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Jun 20, 2019
A few years ago I was asked to speak on a panel of female entrepreneurs to discuss our journey into the world of business ownership. At the same time, I was in the middle of a resolution I had committed to. A resolution I called the "Year of No" and that included email.
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Jun 20, 2019
Libra, Facebook's new cryptocurrency, brought up many questions that need to be answered prior to it becoming a reality.
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Jun 20, 2019
The Verge's latest expose on the inhuman working conditions of Facebook's content moderators sheds light once again on the depravity of the human condition and the indescribable horrors that people all across the world share on social media. Has social media become so dark as to be beyond hope?
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Jun 20, 2019
The multi-billion-dollar real-time bidding (RTB) adtech industry is processing data unlawfully, the UK's data protection regulator has ruled.
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Jun 20, 2019
Tech companies are starting to speak out of both sides of their mouth when it comes to monitoring hate speech as bipartisan investigations in the U.S. gain traction.
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Jun 20, 2019
Our modern-day coal miners are unfortunately doomed to work themselves into early deaths until the coming AI revolution can replace them, yet another casualty of the dark machinery that lurks beneath the happy sunny Web we all take for granted.
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Jun 20, 2019
Libra is an interesting idea and hugely ambitious: a universal cryptocurrency has huge potential to do good. But unfortunately, it's in the wrong hands. Bearing in mind the disaster that Facebook created with our personal data, one can only wonder at what it will do with our financial transactions.
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Jun 19, 2019
As society is becoming more aware of the dangers of sexist stereotypes and the immense harm such imagery can have on body image and body confidence, it raises the question of whether social platforms should be required to do more to cull ads that promote harmful stereotypes.
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Jun 19, 2019
Online video game live-streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins announces deals with two Random House units to release multiple books, including how-to guides and a graphic-novel series.
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Jun 19, 2019
The FTC is in the "late stages" of an investigation, according to a Washington Post report.
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Jun 19, 2019
As deep fakes increasingly compete with legitimate imagery in the informational ecosystem, it is increasingly difficult to determine whether a controversial video is real or was digitally altered or fabricated. Could cellular verification or end-to-end encryption offer one possible first step?
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Jun 19, 2019
Neither social media giants nor law enforcement is prepared to deal with the scale of depravity, exploitation, immorality and lawlessness captured on smartphone cameras around the world and posted on social media sites.
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Jun 19, 2019
Regulating platforms to ensure access to diverse information and political perspectives might be a better fix.
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Jun 19, 2019
Why television meteorologists from around the world will be "showing their stripes" on June 21st
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Jun 19, 2019
The Web brought the chaotic cacophony of the entire world to our doorsteps. Perhaps the killer app of tomorrow will be something that doesn't enlighten or entertain us, but rather which blocks it all out and gives us a moment of peace.
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Jun 19, 2019
How uber-influencers like Chrissy Teigen are connecting at massive levels.
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Jun 18, 2019
Specially crafted social media ads known as ‘canary ads' can be used to assess baseline platform changes, ad selector deviations and even act as early warning signals for changing business conditions.
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Jun 18, 2019
Any U.S. politician taking on Big Tech can split the world into two opposing camps. Elizabeth Warren's candidacy might prove to be an excellent test of the geopolitical - in addition to the market -- power of Silicon Valley.
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Jun 18, 2019
From acquiring and managing the vast datasets recording our daily lives to providing analytic software and services on top of that data, much of what we think of as government surveillance is actually performed by private companies, often with far fewer privacy safeguards or cyber protections.
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Jun 18, 2019
How do we develop both the personal and team resilience needed to bounce back from adversity and to learn from tricky situations?
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Jun 18, 2019
How do we develop both the personal and team resilience needed to bounce back from adversity and to learn from tricky situations?
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Jun 18, 2019
How has advertising from television to the internet changed how we view advertising over the years and how have our viewing expectations informed how advertising is designed and executed today?
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Jun 18, 2019
The modern ad-supported Web is built upon the idea that behaviorally-targeted and interest-based ads are vastly superior. There are growing questions about the future of such ads and whether there might be alternatives that yield similar returns but are far more privacy-protecting.
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Jun 18, 2019
Imran Khan, the former chief strategy officer at Snapchat, along with his wife, Cate Khan, who previously worked at Quidsi, have launched Verishop, a new online platform some see as a potential challenge to Amazon.
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Jun 18, 2019
Imran Khan, the former chief strategy officer at Snapchat, along with his wife, Cate Khan, who previously worked at Quidsi, have launched Verishop, a new online platform some see as a potential challenge to Amazon.
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Jun 18, 2019
Imran Khan, the former chief strategy officer at Snapchat, along with his wife, Cate Khan, who previously worked at Quidsi, have launched Verishop, a new online platform some see as a potential challenge to Amazon.
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Jun 18, 2019
Could the key to the Web's salvation lie in a return to enlightenment?
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Jun 18, 2019
Libra is the new Facebook cryptocurrency and unlike others, it has the right components to potentially rock our daily lives. Facebook and its stoic founder Mark Zuckerberg might have a very big grin on its face when this is all settled
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Jun 18, 2019
"I'm Gay" by Eugene Lee Yang and "Basically I'm Gay" by Daniel Howell break from traditional coming out videos by painting a much more nuanced and complex picture of coming out.
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Jun 18, 2019
When summer arrives, it's a signal to relax and take a much needed break. It's also a time to engage is career-boosting activities so you're ready to grow professionally when fall arrives.
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Jun 17, 2019
Social media platforms, especially Twitter, have become the go-to datasets for the modern organization wishing to understand popular perception about an issue. The problems with this approach are many.
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Jun 17, 2019
What is it that makes spending hours surfing social media a behavior to be corrected, while spending hours streaming movies is a behavior to be encouraged and something that has risen to pop culture phenomenon?
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Jun 17, 2019
A federal judge today ordered the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer and its controversial editor Andrew Anglin to pay $4.1 million to Muslim Comedian Dean Obeidallah for falsely accusing him of being the mastermind behind the 2017 terrorist attack at a U. K. pop concert that left 22 dead.
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Jun 17, 2019
Over the weekend, Musk said he was deleting his account and refused to credit an artist for their work.
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Jun 17, 2019
Over the weekend, Musk said he was deleting his account and refused to credit an artist for their work.
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Jun 17, 2019
The Pew Research Center defines millennials as people born between 1981 to 1996 who are now 23 to 38 years old. They also contribute to 21% of end-user discretionary purchases, which are anticipated to exceed one trillion dollars per year.
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Jun 17, 2019
All the signs are that Facebook is about to launch its cryptocurrency on June 18, a project known internally as Libra, and that soon, apparently, we will all be using. So what are the implications of a company with 2.4 billion users launching its own currency?
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Jun 17, 2019
Travel experts share the cheapest places to travel this summer.
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Jun 17, 2019
Travel experts share the cheapest places to travel this summer.
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Jun 17, 2019
Your Venmo transaction history is an open book by default.
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Jun 16, 2019
'Amazon Primed' is a short recap of the larger stories that dominated the headlines this week surrounding everyone's favourite cardboard abuser, Amazon. Subscribe to 'What Did Amazon Do This Week ' newsletter for the full download (called 'Obsessive...in the very best way.").
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Jun 15, 2019
Tamara McCleary, a top influencer, explains how marketers can find and leverage these 6 types of influencers (hint, they aren't always celebrities) to harness the "potency of a diverse group of influencers to get the word out" about your brand.
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Jun 15, 2019
Tamara McCleary, a top influencer, explains how marketers can find and leverage these 6 types of influencers (hint, they aren't always celebrities) to harness the "potency of a diverse group of influencers to get the word out" about your brand.
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Jun 15, 2019
What if we required every social media post to provide external attribution for its claims and used deep learning algorithms to compare the statements in the post to their original material they cite as their source? Could this "reverse fact checking" largely curb the spread of digital falsehoods?
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Jun 15, 2019
Could the increasing use of short-form social media platforms be destroying the very cooperation and collaboration that is so vital to a healthy and functioning democracy?
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Jun 15, 2019
Dramatic warming in Greenland is a good opportunity to debunk how some people frame climate change as "theory."
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Jun 14, 2019
Could our future digital assistants act as personalized toxicity filters for social media, shielding us with custom tailored blockades against the hate and horrors that affect us most?
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Jun 14, 2019
Could our personal digital assistants of the future wade through the vast social wasteland on our behalf, tracking down content and curating a specialized feed that represents what we want to see, not what social platforms want us to see and even shield us from hate?
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Jun 14, 2019
According to estimates from the "Cancer Treatment and Survivorship Statistics, 2019," cancer survivors are predicted to number over 22 million by 2030, and as survivors grow in number, new approaches to treating them will be necessary.
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Jun 14, 2019
The most vital question of the modern Web is whether toxicity is not merely a natural tendency of a digital world built for humans but whether it is actually a necessary evil for us to accept and enjoy that world.
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Jun 14, 2019
Could a visual-first Web in which text is outlawed and communication is exclusively through imagery solve the toxicity problem?
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Jun 14, 2019
What if we created a new kind of social platform where profanity, sarcasm and emotionally-laden diatribes are all an artifact of the past?
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Jun 13, 2019
Artificially forcing social media to become a "happy" caricature of society would likely merely reinforce society's divides, but how can we empower our critical national discussions while addressing the rampant casual toxicity that makes those conversations ever harder to have?
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Jun 13, 2019
Social platforms must move beyond their current focus on limited quick fixes to overt hate speech towards solutions that address the "casual toxicity" that fills their platforms and which presents one of the greatest latent dangers of today's digital world.
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Jun 13, 2019
Twitter banned nearly 4,800 accounts associated with the Iranian government, compared to only four connected to Russia's Internet Research Agency — a sharp decline for Russia from the last data sweep.
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Jun 13, 2019
Even in the midst of an internet blackout, the country's fight for civilian rule dominates social media.
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Jun 13, 2019
Would a single shared universal social media identity solve online toxicity by restoring the coercive power of identity? Or would it merely entrench and enhance it? The only certainty is that a new approach is needed to how we communicate online.
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Jun 13, 2019
The move gives Houseparty access to a massive user base and extensive resources while it further highlights Epic Games' growing influence in the social media space.
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Jun 13, 2019
Is globalization and the loss of community truly at the core of the Web's increasing toxicity and will the return to community result in a healthier Web?
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Jun 13, 2019
Google confirms the removal of one of my most-used Google Photos features.
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Jun 13, 2019
Netflix, Spotify, EA and Xbox are among the services most likely to be targeted by hackers, a survey has found. Here's how to ensure you don't become a victim
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Jun 13, 2019
Netflix, Spotify, EA and Xbox are among the services most likely to be targeted by hackers, a survey has found. Here's how to ensure you don't become a victim
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Jun 13, 2019
"You are now less valuable than the data you produce."
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Jun 13, 2019
Telegram was hit by a DDoS attack on Wednesday that coincided with anti-government protests taking place in Hong Kong. The firm's CEO has blamed China for the attack
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Jun 13, 2019
Telegram was hit by a DDoS attack on Wednesday that coincided with protests taking place in Hong Kong. The firm's CEO has blamed China for the attack
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Jun 13, 2019
Telegram was hit by a DDoS attack on Wednesday that coincided with protests taking place in Hong Kong. The firm's CEO has blamed China for the attack
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Jun 13, 2019
Unilever's investment arm and two venture funds put up $12 million to back CreatorIQ, a Los Angeles-area software company that advises brands on influencer-marketing campaigns. Unilever has been a prominent critic of influencer fraud, which CreatorIQ helps detect, among other capabilities.
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Jun 12, 2019
Facebook says it's reaching 720 million users with its Facebook Watch video product. But questions remain just how many viewers are watching each program, and for how long. Facebook claims to invest over a billion dollars in video content, but is it paying off?
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Jun 12, 2019
As early as 2012, emails appear to show the Facebook CEO knew of a potentially problematic app.
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Jun 12, 2019
As early as 2012, emails appear to show the Facebook CEO knew of a potentially problematic app.
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Jun 12, 2019
What is environmental justice and why does it matter?
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Jun 12, 2019
Private social is the living room, not the town hall. It's the water cooler, not the stage.
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Jun 12, 2019
Article 19.17 of the US-Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) unwisely expands the legal immunity for internet platforms provided by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. To preserve free speech, Congress must remove this provisionand rewrite section 230.
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Jun 12, 2019
Article 19.17 of the US-Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA) unwisely expands the legal immunity for internet platforms provided by section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. To preserve free speech, Congress must remove this provisionand rewrite section 230.
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Jun 11, 2019
Artists created a fake video of Zuckerberg for an exhibit to illustrate how doctored videos known as deepfakes can appear almost identical to the real thing.
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Jun 11, 2019
The House Speaker hasn't responded to the Facebook founder's calls, according to report.
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Jun 11, 2019
Early Facebook investor Jim Breyer is betting on Genies' cartoon-like avatars turning into the next social breakout.
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Jun 11, 2019
The worlds of sports and luxury are merging once again as part of a wider generational shift with Rimowa and LeBron James. By including King James in its latest campaign, Rimowa may be able to excel at forging culturally relevant collaborations and boost sales.
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Jun 11, 2019
The Texting Doorbell is a doorbell that sends a text instead of ringing. It solves a problem that didn't really exist before its existence.
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Jun 11, 2019
More than one billion users of Google's Gmail and Calendar applications are being warned about a newly discovered security threat. Here's what you need to know.
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Jun 11, 2019
A new report commissioned by the ALS Association shows that the 'Ice Bucket Challenge,' which took the internet by storm in 2014, increased annual funding for the ALS Association by 187 percent.
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Jun 11, 2019
A new report commissioned by the ALS Association shows that the 'Ice Bucket Challenge,' which took the internet by storm in 2014, increased annual funding for the ALS Association by 187%.
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Jun 11, 2019
A congressional panel will today kick off its anti-trust investigation into Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook with an examination of the way they affect the news media landscape.
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Jun 10, 2019
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki defended the company's decision not to ban conservative personality Stephen Crowder during an appearance at the Code Conference in Arizona on Monday.
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Jun 10, 2019
As crypto litigation hits the headlines, many in the blockchain space are focused on the SEC's recent complaint against Kik Interactive Inc. However, some crypto lawyers believe that, in the near term, the NY AG's ongoing proceeding against Bitfinex and Tether may have greater industry consequences.
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Jun 10, 2019
Millennials are about to dominate the global workforce. However, the world they face is not the world they might have been schooled in. The assessments they need to make about the digital health of the employer are vital for a successful career launch pad. They have to ask some tough questions.
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Jun 09, 2019
Microsoft can become the largest technology company in the world -- even bigger than Amazon, Apple and Google -- by dominating the converging consumer/corporate product/service market while building on its already ubiquitous technology infrastructure.
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Jun 09, 2019
Google's Vision AI scanned a week of television news for Twitter references, finding 2 hours of Trump tweets and 23 total hours of onscreen Twitter handles, illustrating just how symbiotic Twitter and television have become.
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Jun 09, 2019
Here are five reasons girls avoid science and math.
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Jun 09, 2019
'Amazon Primed' is a short recap of the larger stories that dominated the headlines this week surrounding everyone's favourite cardboard abuser, Amazon. Subscribe to 'What Did Amazon Do This Week ' newsletter for the full download (called 'Obsessive...in the very best way.").
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Jun 09, 2019
A new comedy show is causing a stir in tech and Hollywood circles, 'Facebook Rants' is a look at an industry in trouble and the effects it has on people.
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Jun 08, 2019
If your annoyance level with LinkedIn is increasing, it's likely because of how some members are using it.
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Jun 07, 2019
Looking more closely at the powers demanded by the EU, in the hands of a nation like Russia they offer an almost perfect blueprint for the future of disinformation and foreign influence.
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Jun 07, 2019
An evolving media landscape of connected communications requires a new model for creative teams.
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Jun 07, 2019
New studies show that hurricanes are stalling near the U.S. East Coast as environments become more favorable for intensification.
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Jun 07, 2019
Members of Forbes Technology Council share their top online do's and don'ts both individuals and businesses should follow to boost their online privacy.
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Jun 07, 2019
The EU's failure to understand how the Web works and the unintended consequences of its actions reminds us about the grave dangers when non-technical politicians seek to regulate complex technologies in a globalized world.
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Jun 07, 2019
30 years ago, I launched the first internet-based business, what would become known as a "dot-com" by finding a loophole in rules against commercialization of the early network. I tell the story of that history, and offer reflections on how everything has changed in those amazing 30 years.
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Jun 06, 2019
In a world where Twitter now silences democracy activists rather than empower them, is there any hope left for the Web?
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Jun 06, 2019
The right says YouTube is silencing creators. The left says it's ignoring anti-LGBT harassment. A history teacher is caught in the middle.
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