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Twitter has been having trouble growing beyond its current user base of around 300 million. Because of that, shareholders are scared and the stock price is falling. Of course, the tech world is concerned about this issue. But we never stop to think about how this might affect celebrities like Brooklyn Nine Nine star and comedian Chelsea Peretti. Peretti hosted the Crunchies Awards Show… Read More... →

On Wednesday morning at TED2016, The X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis and IBM Watson general manager David Kenny’s jointly announced the launch of a new X Prize competition focused on artificial intelligence. The $5 million “IBM Watson A.I. Xprize: A Cognitive Computing Competition,” as the competition is called, will invite teams from around the globe to come up… Read More... →

Технический директор агентства Sensitive Brands, бывший digital-продюсер спецпроектов «Афиши» Сергей Хабаров рассказал в заметке на Medium, как в 2015 году искал для издательского дома дизайнера. Подходящего сотрудника нашли, но перед этим автор внимательно изучил 250 писем от соискателей. Хабаров вспомнил, какие особенности этих писем производили благоприятное впечатление о кандидате, и какие — вызывали недоумение.Редакция vc.ru с разрешения автора приводит сокращённый и отредактированный вариант текста.... →

Facebook сделает доступной для всех издателей функцию Instant Articles, которая позволяет СМИ размещать собственные статьи в социальной сети в удобном для мобильных устройств формате. Компания откроет доступ к сервсиу 12 апреля 2016 года, во время своей ежегодной конференции разработчиков F8, говорится в сообщении соцсети.... →

When Kanye went on his most recent Twitter rant a few days ago, he resurfaced an organizational chart he made for Donda, his “content, experience & product company” named after his mother, Donda West. While the chart has been floating around the internet for a while (he showed it onstage at Google’s Zeitgeist conference in 2015), we decided to revisit it now that Kanye… Read More... →

EXCLUSIVE: When LG introduces its first all-metal flagship handset at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress in less than a week, the LG G5 won’t be the only piece of hardware on stage. According to a person familiar with the company’s plans for the show, the modular handset will be demonstrated alongside a number of plug-in modules and […]... →

The murders of unarmed African-American people at the hands of police officers has created a lot of reasonable doubt in our criminal justice system. OpenJustice, an interactive web platform led by the California Department of Justice, has today released a new set of criminal justice data for the sake of transparency and accountability. Read More... →

While May like seem like it’s very far away, the truth is that Disrupt New York 2016 will be upon us before you know it, and now is your last chance to get extra-early-bird tickets to the best startup show around. Extra-early-bird tickets to the show are available through Friday, February 19, so if you’re already planning on coming to Disrupt and want to save yourself some serious… Read More... →

Following Tim Cook’s letter, the White House has reacted to Apple’s strong stance against backdoors. According to Reuters, the White House has said that the Department of Justice isn’t asking for a backdoor to unlock the iPhone 5c in the San Bernardino case. Instead, the Government only wants help for one device. Read More... →

Google has more than 1 billion active Gmail users as of this month. And it wants more. That’s why the company launched a new tool today, Gmailify, which lets you use your Outlook and Yahoo inside Gmail without changing your @yahoo.com or @outlook.com address. If this news sounds familiar, that’s because Gmail for Android introduced limited support for non-Gmail emails last year; this is an extension of […]... →

LAS VEGAS — Penn Jillette, the famous comedian and magician (and the speaking portion of the Penn & Teller act), is a defender of video games as an art. He got up onstage with Randy Pitchford, chief executive of Borderlands maker Gearbox Software and an amateur magician, to talk about video games as a protected […]... →

Sketchfab is an online platform to view and share 3D files. The company has been adding a bunch of new features over the past few months, including computer-generated animations and a VR button to view 3D models with a VR headset. Today, the company is partnering with TimeSlice Films to add support for “4D,” which are really 3D movie files captured using multiple cameras. Read More... →

Microsoft announced today it’s now beginning to roll out its new Office 365-powered version of Outlook.com to all users, following its launch into preview mode last year. Thanks to its deep integration with Microsoft’s Office 365 platform, Outlook users will be able to do things like collaborate on documents sent as email attachments while they reply to messages, share files… Read More... →

Facebook has announced that on April 12, it’ll be opening up its Instant Articles program to all publishers. If you’re interested in taking advantage of this, your site will need to adhere to specific technical requirements. The company has said that a “few hundred publishers” have already been on-boarded. Introduced in May, Instant Articles are […]... →

Social media engagement startup Sprout Social announced today that it closed a $42 million series C round led by the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. Sprout Social, which offers social media analytics and advocacy to Uber, Marvel, Microsoft, and Zipcar, said the investment will help the “expansion of both its products and customer base.” New Enterprise […]... →

No matter which type of sportsball they’ve been streaming, NextVR has managed to make their live sporting event VR broadcasts some of the most engaging virtual reality experiences available on the Samsung Gear VR platform. For those who’ve enjoyed seeing the company’s live boxing matches, basketball games, soccer matches etc., there’s more where that came from.… Read More... →

Microsoft is now selling Red Hat Enterprise Linux licenses. Starting today, you will be able to deploy Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHLE) from the Azure Marketplace and get support for your deployments from both Microsoft and Red Hat. In addition, Microsoft today announced that it is now offering certified Bitnami images in the Azure Marketplace and it now supports Walmart‘s (yes —… Read More... →

Facebook is taking another bite of the outside Internet by turning its Instant Articles format into an open platform any publisher can use starting April 12th. Until now, Facebook had worked directly with partnered publishers to onboard them to the option that makes their sites load faster inside Facebook’s app rather than in a web browser. Instant Articles combines Facebook’s… Read More... →

«Сбербанк» и израильский инвестиционный сервис eToro договорились о создании в России совместного проекта, сообщает РБК со ссылкой на председателя правления банка Германа Грефа. В рамках соглашения «Сбербанк» встроит eToro в свои интернет-приложения, что позволит неопытным трейдерам участвовать в торгах.... →

С 1 по 17 февраля на первом этаже московского торгового центра «Цветной» действовала купольная стерео-инсталляция #a4space с виртуальной реальностью для продвижения Audi A4. Посетители могли попасть внутрь установки и пройти «космический» тест-драйв автомобиля, используя 3D-очки.Инсталляцию, которую разработало креативное event-агентство Departament, посетили около трех тысяч человек.... →