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Twitter cuts off API access to follow/unfollow spam dealers
a day ago –
Notification spam ruins social networks, diluting the real human
interaction. Desperate to gain an audience, users pay services to
rapidly follow and unfollow tons of people in hopes that some will
follow them back. The services can either automate this process or
provide tools for users to gener...
Houzz resets user passwords after data breach
a day ago –
Houzz, a $4 billion-valued home improvement startup that
recently laid off 10 percent of its staff, has admitted a data breach. A
reader contacted TechCrunch on Thursday with a copy of an email sent by
the company. It doesn’t say much — such as when the breach happened, or
if a hacker is to blame...
Net neutrality battle gets a new day in court tomorrow
a day ago –
More than a year after net neutrality was essentially abolished
by a divided Federal Communications Commission, a major legal challenge
supported by dozens of companies and advocates has its day in court
tomorrow. Mozilla v. FCC argues that the agency's decision was not just
dead wrong, but achie...
A popular genealogy website just helped solve a serial killer cold case in Oregon
20 hours ago –
On Thursday, detectives in Portland, Ore. announced that a
long-cold local murder case finally came to a resolution, 40 years after
the fact. In 1979, 20-year-old Anna Marie Hlavka was found dead in the
Portland apartment she shared with her fiance and sister. According to
police, she was strangl...
Amazon’s barely-transparent transparency report somehow gets more opaque
20 hours ago –
Amazon posted its bi-annual report Thursday detailing the number
of government data demands it receives. The numbers themselves are
unremarkable, neither spiking nor falling in the second-half of last
year compared to the first-half. The number of subpoenas, search
warrants and other court orders...
Nintendo rumored to be working on a smaller, cheaper Switch
20 hours ago –
Remember when the rumor mill suggested that Nintendo was already
working on a sequel to the Switch? Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa
shut that down pretty quickly, saying that no successor was in the
works. Now the rumor mill has shifted gears: Rather than a whole new
generation, the whispers...
First China, now Starbucks gets an ambitious VC-funded rival in Indonesia
11 hours ago –
Asia’s venture capital-backed startups are gunning for Starbucks
. In China, the U.S. coffee giant is being pushed by Luckin Coffee, a
$2.2 billion challenger surfing China’s on-demand wave, and on the real
estate side, where WeWork China has just unveiled an on-demand
product that could tempt pe...
Nintendo to open its first official store located in Japan
13 hours ago –
Fourteen years after unveiling its first location in New York,
Nintendo is finally opening an official store in Japan, too. Nintendo
Tokyo will be located in Shibuya Parco, the new flagship of the Parco
department store chain. Nintendo Tokyo is scheduled to open at the same
time as the shopping c...
Facebook removes hundreds of accounts linked to fake news group in Indonesia
14 hours ago –
Facebook said today it has removed hundreds of Facebook and
Instagram accounts with links to an organization that peddled fake news.
The world’s fourth largest country with a population of more than 260
million, Indonesia is in an election year alongside Southeast Asia
neighbors Thailand and the ...
Everything you need to know about Facebook, Google’s app scandal
19 minutes ago –
Facebook and Google landed in hot water with Apple this week
after two investigations by TechCrunch revealed the misuse of
internal-only certificates — leading to their revocation, which led to a
day of downtime at the two tech giants. Confused about what happened?
Here’s everything you need to k...
Let’s save the bees with machine learning
an hour ago –
Machine learning and all its related forms of "AI" are being
used to work on just about every problem under the sun, but even so,
stemming the alarming decline of the bee population still seems out of
left field. In fact it's a great application for the technology and may
help both bees and beeke...
Commuters become crypto users, as DOVU signs loyalty deal with rail service
an hour ago –
While blockchain emerged first as a platform for currency and
value, its employment in the tokenization of data and information has
become recognized as being of at least, if not more, underlying value.
You could perhaps even use it to track movements on a grid associated
with mobility. That was ...
Over-the-air update strands NIO electric car on a highway in China
21 hours ago –
One of EV startup NIO’s cars got stuck on a highway in China on
Wednesday after the driver triggered an over-the-air software update,
according to Bloomberg and the South China Morning Post. The driver, who
was testing the car, and a NIO representative were wading through
Beijing’s notorious traf...
Over-the-air update strands NIO electric car on a highway in China
21 hours ago –
One of EV startup NIO’s cars got stuck on a highway in China
on Wednesday after the driver triggered an over-the-air software update,
according to Bloomberg and the South China Morning Post. The driver,
who was testing the car, and a NIO representative were wading through
Beijing’s notorious traf...
Honor View 20 review: top-notch performance without the notch
7 hours ago –
A 48-megapixel camera, all-screen display, giant battery, and a humane price punch a hole in the OnePlus armor
Continue reading…
Honor View 20 review: top-notch performance without the notch
7 hours ago –
A 48-megapixel camera, all-screen display, giant battery, and a humane price punch a hole in the OnePlus armor
Continue reading…
Before the Super Bowl, stream one of the all-time great football movies
4 hours ago –
There are so many streaming options available these days, and so
many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the
crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge’s Cut the Crap
column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwhelming
multitude of movies and TV sh...
Before the Super Bowl, stream one of the all-time great football movies
4 hours ago –
There are so many streaming options available these days, and
so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all
the crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge’s Cut the Crap
column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwhelming
multitude of movies and TV sh...
Save $40 on the Ring Alarm home security kit, and get a free Echo Dot on Amazon
3 hours ago –
Ring’s five-piece alarm kit is $40 off of its usual price today
on Amazon, and it comes with a free third-gen Amazon Echo Dot with
purchase. Normally $199.99, this $159.99 kit is even more of a bargain
now, given that it’s a fairly comprehensive solution for protecting your
home in the case of br...
Verily wants to make smart shoes that track weight and falls
10 minutes ago –
Google’s sister company Verily wants to make a smart shoe that
can track weight and monitor falls, according to CNBC. The company has
allegedly been looking for partners to develop this shoe and bring it to
market, but it’s very early in the process.
Fall detection seems to have become an increa...
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