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Instagram tests Direct Messaging on web where encryption 2020-01-14 12:49:27Instagram will finally let you chat from your web browser, but the launch contradicts Facebook’s plan for end-to-end encryption in all its messa

Instagram adds Boomerang effects as TikTok looms 2020-01-10 15:53:04TikTok has spawned countless memes formats from its creative effects, challenging Instagram for the filtered video crown. Now nearly five years after

Over two dozen encryption experts call on India 2020-01-09 16:24:28Security and encryption experts from around the world are joining a number of organizations to call on India to reconsider its proposed amendments to

Zuckerberg ditches annual challenges, but needs cynics to 2020-01-09 14:35:48Mark Zuckerberg won’t be spending 2020 focused on wearing ties, learning Mandarin or just fixing Facebook. “Rather than having year-to-yea

Daily Crunch: Twitter will let you limit replies 2020-01-09 13:03:13The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox ever

Facebook won’t ban political ads, prefers to keep 2020-01-09 09:48:06It’s 2020 — a key election year in the U.S. — and Facebook is doubling down on its policy of letting people pay it to fuck around wi

Twitter’s new reply blockers could let Trump hide 2020-01-08 15:22:18What if politicians could only display Twitter replies from their supporters while stopping everyone else from adding their analysis to the conversati

Facebook and eBay pledge to do more to 2020-01-08 10:14:35Facebook and eBay have made commitments to do more to stop fake reviews being sold on their platforms after coming under pressure from a UK markets re

What to expect in digital media in 2020 2020-01-08 05:35:09As we start 2020, the media and entertainment sectors are in flux. New technologies are enabling new types of content, streaming platforms in multiple

Daily Crunch: Facebook bans deepfakes 2020-01-07 13:02:13The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox ever

Facebook bans deceptive deepfakes and some misleadingly modified 2020-01-07 06:01:24Facebook wants to be the arbiter of truth after all. At least when it comes to intentionally misleading deepfakes and heavily manipulated and/or synth

Douyin, TikTok app in China, hits 400 million 2020-01-07 00:33:53China’s TikTok, which has taken the world by storm, is working its magic in its home nation, too. The Chinese version of TikTok, called Douyin,

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This autonomous food delivery robot is adorable — 2020-01-17 15:47:59BellaBot is an autonomous robot with four trays to carry food. The robot is a part of PuduTech’s larger goal: to create robot helpers for restau

Chocolate lovers may fall in love with this 2020-01-17 15:42:17Appropriately named “Cocoa Press,” the printer molds chocolate into any shape. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Chocolate, 3d Printe

Deepfakes are getting easier to make and the 2020-01-17 15:36:28One of the coolest videos I’ve seen in the past year is a YouTube clip from The Late Show with David Letterman featuring actor and comedian Bill

Janeane Garofalo goes abstract on a Bob Ross 2020-01-17 15:28:57Comedy legend Janeane Garofalo went rogue when taking the Bob Ross Challenge, finger-painting her way to a more abstract Bob Ross painting.  Read

Go under the stage of the Playwrights Horizons 2020-01-17 15:27:53Below the stage at New York's Playwrights Horizons theater is home to the all the inner-workings of the famous playhouse.  Read more...More abou

PopSockets CEO calls out Amazon's 'bullying with a 2020-01-17 15:13:29Amazon has a "bullying" problem. So insisted PopSockets CEO and inventor David Barnett today while describing his company's relationship with the e

The kids' climate lawsuit just got thrown out 2020-01-17 14:45:11The kids just got some bad news. Twenty-one children, adolescents, and young adults — all between the ages of 11 and 23 (as of June 2019) &mdash

New leak tells us pretty much everything about 2020-01-17 14:34:40We're less than a month out from Samsung officially unveiling its new flagship phones, which naturally means they'll be leaked to oblivion well befo

Joe Biden calls Zuckerberg 'a real problem' and 2020-01-17 14:03:45Joe Biden is angry at Facebook — and wants to fundamentally change the internet because of it. In an interview with the New York Times editorial

Calling all PC gamers: These curved monitors are 2020-01-17 13:39:06TL;DR: Nearly 20 curved monitors are on sale across Amazon and Walmart, saving you as much as 57% during this stellar sale. Big, bright, and boasting

We held a meditation contest at the world's 2020-01-17 08:30:00CES is, and I cannot stress this enough, the absolute worst.  The annual Las Vegas-based tech fest is notorious for wearing attendees down to the

These Louis Vuitton-branded earbuds are more expensive than 2020-01-17 08:00:00If you're in the market for some wireless earbuds that don't just play music but also give you a little fashion swagger, you're in luck. Premium au

The Next Web

Marley added noise-canceling to its Exodus headphones and 2020-01-17 09:10:48I had the pleasure of trying out Marley’s Exodus wireless over-ear headphones last May. Despite not being the best-sounding cans I’ve ever

Demand is surging for cloud admins. Join them 2020-01-17 08:15:00Cloud administrator positions have risen over 25% the past five years, and you can get in on the expanding field now with the right background, like t

Craft brilliant web pages with no coding experience 2020-01-17 08:00:00Blocs 3 may be one of the best examples of a web design app with a foot in both camps, especially for Mac users. Right now, you can check out the web

Google’s new AI language model can comprehend entire 2020-01-17 07:47:27One of the prime challenges of a language-based AI model is to understand the context of the surrounding content. To solve this problem, Google has in

VW knows it must become a tech company 2020-01-17 07:23:31German marque, and the world’s largest car maker by sales, Volkswagen (VW) appears to be wising up to the changing landscape of the automobile w

Self-styled ‘coyote of Wall Street’ gets 33 months 2020-01-17 07:14:44The operator of New-York based company CabbageTech has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding cryptocurrenc

Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin is now worth as much 2020-01-17 06:01:30Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, t

This genius combined every macOS 10 wallpaper into 2020-01-17 05:31:25I like to think that somewhere inside the bureaucratic labyrinth of Apple’s employee structure, there’s a single person with the world&rsq

New Hampshire bill to allow taxes to be 2020-01-17 04:52:00No, New Hampshire residents won’t be able to pay their taxes in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Public records show that a bill filed this

Pardon the Intrusion #9: Privacy or security? 2020-01-17 04:45:32Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explo

Facebook has reportedly shelved its plans to show 2020-01-17 00:05:22Good news! Facebook is dropping its plans to show ads on its popular messaging service WhatsApp. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal

Pardon the Intrusion #8: Location trackers 2020-01-16 23:45:30Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon the Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we

E-Commerce Times

It's Crunch Time for California Consumer Privacy Act 2020-01-15 15:19:22The CCPA -- widely considered to be the toughest law in the U.S. regulating the collection, storage and use of personal information -- went into effec

Adobe Offers Experience Manager as Cloud Service 2020-01-15 14:07:10Adobe has announced the availability of Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service for B2B and B2C companies of all sizes. The service provides "a g

4 Marketing Automation Tools for SMB Success in 2020-01-14 14:53:28Marketing automation isn't a thing of the future -- it's very much a part of the here and now for small and midsized businesses across the world. Ho

What's in Your Containers? Try an Open Source 2020-01-14 07:00:00As most security pros know, application containers -- Docker, rkt, etc. -- and the orchestration elements employed to support them, such as Kubernetes

Building E-Commerce Wave: Social Media Shopping 2020-01-13 15:25:27Consumers are on social media constantly, scrolling through posts. Many have begun clicking on brand posts and making purchases. "Social commerce is

'Black PR' Firms Line Their Pockets by Spreading 2020-01-09 07:00:00PR companies long have been known for reshaping perceptions for their clients. Some now engage in "black PR" -- the calculated spread of misinformat

Facebook to Kick Out Some Deepfakes 2020-01-08 07:00:00Facebook has promised to remove certain "misleading manipulated media": videos edited or synthesized in ways that likely would mislead viewers to be

Chatbot or Human? Combine Both to Achieve Customer 2020-01-07 15:08:51Companies across industries are shifting toward an automated approach to customer relations. With the help of chatbots, businesses can reduce their cu

Few Households Have Taken the Gigabit Broadband Leap 2020-01-07 14:30:37Increasing numbers of connected devices in the home and greater consumption of streaming media are driving consumer demand for faster broadband speeds

Recommerce: The New Art of Secondhand Sales 2020-01-06 14:25:32Recommerce is booming, with companies meeting consumer demand for more affordable and sustainable alternatives to buying new. "I believe recommerce i

In 2020, Enterprises Will Unlock Hidden Value in 2020-01-03 07:00:00If 2019 was the year we identified the most acute challenges facing various industries -- in the form of macroeconomic trends as well as industry-spec

4 Keys to a Winning Amazon Marketing Strategy 2019-12-30 15:06:10Research indicates that 66 percent of online shoppers start their product searches on Amazon, and Amazon shoppers behave differently than buyers on ot

Entrepreneur

The Hot 25: The Hottest Cannabis Brands Of 2020-01-17 16:30:00Discover the most influential brands in the cannabis industry with Pioneer Intelligence's marketing analytics platform.

4 Ways Tech Can Improve Your Investment Strategy 2020-01-17 16:30:00Innovations have radically democratized investing, making it more transparent and easier to engage in.

How Startups Helped Birmingham Bounce Back 2020-01-17 15:30:00An aband