Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: The unspoken cruelty of HGTV, a climber who will give you sweaty palms and why you should never play guitar on a date.
Facebook on Wednesday told its F8 conference audience about two new cutting-edge projects that could change the way humans engage with devices. Over the next two years, the company will work on a new technology that will allow anyone to type around 100 words per minute -- not with fingers, but using a process that would decode neural activity devoted to speech. What Facebook envisions is a technology that would resemble a neural network.
Internet news Cortana can now help you score deals through Microsoft Edge By Parker Wilhelm Microsoft augments the Edge browser with another Cortana feature to save you a few bucks shopping. A fitting name for your website – finding the perfect domain name By Sponsored TechRadar Pro Finding the perfect name for your business just got much easier. Ethical hackers show that Windows 10 isn’t immune to WannaCry By Darren Allan Here’s why a future WannaCry-style assault could well hit even Microsoft’s most secure operating system. Apple cuts the cost for 2TB of iCloud storage in half By Michelle Fitzsimmons Flying under the radar of all the new hardware at WWDC 2017 is an iCloud price change. Samsung is about to launch a mesh Wi-Fi system of its own By Parker Wilhelm For those looking for a new home project, Samsung has announced pricing and release date for its new Wi-Fi hub. Google is adding an ad blocker to Chrome in 2018 By Michelle Fitzsimmons Tired of annoying ads? Starting next year, Google will remove all ads from sites that don't fall in line. Gmail gets new powers to fight phishing, ransomware and more By Darren Allan TechRadar Pro Google’s webmail service can now block malicious emails with an incredibly high accuracy. How to hide your identity from snooping ISP's By Sponsored TechRadar Pro ISP's have started tracking user data – but you can stop them if you encrypt your online activity. Twitter just changed the way you can receive Direct Messages By Michelle Fitzsimmons Want greater control over your DMs? Twitter introduces Accept and Delete for missives from users you don't follow. Google makes it easier to find your own stuff from the search box By David Nield In a significant update to its search engine, Google now helps you search your own content as well as the web. More news
Home Featured Featured General news Witness appeals Missing people Your local area Campaigns Collections Get updates via RSS feed Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed. See more news
Ian McEwan’s novel “Saturday,” from 2005, dramatizes the experience of the twenty-four-hour news cycle before the arrival of social media. In that post-9/11 period of increased news saturation, there was still the sense that the anxieties provoked by being informed could be separated from the humbler pleasures of everyday experience. In the novel, a teen-ager named Theo, worn down with grim tidings, frames the problem of modern optimism in terms of scale. “When we go on about big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible,” he says. “But when I think small, closer in—you know, a girl I’ve just met, or this song we’re going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto—think small.”
In the biggest shake-up to provisioning since it launched fibre services in 2010, Zen Internet is offering a super-easy, self-install option across all its FTTC products. This gives partners and their customers the freedom to install fibre broadband on their own timescale, removing many unnecessary headaches and delays.
As mundanity mingles with tragedy, we confront the inevitable Popian letdown: Do we care enough? Do we have the right to our local contentment? Our joys can seem at once shamefully full and depressingly empty. I have online friends on both sides of the Atlantic, and, looking down my News Feed, I’ve often felt the heedlessness of one continent in the face of the other’s torments.
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Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed.
Have we since outgrown this taste? Televised news, unlike eighteenth-century English poets, has always been wary of bathos, which is why those cheering stories that form the news’s lighter side are typically reserved for last, often with a cushion of sports or weather in between. This format imposes a crude narrative structure on the day’s events, with peril ultimately usurped by a happy, or at least whimsical, conclusion. Yet such careful management of emotional tone is absent in the social-media news feed, which in this sense is closer to the rawness of real life, with its moments of shock and unexpected shifts in mood.
A phishing scam that surfaced earlier this week used Google Docs in an attack against at least 1 million Gmail users. However, that amounted to fewer than 0.1 percent of Gmail users were affected, according to the company. Google last year put the number of active monthly Gmail users at more than 1 billion. Google shut down the phishing scam within an hour, it said.
This summer, Facebook could be seen grappling with its ambiguous position as both a co-edited family photo album and an outlet for information. It made two adjustments to the algorithm governing its News Feed, lurching bathetically between the local and the global. The first change came in late June, announced in an official blog post. “FRIENDS AND FAMILY COME FIRST,” a caps-locked subheading assured us; personal stories would be prioritized. But then, on August 11th, another blog entry appeared, this time explaining that “informative” posts would receive higher billing. The news was back, although Facebook intended to maintain the intimate tone. The News Feed, the company explained, would be improved through “global crowd-sourced surveys of tens of thousands of people per day.” To the layperson, this is one of Big Data’s stranger qualities—that the portrait of an individual emerges from the crunched crowd. And when the main criterion for relevance is general interest, the individual is left exposed to the two extremes of popularity—spectacular events and viral trivia. Just because most people like cat videos and most people care about terrorist attacks, it does not follow that most people want to experience them side by side.
A better word than “monotony” for this chronic mixing of moods would be “bathos,” which describes the deflation or anticlimax that occurs when two opposing tones or registers clash in a work of art. We owe the term to the eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, who coined it in a corrosive treatise called “Peri Bathous; Or, the Art of Sinking.” While Western writers had long been interested in language’s ability to transport the listener or reader to an exalted, sublime plane of experience, Pope saw in the work of his peers a tendency in the opposite direction. Lacking the genius necessary to reach the lofty heights of sublimity, they unintentionally followed “the gentle down-hill way to the Bathos.”
Audioburst announced that it has secured series A funding of $6.7 million for its mission of automating the indexing, organization, and discovery of audio content. The company’s platform promises real-time analysis of an audio clip, which allows fast and easy searching of content. The metadata it applies to each audio clip guides the creation of audio streams personalized to a listener’s preferences and patterns. Continue Reading →
Webcast listening in March inched upward by three percent compared to the previous month, according to Triton Digital’s Webcast Metrics monthly Top 20 Ranker, released today. Year-over-year listening to streams gained 13%. Click through for long-term trends. Continue Reading →
Hulu has announced a new live-streaming television service for $39.99 per month, which will place the company in direct competition with newly launched services from DirecTV Now, YouTube and other OTT content providers. The Hulu with Live TV beta will offer 50 channels of live-streaming television -- including sports, news, entertainment, children's programming and local network affiliates.
With shadowy botnet armies lurking around the globe and vigilante gray-hat actors inoculating susceptible devices, the appetite for Internet of Things security is stronger than ever. "If you throw IoT on a con talk, you've got a pretty good chance to get in," remarked information security professional Jason Kent, as he began his presentation at Chicago's Thotcon conference last week.
At least 40% of Australian households now have at least one home "Internet of Things" device. These are fridges, window blinds, locks and other devices that are connected to the internet.
As the government extends its BDUK Super Connected Cities Scheme to March 2016, Zen Internet reaffirms its support as an approved supplier. The scheme, which covers 22 cities across the UK, provides vouchers to cover the set-up and hardware costs for new super-fast broadband installations, giving small businesses the opportunity to reap the benefits of high-speed connectivity, and embrace a new generation of online services. Designed to help local businesses develop, the scheme has received an additional £40 million of funding on top of the original £140 million, and will be extended to cover more cities from April 2015.
Cortana can now help you score deals through Microsoft Edge By Parker Wilhelm Microsoft augments the Edge browser with another Cortana feature to save you a few bucks shopping. A fitting name for your website – finding the perfect domain name By Sponsored TechRadar Pro Finding the perfect name for your business just got much easier. Ethical hackers show that Windows 10 isn’t immune to WannaCry By Darren Allan Here’s why a future WannaCry-style assault could well hit even Microsoft’s most secure operating system. Apple cuts the cost for 2TB of iCloud storage in half By Michelle Fitzsimmons Flying under the radar of all the new hardware at WWDC 2017 is an iCloud price change. Samsung is about to launch a mesh Wi-Fi system of its own By Parker Wilhelm For those looking for a new home project, Samsung has announced pricing and release date for its new Wi-Fi hub. Google is adding an ad blocker to Chrome in 2018 By Michelle Fitzsimmons Tired of annoying ads? Starting next year, Google will remove all ads from sites that don't fall in line. Gmail gets new powers to fight phishing, ransomware and more By Darren Allan TechRadar Pro Google’s webmail service can now block malicious emails with an incredibly high accuracy. How to hide your identity from snooping ISP's By Sponsored TechRadar Pro ISP's have started tracking user data – but you can stop them if you encrypt your online activity. Twitter just changed the way you can receive Direct Messages By Michelle Fitzsimmons Want greater control over your DMs? Twitter introduces Accept and Delete for missives from users you don't follow. Google makes it easier to find your own stuff from the search box By David Nield In a significant update to its search engine, Google now helps you search your own content as well as the web.
All of the major video game developers, publishers and console hardware makers, as well as many retail buyers and the gaming press, will descend on Los Angeles for E3 2017 next week. The annual event -- a showcase for computer, video and mobile games and related products -- will kick off officially on Tuesday and run through Thursday at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Video footage of a senseless murder in Cleveland, posted after the fact on Facebook Live, has attracted national attention to the role of the platform in criminals' minds. Authorities Tuesday morning announced that Steve Stephens -- the 37-year-old suspect wanted for the cold-blooded shooting of Robert Godwin Sr. -- shot himself to death after a short pursuit by Pennsylvania State Police.
CLEVER Portland Deploys Thief-Proof Bike Racks 16 diggs citylab.com Design Unless you encase your bike in concrete and chip it out whenever you need to use it, there’s no way to 100-percent guard your cycle against theft, but Portland's clever new bike racks are a good start.
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"Depression, fear, pain, anxiety — you name it," Wim Hof’s voice boomed through the speakers. "We are able to get into any cell and change the chemistry. We are able to get into the DNA."
The future is now, or at least it is coming soon. Today's technological developments are looking very much like what once was the domain of science fiction. Maybe we don't have domed cities and flying cars, but we do have buildings that reach to the heavens, and drones that soon could deliver our packages. Who needs a flying car when the self-driving car is just down the road?
The government is now considering ways to exert a more direct form of influence over the country’s online media institutions. In recent months, Chinese authorities have held discussions with internet providers on a pilot project intended to pave the way for the government to start taking board seats and stakes of at least 1 percent in those companies. In return, they would get a license to provide news on a daily basis.
Microsoft executives, led by CEO Satya Nadella, introduced a series of enhancements to the company's critical data and cloud services at the kickoff of its annual Build conference, demonstrating new ways to expand adoption of artificial intelligence, personal digital assistants and other innovations. There will be more than 25 billion intelligent devices in the world by 2020, Nadella said.
The manifesto also proposes that internet companies will have to pay a levy, like the one currently paid by gambling firms. Just like with gambling, that money will be used to pay for advertising schemes to tell people about the dangers of the internet, in particular being used to "support awareness and preventative activity to counter internet harms", according to the manifesto.
Instagram has reached a milestone of 700 million members while enjoying the fastest-ever growth rate in its history. The network has grown by more than 100 million members in the last four months. Its burgeoning growth can be credited to new features like Stories, live video and disappearing messages, the company said. User engagement with Stories has grown to more than 200 million people per day.
Genesys on Monday introduced G-Nine. "Think of G-Nine as the Genesys innovation framework that guides many aspects of our business -- product strategy being one of those," said Genesys CMO Merijn te Booij. "Within the G-Nine innovation framework, we have defined our themes related to technology and consumer trends that we'll focus on in the next two years."
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Facebook last week signed agreements with several content firms -- among them Vox, Buzzfeed, ATTN and Group Nine Media, according to reports. The deals are widely viewed as part of the company's strategy to attract millennials to its live-streaming Web content. Facebook will offer multi-tiered programming, according to a report that cited sources familiar with the plans.
Programmatic technology company Jelli announced an expansion for its offices. It has opened two new offices, one in New York City and one in Boise, Idaho. Jelli also hired streaming advertising veteran Eric Ronning, to run operations in NYC as its new vice president of strategic accounts. Continue Reading →
Facebook on Wednesday told its F8 conference audience about two new cutting-edge projects that could change the way humans engage with devices. Over the next two years, the company will work on a new technology that will allow anyone to type around 100 words per minute -- not with fingers, but using a process that would decode neural activity devoted to speech. What Facebook envisions is a technology that would resemble a neural network.
Internet news Cortana can now help you score deals through Microsoft Edge By Parker Wilhelm Microsoft augments the Edge browser with another Cortana feature to save you a few bucks shopping. A fitting name for your website – finding the perfect domain name By Sponsored TechRadar Pro Finding the perfect name for your business just got much easier. Ethical hackers show that Windows 10 isn’t immune to WannaCry By Darren Allan Here’s why a future WannaCry-style assault could well hit even Microsoft’s most secure operating system. Apple cuts the cost for 2TB of iCloud storage in half By Michelle Fitzsimmons Flying under the radar of all the new hardware at WWDC 2017 is an iCloud price change. Samsung is about to launch a mesh Wi-Fi system of its own By Parker Wilhelm For those looking for a new home project, Samsung has announced pricing and release date for its new Wi-Fi hub. Google is adding an ad blocker to Chrome in 2018 By Michelle Fitzsimmons Tired of annoying ads? Starting next year, Google will remove all ads from sites that don't fall in line. Gmail gets new powers to fight phishing, ransomware and more By Darren Allan TechRadar Pro Google’s webmail service can now block malicious emails with an incredibly high accuracy. How to hide your identity from snooping ISP's By Sponsored TechRadar Pro ISP's have started tracking user data – but you can stop them if you encrypt your online activity. Twitter just changed the way you can receive Direct Messages By Michelle Fitzsimmons Want greater control over your DMs? Twitter introduces Accept and Delete for missives from users you don't follow. Google makes it easier to find your own stuff from the search box By David Nield In a significant update to its search engine, Google now helps you search your own content as well as the web. More news
Home Featured Featured General news Witness appeals Missing people Your local area Campaigns Collections Get updates via RSS feed Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed. See more news
Ian McEwan’s novel “Saturday,” from 2005, dramatizes the experience of the twenty-four-hour news cycle before the arrival of social media. In that post-9/11 period of increased news saturation, there was still the sense that the anxieties provoked by being informed could be separated from the humbler pleasures of everyday experience. In the novel, a teen-ager named Theo, worn down with grim tidings, frames the problem of modern optimism in terms of scale. “When we go on about big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible,” he says. “But when I think small, closer in—you know, a girl I’ve just met, or this song we’re going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto—think small.”
In the biggest shake-up to provisioning since it launched fibre services in 2010, Zen Internet is offering a super-easy, self-install option across all its FTTC products. This gives partners and their customers the freedom to install fibre broadband on their own timescale, removing many unnecessary headaches and delays.
As mundanity mingles with tragedy, we confront the inevitable Popian letdown: Do we care enough? Do we have the right to our local contentment? Our joys can seem at once shamefully full and depressingly empty. I have online friends on both sides of the Atlantic, and, looking down my News Feed, I’ve often felt the heedlessness of one continent in the face of the other’s torments.
We've noticed that you are using an ad blocker. Advertising helps fund our journalism and keep it truly independent. It helps to build our international editorial team, from war correspondents to investigative reporters, commentators to critics. Click here to view instructions on how to disable your ad blocker, and help us to keep providing you with free-thinking journalism - for free. Thank you for your support.
Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed.
Have we since outgrown this taste? Televised news, unlike eighteenth-century English poets, has always been wary of bathos, which is why those cheering stories that form the news’s lighter side are typically reserved for last, often with a cushion of sports or weather in between. This format imposes a crude narrative structure on the day’s events, with peril ultimately usurped by a happy, or at least whimsical, conclusion. Yet such careful management of emotional tone is absent in the social-media news feed, which in this sense is closer to the rawness of real life, with its moments of shock and unexpected shifts in mood.
A phishing scam that surfaced earlier this week used Google Docs in an attack against at least 1 million Gmail users. However, that amounted to fewer than 0.1 percent of Gmail users were affected, according to the company. Google last year put the number of active monthly Gmail users at more than 1 billion. Google shut down the phishing scam within an hour, it said.
This summer, Facebook could be seen grappling with its ambiguous position as both a co-edited family photo album and an outlet for information. It made two adjustments to the algorithm governing its News Feed, lurching bathetically between the local and the global. The first change came in late June, announced in an official blog post. “FRIENDS AND FAMILY COME FIRST,” a caps-locked subheading assured us; personal stories would be prioritized. But then, on August 11th, another blog entry appeared, this time explaining that “informative” posts would receive higher billing. The news was back, although Facebook intended to maintain the intimate tone. The News Feed, the company explained, would be improved through “global crowd-sourced surveys of tens of thousands of people per day.” To the layperson, this is one of Big Data’s stranger qualities—that the portrait of an individual emerges from the crunched crowd. And when the main criterion for relevance is general interest, the individual is left exposed to the two extremes of popularity—spectacular events and viral trivia. Just because most people like cat videos and most people care about terrorist attacks, it does not follow that most people want to experience them side by side.
A better word than “monotony” for this chronic mixing of moods would be “bathos,” which describes the deflation or anticlimax that occurs when two opposing tones or registers clash in a work of art. We owe the term to the eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, who coined it in a corrosive treatise called “Peri Bathous; Or, the Art of Sinking.” While Western writers had long been interested in language’s ability to transport the listener or reader to an exalted, sublime plane of experience, Pope saw in the work of his peers a tendency in the opposite direction. Lacking the genius necessary to reach the lofty heights of sublimity, they unintentionally followed “the gentle down-hill way to the Bathos.”
Audioburst announced that it has secured series A funding of $6.7 million for its mission of automating the indexing, organization, and discovery of audio content. The company’s platform promises real-time analysis of an audio clip, which allows fast and easy searching of content. The metadata it applies to each audio clip guides the creation of audio streams personalized to a listener’s preferences and patterns. Continue Reading →
Webcast listening in March inched upward by three percent compared to the previous month, according to Triton Digital’s Webcast Metrics monthly Top 20 Ranker, released today. Year-over-year listening to streams gained 13%. Click through for long-term trends. Continue Reading →
Hulu has announced a new live-streaming television service for $39.99 per month, which will place the company in direct competition with newly launched services from DirecTV Now, YouTube and other OTT content providers. The Hulu with Live TV beta will offer 50 channels of live-streaming television -- including sports, news, entertainment, children's programming and local network affiliates.
With shadowy botnet armies lurking around the globe and vigilante gray-hat actors inoculating susceptible devices, the appetite for Internet of Things security is stronger than ever. "If you throw IoT on a con talk, you've got a pretty good chance to get in," remarked information security professional Jason Kent, as he began his presentation at Chicago's Thotcon conference last week.
At least 40% of Australian households now have at least one home "Internet of Things" device. These are fridges, window blinds, locks and other devices that are connected to the internet.
As the government extends its BDUK Super Connected Cities Scheme to March 2016, Zen Internet reaffirms its support as an approved supplier. The scheme, which covers 22 cities across the UK, provides vouchers to cover the set-up and hardware costs for new super-fast broadband installations, giving small businesses the opportunity to reap the benefits of high-speed connectivity, and embrace a new generation of online services. Designed to help local businesses develop, the scheme has received an additional £40 million of funding on top of the original £140 million, and will be extended to cover more cities from April 2015.
Cortana can now help you score deals through Microsoft Edge By Parker Wilhelm Microsoft augments the Edge browser with another Cortana feature to save you a few bucks shopping. A fitting name for your website – finding the perfect domain name By Sponsored TechRadar Pro Finding the perfect name for your business just got much easier. Ethical hackers show that Windows 10 isn’t immune to WannaCry By Darren Allan Here’s why a future WannaCry-style assault could well hit even Microsoft’s most secure operating system. Apple cuts the cost for 2TB of iCloud storage in half By Michelle Fitzsimmons Flying under the radar of all the new hardware at WWDC 2017 is an iCloud price change. Samsung is about to launch a mesh Wi-Fi system of its own By Parker Wilhelm For those looking for a new home project, Samsung has announced pricing and release date for its new Wi-Fi hub. Google is adding an ad blocker to Chrome in 2018 By Michelle Fitzsimmons Tired of annoying ads? Starting next year, Google will remove all ads from sites that don't fall in line. Gmail gets new powers to fight phishing, ransomware and more By Darren Allan TechRadar Pro Google’s webmail service can now block malicious emails with an incredibly high accuracy. How to hide your identity from snooping ISP's By Sponsored TechRadar Pro ISP's have started tracking user data – but you can stop them if you encrypt your online activity. Twitter just changed the way you can receive Direct Messages By Michelle Fitzsimmons Want greater control over your DMs? Twitter introduces Accept and Delete for missives from users you don't follow. Google makes it easier to find your own stuff from the search box By David Nield In a significant update to its search engine, Google now helps you search your own content as well as the web.
All of the major video game developers, publishers and console hardware makers, as well as many retail buyers and the gaming press, will descend on Los Angeles for E3 2017 next week. The annual event -- a showcase for computer, video and mobile games and related products -- will kick off officially on Tuesday and run through Thursday at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Video footage of a senseless murder in Cleveland, posted after the fact on Facebook Live, has attracted national attention to the role of the platform in criminals' minds. Authorities Tuesday morning announced that Steve Stephens -- the 37-year-old suspect wanted for the cold-blooded shooting of Robert Godwin Sr. -- shot himself to death after a short pursuit by Pennsylvania State Police.
CLEVER Portland Deploys Thief-Proof Bike Racks 16 diggs citylab.com Design Unless you encase your bike in concrete and chip it out whenever you need to use it, there’s no way to 100-percent guard your cycle against theft, but Portland's clever new bike racks are a good start.
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"Depression, fear, pain, anxiety — you name it," Wim Hof’s voice boomed through the speakers. "We are able to get into any cell and change the chemistry. We are able to get into the DNA."
The future is now, or at least it is coming soon. Today's technological developments are looking very much like what once was the domain of science fiction. Maybe we don't have domed cities and flying cars, but we do have buildings that reach to the heavens, and drones that soon could deliver our packages. Who needs a flying car when the self-driving car is just down the road?
The government is now considering ways to exert a more direct form of influence over the country’s online media institutions. In recent months, Chinese authorities have held discussions with internet providers on a pilot project intended to pave the way for the government to start taking board seats and stakes of at least 1 percent in those companies. In return, they would get a license to provide news on a daily basis.
Microsoft executives, led by CEO Satya Nadella, introduced a series of enhancements to the company's critical data and cloud services at the kickoff of its annual Build conference, demonstrating new ways to expand adoption of artificial intelligence, personal digital assistants and other innovations. There will be more than 25 billion intelligent devices in the world by 2020, Nadella said.
The manifesto also proposes that internet companies will have to pay a levy, like the one currently paid by gambling firms. Just like with gambling, that money will be used to pay for advertising schemes to tell people about the dangers of the internet, in particular being used to "support awareness and preventative activity to counter internet harms", according to the manifesto.
Instagram has reached a milestone of 700 million members while enjoying the fastest-ever growth rate in its history. The network has grown by more than 100 million members in the last four months. Its burgeoning growth can be credited to new features like Stories, live video and disappearing messages, the company said. User engagement with Stories has grown to more than 200 million people per day.
Genesys on Monday introduced G-Nine. "Think of G-Nine as the Genesys innovation framework that guides many aspects of our business -- product strategy being one of those," said Genesys CMO Merijn te Booij. "Within the G-Nine innovation framework, we have defined our themes related to technology and consumer trends that we'll focus on in the next two years."
https://newsklic.com
Advertising helps fund our journalism and keep it truly independent. It helps to build our international editorial team, from war correspondents to investigative reporters, commentators to critics.
Facebook last week signed agreements with several content firms -- among them Vox, Buzzfeed, ATTN and Group Nine Media, according to reports. The deals are widely viewed as part of the company's strategy to attract millennials to its live-streaming Web content. Facebook will offer multi-tiered programming, according to a report that cited sources familiar with the plans.
Programmatic technology company Jelli announced an expansion for its offices. It has opened two new offices, one in New York City and one in Boise, Idaho. Jelli also hired streaming advertising veteran Eric Ronning, to run operations in NYC as its new vice president of strategic accounts. Continue Reading →
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