YouTube star Logan Paul sparked outrage by posting a now-removed video of an alleged suicide victim in a Japanese forest
American YouTuber joked with friends on film after coming across the apparent suicide victim — The celebrity YouTuber Logan Paul has sparked outrage after posting …
Germany starts enforcing law under which social networks will be fined up to €50M if they fail to remove hate speech, fake news, and illegal material
Germany is set to start enforcing a law that demands social media sites move quickly to remove hate speech, fake news and illegal material.
Telegram, citing ToS, suspends public channel that incited violent anti-government protests in Iran; Telegram is a major platform with ~40M users in Iran
“There are lines one shouldn't cross,” says the CEO of the popular messaging app. — The executives of Telegram …
How third-party scripts on websites exploit a flaw in browsers' built-in password managers to identify and track users
In this second installment of the No Boundaries series, we show how a long-known vulnerability in browsers' built-in password managers is abused by third-party scripts for tracking on more than a thou...
Smart lock maker Otto, which unveiled its first product in August 2017, suspends operations
Otto showed the world its digital lock in August. Four months later, the company has suspended operations. Hardware is hard. It's a cliche for a reason. — The company made the decision …
Ripple surged 50%+ on Friday and is now valued at ~$85B, surpassing Ethereum's market cap and becoming the second-most valuable cryptocurrency
Ripple may be a great blockchain-based tech for banks, but the valuation of its XRP token reflects the unlikely hope it becomes a global reserve cryptocurrency
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Three interrelated macro themes dominated this year in tech: the breakout of crypto, beginning of the end of white male dominance, and the backlash against tech
As has become my practice, I celebrate the end of a year and the start of a new one here at AVC with back to back posts focusing …
Apple makes $29 iPhone battery replacement price effective immediately, rather than in late January, but warns initial supplies of some batteries may be limited
Aiming to further stem controversy over how it handles aging iPhone batteries, Apple said Saturday that its lower replacement price …
An excerpt from Emily Chang's upcoming book Brotopia, on Silicon Valley's drug-fueled sex parties attended by powerful investors and well-known entrepreneurs
Some of the most powerful men in Silicon Valley are regulars at exclusive, drug-fueled, sex-laced parties—gatherings they describe …
Groups skeptical of climate change are gaming Google's largely automated ad systems to promote misleading claims that reject established climate science
Groups that reject established climate science can use the search engine's advertising business to their advantage …
Reports say Iranian authorities temporarily cut off internet access to mobile phones as anti-government protests spread across the country
Alibaba's UC Browser, with 430M+ users worldwide, leads in emerging markets with low-end smartphones, with 51% of India's mobile browser market vs Chrome's 30%
Alibaba's UC Browser is dominating in emerging markets with lower-end smartphones — JAKARTA, Indonesia …
Iran blocks access to Instagram and Telegram apps amid anti-government protests
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Study shows Facebook's hate speech rules are unevenly enforced, with the company agreeing its censors made mistakes on 22 of 49 posts submitted for explanation
We asked Facebook about its handling of 49 posts that might be deemed offensive. The company acknowledged that its content reviewers had made the wrong call on 22 of them.
Stanford AI car-image project analyzed 50M Google Street View images and location data to find geographic trends in race, voting behavior, wealth, and more
What vehicle is most strongly associated with Republican voting districts? Extended-cab pickup trucks. For Democratic districts? Sedans.
The chair of UK's fake news inquiry committee has given Facebook and Twitter until January 18 to hand over info about Russian disinformation campaigns
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Vevo says it broke even in 2017, with revenue rising 30% YoY to ~$650M, and expects to be profitable in early 2018
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A look at Emirati billionaire Mohamed Alabbar's $1B ecommerce venture Noon, a competitor to Amazon's Souq in the Middle East, founded in 2016
Real-estate tycoon Mohamed Alabbar launched Noon to compete with the U.S. tech giant for a foothold in the region's online shopping boom Tweets: @pwonacott and @paulpage Tweets: Peter Wonacott / @pwon...
Sources: Amazon's been in talks with firms, including Clorox and Proctor & Gamble, to promote products on Alexa, with ads focusing on sponsorships within skills
- Ads will focus on sponsorship opportunities within skills or use data about a buyer's shopping history to suggest products. Thanks: @mattrosoff
How Sweden, Norway, Finland prepare for AI-driven automation: employer-financed placement programs for those laid off, big public spending on social safety nets
Niche online communities and media grew in 2017, through Patreon, TinyLetter, “finstagrams”, and more as people looked for alternatives to Facebook and Twitter
niche communities, human connection, people exchanging ideas, maybe even paying each other for the work they'd made — never really lost its appeal, but this year it came back with a miniature vengeanc...
Analysis of code from the top 10K websites on Alexa finds that 30.5% employ anti-ad blocking measures, many of which are hidden from the sites' visitors
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Startups aim to provide an alternative route to internet access via VPNs and mesh networks, amid net neutrality repeal, but their approaches are as yet unproven
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Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.