Facebook Halts Ad Targeting Cited in Bias Complaints
After years of criticism, Facebook announced on Tuesday that it would stop allowing advertisers in key categories to show their messages only to people of a certain race, gender or age group.
AT&T CEO interrupted by a robocall during a live interview
At an Economic Club event in Washington D.C. today, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was interrupted on stage by a robocall, pausing an interview in front of dozens of people and driving home that absolutely no one is safe from the spam epidemic.
Canada is becoming a tech hub. Thanks, Donald Trump!
US companies are going to keep hiring foreign tech workers, even as the Trump administration makes doing so more difficult. For a number of US companies that means expanding their operations in Canada, where hiring foreign nationals is much easier.
Microsoft angers ex-Windows boss: Halting Office 365 sync on his new iPhone is ‘crazy’
Sinofsky was given two choices: install Outlook now and syncing could proceed immediately; or do nothing and continue with the default iOS Mail app, in which case syncing would restart “within a few hours”.
Purdue University bans Netflix, other streaming services inside academic buildings
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University is turning to technology to get kids to focus on lectures. Starting this week, the university has banned streaming services, such as Netflix and Hulu, inside all academic buildings.
Scientists reactive cells from 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth
The cells came from an extraordinarily well-preserved woolly mammoth discovered in Siberian permafrost in 2012 and nicknamed “Yuka”.
Apple Locking Down 10.15?
As yet unconfirmed but… ISENGAARD (Rixstep) — It’s as yet unconfirmed, but someone ‘in the know’ is reporting – and waiting on confirmation – that Apple plan to lock down their desktop OS for version 10.15 later this year.
‘The Capitalists Are Here!’
One February morning, more than 160 people took their seats in the fashionably distressed brick-walled event space of Williamsburg’s Wythe Hotel. In the back was a bar, in the front a riser with couches and a large floating light box reading ON AIR in an angular block font.