Facebook just announced that it will make sweeping changes to the News Feed, the primary place where users find content on the social network. Over the next few months, users will see “more from your friends, family and groups” and ” less public content like […]
Month: January 2018
New story in Business from Time: Peter Thiel Made an Offer to Buy Gawker, the Website He Helped Close
(NEW YORK) – Venture capitalist Peter Thiel has made an offer for Gawker, hoping to overcome legal hurdles and rival bidders for the online news site the billionaire helped shutter by funding litigation against it, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Gawker, which […]
Scientists Change Our Understanding of How Anaesthesia Messes With the Brain
Scientists Change Our Understanding of How Anaesthesia Messes With the Brain Published on January 12, 2018 at 01:50AM schwit1 shares a report from ScienceAlert: It’s crazy to think that we still don’t quite understand the mechanism behind one of the most common medical interventions — […]
South Korea Plans To Ban Cryptocurrency Trading
South Korea Plans To Ban Cryptocurrency Trading Published on January 12, 2018 at 01:10AM South Korea’s government said on Thursday it plans to ban cryptocurrency trading, sending bitcoin prices plummeting and throwing the virtual coin market into turmoil as the nation’s police and tax authorities […]
TiVo Sues Comcast Again, Alleging Operator’s X1 Infringes Eight Patents
TiVo Sues Comcast Again, Alleging Operator’s X1 Infringes Eight Patents Published on January 12, 2018 at 12:30AM TiVo’s Rovi subsidiary on Wednesday filed two lawsuits in federal district courts, alleging Comcast’s X1 platform infringes eight TiVo-owned patents. “That includes technology covering pausing and resuming shows […]
Circuit City Is Coming Back
Circuit City Is Coming Back Published on January 11, 2018 at 11:50PM Following a tease of a CES announcement, current Circuit City CEO Ronny Shmoel confirmed on Monday that something called Circuit City will arrive as “a new, more personalized online shopping experience” starting February […]
Circuit City Is Coming Back
Circuit City Is Coming Back Published on January 11, 2018 at 11:50PM Following a tease of a CES announcement, current Circuit City CEO Ronny Shmoel confirmed on Monday that something called Circuit City will arrive as “a new, more personalized online shopping experience” starting February […]
The US Congress said they’d stop illegal surveillance, but now they’re trying to expand it. Contact your Reps now. via /r/technology
The US Congress said they’d stop illegal surveillance, but now they’re trying to expand it. Contact your Reps now. The US House just vote to kill an amendment that would have restricted NSA spying. Now they're about to vote to reauthorize mass spying. Contact your […]
The US Congress said they’d stop illegal surveillance, but now they’re trying to expand it. Contact your Reps now. via /r/technology
The US Congress said they’d stop illegal surveillance, but now they’re trying to expand it. Contact your Reps now. The US House just vote to kill an amendment that would have restricted NSA spying. Now they're about to vote to reauthorize mass spying. Contact your […]
‘Sex Party’ or ‘Nerds on a Couch?’ A Night in Silicon Valley
Earlier this month, a Vanity Fair report revealed sordid tales of Silicon Valley sex parties. But the tales, while full of unsavory and salacious details, did not include any names, raising questions in some minds about their truthfulness. Two people familiar with one of the […]