[ad_1] At the moment, it looks like a stalemate. LA city officials claim the data would provide insight into scooters as a growing means of transit, let the city see if scooters end up in the LA River and help ensure scooters are available to lower-income residents. Reportedly, the data would not be shared with […]
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Facebook will make anti-vaccine content less visible
[ad_1] Facebook’s crackdown on anti-vaxxers won’t just punish groups that spread the information, it will also make them harder to find. Anti-vaccine groups will be excluded from recommendations and won’t come up as predictions when typing in the search bar on Facebook. Advertisements that include misinformation about vaccinations will be rejected, and Facebook is squashing […]
Airbnb is buying last-minute hotel app HotelTonight
[ad_1] Airbnb says that the HotelTonight acquisition would help in its work to build an “end-to-end travel platform.” In other words, Airbnb wants to become a site where people flock to for all their travel needs, not just vacation rentals. Airbnb began its ascent onto traditional hotels last year by more than doubling its number […]
Save $300 on Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
[ad_1] Sony STR-DH190 Stereo Receiver Street price: $150; deal price: $128 Down to $128 from a typical price of $150, this is a nice deal on a basic but comparatively feature-rich receiver. This model isn’t intended to be used as an AV surround option, but rather as a receiver meant for a stereo setup, potentially […]
EA is the latest to nix its E3 press conference
[ad_1] To replace the presser that would normally round up all of the company’s big announcements, EA will focus on livestreams. The gaming giant will operate multiple streams that will air during the first two days of EA Play that will focus on gameplay action. EA also plans to have members of teams behind upcoming […]
Leica’s compact, full-frame Q2 captures 47MP photos and 4K video
[ad_1] You can also expect some subtler additions. There’s a new 3.68-megapixel OLED viewfinder that provides a more accurate representation of the final shot. And if raw speed is important, you might like both the 10 frames per second continuous shooting as well as an autofocusing time under 0.15 seconds. That’s not the fastest lock-in […]
Facebook Messenger bug let other people see who you’d been talking to
[ad_1] In a blog post, Imperva security researcher Ron Masas explains how a CSFL attack could exploit the properties of iFrame elements to determine the state of an application. Running this process through individual Messenger contacts would yield one of two states, full or empty, indicating whether a user had ever communicated with that contact […]
Tim Cook is in on the Tim Apple joke
[ad_1] That’s cool, it’s just the leader of the free world mangling the CEO of the world’s most powerful company’s name in a tongue-twisted mnemonic brain fart. Luckily Tim “adult in the room” Cook took the high road through this awkward situation. He didn’t belittle the President for being a mush-brained nitwit in front of […]
Facebook removes fake accounts stoking political tension in UK
[ad_1] The company didn’t say where the operators came from, but they were relatively sophisticated. On top of the Russia-style attempt at social division, those responsible “frequently changed” group and page names to keep people guessing. They amassed a solid following, too, with about 175,000 accounts following one or more Pages and 4,500 following at […]
The Queen is now on Instagram
[ad_1] Queen Elizabeth II might be the next big Instagram influencer. Her Majesty made her first ever post to Instagram today while visiting the Science Museum in London. Her post, made from the official TheRoyalFamily account, was a photo of a letter sent to her great-great-grandfather Prince Albert from 19th-century mathematician, engineer and computer pioneer […]