Daily Archives: April 25, 2017

Jessica Moreno and her co-founder Dan McComas couldn’t find the kind of inclusive online community they were looking for when they left Reddit in the summer of 2015 so they started Imzy, a community platform encouraging kinder interactions with like-minded individuals. Moreno and McComas spent six years prior to starting Imzy cultivating community and learning the ropes at the site… Read More

A chat with Imzy co-founder Jessica Moreno on building a ...

This entry was posted in Diversity Reddit Social Startups TC and tagged social media on April 25, 2017 by Sarah Buhr

A hacker called The Janitor has created multiple versions of a program called Brickerbot, a system that searches out and bricks insecure IoT devices. A researcher named Pascal Geenens has followed the worm for a few weeks and has seen it pop up and ess...

Brickerbot is a vigilante worm that destroys insecure IoT devices

This entry was posted in Gadgets IoT software TC on April 25, 2017 by John Biggs

If only all algorithmic bias were as easy to spot as this: FaceApp, a photo-editing app that uses a neural network for editing selfies in a photorealistic way, has apologized for building a racist algorithm. Read More

FaceApp apologizes for building a racist AI

This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Diversity Europe racism selfie Social TC on April 25, 2017 by Natasha Lomas

I’ve been saying it for a few years now, but I really, really like the Chromecast — Google’s simple little dongle for streaming Netflix/Hulu/YouTube etc. from your devices to your TV with just a tap or two. It does what it’s supposed to do, does it well and doesn’t try to do anything more than that. Well… that’s not entirely true. Read More

Google is fixing up Chromecast’s ‘Cast a tab’ feature and ...

This entry was posted in Chrome chromecast Gadgets TC and tagged google on April 25, 2017 by Greg Kumparak

MikMak, the New York-based startup that is trying to make short and catchy infomercials (aptly named minimercials) the future of commerce, is launching a new feature to help retailers monetize their stories on Instagram and Snapchat. The new product is called Attach, and serves as a middleman between a retailer’s daily story on a platform like Instagram and the actual product available… Read More

MikMak is using mini infomercials to help retailers turn their ...

This entry was posted in eCommerce Mobile Social Startups TC and tagged social media on April 25, 2017 by Fitz Tepper

Facebook wants you to think about whether a headline is true and see other perspectives on the topic before you even read the article. In its next step against fake news, Facebook today begins testing a different version of its Related Articles w...

Facebook shows Related Articles and fact checkers before you open ...

This entry was posted in Apps Government Mark Zuckerberg Media Mobile Social TC and tagged facebook on April 25, 2017 by Josh Constine

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This entry was posted in Gear on April 25, 2017 by David Pierce

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