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Arnold Schwarzenegger Falls for Snapchat but Should Investors Pile In?
By CCN: Arnold Schwarzenegger, star of “The Terminator” (and nothing else lately), found himself the victim of an assault at an event in South Africa. While attending “Arnold Classic Africa” in Johannesburg, which features a wide array of sporting events and physical activities, the 71-year-old “Last Action Hero” was filming participants when he received a flying kick to the back by an unknown assailant. äàëüøå »
2019-5-19 00:45
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Here’s the real tea: A primer on YouTube drama channels
So you may have heard about a little fight going on in the YouTube community, between two beauty gurus named Tati Westbrook and James Charles. The drama tornado has engulfed aspects of the internet that aren’t even remotely related to the two, but one of the reasons may be an organized and inquisitive network of channels devoted to drama. äàëüøå »
2019-5-18 03:05
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White House launches social media survey to collect Conservative tears
The Trump administration on Wednesday launched launched a new tool where pissed off Conservatives can whine about social media bias. So long as they’re legal citizens, anyway. For Conservatives like Trump, a man who rose to prominence on the backs of the social networks he’s now convinced are out to get him, the argument isn’t a new one. äàëüøå »
2019-5-16 04:56
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MIT Professor Christian Catalini Is Working on Facebook Coin: Report
According to two anonymous sources, MIT professor Christian Catalini is reportedly working on Facebook’s coin
äàëüøå »2019-5-6 06:40
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Meet Brave’s New Privacy Centric Ads Platform
The current state of capital flow between advertisers, consumers, and publishers isn’t exactly an unbroken chain. While consumers and creators drive markets, it’s the intermediaries and content promoters who end up raking in most of the spoils. äàëüøå »
2019-4-28 18:51
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TikTok Watch: High-schoolers are trolling teachers by using their first names
Welcome to TikTok Watch. You know, 2019’s version of Vine. This new series unearths the latest TikTok trends, so you don’t have to. Let’s face it, if you signed up, it’d just make you feel really old. äàëüøå »
2019-4-18 16:11
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Twitter users trolled Jack Dorsey so hard they had to shut off the screen during his TED Talk
Ted Talk organizers today hosted a conversation with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The conversation went mostly as planned. It centered on opportunities and challenges faced by the platform, and what it was doing to address them. äàëüøå »
2019-4-16 23:23
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Facebook, Twitter and Telegram: A New Crypto Paradigm or a Glorified Voucher Program?
How cryptocurrencies from Telegram to Facebook could drive crypto adoption and change the finance industry
äàëüøå »2019-4-13 17:14
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Parasites keep impersonating black hole researcher Dr. Katie Bouman on Twitter
Yesterday, the world got to see the first photograph of a black hole. It was a truly historic moment, and it couldn’t have happened without MIT CSAIL researcher Dr. Katie Bouman, who was catapulted overnight into the halls of global celebrity. äàëüøå »
2019-4-11 17:44
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Yes, there’s a subreddit that skewers those targeted Facebook t-shirt ads
Facebook ads are usually weird and funny when they’re not showing off spooky knowledge of your life and hobbies. Those targeted ads for graphic t-shirts somehow manage to be all three — and a subreddit is celebrating them in all their bizarre glory. äàëüøå »
2019-4-8 22:35
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EU proposal requires platforms to delete ‘terrorist content’ in 1 hour or face fines
Just 12 days after voting ‘yes’ on the controversial Copyright Reform, the EU is discussing new regulation that might further hurt smaller platforms. The EU Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs (LIBE) will vote today, April 8, on implementing a one-hour deadline for any platform to delete terrorist content. äàëüøå »
2019-4-8 15:40
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Bloomberg report explains why YouTube hosts so much toxic content
Yesterday, Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen published a devastating piece charting how the once-innocuous YouTube became the world’s most effective radicalization machine, in the process becoming a haven for conspiracy theorists and actual honest-to-god paedophiles. äàëüøå »
2019-4-3 10:40
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Kik And Tapatalk To Roll Out KIN Support For 200,000 Servers
Popular instant messaging app turned blockchain startup Kik has announced a partnership with online forum platform Tapatalk to leverage the KIN token on its massive roster of forums. KIN, the native token of the Kik project was developed to provide incentive for users to produce high quality content on its platform, and allow creators to […] The post Kik And Tapatalk To Roll Out KIN Support For 200,000 Servers appeared first on Crypto Briefing. äàëüøå »
2019-3-28 19:24
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YouTube’s ‘child safe’ app is crawling with videos advocating suicide, murder, and sexual exploitation
For nearly five minutes, the cartoon is predictable. Colorful characters with child-like voices act out the types of scenarios capable of reversing even the wildest tantrums, turning screaming toddlers into tiny, submissive humans. äàëüøå »
2019-3-22 02:49
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Xena Exchange Launches Telegram Crypto Derivatives
Nearly a year after Telegram’s billion-dollar ICO, an affiliated London-based exchange says it is now ready to launch a derivative contract for the GRAM token. In an announcement to the press this morning, Xena Exchange said XGRAM-listed perpetual contracts would now be publicly tradable. äàëüøå »
2019-3-12 10:00
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Facebook’s News Feed is a mess, but it taught me to time travel
My relationship with Facebook has changed over the past two years. I’ve never been a fan, per se, but I find myself interacting with the News Feed far less than I used to. The News Feed, a place Facebook once used to spoon-feed me information that I’d elected to receive — stories from The New Yorker, videos from GoPro, and seasonal menu changes from my favorite local restaurants — has all but disappeared. äàëüøå »
2019-3-12 04:13
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Facebook’s Newsfeed is a mess, but it taught me to time travel
My relationship with Facebook has changed over the past two years. I’ve never been a fan, per se, but I find myself interacting with the Newsfeed far less than I used to. The Newsfeed, a place Facebook once used to spoon-feed me information that I’d elected to receive — stories from The New Yorker, videos from GoPro, and seasonal menu changes from my favorite local restaurants — has all but disappeared. äàëüøå »
2019-3-12 04:13
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How Does Social Sentiment Affect the Bitcoin Market?
There's a rather unhealthy obsession going on with price in the Bitcoin market. What lessons can we learn from social sentiment trends? The post How Does Social Sentiment Affect the Bitcoin Market? appeared first on CoinCentral. äàëüøå »
2019-2-28 17:02
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‘The Gyllenhaal Experiment’ shows where redditors go wrong in spelling celebrity names
In more than 600,000 attempts at spelling actress Scarlett Johansson’s name, fewer than one-in-three were successful. In terms of absolute certainty, all we can be sure of is that most would get the first five letters correct. äàëüøå »
2019-2-26 23:13
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Decentralized Applications Are Getting Ready For Holochain
Decentralized applications may have a lot of promise, but they have a lot of problems too. Most dApps face potentially insurmountable problems of scalability and distribution; this could make them obsolete before they even leave the gate. äàëüøå »
2019-2-22 00:29
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Facebook lets you search for pictures of your female friends, but not your male ones
A Belgian security researcher has found an unusual quirk in Facebook’s search function. Facebook lets you search for photos of your female friends, but refuses to play dice if you want to look up pictures of your male friends. äàëüøå »
2019-2-13 23:23
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Justice Ginsburg made a public appearance last week — but the internet still thinks she’s dead
On Monday, the day before President Trump’s State of the Union Address, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg attended a performance celebrating her life at a museum in Washington — her first public appearance since December. äàëüøå »
2019-2-12 03:12
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How to mute spoilers on Twitter and Facebook
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Spoilers have become a pitfall of modern life. They’re a first-world problem, perhaps, but still something that can ruin one of the few pleasures that make it worth facing another arduous cycle around this pitiless yellow star in the face of looming crisis, economic turmoil, personal struggles… Ahem. äàëüøå »
2019-2-12 23:36
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What Is the Kin Ecosystem? Introduction to Kik’s KIN Token
What Is Kin? Kin is a blockchain-based ecosystem originally built on top of the Ethereum platform. It was developed by Canadian instant messenger company Kik Interactive to support microtransactions through its Kik Messenger platform. äàëüøå »
2019-2-10 20:57
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How to use Instagram collections like a makeshift Pinterest
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and advice on how to get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Show of hands: how often do you use that button on Instagram that looks like a bookmark? If you don’t already use it, you should. äàëüøå »
2019-2-8 00:19
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The clueless parent’s guide to understanding TikTok
In September last year, TikTok surpassed YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, and even Facebook in monthly App Store downloads. For a fringe social network, the kind most would assume occupies a second-tier of the internet’s social media hierarchy, you’d be forgiven for not noticing the app had become the internet’s most interesting network of creatives. äàëüøå »
2019-2-1 02:10
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Medieval monster-drawing monks and why it’s ok to hate-follow shitty people on Twitter
What would a social media feed be without monsters? I’m talking figurative monsters here; your racist uncles, your Trumps, your worst influencers – people so terrible you have to read everything they say and see everything they post. äàëüøå »
2019-1-25 16:39
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Reddit’s model community offers a prototype for controversial discussion
The threads start as they would anywhere else online: a contentious topic, the type that adds fuel to debate before engulfing an entire comment field in flames. “Just like anorexics are forcibly hospitalized and made to gain weight, overweight people should be hospitalized and forced to lose weight,” one thread reads. äàëüøå »
2019-1-24 01:24
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You can now share your Netflix faves to Instagram Stories — if you have an iPhone
When streaming first took off it felt like the period of shared viewership had ended. How could anyone gather around the water cooler to discuss a show or movie when you could all be watching different things at different times? But, recently, things have changed. äàëüøå »
2019-1-23 22:00
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20 Active Crypto Influencers to Follow on Social Media
Want to stay updated on crypto, but not sure where to look? Or maybe you want support for your ICO? Here are the top 20 crypto influencers to follow. The post 20 Active Crypto Influencers to Follow on Social Media appeared first on CoinCentral. äàëüøå »
2019-1-23 18:52
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Facebook’s secretly working on LOL — a meme hub meant to lure teens from Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok
Facebook hasn’t given up on attracting teens. After numerous failed products aimed at teens — including LOL, Facebook Watch, and IGTV — the company is now hard at work on LOL, a meme hub of sorts meant to win the hearts and minds of teens fleeing for greener pastures at TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram. äàëüøå »
2019-1-19 04:22
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Earn Crypto Part 8: Hosting Images for Bitcoin
In BTCManager’s series titled “Earn Crypto,” readers are being introduced to a wide range of platforms, applications, and ways that they can earn bitcoin and other digital currencies as a member of the cryptocurrency community. äàëüøå »
2019-1-15 14:00
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Facebook and YouTube aren’t even trying to enforce the Alex Jones ban
After Alex Jones was effectively banned from the internet — or at least his major distribution channels — last August, it appeared that we’d be rid of his half-baked conspiracy theories once and for all. äàëüøå »
2019-1-12 01:49
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Trump Jr.’s deleted Instagram post likened border wall to zoo fencing
Donald Trump Jr. recently likened his father’s proposed border wall with Mexico to that of a zoo fence meant to contain animals. “You know why you can enjoy a day at the zoo?” the now-deleted Instagram post asks. äàëüøå »
2019-1-11 02:12
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Twitter will begin testing ‘ice breakers’ to spark healthy conversation
Last year, Twitter touted a handful of features meant to spur conversation on the platform. Or, “increase the health of public conversation,” as CEO Jack Dorsey told Congress last year. At CES today, company representatives confirmed to Engadget that the features would roll out to certain users in the coming weeks as part of a public test. äàëüøå »
2019-1-9 07:28
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In Instagram’s darkest corner, all it takes is a hashtag to uncover images of child sexual abuse
For pedophiles, a single hashtag opened the door to one of Instagram’s seediest corners, one where images of sexually exploited children were openly traded as if they were collectibles. For anyone willing to engage, finding images of child sexual abuse was about as simple searching for a laptop on Craigslist. äàëüøå »
2019-1-9 05:36
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Dave Rubin Turns to Bitcoin for Crowdfunding After Alleged Patreon Censorship
American talk show host Dave Rubin has announced he is turning to Bitcoin in lieu of the crowdfunding platform Patreon, in protest against the latter’s alleged censorship practices
äàëüøå »2019-1-8 00:30
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Earn Crypto Part 5: Bounty Campaigns
In BTCManager’s series titled “Earn Crypto,” readers are being introduced to a wide range of platforms, applications, and ways that they can earn bitcoin and other digital currencies as a member of the cryptocurrency community. äàëüøå »
2019-1-7 09:00
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Australian Crypto Firm Faces Heat for Manipulating Social Media Accounts, Denies Allegations
It seems like cryptocurrency firms are not shying away from controversies anytime soon. Sydney-based Power Ledger faced fire last week after investors and industry experts called out the firm’s dubious social media practices, reported Financial Review on December 26, 2018. äàëüøå »
2018-12-29 12:00
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The best new social media features of 2018
Social media sites and apps are constantly changing and evolving to match the needs of their user base — for good, and for ill. Whether it’s Facebook Watch‘s new shows actually making it worth using, or Snapchat’s reviled redesign, social media changes can be a polarizing topic for the millions of people who use the sites every day. äàëüøå »
2018-12-21 03:06
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Influencer marketing needs to clean up its act in 2019
If you can’t help but roll your eyes when you hear the word ‘influencer’ then trust me, you’re not alone. Earlier this year, one of the biggest social media influencers in the world told his colleagues to get a real job. äàëüøå »
2018-12-20 02:00
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What Is Reddcoin? Introduction to RDD Token
What Is Reddcoin? Reddcoin is a decentralized, blockchain-based cryptocurrency used to tip or send payments for social content. Unlike competitor Steem (and legacy platforms like Snapcash), the Reddcoin API supports all social platforms, from Reddit to Twitter and Twitch. äàëüøå »
2018-12-18 23:38
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How to keep your Bitcoin (BTC) secure?
In today’s world, everything is shared. From Facebook,Twitter, Instagram, to Reddit, millennials do one thing really good – they share details about their life daily online with complete strangers, giving anyone a direct view into their personal lives, habits, and even their financials. äàëüøå »
2018-12-13 09:00
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Google+ will die 4 months sooner thanks to new bug affecting 52 million users
After announcing in October it would be shuttering Google+, its little-loved social media site, Google today announced that, thanks to yet another security flaw, the end would have to come much sooner than originally expected. äàëüøå »
2018-12-10 21:38
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Reddit’s data hoarders are frantically trying to save Tumblr’s NSFW content
After Tumblr announced, on Monday, that it was invoking the nuclear option to expel NSFW content on the platform, the internet reacted with predictable rage. At TNW, we speculated about whether the move would kill the platform. äàëüøå »
2018-12-7 02:50
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Tumblr’s porn ban slams the door on women and other marginalized communities
After graphic images of child sex abuse appeared on Tumblr in November, the app was quickly removed from Apple’s App store (it remained on Google Play). And rightfully so. Child sex abuse imagery has no place online, and Apple was well within its rights to stop distributing an app containing it. äàëüøå »
2018-12-6 05:54
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Political Decentralization: Freeing the Internet From Monopolists With Crypto-Tech
This piece on political decentralization was written by Jonas Sevel Karlberg. Karlberg advises several prominent projects and is a co-founder of the Nordic Blockchain Association. He is also the founder and CEO of AmaZix. äàëüøå »
2018-12-5 04:55
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Swiss hotel chain offers a ‘social media sitter’ to handle your Instagram while you relax
Ibis, A popular European hotel chain, just introduced the world to the “social media sitter. ” It’s the answer to a problem few knew existed, and even fewer though we needed professional help with. äàëüøå »
2018-12-4 05:22
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Rest in peace, Tumblr
Tumblr today announced it’d be banning adult content from the site, effective December 17. While this appears to be an attempt to curtail the images of child sex abuse found on the site, users contend it will only stifle and punish artists who have filled the site with positive and accessible forms of erotica. äàëüøå »
2018-12-4 23:41
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How Blockchain can be Integrated into Social Media for Great Benefits
Blockchain has over the years been recognized as the framework behind the success of cryptocurrencies with the provision of the decentralized mode of operation and as a distributed ledger. Its function has been taken advantage of by many other institutions. äàëüøå »
2018-11-29 09:38
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