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Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking Google is the latest tech company to drop the longstanding wall between anonymous online ad tracking and user’s names. by Julia AngwinProPublica, Oct. 21, 2016, 7 a.m. Print Print Rt_Sdbr_Non-Mobile-Only300x250 Sidebar_Donate search Follow ProPublica Twitter Twitter Facebook Facebook volumelow Podcast RSS RSS Email Updates by…
Get a new drone for the holidays? Jefferson Graham runs down five tips you need to know about drone usage in this #TalkingTech video. cxenseparse_start LOS ANGELES – It’s not just me. cxenseparse_end cxenseparse_start Mashable has a fabulous piece about all those new drone gifts that crashed over the holidays. cxenseparse_end Agriculture could be one…
Napoleon Hill is the most famous conman you’ve probably never heard of. Born into poverty in rural Virginia at the end of the 19th century, Hill went on to write one of the most successful self-help books of the 20th century: Think and Grow Rich. In fact, he helped invent the genre. But it’s the…
ONE OF THE intellectual gargoyles that has crawled out of Donald Trump’s brain is the idea that we should “open up” libel laws to make it easier to punish the media for negative or unfair stories. Trump also wants top officials to sign nondisclosure agreements, so they never write memoirs that upset the boss. Trump is…
WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump is weighing naming as Food and Drug Administration commissioner a staunch libertarian who has called for eliminating the agency’s mandate to determine whether new medicines are effective before approving them for sale. “Let people start using them, at their own risk,” the candidate, Jim O’Neill, said in a 2014 speech to a biotech…
Clockwise from top left: Trump, Steve Bannon, Corey Lewandowski, and Andy Puzder.Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images, Jesse Grant/Getty Images, Mandel Ngan/Getty Images, and Jeff Swensen/Getty Images. Shortly after Thursday’s announcement that Donald Trump would nominate Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s CEO Andy Puzder to lead the Labor Department, St. Louis’ Riverfront Times…
WASHINGTON — American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances and promote Donald J. Trump, according to senior administration officials. They based that conclusion, in part, on another finding — which they say was also reached with high confidence —…
With viewership for Snapchat’s Live Stories stagnating, the feature is not a priority for media buyers. In addition to Discover, Live Stories is one of two media-driven features inside the Snapchat app. Available alongside Discover on the Stories and Discover pages, Live Stories provides content curated around different events and topics — everything from a…
A weird side effect of having a president-elect who tweets incessantly has been the battle for the space under his tweets. Over the past several months, a series of automated accounts have been vying to respond to Donald Trump’s tweets within seconds of being posted. This week, however, Twitter has been cracking down on…
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter. Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with…