Category: tomorrow

Hitting the Books: Brotopia

[ad_1] Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valleyby Emily Chang “Boys will be boys” doesn’t cut it anymore. For anybody who isn’t a cis-het white guy, the internet can be a xenophobic hellscape filled with racist trolls, misogynists, creeps and *shudder* tech bros. Women and PoC are being put through a societal meat […]

After Math: It's the circle of tech

[ad_1] While most of us now need Buzzfeed quizzes about "things only '90s kids would recognize" to remember what a Blockbuster is, the franchise's inevitable demise is still something to be commemorated — if only by finally returning that VHS copy of Batma… [ad_2] Source link

The Morning After: Breaking up Big Tech

[ad_1] The details of Canada’s cyptocurrency scandal.QuadrigaCX’s missing millions is the messiest Bitcoin saga yet QuadrigaCX was one of Canada’s largest Bitcoin exchanges, controlling assets believed to be worth around $200 million CAD. Unfortunately, Gerald Cotten, its co-founder and CEO, passed away in December 2018. Unfortunately for customers, he was the only one who could […]

Elizabeth Warren pledges to break up Facebook, Google and Amazon

[ad_1] Warren has two proposals to counter the influence of these companies. First would be designating large tech platforms as “platform utilities.” “These companies would be prohibited from owning both the platform utility and any participants on that platform,” Warren says in the Medium post. Second, Warren proposes focusing on the reversal of tech mergers […]

The kings of artisanal cheese wear lab coats

[ad_1] “Jasper Hill is my favorite American cheesemaker,” said Michaela Weitzer, the education coordinator at New York City’s premiere cheese shop, Murray’s Cheese, adding that the quality is impeccable and “insanely consistent.” With his wavy brown hair and calm voice, Mateo Kehler radiates a rugged hippie vibe. Get him talking about cheese and he turns […]

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 […]

Harley’s LiveWire electric motorcycle will go farther than we thought

[ad_1] Previously, the company claimed the bike would have a city range of 110 miles. Now, Harley says, it’s good for 140, and it’ll have a mixed range rating of 88 miles, for those who occasionally zip onto the highway. While those numbers don’t beat Harley’s main competition yet, they’re still a welcome improvement. Harley’s […]

Nissan’s IMQ concept looks more like a stealth fighter than a crossover

[ad_1] Concept cars are traditionally an exercise in what’s potentially possible in the future. For Nissan (like nearly every other automaker at the Geneva Motor Show), the future is electric and autonomous. The IMQ crossover concept vehicle uses Nissan’s e-Power hybrid system that the company has been using in Japan. The automaker used the vehicle […]

Adults are the only ones who fell for the Momo hoax

[ad_1] Oh man, we really do live on the dumbest timeline. You probably recognize the horrifying visage you see above: it’s Momo, the mascot for the internet’s newest outrage sensation. The Momo Challenge, as it’s called, reportedly encourages children and teens to commit increasingly brazen acts of self-harm and criminality. It’s also a complete and […]

Apple quietly bought Lighthouse’s AI home security camera patents

[ad_1] Intellectual Property publication IAM reports that Apple snapped up a total of eight patents and patent applications very soon after Lighthouse ceased operations. Some cover typical security camera features — like two-way communication between a camera and other devices — but others specifically relate to the 3D depth-sensing technology that allowed Lighthouse’s camera to […]