LinkedIn will help you find a new job without alerting your current boss
LinkedIn has traditionally been 95% spam emails, 2% endorsements for witty banter, and 3% useful networking. But those numbers might have just been skewed to …
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Facebook Marketplace launches today, letting you buy and sell anything you want
Facebook is uniquely positioned in that it already has a massive base of active users, so it doesn’t really have to worry about being first …
Clinton won Google searches, Trump dominated Twitter during first presidential debate
Hillary Clinton led in Google searches during Monday’s fiery first presidential debate, although Donald Trump was the most discussed candidate on Twitter. Clinton accounted for …
Facebook is coming for your office next
Facebook has done a depressingly good job of getting an entire generation addicted to its platform. But your typical human spends eight hours a day …
Facebook apologizes for video viewing-time error
Facebook apologized on Friday for what it described as a “miscalculation” in the way it reported how long, on average, videos on the site were …
Everything you need to know about iOS 10’s new emoji
There’s lots of new stuff to unpack from iOS 10, but one of the things that will make the tweens most excited is the release …
Tech and human rights leaders urge Obama to pardon Snowden
Two technology heavyweights lent their names to a campaign announced today in New York to ask President Barack Obama to pardon Edward Snowden. Steve Wozniak, …
A UFO causing the SpaceX rocket explosion is the best conspiracy on the internet
Last week, one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets spontaneously combusted on the launch pad while undergoing testing. It was a dramatic explosion (although Elon Musk …
Facebook Messenger brings live video calling to your conversations
Social networks have been “inspired by” Snapchat more than once in the last few months, and it appears that Facebook has been struck by inspiration once again this …
Mark Zuckerberg gives Pope Francis model drone during Vatican meeting
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave Pope Francis a model drone during a meeting at the Vatican Monday. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan met Pope …
Autoplaying videos with sound are about to ruin Facebook
According to a post I once saw on Facebook, idly scrolling through the News Feed accounts for two-thirds of all wasted time for American office …
Machine learning can trump humans in depression diagnosis, study says
Could a computer be better at identifying depression than a primary care physician? That’s the suggestion of a new study that focused on using machine …
Twitter is making big changes to finally take abuse and terrorism seriously
Twitter has been criticised for years for its failure to police the network. From accounts promoting terrorism to out-of-control abuse of users, the site has …
It only took two days for Adblock Plus to stop Facebook’s new ads
Two days. That’s how long it took for Adblock Plus to start blocking ads on Facebook again after the social media giant found a way to …
Facebook has started bypassing your ad blocker
Facebook’s entire business model relies on targeted advertising, so the rise of the ad blocker is a serious threat to its way of life. So, …
Facebook might bring the worst thing about television to Facebook Live streams
It’s been nearly five years since the last time I paid for cable, and commercials are one of the main reasons I’ve stayed away. Unfortunately, commercials …
Big update turns Instagram into Snapchat because everything is awful
Snapchat took all of Instagram’s likes, and now Instagram is sulking. So what’s the solution? Well, in the time-honored app-war fashion, Instagram just rolled out …
How two coders cracked all the secrets of Pokemon Go
The thing that makes Pokemon Go enjoyable–apart from the endless nostalgia trip–is the game’s sense of discovery. You have to actually go out into the …
Donald Trump is making the internet great again with a Reddit AMA
Future Galactic President Trump is currently hosting an Ask Me Anything on Reddit. Once the preserve of celebrities trying to schill their new movie, Reddit …
Reddit isn’t going to like this new plan for sponsored content
Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” is a stupendously popular online community. It also makes very little money, despite that user base. So …
Donald Trump will make the internet great again with a Reddit AMA
Brace yourself, internet-dwellers: Donald Trump is coming to town. According to a press release emailed to journalists and a post on the controversial /r/The_Donald subreddit, …
How to find out if your social media accounts have been compromised
When it comes to the internet, there are few things more frightening than finding out that one of your social media accounts has been compromised. Our Facebook …
Definitive proof the year 2016 is an actual dumpster fire
2016 is going down as one of the greatest shitshows on record, and it’s only July. In times of great turmoil, bloggers turn to new …
Watch side-by-side videos of the speech Melania Trump stole from Michelle Obama
We’re all currently living in a horrible parody movie written by the Wayans brothers. It’s the only plausible explanation for the road to the 2016 …
Hacker Guccifer 2.0 claims new DNC data leak
Another batch of documents has purportedly been leaked from the Democratic National Committee’s servers by the hacker who goes by the name ‘Guccifer 2.0’. The …
France’s terror alert app took three hours to respond to the Nice attack
It’s awful that we have to live in a time where a nation has a terror alert app. What’s worse is that the app barely …
The iPhone on this carpet is impossible to spot
Remember when the internet went crazy over that dress? Well, this is basically that again, only this time, the simple question isn’t “what color is …
Here’s how John Oliver deals with his YouTube trolls
They say you shouldn’t pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel. So what about about YouTube-heckling a comedian with his very …
‘Pleasantly surprised’ man gives jail cell positive TripAdvisor-style review
If you have to spend a night in jail, a new facility in Birmingham, U.K., might not be a bad option. It’s recently received an …
Why Pokemon Go is an even bigger game-changer than you think
Nintendo finally allowed a mobile game version of one of its biggest money-spinners to be made. And you have been hearing about it a lot …
