Social media giants Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have once again been accused of taking a “laissez-faire approach” to moderating hate speech content on their platforms. This follows a stepping up
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How to lane online orders and shipments with Deliveries for iOS
Deliveries is an iOS app that has been around for a while, though over a years it has stood out as a best approach to conduct your online shipments and
Alex Hardiman, former VP of product at The NY Times, will take the lead on Facebook’s news products
Facebook’s role in spreading news, especially fake news, has been in the spotlight since last year’s presidential election. Now it’s promoting Alex Hardiman to lead its news efforts on the product side. Hardiman worked
Twitter partners with Live Nation to livestream video of concerts
Twitter might have killed off its Music app but now it’s working with the world’s top concert promoter. Today at the NewFronts conference in New York, Twitter announced it is
Twitter announces new live shows from the WNBA, BuzzFeed, Viacom and more
Looks like Twitter’s streaming video news deal with Bloomberg was just the first of more than a dozen content partnerships that it’s announcing today. The company unveiled the full slate at
How to solve SSL certificate warnings constructed by a latest Chrome update
Browser manufacturers are always releasing updates dictated to urge usability and security. Most changes are soft though some can furnish havoc, even if well-intentioned (like restraint java applets when accessing
‘Facebook Rewards’ QR codes dangle discounts for offline purchases
Facebook wants to prove it drives brick-and-mortar foot traffic with its latest feature test. TechCrunch has discovered a previously unreported Facebook feature where users can scan a personalized QR code
Facebook gives its Marketplace a colorful redesign
Facebook has given its Marketplace a bit of a visual overhaul, with new colorful icons and improved search and filtering features. The Craigslist competitor, first launched in October 2016, is
Twitter will offer 24/7 streaming video news in partnership with Bloomberg
Twitter’s always on video programming plans didn’t take long to come to light: The company’s COO and CFO Anthony Noto discussed the idea just last week, and then late Sunday the
Snapchat is stifled by its un-algorithmic feed
Snapchat invented its best products by being the anti-Facebook. Its disappearing chats made visual communication quick and casual compared to Facebook’s email-esque text messages. Stories ditched the likes and permanency
How Echo Look could feed Amazon’s big data fueled fashion ambitions
This week Amazon took the wraps off a new incarnation of its Alexa voice assistant, giving the AI an eye so it can see as well as speak and hear.
Someone scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies to make a facial dataset for AI experiments
Tinder users have many motives for uploading their likeness to the dating app. But contributing a facial biometric to a downloadable data set for training convolutional neural networks probably wasn’t top of their
Jack Dorsey just spent $9.5M buying more Twitter stock
Jack Dorsey is at it again — after purchasing $7 million in Twitter stock back in February, the Twitter CEO bought another $9.5 million today. After making his purchase, Dorsey posted
Facebook sidesteps Snapchat by launching Messenger Lite in over 100 more countries
Facebook is aggressively pursuing the international and developing world markets Snapchat hasn’t prioritized. Facebook Lite recently hit 200 million users, and Instagram just rolled out offline mode for Android. Now
Tumblr just added a switch in the iOS Settings that lets you turn the porn back on
Here’s an interesting change: Tumblr’s iOS application just received an update which now lets you turn on or off adult-oriented, NSFW search results just by toggling a switch in iOS’s Settings.
