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Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Friday, April 15, 2016
We Need to Found a Culture of Inclusion in Silicon Valley
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Newsweek recently published a special edition featuring "The Founding Fathers of Silicon Valley" on its cover. Its fallacies are glaring: everything from the "boys' club" of seven white men featured on its cover to the fact of Mark Zuckerberg's inclusion on the list with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and...
Is personal data the same as personal property?
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In the recent announcement of Microsoft suing the US Government over data requests.
has it come to this following the Apple versus FBI case is a reflection of the state of antiquated laws that were mostly drawn up in the end of the 18th century and the race of the new digital technology economy that...
KFC Deletes Incredibly Dumb NSFW Twitter Fail
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What were you thinking, KFC?
The fast-food giant went below the belt in a stupidly saucy tweet Friday, then got chicken and took it down an hour later, Adweek reported.
Double entendres and obvious sexual imagery are usually a bad recipe for a family-friendly chain. But that didn't stop KFC in...
You Haven't Seen A 'Game Of Thrones' Map Like This Before
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Only little birds usually enjoy this view of Westeros.
HBO has unleashed an immersive version of the mechanical map that starts each "Game of Thrones" episode. At any point, you can pause and take a look around using your cursor. Check out the view from King's Landing, the frozen Wall or the godswood...
Online Dating Is Rife With Sexual Racism, 'The Daily Show' Discovers
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On Tuesday’s episode of “The Daily Show,” correspondents Jessica Williams and Ronny Chieng took a humorous yet hard-hitting look at a form of bigotry not often discussed: sexual racism.
“Racism affects nearly every aspect of life, even -- and it truly pains me to say this -- f**king,” host Trevor Noah...
Astronaut Tim Peake Is Ready To Run The London Marathon From Space -- And You Can Join Him
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Come April 24, British astronaut Tim Peake, along with approximately 38,000 other runners, will be attempting the 26.2-mile London Marathon.
The only difference is, Peake will be running the race about 250 miles above everybody else -- in space.
British astronaut @astro_timpeake gets set to run...
How Ashton Kutcher And Guy Oseary Built A $250 Million Portfolio With Startups Like Uber And Airbnb
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Ashton Kutcher, one of the world’s highest-paid TV actors, can obviously afford that most essential of Los Angeles celebrity luxuries: a car and driver. But he still prefers Uber. “We’re going to go to Warner Bros.,” he dictates, as we hop into a black Chevy Tahoe with Kutcher’s business partner, music...
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Verizon Strike Causes Delays For Customers Around U.S.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A one-day-old strike by nearly 40,000 Verizon Communications Inc employees is causing equipment installation delays for new Internet and TV customers, a Verizon executive acknowledged on Thursday.
Workers of Verizon's Fios Internet, telephone and TV services from network technicians...
Microsoft Fights U.S. Government Over Data Requests
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Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has sued the U.S. government for the right to tell its customers when a federal agency is looking at their emails, the latest in a series of clashes over privacy between the technology industry and Washington.
The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in federal court in Seattle, argues...
Avoid Faux Pas on Snapchat by Following These Rules
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What are some things to avoid doing on Snapchat? originally appeared on Quora - the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
Answer by Sabrina Li, 7000 pts +, on Quora:
To me, avoiding sharing sexually explicit content goes without saying....
Robot Swarms Could Help Solve Our Lead Pollution Problems
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Vast swarms of miniature robots are coming -- and they might be the answer to scrubbing our waters clean of lead.
"Microbots" smaller than the width of a human hair could be highly effective and cost-efficient tools for removing lead and other contaminants from industrial wastewater,...
Everyone Has Fake Twitter Followers, But Trump Has The Most. Sad!
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The millions of Twitter accounts following Donald Trump include lots of questionable ones — ones with very few tweets, or few followers, or on Twitter for just a few months. Many are probably fake.
-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington...
Library Attendance Is Declining. Here’s Why
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For centuries, libraries have simply been places that house books. This meaning of the word is embedded right within it; the Old French librairie, used in the 14th century, means “collection of books.” An image of dusty stacks comes to mind, but, of course, the form a book can take is changing, and...
5 Tricks To Break Your Addiction To Technology, According to Randi Zuckerberg
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Businesswoman and tech maven Randi Zuckerberg knows a thing or two about technology -- including when it's time to put our devices down. It may be tempting to be connected all the time, but Zuckerberg explains in the video above that there are times when we're "better off" unplugging.
Let's block...
The Most Powerful Queer Person In America Is...
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Hats off to Apple CEO Tim Cook, who has been named the country's most powerful queer person by Out magazine.
Cook, 55, topped Out's annual Power 50 list for the second year in a row. The rest of the top 10 was largely dominated by media personalities, including Ellen DeGeneres and Anderson Cooper,...
Couple's Love Story As Told In Legos Is Simply Adorkable
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Bride-to-be Celina Frenn may have received coolest engagement gift of all -- this amazing Lego love story video her freelance animator fiance, Kevin Ulrich, made for her.
The video details just about all of the important milestones in their relationship so far -- how they met at work,...
Pot's Budding Tech Community
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3D printers, virtual reality, drones ... I've watched a lot of nascent industries enter the fray, but watching a new industry growing out of what was once a criminal substance is really interesting to watch.
Today, twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have laws legalizing marijuana in...
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