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Facebook let anti-vaxxers run rampant with misinformation ads, because money
3 days ago –
Earlier this year Facebook said it would crack down on ads from
groups peddling misinformation about vaccines. The announcement was
heralded by medical professionals and pundits as a capstone in their
efforts to fight the pro-disease movement. However, in the time since
the announcement, Facebook...
( What money ? The only money to be made is in sales - not in protesting unprecedented mandatory medical assault. Notes on various 'vax' topics at oldephartte.livejournal.com There's a tagfile in the right column. There are still Facebook forums on vaccines - even as links are disallowed by spiders. )
Wikipedia’s co-founder takes on Facebook with ad-free social network
3 days ago –
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales thinks he can create a better
social network. Called WT:Social, the network has no financial
association with Wikipedia, but operates on a similar business model:
donations, not advertising. WT:Social went live last month and is
currently nearing 50,000 users. The...
Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin price continues slow and steady decline’
3 days ago –
Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I,
Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past
24 hours. As Rousseau used to say: Peel off the skin of this mystery
and eat the tasty fruit ...
GitHub launches Security Lab to spot vulnerabilities in open-source code
3 days ago – The objective is to “bring together
security researchers, maintainers, and companies across the industry who
share our belief that the security of open source is important for
everyone,” the Microsoft-ow...
3 days ago –
Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but
most of all, cheap. CHEAP! I’m not a fan of wearing headphones in
public, because I’m a notorious grinch. I don’t take pleasure in the
little things in life, music being one of them. A melody can never
defreeze my wretched soul. But thi...
TikTok surpasses 1.5 billion downloads — with almost 500M in India
2 days ago –
TikTok, the short-video making app, has crossed the 1.5 billion
downloads mark from the Play Store and the App Store combined. According
to a report published by analytics firm SensorTower, the ByteDance
almost third of them (468 million) coming from India. Earlier this year,
a report published b...
Railway workers caught mining Bitcoin with state electricity in Ukraine
2 days ago –
Employees at the Ukranian Railways have been caught red-handed
secretly running a Bitcoin mining farm, costing the state more than
$40,000 in power. According to an announcement by Ukrzaliznytsia, the
country’s state-owned rail transport provider, the surreptitious
cryptocurrency mining operation...
CHEAP: It’s your last chance to suck $200 off Roomba’s ‘i-series’ robo-vacuum
2 days ago –
Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but
most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Of all the promises technology has made, the
one I care about most is its potential to make my life as simple and
carefree as possible. Unfortunately, in a lot of cases, tech has had the
opposite impact. It’s ...
Honey bees are dying — but man-made hives could save them
2 days ago –
Honey bees are under extreme pressure. Beekeepers in the US have
been losing and then replacing an average of 40 percent of their honey
bee colonies every year since 2010, a rate that is probably
unsustainable and would be unacceptable in other kinds of husbandry. The
biggest contributor to this ...
Bill V Bowie: How (not) to sell a tech idea
6 hours ago –
The year is 1995. Bill Gates explains to a skeptic David
Letterman on his late-night show why the Internet is “the new big
thing.” Yet that deliciously vintage clip actually shows Gates failing
miserably at presenting the Internet as something more than a frivolous
fad. You would have thought tha...
4 simple things social media marketers can do to improve social responsibility
9 hours ago –
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) can take many different
forms. Some businesses launch full campaigns that include revamping
corporate or manufacturing policies and supporting them with
fundraisers, volunteer activities, and charitable donations. Others
companies start massive social cause c...
Tech Crunch
TikTok tests social commerce
3 days ago –
TikTok is beginning to dabble in social commerce. The short-form
video app said it has started to allow some users to add links to
e-commerce sites (or any other destination) to their profile biography
as well as offer creators the ability to easily send their viewers to
shopping websites. The co...
SoftBank Vision Fund’s Carolina Brochado is coming to Disrupt Berlin
3 days ago –
SoftBank’s Vision Fund has single-handedly changed the game when
it comes to tech startup investment. And that’s why I’m excited to
announce that SoftBank Vision Fund investment director Carolina Brochado
is joining us at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin. Carolina Brochado isn’t a
newcomer when it comes...
Investment bank Lazard has quietly recruited a ‘Venture and Growth’ team to focus on European scale-ups
3 days ago –
Lazard, the global investment bank, has been quietly recruiting a
10-person team in London to head up its newly created “Venture and
Growth Banking” division to match investors with European scale-ups.
Unlike some investment banks, the focus of Lazard Venture and Growth
Banking will include Serie...
More layoffs at pivoting London ed tech startup pi-top
2 days ago –
London ed tech startup pi-top has gone through another round of
layoffs, TechCrunch has learned. Pi-top confirmed that eight jobs have
been cut in the London office, saying the job losses resulted from
“restructuring our business to focus on the U.S. education market.” In
August we broke the news...
Know your startup’s value so you can communicate it to investors
2 days ago –
Understanding whether you’re creating or destroying value is the
first step in communicating to investors why your company is worth
their money.
Virgin Galactic begins ‘Astronaut Readiness Program’ for first paying customers
2 days ago –
Virgin Galactic has begun its “Astronaut Readiness Program” this
week, which is being run out of Under Armour Global HQ to start. Under
Armour is Virgin Galactic’s partner on its official astronaut uniforms,
which its first paying space tourists will don on the company’s initial
trips beyond Eart...
Those crappy pre-installed Android apps can be full of security holes
2 days ago –
If you’ve ever bought an Android phone, there’s a good chance
you booted it up to find it pre-loaded with junk you definitely didn’t
ask for. These pre-installed apps can be clunky, annoying to remove,
rarely updated… and, it turns out, full of security holes. Security firm
Kryptowire built a too...
Facebook’s Libra code chugs along ignoring regulatory deadlock
2 days ago –
“5 months and growing strong” the Libra Association announced
today in a post about its technical infrastructure that completely omits
the fierce regulatory backlash to its cryptocurrency. Forty wallets,
tools and block explorers plus 1,700 GitHub commits have how now been
built on its blockchain...
Why Salesforce is moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure
2 days ago –
When Salesforce announced this week that it was moving Marketing
Cloud to Microsoft Azure, it was easy to see this as another case of
wacky enterprise partnerships. But there had to be sound business
reasons why the partnership came together, rather than going with AWS or
Google Cloud Platform, b...
Max Q: SpaceX starts building out its production Starlink constellation
3 hours ago –
There’s literally a lot more stuff in space than there was last
week – or at least, the number of active human-made satellites in
Earth’s orbit has gone up quite a bit, thanks to the launch of SpaceX’s
first 60 production Starlink satellites. This week also saw movement in
other key areas of comm...
TriNet sent remote workers an email that some thought was a phishing attack
5 hours ago –
It was the one of the best phishing emails we’ve seen… that
wasn’t. Phishing remains one of the most popular attack choices for
scammers. Phishing emails are designed to impersonate companies or
executives to trick users into turning over sensitive information,
typically usernames and passwords, ...
Bored of the coins
6 hours ago –
Something strange is afoot in the world of cryptocurrencies. For
the first time since Satoshi dropped Bitcoin on us like a benevolent
bomb, this painfully new, highly bizarre field has become … well …
boring. The true believers will tell you that great strides are being
made, and the mainstream b...
The Verge
Taylor Swift provoked fans to go after her rivals and now they’re being doxxed
3 days ago –
Photo by Efren Landaos/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
Taylor Swift wants the rights to her own music — and she may have just
crossed an ethical line to get it. On Thursday afternoon, Swift asked
her gigantic army of fans to get in touch with music industry talent
manager Scooter Brau...
3 days ago –
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Black Friday is almost here. The big shopping weekend actually starts
on Thursday, November 28th, which is Thanksgiving in the US. If you’re
in the market for a new phone, we’re cataloging the best offers you’ll
be able to get from retailers.
Whether...
Everything you ever wanted to know about the vaping health crisis
3 days ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Wait, which one?
Continue reading…
Apple could be forced to let Apple Pay competitors access NFC under German law
2 days ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Apple could be forced to allow rival payment services on iOS to
compete with its own Apple Pay service in Germany after the country’s
parliament voted in favor of the measures on Thursday, Zeit Online
reports. The legislation came in the form of an amend...
2 days ago –
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Pokémon Sword and Shield came out today, November 15th, on the
Nintendo Switch, and if you’re hoping to get the game for less than full
price, eBay is hosting $10 off deals on both games: today only, you can
get either game for $49.99.
If you don’t h...
Pokémon Sword and Shield’s camping is perfectly fluffy
2 days ago –
Part of the allure of Pokémon games is growing attached to each
new creature you catch. Games like Pokémon X and Y, Sun and Moon, and
Let’s Go incorporate some sort of bonding, from giving your pals a good
pat to feeding and cleaning them up. In Pokémon Sword and Shield,
downtime doesn’t just hap...
2 days ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro
The US Supreme Court will take up a long-running copyright lawsuit
between Oracle and Google, it confirmed today. This lets Google contest a
controversial ruling that could deal a major blow to software
development by establishing that companies can deny access to b...
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