Ever Loved Ever Loved launches Virtual Funeral Chain to give you whatever you want Ever Loved wants to upend funerals by matching consumers with morticians who match funeral and casket requirements. The funeral company just launched today in New York and is hiring funeral
Facebook ACLU and ACLU want ‘due process’ from FTC before deciding on Facebook Facebook needs more “due process” from government agencies, the ACLU of Kentucky and the American Civil Liberties Union’s Indiana chapter to preserve its fair play. In a letter this
YouTube Use This: How You Tube Makes Better Recommendations Machine learning and artificial intelligence are platforms upon which so much of the world is now operated. Companies such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Airbnb use them to improve the
Craig Gentry ‘Hot Chocolate in the Dark’: Finally An Answer To Crypto’s Biggest Problem In news of a year well read in cryptospeak, the New York Times is reporting that a team of researchers has figured out the secret to making secure, complete crypto-systems
artificial intelligence A New Benchmark for American Households Since it began about six years ago, connected-home tech has been one of the most intensely debated and controversial consumer gadgets of our time. Nothing better illustrates this than the
artificial intelligence Amazon Using Facebook Messenger To Let You Order Online Without Speaking To An Echo One of the things artificial intelligence has taught us is that a company does not need to build a new AI system to meet unmet customer needs. Nor does it
artificial intelligence The 10 Best Examples of Artificial Intelligence The moment the computer made the Rosetta probe land on Comet 67P, it was obvious that the universe of human experiences is incomplete. After all, people were doing all sorts
Google Hackers Use Cross-Site Scripting To Target New Mobile Game As Easily As Old Gaming Sites Hackers are using a relatively new attack technique to infiltrate websites and add links to popular online games. The technique, known as a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, allows malicious code
Kickstarter 9 Ridiculous Products That Failed. Read on There’s a fine line between innovative and absurd. Sometimes it just goes too far for reality to catch up. These16 duds were just a step short of un-American, honestly.
Rob Leathern Is Congress really as outraged as it sounds? On Wednesday, Facebook did in fact get some leverage to prevent the spread of false and misleading news — by requiring political advertisers to confirm themselves. But if recent history is
Safiya Noble Google Searches for "Husband" Have Quadrupled, According to Research Google searches for "husband" have quadrupled since 2007, reports Mashable. While “wife” has remained largely unchanged, searches for “husband” during the past few years have climbed so quickly that it
silent film No, The Government Isn’t Going to Ban Washington D.C. Tech Companies US President Donald Trump renewed his calls to set up a travel ban on mostly Muslim countries during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Despite criticism, he
Scandal Essential Labs CEO Andy Rubin is close to losing his $50 million fortune After months of controversy, Andy Rubin, one of Silicon Valley’s most highly-profile entrepreneurs, found himself at the center of a string of scandals and scrutiny in the past year.
Google Beto O’Rourke was thinking this through when he did his speech When US congressman Beto O’Rourke crashed a press conference by senator Ted Cruz to endorse Elizabeth Warren in the Massachusetts primary on Thursday, I immediately began wondering: why didn’
The New Propaganda This is what happens when digital advertising gets granular If only the 2016 presidential campaign had been chronicled through a single technology. Last year, The New York Times reported that advertisements often aren’t scrubbed clean from Facebook. And
Google Google says it’s still ranking politics—but I don’t care about my political leanings According to data from our Google Chrome browser, my political leanings are—quietly—right on center right. This may be news to you. Facebook and Google routinely told me I
Facebook Facebook is planning to start measuring its political ads on an ad-spend map of the US For most of 2018, Facebook’s one true claim to fame has been political damage control. Its access to our personal information and relationships was compromised, innocent users discovered they
Facebook Facebook could launch ads tailored to your ethnicity to make its service less irritating What does “OK” look like in China, or Burma, or Venezuela? Facebook confirmed last week that its first-ever ad product is an ongoing test in those countries, one that targets
Donald Trump Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft are all working with Google, not Google alone. On Jan. 17, Facebook’s head of global media partnerships, Campbell Brown, answered questions at the India Today Conclave for the latest batch of candidates to run in America’s
Molly Stillman What if your website is infected with viruses or malware? Since the introduction of Google Chrome, you could play games and videos on your website by simply copying and pasting the .apk file into your game bookmarks on your Mac
MoviePass Here Are All Of The Best And Worst-Known Product Flops In The Last 10 Years It’s the most wonderful time of the year, or so we like to tell ourselves. Product launches, new products, new products, new products. But does it live up to
Facebook Facebook Won’t Change Its Policies For Midterm Elections Facebook has said it will not alter its policies relating to political ads for the upcoming midterm elections. Pressure to protect the integrity of political discourse in the U.S.
Amazon Travel Ban Plans Reportedly in the Works A State Department official confirmed Monday that President Trump plans to expand his travel ban, which currently prohibits travel to the U.S. from six Muslim-majority countries. The ban would
Rubin Kazan Andy Rubin Shutting Down, Ending Crazy Action Hero Action-Man, Engineer Founder Andy Rubin could be putting his crazy action hero stuff on ice. After months of being targeted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an ongoing investigation into whether
Amazon Apple is helping you sign in without a password with new security system Apple recently joined the global fintech forum FIDO as a signatory member to support password-free authentication. This includes the new wireless authentication system called Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) that lets
