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Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft agree to EU hate speech rules

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Mobile ad blocking rose 90 percent last year, report says

Amar Toor May 31, 2016 04:35 am16 hours ago

The number of smartphone owners using ad blocking software has risen by 90 percent over the past year, according to a new report, reaching nearly 420 million people worldwide. That represents about one out...

They're really popular in emerging markets

Vietnam blocked access to Facebook during Obama's visit this week

Nick Statt May 26, 2016 07:36 pm05.26.2016 7

The Vietnamese government restricted, and sometimes outright blocked, access to Facebook in the country from Sunday to Wednesday of this week during President Obama's visit, say two activists groups that...

To shut down anti-government protests

Facebook begins tracking non-users around the internet

Amar Toor May 27, 2016 05:41 am05.27.2016

Facebook will now display ads to web users who are not members of its social network, the company announced Thursday, in a bid to significantly expand its online ad network. As The Wall Street Journal...

But you can opt-out

Spelling is a sport, and its athletes dab too

Nick Statt May 26, 2016 06:48 pm05.26.2016 20

About 22 years ago, ESPN made the fateful decision to air the later rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest on TV. In including the act of spelling difficult-to-spell words in front of an...

Spell hard, dab hard
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Facebook and Microsoft team up to lay a massive internet cable across the Atlantic

Nick Statt May 26, 2016 01:55 pm05.26.2016 18

Facebook and Microsoft announced a partnership today to lay the highest-capacity subsea internet cable to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean, starting with hubs connecting Northern Virginia to Bilbao, Spain....

A 4,100-mile cable capable of 160 terabits per second

Reddit moves away from Imgur with new photo-uploading tool

Amar Toor May 26, 2016 03:36 am05.26.2016

Reddit this week announced its own image-uploading tool, marking a shift away from its informal partnership with Imgur. A member of Reddit's product team announced the beta feature in a post to the website...

"This isn't a surprise." Imgur

Peter Thiel admits to bankrolling Hulk Hogan's Gawker lawsuit

Rich McCormick May 26, 2016 12:42 am05.26.2016 120

Peter Thiel confirmed last night that he did indeed fund Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker, as rumored earlier this week, saying that the move was one of the "greater philanthropic things" he had done in...

"One of the greater philanthropic things I've done." Peter Thiel, billionaire investor

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Netflix and Amazon face quotas for European movies and TV shows

Amar Toor May 25, 2016 06:10 am05.25.2016

The European Commission today announced a new proposal that will require streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime to devote at least 20 percent of their libraries to European content, as part of an...

EU proposal aims to promote cultural diversity

The New York Times is the latest publication to decapitalize 'the internet'

Rich McCormick May 24, 2016 10:42 pm05.24.2016 8

Like a cool business dad, The New York Times has finally decided to stop capitalizing the word "Internet." From June, the publication will be relying on lowercase letters to describe the information...

In this case

Puppycams are coming to Facebook Live with new nonstop streaming feature

Nick Statt May 23, 2016 04:41 pm05.23.2016 2

Facebook is pushing out a few updates to its live video platform today, including a new feature that lets broadcasters maintain continuous streams. This opens up all sorts of possibilities for fixed camera...

Facebook will let you stream 24 hours a day

How to eat breakfast like a wellness blogger

Racked Staff May 21, 2016 11:00 am05.21.2016

Breakfast in the land of wellness bloggers is a truly magical moment. There’s no pouring the crushed remnants of five different cereal boxes in a plastic baggie or getting dark glares from your seat mate...

Streamline your smoothie game

Dr. Snapchat: one dentist's journey toward social media stardom

Lizzie Plaugic May 20, 2016 09:00 am05.20.2016

Daniel Rubinshtein has the social media presence of a wannabe celebrity, featuring Vines of him slo-mo walking through Manhattan while talking on his phone (hashtagged #dentist and #modeling), a clip from...

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