The prospective scale of the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to fill anyone looking from the outside with the technical equivalent of agoraphobia. However, from the inside, the view is very different. Looked at in detail, it is a serie...
Daily Archives: February 25, 2016
Twitter and Facebook have recently claimed to be stepping up their fights against extremist content being hosted on their platforms. Indeed, there is some evidence that certain tactics to counter extremists’ appropriation of mainstream social media platforms — such as Twitter deploying repeat account suspensions — is having an impact on the spread of extremist propaganda. Read MorePro-ISIS Hacker Group Video Threatens Twitter, Facebook CEOs Over Account ...
In 2010, tablets were supposed to be the new hot thing. Apple released the first iPad, Samsung was working on the Galaxy Tab and countless others were about to flood the market with Android tablets. Six years later, there weren’t any tablets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Companies and consumers have moved on. Tablets are dead. Read MoreTablets Are Dead
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is asking his employees to stop being ignorant and racist (my words, not his). In an internal memo obtained by Gizmodo, Zuckerberg said he was disappointed by the “several recent instances of people crossing out ‘black lives matter’ and writing ‘all lives matter’ on the walls at MPK.” MPK, one of Facebook’s buildings in… Read MoreMark Zuckerberg Asks Employees To Stop Crossing Out “Black Lives ...
Instant Articles, meet Instant Ads. Facebook wants to give advertisers an immersive way to reach people without making them leave the social network. So today it officially launched its ad Canvas. When users click a Facebook ad, it opens a full-s...
Facebook Officially Launches Canvas Ads That Load Full-Screen Rich Media ...
With a new keyboard app for Android, Microsoft is trying to bring desktop-style productivity to mobile devices. The post Microsoft's New Android Keyboard Cuts Down On App-Jumping appeared first on WIRED.
Microsoft’s New Android Keyboard Cuts Down On App-Jumping
If you want to crack the secrets of the universe or reverse quantum time you’re going to need a supercomputer. Why not make that supercomputer out of a bunch of Raspberry Pi boards? This Instructable shows you how but there’s a bit of a catch. Remember that Raspberry Pi boards aren’t very powerful and putting a bunch of them together is kind of like getting a lot of puppies… Read MoreBuild A DIY Raspberry Pi Supercomputer And Beat The NSA ...
The Xperia Agent could be the robot your home has been missing. The post The Xperia Agent Is Sony's Bold Plan to One-Up the Amazon Echo appeared first on WIRED.
The Xperia Agent Is Sony’s Bold Plan to One-Up the ...
The Xperia Agent could be the robot your home has been missing. The post The Xperia Agent Is Sony's Bold Plan to One-Up the Amazon Echo appeared first on WIRED.
The Xperia Agent Is Sony’s Bold Plan to One-Up the ...
A startup comprised of a trio of ex-Google engineers is doing something Google has roundly failed to do: make Android compelling on larger screen devices like tablets and even PCs. Read More