Post Overview
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Analysis
7 years ago
+19 19 0Facebook is set to launch its own smart home device next week
Portal is the company's first device outside of Oculus.
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Current Event
7 years ago
+8 8 0House of Commons unanimously votes to call Myanmar Rohingya killings a genocide
In a rare show of unanimity, MPs on Thursday agreed to call the campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in Myanmar an act of genocide. Liberal MP Andrew Leslie, who is parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs, rose followi ...
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Current Event
7 years ago
+15 15 040 billion phone calls predicted in 2019, half expected to be scams
A new study predicts 2019 will see 40 billion mobile phone calls, but they also expect about half of those to be from scammers. Tech company First Orion recently announced scammers are picking up efforts in their 2018 Scam Call Trends and Projections ...
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Analysis
7 years ago
+21 21 0IBM launches bias detector for AI
IBM is launching software which will monitor algorithms in real time and highlight how they make decisions.
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Analysis
7 years ago
+18 18 0Do we trust people who speak with an accent?
You are in a strange neighbourhood, your cell phone’s dead, and you desperately need to find the closest garage. A couple of people on the street chime in, each sending you in opposite directions. One person sounds like a local and speaks in a noncha ...
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Current Event
7 years ago
+13 13 0Mysterious great white shark lair discovered in Pacific Ocean
A scientific mission into the secret ocean lair of California’s great white sharks has provided tantalizing clues into a vexing mystery — why the fearsome predators spend winter and spring in what has long appeared to be an empty void in the deep sea ...
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Current Event
7 years ago
+31 31 0 x 1Germany launches world's first hydrogen-powered train
Two trains built by the French train maker Alstom are now operating on a 62 mile stretch of line in northern Germany
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Current Event
7 years ago
+12 12 0U.S. reduces refugee ceiling to 30,000 for 2019
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the U.S. will limit refugee admission to 30,000 in 2019, down from 45,000 in 2018. When Trump took office, the refugee cap stood at 110,000. The new age of automation is building global momentum mu ...
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Analysis
7 years ago
+28 28 0 x 1Instagram Shopping gets personalized Explore channel, Stories tags
Instagram is embracing its true identity as a mail-order catalog. The question will be how much power merchants will give Instagram after seeing what its parent Facebook did to news outlets that relied on it.
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Review
7 years ago
+13 13 0New-style TripAdvisor aims to be the world's first ‘travel feed’
The site’s new web and mobile platforms will no longer be just about reviews – it will host content from major publishers, too
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Current Event
7 years ago
+19 19 0Mobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing down
It’s that time again, folks, time to say goodbye to a social media service from days past. Following the shuttering of Klout earlier this year, now Path, the one-time rival to Facebook, is closing its doors, according to an announcement made today.
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Current Event
7 years ago
+17 17 0A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iPhone
A security researcher has found a new way to crash and restart any iPhone — with just a few lines of code. Sabri Haddouche tweeted a proof-of-concept webpage with just 15 lines of code which, if visited, will crash and restart an iPhone or iPad.
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Analysis
7 years ago
+26 26 0 x 1Amazon hired an army of employees to say nice things about it on Twitter, and it shows how big its reputation problem has gotten
Amazon has a new program that encourages long-time employees of the company's fulfillment centers to engage with Twitter users, and refute claims that the company treats its employees poorly.
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Expression
7 years ago
+33 33 0 x 1It’s okay to love robots
Humans’ fascination with robots follows a long tradition of connecting emotionally to inanimate objects.
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Current Event
7 years ago
+20 20 0A VP at the Largest Porsche Dealer in America Just Vanished with $2.5 Million in Buyer Deposits
As vice president of marketing at the largest Porsche dealer in the country, Shiraaz Sookralli personally handled some of Champion Porsche's most valued and deep-pocketed clients. Over the last year, he collected over $2.5 million in customer de ...
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Current Event
7 years ago
+12 12 0Russia may be telling 'true lies' about its 'unprecedented' war games with China — and it wouldn't be the first time
This week, Russia kicked off its Vostok-18 military exercises, drills that defense officials claim involve some 300,000 troops, 36,000 tanks, 1,000 aircraft, and scores of warships and have touted as "unprecedented in scale." That's ro ...
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Current Event
7 years ago
+21 21 0US govt confirms FCC's broadband speeds and feeds stats are garbage
A report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has confirmed what others have reported for years: that official data on internet access across the country greatly over estimates availability and competition. The report [PDF] is focused spe ...
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Analysis
7 years ago
+14 14 0Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you
Turns out cloud storage is not all it’s cracked up to be.
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Current Event
7 years ago
+11 11 0EU approves controversial internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’
Key provisions were amended to reduce potential harm, but critics say vote is ‘catastrophic’
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Current Event
7 years ago
+14 14 0Trump calls hurricane response in Puerto Rico 'incredible, unsung success'
President Trump said Tuesday that one of his administration's "best jobs" was the response to the hurricanes in Puerto Rico last year, storms that officials estimate led to the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. Trump was asked what lesson ...




















