As a music industry veteran of almost 25 years, including the last 13 as president of my own company MAC Presents, I’ve negotiated over a hundred multi-faceted deals on behalf of brands including Citi, AT&T, Microsoft, Samsung and Southwest as well as for high profile […]
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This vulnerability could make your antivirus useless
Antivirus software is, naturally enough, designed to defend your PC from malicious attacks, but it seems that some of these security apps are suffering from a worrying vulnerability which has been dubbed AVGater. The flaw in question was discovered by security researcher Florian Bogner, and […]
ESPN launches a short-form version of SportsCenter on Snapchat
ESPN today announced it’s launching a short-form version of its SportsCenter show on Snapchat, which will kick off today at 5 PM ET. The show will then begin to release new episodes on a twice-daily basis, at 5 AM and 5 PM on weekdays and […]
Ray Kurzweil on Turing Tests, Brain Extenders and AI Ethics
Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil, who currently runs a group at Google writing automatic responses to your emails in cooperation with the Gmail team, recently talked with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson at the Council on Foreign Relations. Here’s an edited transcript of that conversation. Nicholas […]
Bitcoin Cash Crashes After Wild Weekend Surge
The market convulsions are the latest fallout from a bitter fight among cryptocurrency insiders over SegWit2X, a proposed update to bitcoin's core … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit from
Qualcomm rejects Broadcom’s $70 per share takeover offer
Qualcomm’s board of directors has unanimously voted to reject an acquisition offer from rival chipmaker Broadcom. Broadcom made a formal public offer last week of $70 per share, valuing Qualcomm at $130BN. Although analysts suggested the offer would be too low to win the backing of the […]
Facebook may be losing the fight against fake news
Late last year, when it became clear that Facebook’s fake news problem had influenced the election, CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined steps the organization would take to combat the epidemic. One of these initiatives was to partner with Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) to check whether […]
France raises prospect of new sanctions on Iran over ballistic program
France raises prospect of new sanctions on Iran over ballistic program … PARIS (Reuters) – France's foreign ministry suggested on Monday that new … be in the Saudi capital later this week and intends to travel to Iran before the end … social experiment by Livio […]
How to easily transfer iPhone music to a computer using WinX MediaTrans
It’s amazing to think how much information we entrust our phones with. From photos of amazing life events, to specific songs that bring memories rushing back, the sentimental value of our data is massive. How worrying then, that we store it on a device that’s […]
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