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Posted by ronell-smith[Estimated read time: 8 minutes] One of my most memorable interactions in college took place in English 202, when my professor would have us come to the front of the class and share with him (while seated in a chair right beside his desk) what our thesis was for the assignment we'd be working on for the first half of the semester. In nearly every case, my thesis was too long, something my professor had no truck with. "Smith," he'd say, "if you cannot explain it in a sentence, you don't... →

After separating from eBay, PayPal has been on a march to grow both its international business and transactions beyond basic e-commerce, and today it is taking a step to do both, with the UK launch of PayPal Credit — a service that lets consumers use their PayPal accounts to spread out online payments for goods as a replacement for traditional credit cards. It will give consumers… Read More... →

Facebook debuted chatbots for Messenger this week to much fanfare, promising consumers a new way to interact with their favorite businesses over the company’s popular messaging service. The idea is that Messenger users could simply “chat” with these automated software programs, in order to do things like read the latest news from CNN, get a weather report, or even go shopping.… Read More... →

Основатель «ВКонтакте» и Telegram Павел Дуров впервые вошёл в список 200 самых богатых бизнесменов России, который составляет журнал Forbes. Он занял 135 место.... →

Wearables may be the next big thing, but what about the wearables we already wear? Integrating electronics into everyday clothes is still some distance off, but researchers at Ohio State University have taken an important step: weaving circuits into clothes with enough precision to integrate them with ordinary PCBs. Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: When the gold rush happens, selling shovels can be lucrative. You could say that Kochava, a mobile attribution and measurement company, is one of the first to show up to sell shovels now that Facebook has set off a new kind of gold rush. Facebook yesterday provided a way for brands to use chatbots as […]... →

The sharing economy, which is sometimes referred to as collaborative consumption, has become a household term — at least in the tech industry — that signifies peer-to-peer exchanges through technology. “The fact that there are so many terms going around these things is almost a function of the fact the industry is so new,” Airbnb VP of Engineering Mike Curtis told me… Read More... →

Former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys was sentenced today to two years in prison on hacking charges. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years. During his sentencing hearing, Keys tweeted, “This whole process has been exhausting.” Keys was convicted of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) last October, in a bizarre case that led to the temporary defacement of a… Read More... →

Vine has added a new button to channels that allows you to watch every video back-to-back without having to manually scroll through individual posts. This “watch” button appears next to the follow button on a channel and performs the same functionality as the “Play All” button that YouTube offers. This update is available for both […]... →

Maybe you’ve delighted in reading some of Hillary Clinton’s more humorous emails, released in several stages over the past year — there’s the one where she calls Harriet Tubman her “home girl,” or the time she jokes about Chinese hackers messing with her contacts. But imagine someone digging into your old emails and reading through all your bad jokes,… Read More... →

Vine, Twitter’s social network turned entertainment platform, is today announcing a new way to consume content on the app. The company is introducing a “Watch” button, which will let users watch a particular channel or account without needing to scroll. When a user presses the watch button on a certain account or channel, videos in that feed will play back-to-back, continuously. Read More... →

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

«Сбербанк» планирует создать виртуального оператора связи (MVNO), рассказали РБК источники, близкие к банку и одной из телекоммуникационных компаний. По данным собеседников издания, проект может быть запущен осенью 2016 года.... →

VB WEBINAR: Collecting data is easy compared to knowing what to do with it. Join us for this fast-paced webinar to understand how databases and data warehouses come into play with a truly world-class data analytics strategy. Register here for free. We’ve all heard the phrase “Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems,” but for the tech industry it’s “Mo Data, Mo Problems.” […]... →

(Reuters) – Two U.S. senators on Wednesday issued a formal draft of a controversial bill that would give courts the power to order technology companies like Apple to help authorities break into encrypted devices or communications for law enforcement or intelligence purposes. The proposal arrives just days after an earlier draft leaked online and drew […]... →

Отныне сотрудники компании сами будут назначать руководителей... →

Google today launched Chrome 50 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, adding the usual slew of developer features. You can update to the latest version now, using the browser’s built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome. Chrome is arguably more than a browser: With over 1 billion users, it’s a major platform that web […]... →

In an interview with Walt Mossberg, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said threaded messaging — perhaps one of the service’s most important missing components — is finally coming. Butterfield told Mossberg that Slack had been using threading internally for months while testing what the best version of the tool would be for the service, which will hopefully come out in the… Read More... →

Соцсеть Facebook объявила о создании hardware-подразделения — Building 8. Инвестиции в его запуск составят сотни миллионов долларов, пишет The Verge со ссылкой на сообщение компании.... →

Theranos might find itself homeless in the next little bit. A federal agency plans to force founder Elizabeth Holmes out of her blood analysis startup and take away the California lab’s federal license. First reported in the Wall Street Journal, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent a letter dated March 18 proposing sanctions barring Holmes and company president Sunny… Read More... →