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Begin: WordPress Article Content Twitter Engineering Manager Leslie Miley, the only black engineer in a leadership position at Twitter, just publicly announced that he has left the company. In his post, he says his reasons for leaving have everything to do with the way Twitter is addressing diversity and inclusion. Though Miley was laid off as…
Posted by Bálint Miklós, Software EngineerWith the holidays approaching and emails coming in at a furious pace, we can all use a little help. Inbox is already on hand assisting you with the next step, organizing your trips, and even suggesting reminders. But when you’re checking email on the go, it can be cumbersome and…
Snapchat, the social network best known for its disappearing images, has updated its terms of service to give it the right to store users’ photos forever. The company’s new privacy policy and terms of service dramatically broaden the scope of what it can do with users’ photos and likeness. People must agree to the updated…
Photo Evan Ratliff, near his offices in Brooklyn, runs The Atavist Magazine, which last month shut off its app and decided to publish only on the web. Credit Benjamin Norman for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Apple wants mobile devices to be filled with apps. Google supports a world where people browse the…
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio took aim at Uber this summer, trying (and failing) to set a cap on the number of its for-hire cars operating in the city. The ride-share service has drawn criticism on a number of issues — including its labor practices — but the mayor said his main concern…
Controversial people-rating app Peeple took a new path today and now it seems like it’s going to be available sooner than we expected and in the form of a more pleasant app than previously reported. Originally, the cut-throat app was due to be released officially in November and let you review everyone you know. However,…
NEWS: A forthcoming app called “Peeple” will purportedly function as a ratings service of private individuals. On 30 September 2015 social media users began buzzing about a purported new app called “Peeple” and proposed functionality (i.e., “to assign reviews and one- to five-star ratings to everyone you know”) that was almost universally scorned by its…
Marco Arment, a developer and blogger who had been one of the most prominent advocates of ad blocking, has pulled his best-selling ad-blocking app from Apple’s App store. “Just doesn’t feel good,” Arment titled a post explaining the move, which came just three days after his “Peace” app launched. On Wednesday, Apple’s new iOS9 software allowed…
Last week, Julia Greenberg from Wired wrote an interesting story titled “All Those Mobile News Alerts Are Getting On Your Nerves”: Mobile news alerts are becoming the norm. … Many of you hate them so much so that you’ve turned all alerts off. But even if you do get them, you don’t really like them….
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