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AOL Inc. (AOL:US), the owner of the Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Engadget, is considering closing some websites as part of a restructuring at the company, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The Web portal is looking to close underperforming sites and switch resources to other AOL-owned properties that are performing better, the…
Facebook report says the social network adds more than $200 million to the global economy. Photo: Reuters class:cT-imageLandscape/cT-imagePortrait SAN FRANCISCO: With 1.35 billion users of its Internet social network, Facebook Inc would rank as the world’s second-most populous nation if it were a country. While its users may populate only a virtual country, Facebook says…
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock cache hit 822:single/related:68cbab3253debea7f4ee68a0b3ce6874 empty Google’s security researchers have published another pair of Windows security flaws that Microsoft hasn’t got a fix for, continuing the disagreement between the companies about when and how to disclose security bugs. The first bug affects Windows 7 only and results in minor information disclosure. Microsoft says,…
BBC News – ‘Cyber attack war games’ to be staged by UK and US.
We’re not living in an algorithmic culture so much as a computational theocracy. Algorithms are everywhere, supposedly. We are living in an “algorithmic culture,” to use the author and communication scholar Ted Striphas’s name for it. Google’s search algorithms determine how we access information. Facebook’s News Feed algorithms determine how we socialize. Netflix’s and Amazon’s…
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The Spiral 2 prototypeProject Ara, Google’s Google’s effort to bring to life a modular phone that you put together like Lego bricks, is coming to Puerto Rico in a pilot later this year.At its second Project Ara Developer Conference on Google’s campus in Mountain View today, Project Ara director Paul Eremenko discussed Google’s go-to-market plans. Instead of…
Begin: Right Rail Advertisement Container End: Right Rail Advertisement Container Begin: WordPress Article Content What if Silicon Valley had emerged from a racially integrated community?Would the technology industry be different? Would we? And what can the technology industry do now to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past? I met Bob Hoover one sunny Friday afternoon when…
Reclaim and make the most of the public domain at Open Book Hack Day on January 14, 2015 at The New York Public Library, brought to you by NYPL Labs and The Readium Foundation. During this day-long event, we’ll push the limits of what’s possible with ebooks and open texts, liberate public domain documents onto…