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Begin: WordPress Article Content Editor’s note: Levi King is the CEO and founder of Creditera.First we went online to learn. Then we naturally started buying stuff. Smart retailers learned to target us based on our behavior. We searched and they reacted through pay-per-click and display. Then folks like Amazon used purchase history data to get smart about predicting what else…
Wikileaks sent a letter to Google on Jan. 26 asking details on what materials Google handed over to the the FBI after a warrant was issued in March 2012. Wikileaks also wants to know why Google did not inform Wikileaks employees of the request until Dec. 23, 2014. Google released emails of three Wikileaks members to…
Just over a year ago, Twitter launched a new analytics tool that allowed website owners to track links tweeted to their websites and how many users clicked on them. That tool was recently retired from the site without much fanfare. The website analytics tool originally appeared under the analytics option in Twitter’s ad product, but is no…
Consider the humble video game cartridge. It’s a small, durable plastic box that imparts the most immediate, user-friendly software experience ever created. Just plug it in, and you’re playing a game in seconds. If you’ve ever used one, you have two men to thank: Wallace Kirschner and Lawrence Haskel, who invented the game cartridge 40…
For nearly as long as theantifeminist culture war known as Gamergate has raged across the internet, a microcosm of the battle has taken place on Wikipedia. Should Gamergate defined as a push for ethics in gaming journalism, or a paranoid campaign against women in gaming? This week, Wikipedia’s highest court made a major decisionin favor…
Begin: WordPress Article Content Virtual reality promises a lot of potential changes to the way we experience the world, but the ramifications it has for how we tell stories might be among the most interesting. Vice News is offering a glimpse into what news broadcasting might look like when VR is omnipresent with a report…
What used to be simple outdoor fun is now considered real child therapy in our hyper-connected world. Kids at a digital detox camp near Sao Paulo SÃO PAULO — Bedtime is the most difficult time of day here. They can’t decide whether to stare at the ceiling, hum the latest pop hits or simply close their…
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One of the Twitter accounts set up using the author’s photo and name This post first appeared on VICE UK. “Ellie! Chia! I didn’t know you were here!” We’re on the Malia strip during the summer of 2010. My friend and I stare blankly back at the boy in front of us, certain we’ve never…
paging_filterWilliam Turton, 17, stands out from his tech reporter colleagues at The Daily Dot, a fast-growing digital media site dedicated to covering Internet culture.But that doesn’t mean they respect the high school junior any less. “He does not speak or act his age at all,” said Kevin Morris, the Daily Dot editor who brought him…