This could be an important step for Google’s YouTube, where monetization has been a big concern... |
| Oct 9, 2016 | 'Grab Them By The P- - -y' Proves Donald Trump Has Zero Respect for Women | It’s a crucial time for Donald Trump to start courting the woman vote in earnest, but the last way he’s going to achieve that is to “grab them by the p—y.”
On Friday afternoon, the Washington Post published a 2005 recording of Trump talking... |
| Oct 6, 2016 | Ex-NSA Hacker Creates Tool To Warn You Of Webcam Spies | Do you cover your webcam with tape?
There was a time when the only people doing that were paranoid hackers or security researchers worried about leaving that little digital eye always exposed. But when Mark Zuckerberg posted a picture on hi... |
| Oct 4, 2016 | Judge: Vague IP-Address Evidence is Not Enough to Expose BitTorrent ‘Pirates’ | While relatively underreported, many U.S. district courts are still swamped with lawsuits against alleged film pirates.
The copyright holders who initiate these cases generally rely on an IP address as evidence. This information is collecte... |
| Sep 26, 2016 | Beyond Verbal wants to use virtual assistants to detect disease by analyzing your voice | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced a $3 billion plan to cure, prevent, or manage “all diseases in our c... |
| Sep 26, 2016 | Beyond Verbal wants to use virtual assistants to detect disease by analyzing your voice | Last week, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced a $3 billion plan to cure, prevent, or manage “all diseases in our children’s lifetime.”
For the past two years, a startup called Beyond Verbal has been working on disease d... |
| Sep 23, 2016 | Tech Investors Don't Understand Quality or Diversity | Joah Spearman is a startup founder in Austin, Texas. You can find out more about his company, Localeur, here. You can find more guest posts from Austin entrepreneurs, investors and operators here, on our sister site, Austin Inno.
I want to ... |
| Sep 23, 2016 | What Twitter Learned the Hard Way About the 'Quality Filter' | Joah Spearman is a startup founder in Austin, Texas. You can find out more about his company, Localeur, here. You can find more guest posts from Austin entrepreneurs, investors and operators here, on our sister site, Austin Inno.
I want to ... |
| Sep 23, 2016 | Tech Investors Love Winners, Even if They're Losers | Joah Spearman is a startup founder in Austin, Texas. You can find out more about his company, Localeur, here. You can find more guest posts from Austin entrepreneurs, investors and operators here, on our sister site, Austin Inno.
I want to ... |
| Sep 20, 2016 | Terence Crutcher’s shooting was absent from Facebook Trends | Facebook said 53,000 people were talking about Terence Crutcher’s death by police, but instead it showed me Trends about Xbox, a Game Of Thrones actor, and New Jersey’s governor, even though they all had less chatter.
[Update 3:45pm PT: As ... |
| Sep 18, 2016 | Don’t just pardon Edward Snowden; give the man a medal | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Sep 16, 2016 | Rigged mobile game lets you gerrymander political districts to steal elections | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Game publisher Hitcents and media site Fusion have launched Rigged, a mobile game about gerrymandering political districts in order to ... |
| Sep 16, 2016 | Rigged mobile game lets you gerrymander political districts to steal elections | Game publisher Hitcents and media site Fusion have launched Rigged, a mobile game about gerrymandering political districts in order to steal elections.
If anything, the free-to-play iOS and Android title is timely as the U.S. presidential e... |
| Sep 12, 2016 | Instagram now lets everyone filter comments using blocklists, will show friends’ comments first | Instagram today is rolling out a feature to all its users that will allow everyone to decide for themselves how they want to moderate comments on the photo-sharing service. First launched for business accounts in July, the social network is... |
| Sep 9, 2016 | Ted Cruz Still Blatantly Misrepresenting Internet Governance Transition | Just a few months ago, we wrote up a decently long post explaining why the upcoming “transition” of a piece of internet governance away from the US government was both a good thing and not a big deal. You can read those two posts on it, but... |
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| Sep 1, 2016 | Facebook and Discovering Your Sensitive Contacts in Two Easy Steps | Recently, Zeynep Tufekci highlighted an article by Kashmir Hill regarding a particularly severe privacy problem. Facebook, like all social networks, uses a "people you may know" suggestion mechanism in order to grow connections am... |
| Sep 1, 2016 | Can We Stop Pretending Donald Trump's Speeches Are Interesting? | On Wednesday, Donald Trump got up before an audience in Phoenix and gave a much-ballyhooed speech on his immigration policy. Notably, the Republican presidential candidate—actually, you know what? Fuck this.
For the past few months, Trump's... |
| Sep 1, 2016 | At Pear Demo Day, 13 companies to watch | As dozens of Teslas baked in the sprawling Palo Alto parking lot of a local law firm yesterday, 100 top investors packed into a high-ceilinged meeting room. There, they listened as 13 startups deliver four-minute presentations about why the... |
| Aug 31, 2016 | Evan Williams isn't shutting the door on Twitter acquisition | The co-founder, and former CEO, said Twitter would "have to consider the right options"
Editor's note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark ... |
| Aug 19, 2016 | Digging Into Walmart’s Deal for Jet.com | Wal-Mart (WMT) last week announced plans to acquire Jet.com, an e-commerce startup founded just two years ago by the former head of Quidsi (a.k.a. Diapers.com, which is now owned by Amazon). The retail giant said it would pay $3 billion in ... |
| Aug 16, 2016 | Univision wins auction to acquire Gawker Media | Univision has won the auction to acquire Gawker Media’s websites and business.
Recode broke the news, reporting the acquisition price was $135 million and would cover all seven of Gawker’s websites. The company’s founder Nick Denton confirm... |
| Aug 15, 2016 | Jason Calacanis has a fix for Twitter's harassment problem | He suggests rewarding accounts for being verified, and blocking Tweets from accounts that aren't
One of the reasons, in my opinion, that Twitter has had problems with user growth is that people don't feel safe on the platform. This issue ha... |
| Aug 15, 2016 | 5 chatbots worth trying this week: Smart Notes, Jimmie, Machaao, Stay Woke, and Cleo | This week we look at bots to automate activism, gamify task reminders, connect with people near you on Facebook Messenger, and more.
Send Stay Woke your state name and it will reply with a tweet that includes the name of U.S. senators and s... |
| Aug 15, 2016 | 5 chatbots worth trying this week: Smart Notes, Jimmie, Machaao, Stay Woke, and Cleo | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This week we look at bots to automate activism, g... |
| Aug 12, 2016 | 3 Reasons Why the #SaveTwitter Hoax Was So Believable | On Tuesday, a rumor circulated around Twitter that the popular social media company was shutting its doors. In a whirlwind of panic, trolling, and overall social media chaos, the hoax spun out of control with help from a trending hashtag, #... |
| Aug 8, 2016 | Is a $3 Billion Sale a Failure? | This morning’s big deal news is the official tie-up of Wal-Mart (WMT) and Jet.com. Buying Jet “accelerates our progress” toward giving customers what they want, according to Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon. Under this deal, “The seamless shoppin... |
| Aug 8, 2016 | Will DNC Email Hacking Make Legislators More Friendly To Encryption? | Kashmir Hill is asking an interesting question over at Fusion: in the wake of Democratic National Committee email hacking, will political leaders start scaling back their war on encryption? |
| Aug 7, 2016 | 'Faceless Recognition System' Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face | With widespread adoption among law enforcement, advertisers, and even churches, face recognition has undoubtedly become one of the biggest threats to privacy out there.
By itself, the ability to instantly identify anyone just by seeing thei... |
| Aug 2, 2016 | State Supreme Court Says Secret Software Used In Sentencing Determinations Not A Violation Of Due Process Rights | An algorithm is deciding certain criminal defendants should spend more time in prison. And that determination can’t be fully challenged because the code belongs to a private company which provides the software to the government. |
| Aug 1, 2016 | Zika in 30 Seconds: Archives (Feb – April) | Friday, April 29 The big news right now
The Senate left for recess without wrapping up a Zika funding deal (the Atlantic)
Quest Diagnostics says it has received emergency authorization from the FDA to sell its Zika virus test (Reuters)
Zika... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | This interracial dating app is about more than love | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After being selected for Y Combinator’s 2014 class and working on creating an artificial intelligence-fueled chatbot, Vu Tran decided t... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | This interracial dating app is about more than love | After being selected for Y Combinator’s 2014 class and working on creating an artificial intelligence-fueled chatbot, Vu Tran decided three months ago to scrap that project and create Color Dating, an app for interracial dating. It’s been s... |
| Jul 29, 2016 | 5 tips for building the next great chatbot | Most chatbots today are a simple one-and-done. Out of curiosity and excitement, they draw a crowd. People play with them temporarily, only to disregard them minutes later.
Instead of being wowed or walking away in a state of awe, people are... |
| Jul 24, 2016 | How chatbots and A.I. will change the future | Imagine if everything around you was connected and A.I.-enabled.
Ordering at your favorite restaurants would be as simple as sending them a text. Your dry cleaner would know exactly when to pick up your laundry without you uttering a word. ... |
| Jul 22, 2016 | Police Request For 3D-Printed Fingers To Unlock A Murder Victim's Smartphone | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 22 July 2016, 04:07 am
The list of applications for 3D printing has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years as more users and companies have adopted the technology.
Among the recently reported projects inv... |
| Jul 22, 2016 | Police want to use 3D fingerprint replicas to access murder victim’s iPhone | A few months ago, Apple was embroiled in a high-publicized legal battle with the FBI over mobile security. If you recall, the controversy began after Apple refused to create a custom version of iOS that would have enabled authorities to byp... |
| Jul 20, 2016 | This Donald Trump chatbot is great… really, really great. It’s unbelievable. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
There may be an app and (pretty soon) a bot for j... |
| Jul 20, 2016 | This Donald Trump chatbot is great… really, really great. It’s unbelievable. | There may be an app and (pretty soon) a bot for just about everything, but this might be a first. SapientX, a company that has been in stealth mode for the last year, has created chatbots for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that provide wo... |
| Jul 19, 2016 | Twitter finally bans Milo Yiannopoulos, one of its most notorious trolls | Twitter has permanently suspended Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor at the conservative news outlet Breitbart and one of its most notorious trolls.
The expulsion of Yiannopoulos, who counted more than 300,000 followers on the service, comes just... |
| Jul 19, 2016 | Twitter opens verified accounts, starts taking applications | Less than one percent of all Twitter accounts are currently verified, so your chances are slim
Twitter has been suffering with a user growth problem for so long now that it has likely led many to forget some of the platform's real strengths... |
| Jul 17, 2016 | Why metadata should not live forever | Nico Sell Contributor
Nico Sell is the founder of Wickr Foundation, and co-founder and co-chairman at Wickr -- a self-destructing, secure, private, anonymous messaging service.
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| Jul 14, 2016 | From dealing death to herding cattle, robots report for duty | The use of a robot fitted with explosives to kill Micah Johnson, the gunman who shot 12 Dallas police officers last week, is spurring debate about the legal and ethical implications of such technology in law enforcement.
Yet the incident is... |
| Jul 13, 2016 | Digital toxic waste (or why metadata shouldn’t live forever) | Nico Sell Contributor
Nico Sell is the founder of Wickr Foundation, and co-founder and co-chairman at Wickr -- a self-destructing, secure, private, anonymous messaging service.
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| Jul 5, 2016 | Innclusive wants to tackle Airbnb’s race problem | Accounts of racial discrimination against Black Airbnb users have dogged the online vacation rental giant.
In fact, the topic was front and center at Airbnb’s annual tech conference last month and at a recent invitation-only meeting convene... |
| Jul 4, 2016 | 5 bots that could change democracy | You may have heard about the Donald Trump bot army and the Twitter bots that have influenced elections in Latin America, but there are other bots out there, bots that connect citizens to services, bots that plan to crowdsource the election ... |
| Jul 4, 2016 | 5 bots that could change democracy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You may have heard about the Donald Trump bot arm... |
| Jun 29, 2016 | Facebook says it’s not using location data to suggest friends, even after admitting it was | OK Facebook, you really need to make up your mind about what you say in public. And it would probably be a lot easier if you didn’t sneak certain features past your customers. The social network recently admitted to using smartphone locatio... |
| Jun 29, 2016 | Facebook Allegedly Tracks Phones' Location To Serve Friend Suggestions: How To Turn This Off | Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 29 June 2016, 02:06 am
Facebook is taking it to the next level with the "people you may know" suggestions, now tapping into your phone's location data.
Simply put, if at some point you were in the sam... |
| Jun 28, 2016 | Facebook says it’s not making friend suggestions based on your location after all | Does Facebook suggest new friends based on your location? The answer seems to change day by day.
Yesterday, Fusion reported that Facebook uses location data to make friend suggestions and pointed out that this could lead to unfortunate priv... |
| Jun 28, 2016 | Facebook is tracking your phone’s location to recommend friends | You know who doesn’t like to be spied? Mark Zuckerberg. That’s probably why he covers with tape both the camera and microphone of his Mac. Ironically, though, Facebook does some spying of its own. A new report shows that the giant social ne... |
| Jun 22, 2016 | Could sensor technology determine the future of the NFL? | Larry Alton Contributor
Larry Alton is an independent business consultant specializing in social media trends, business and entrepreneurship.
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Just how vulnerable is election technology?
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| Jun 22, 2016 | Fake Satoshi Nakamoto Trying To Patent All Sorts Of Bitcoin Related Ideas | Earlier this week I got knocked out by some pretty serious food poisoning. The few times I would try to do some work or pop in on Twitter, all I was seeing was people mocking the London Review of Books’ somewhat insane 35,000-word-long prof... |
| Jun 22, 2016 | Firm pays $950,000 penalty for using Wi-Fi signals to secretly track phone users | Intel Free Press reader comments 62 with 50 posters participating, including story author
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| Jun 1, 2016 | Blockchain Evangelists Plot Retreat to Richard Branson's Island | Richard Branson’s private island in the Caribbean is set to host yet another blockchain-focused gathering, drawing a range of guests from around the world including the former prime minister of Haiti and a member of the European Union Parli... |
| May 29, 2016 | Venezuelans Are Fighting Their Government With Photos of Their Empty Fridges | Venezuela is hangry. With a 700 percent inflation rate brought on by low oil prices and reckless monetary policy, even basic ingredients like flour have become too expensive for the average Venezuelan. Not surprisingly, bread lines, looting... |
| May 26, 2016 | Yes, A Billionaire Looking To Destroy A Media Organization Through Lawsuits Is A Big Deal Even If You Don't Like The Media Organization | So I had thought that our post yesterday about Peter Thiel allegedly financing Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker would be the only time we posted about that story, but a few things have happened that seem to merit a further post. First, T... |
| May 17, 2016 | Nirav Tolia: Nextdoor has a responsibility to stop profiling | Discrimination is completely counter to the company's mission of making strong, safer, neighborhoods
Nextdoor is a company that has a laudable mission: to bring neighbors closer together. Sadly, there has been another, less savory aspect to... |
| May 4, 2016 | Geotargeted Facebook Ads Used By Senator To Target The Dept. Of Interior | By now, most people are aware that Facebook advertisements can be quite targeted in nature, whether by age, gender, or location. Most people also are aware of the level of spending by politicians and government for Facebook ads to get their... |
| Apr 29, 2016 | Waze Addresses 'Severe Misconceptions' Following Hacking And Tracking Claim: No, You're Not Being Stalked | Horia Ungureanu, Tech Times 29 April 2016, 09:04 am
A recent report showed that Waze usere are being vulnerable to stalking via an exploit, but Waze now explains that the danger can be easily circumvented.
A team of UC Santa Barbara researc... |
| Apr 28, 2016 | Waze downplays exploit that let researchers track users | Waze has responded to security concerns raised yesterday in a Fusion report documenting an exploit found by UC Santa Barbara researchers. In short: it’s legit, but not as dire as it’s made out to be.
The exploit leverages the Waze feature t... |
| Apr 27, 2016 | Vulnerability In Popular Waze Navigation App Could Let Hackers Stalk You In Real Time | Menchie Mendoza, Tech Times 27 April 2016, 10:04 am
A team of researchers at the University of California-Santa Barbara has revealed that hackers can use a vulnerability found in the Waze app to create an infinite number of "ghost driv... |