Day: December 12, 2017

By NATHANIEL POPPER I.C.O.s have been big this year, but few established names have touched them. Indiegogo, the crowdfunding site, is looking to change that. Published: December 12, 2017 at 01:00AM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/2AxdfDD via IFTTT

FCC Plan to kill net neutrality rules could hurt students http://ift.tt/2iVheP3 Submitted December 12, 2017 at 04:23PM by Botheredhat360 via reddit http://ift.tt/2Bf992o

Tech Support Scammers Invade Spotify Forums To Rank in Search Engines Published on December 12, 2017 at 09:00PM Tech support scammers have been aggressively posting on Spotify forums to inject their phone numbers in a bid to vastly improve their odds of showing up on […]

Everybody loves a good #thread. You know the type: those long strings of related messages designed to tell a story or make a point that can’t be expressed in a single tweet. They used to be called tweetstorms; now they’re just threads. The Trump era […]

Paris Summit Finds New Money, Tech To Fight Climate Change Published on December 12, 2017 at 07:41PM An anonymous reader shares an Associated Press report: World leaders, investment funds and energy magnates promised Tuesday to devote new money and technology to slow global warming at […]

Nintendo Switch Sales Hit 10 Million Units, Could Outdo the Wii Published on December 12, 2017 at 08:21PM Nintendo’s big bet on a hybrid portable and home game system is paying off, with 10 million Nintendo Switch units sold in nine months. From a report: […]

Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? Published on December 12, 2017 at 07:00PM An anonymous reader shares a report: Why are there so many shots of power lines in Japanese anime cartoons? The Tumblr Power Lines in Anime is dedicated to appreciating the truly […]

Almost everyone talks about what an awful year this has been in some manner or another, but Nintendo is doing everything in its power to buck the trend.  Case in point: Not only has the beloved game company been releasing critically acclaimed games left and […]

Instagram is now letting users follow hashtags in addition to the people and brands they already do, the social media company announced Tuesday. To follow a hashtag, you can search for it or click on one from a post, which will then open the hashtag […]

Instagram is testing a new feature that would add posts you might like to your main feed. The Verge reports that this “Recommended for You” section would include posts that your friends have liked or posts that Instagram’s algorithm thinks you might enjoy. Instagram users […]