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It’s been a weird few days for Tesla. In a span of just 48 hours the Model S was accused of having major suspension issues, the NHTSA supposedly got involved, Tesla explained that there is nothing wrong and the NHTSA isn’t actually investigating the issue, and Elon Musk tweeted that the whole thing was a giant conspiracy. Woah. Ok, let’s take a step back and dissect… Read More... →

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It’s just about impossible to get your hands on Microsoft’s impressive mixed-reality Hololens platform these days — unless you’re a computer science student at the University of Washington. Then you get to play with them whenever you want. Read More... →

Remember MCNs? Those quaint multi-channel networks — aggregators of YouTube channels — that generally focused on a specific vertical audience? In the past year or so, something curious happened — companies shied away from the “MCN” moniker. Some did so violently, contending they were never MCNs in the first place. Here the five reasons this happened. Read More... →

About two years ago, Pinterest launched a different flavor of search engine called Guided Search. Instead of relying on deep data on the user, it would create a network of related topics that users can dive deep into. The idea being that a search like “iPhone” would net additional categories, like “design,” “hardware,” and such. Now Guided Search is about… Read More... →

Gwker files for Bankruptcy, Line Will IPO on July 14 on the New York Stock Exchange, Greg Kumparak go in depth with The mobile game Pokemon Go from Niantic, Andreessen Horowitz Closes 1.5 Billion Dollar fund, Meem is both storage and a charging cable. All this on Crunch Report Read More... →

Dango is an emoji suggestion chatbot — wait, where are you going? Stay with me, this is actually pretty cool. Okay, so Dango is one of those virtual assistants that lives in your chat apps, and this one is based on a neural network that has been trained with millions of examples to understand what emoji mean. So not only can it suggest an appropriate one, but it can translate entire… Read More... →

RaisedBy.Us, an organization that facilitates charitable giving at startups, has added three entrepreneurs and investors to its board of directors — Thrillist CEO Ben Lerer (pictured above), VaynerMedia CEO Gary Vaynerchuk and Bonobos CEO Andy Dunn. The nonprofit works with startups so their employees can donate a set amount of each paycheck to the charity of their choice. (The system… Read More... →

One million dollars. A student will earn that much more in life with a four-year college degree as opposed to just a high school diploma. That’s according to a recent study from Georgetown University, which offers just such a degree. But most students need financial aid. And when it comes to financial aid, there are basically two kinds: the kind you pay back and the kind you want. You want… Read More... →

Even though several huge data breaches have recently exposed hundreds of millions of social media login credentials online, users aren’t re-setting their passwords — which means you’ll probably continue to see celebrities’ social media accounts getting hijacked. Racial justice activist DeRay Mckesson became the most recent example of a high-profile account breach… Read More... →

Gawker files for bankruptcy, Verizon inches closer to buying Yahoo, what to expect at Apple’s WWDC conference next week and more headlines to stay on top of this week’s tech news. Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

Since the dawn of technology, we’ve been afraid of technology eliminating our jobs. Look at the birth of the steam engine. When it was invented in the late 1700s, people believed its arrival signaled the end of manual labor and thousands of hardworking individuals would be out of jobs. Instead, it created completely new jobs in new industries. Nearly 250 years later, in a world defined… Read More... →

Сайт The Long and Short опубликовал колонку британского журналиста и музыканта Родри Марсдена. Автор рассуждает о том, какое влияние оказывают технологии на творческие процессы. Он полагает, что доступность многочисленных простых инструментов для занятий творчеством снижают его ценность.... →

Matt Cutts, the currently on leave Googler, who is one of the most well known Googlers to our audience, has spoken up about the claims that Google manipulated their search suggestions for Hillary Clinton. He did this on Twitter...... →

In March, we told you that Andreessen Horowitz was targeting $1.5 billion for its fifth and new fund. This morning, the seven-year-old, Sand Hill Road firm is confirming that it has closed on that amount, having secured the capital commitments from its previous investors. The announcement comes a little more than two years after that the firm closed its forth, multi-stage venture capital… Read More... →

Издательский дом Gawker Media 10 июня подал заявление о собственном банкротстве, пишет The New York Times (NYT). По данным издания, компания уже выставила на продажу все свои активы, чтобы сохранить издание и избежать увольнения сотрудников.... →

Attention. Project code-name Electrolysis is a go. Mozilla’s long running project to bring multi-process architecture to hundreds of millions of Firefox users has finally met release criteria for a full scale rollout. Nearly every other browser on the market has adopted multi-process architecture, splitting tabs and extensions into separate processes. For the average non-technical… Read More... →

Google let the world know that bogus spam reports are a pretty dumb idea this week. Turns out that they have policies in place for identifying bogus reports and the users who frequently submit them. So if you’re falsely reporting your competitors, don’t be surprised when Google starts ignoring you! We’ve also got some good stories from WebmasterWorld to share, including Google’s latest legal battle, testing a new version of... [Read More...] The post Google Says, “Don’t Be Bogus, Dude”: Weekly Forum Update ... →

Apple is about to kick off its annual developer conference in San Francisco on Monday. As usual, the company will get things going with a good old keynote filled with secret and not-so-secret announcements. Here's what I expect to see. A good chunk of the conference should be about iOS and OS X updates. Usually, Apple showcases some of th Read More... →