It will soon be illegal in the state of Texas for YouTube to ban videos from white supremacists or ISIS. The same will be true for Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.
In fact, with a few limited exceptions, any content moderation these sites do—including “de-boosting” or “de-monetizing” videos or posts—will open them up to being sued in Texas. In effect, they’r
Jen, a student I taught early in my career, stood head-and-shoulders above her peers academically. I learned she had started off as an engineering major but switched over to psychology. I was surprised and curious.
Was she struggling with difficult classes? No. In fact, Jen’s aptitude for math was so strong, she had been recruited as an engineering prospect. In her first year, her engineering classes were filled with faces of other women. But as she advanced, there were fewer an
After taking on Apple and Pandora, Spotify appears to be setting its sights on Amazon.
In what seems to be the beginning of a new phase for the company, Spotify on Tuesday announced
In the fall of 2014, Slack was the hottest startup in software. And that September, it went through a hot-startup rite of passage: It made its first acquisition.
The company it bought, Spaces, had only two employees. They’d built a tool for sharing text, links, images, and other items, which Slack saw as a useful extension of its core messaging platform. It was something like a word processor, but focused o
When we talk about virtual assistants, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are usually the first names that come to mind.
But let’s be honest: Those sorts of digital helpers are mostly just voice-controlled command systems—combined with a bit of basic automation. By and large, they don’t do a heck of a lot to actually assist us in any life-changing, efficiency-enhancing ways.
Gamification predates video games, but it was video games that systematised the mechanics and aesthetics that gamification appropriated—most of all, achievements.
Achievements have existed in video games for decades. As early as 1980, Activision’s games on the Atari 2600 came with manuals promising fabric patches if you reached a particular high score or completed a challenge.6 Owners of
Spotify subscribers have long used the streaming service to play their favorite movie’s soundtrack. But some now are apparently using the service to watch actual movies, too.
Several TikTok users posted videos within the past week showing how anyone o
Wegmans says shoppers were big fans of its self-checkout app that allowed them to scan groceries as they shopped and pay with a quick swipe of the phone at the end, and now we may know one reason why. The supermarket chain has announced that the app, called Scan, is being discontinued because of an unexpectedly large amount of product loss.
“Unfortunately, the losses we are experiencing prevent us from continuing to make it available in its current state,” it said in an e