Post Overview
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4 years ago+38 38 0 x 1LaLiga’s app listened in on fans to catch bars illegally streaming soccer
It used a Shazam-like technology to identify soccer games
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Analysis
4 years ago+42 42 0 x 1The ‘Platform’ Excuse Is Dying
For years, tech companies have relied on a rhetorical sleight of hand. It’s not working anymore.
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4 years ago+33 33 0Amazon’s Home Surveillance Company Is Putting Suspected Petty Thieves in its Advertisements
Ring, Amazon's doorbell company, posted a video of a woman suspected of a crime and asked users to call the cops with information.
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Analysis
4 years ago+39 39 0 x 1Google is reportedly arguing that cutting Huawei off from Android threatens US security
If Android becomes more fragmented, Google thinks everybody loses
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4 years ago+37 38 1 x 1What Does It Mean When a Product Is 'Amazon's Choice'?
It almost certainly doesn’t involve Amazon employees selecting products they think are the best.
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4 years ago+35 35 0 x 1The iPad finally outgrows iOS
As the iPad comes up on ten years since its introduction, the hardware has reached bold new heights but the software has been the limiting factor. Onstage at WWDC in San Jose, Apple announced that iPad’s software will now exist inside its own vertica ...
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4 years ago+51 51 0 x 1A New York School District Will Test Facial Recognition On Students Even Though The State Asked It To Wait
The western New York school district says it is "confident" in its data collection policies.
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4 years ago+31 31 0 x 1Maine lawmakers pass bill to prevent ISPs from selling browsing data without consent
Good news! Maine lawmakers have passed a bill that will prevent internet providers from selling consumers’ private internet data to advertisers. The state’s senate unanimously passed the bill 35-0 on Thursday following an earlier vote by state repr ...
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4 years ago+12 12 0Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians
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4 years ago+24 24 0Google kills its Twitch killer—the YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week
YouTube's standalone gaming interface didn't prove popular with users.
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4 years ago+15 15 0Apple’s latest defense of the App Store just shows how hard it is to compete with Apple
Apple launched a new website as a response to critics like Spotify.
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4 years ago+33 33 0 x 1Microsoft hints at new modern Windows OS with ‘invisible’ background updates
Windows might be getting more like Chrome OS
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4 years ago+46 46 0 x 1Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior In a ‘Risk’ Database
The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more.
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4 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Why Las Vegas Is Betting on Elon Musk
Even if the Boring Company's “people mover” for the Las Vegas Convention Center is a bust, it helps burnish the city's high-tech brand.
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4 years ago+16 16 0Canva suffers security breach
Canva, a Sydney-based startup that's behind the eponymous graphic design service, was hacked earlier today, ZDNet has learned. Data for roughly 139 million users has been taken during the breach, according to the hacker, who tipped off ZDNet.
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4 years ago+36 36 0 x 1We should opt into data tracking, not out of it, says DuckDuckGo CEO Gabe Weinberg
On the latest Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Weinberg explains why it’s time for Congress to step in and make
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4 years ago+39 39 0 x 1How “The Big Bang Theory” Normalized Nerd Culture
The series, which ended its twelve-season run on Thursday, brought tech concepts to an older generation as the field grew from a curiosity to a vexation to an inescapable substrate of American life.
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Expression
4 years ago+45 45 0 x 1A new look for Google Search
We’re bringing a fresh new design to Search, helping you more easily find the information you’re looking for.
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Expression
4 years ago+49 49 0 x 1After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed
In a quiet corner of my high school’s study room in 2009, I booted up my busted laptop while making sure nobody could peer over...
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4 years ago+10 10 0Behind Twitter’s Plan To Get People To Stop Yelling At One Another
Twitter’s leadership knows that it’s fundamentally broken, and its latest attempt to fix itself shows how daunting of a task that will be.