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  • Viser Sig, At Ødelægge Samfundet Er Enormt Indbringende

    Foto: Lachlan Cunningham (Getty) I en noget utroligt taget i betragtning af at Facebook er absolut shitshow af et år i 2018, sociale medier, firma—frisk ud af en ny skandale, der involverer en teenager-targeting “forskning” app—rapporteret rekordoverskud i sin onsdag indtjening opkald. CNBC rapporterede, at Facebook overgik skøn af analytikere på indtjening og omsætning, med…

  • Foxconn Admits It’s Not Building a Factory in Wisconsin Anymore Despite Scoring $4 Billion Deal From Taxpayers

  • What’s the Latest on Apple’s Catastrophic FaceTime Bug? [Updated]

    Photo: Getty As Apple developers scramble to fix a disturbing bug in FaceTime that allowed users to eavesdrop on the people they call with the Group FaceTime function, we’ve learned the company was allegedly notified about the issue before it was widely known, repeatedly. At least one lawsuit has already been filed against the tech…

  • Neanderthals and Denisovans Shared a Siberian Cave for Thousands of Years, New Research Suggests

    The entrance to Denisova cave.Image: Richard Roberts Denisova cave in southern Siberia was home to Neanderthals and Denisovans for thousands of years, but questions remain about the timing of their stay. A pair of new studies traces the history of archaic human occupation at the site, showing who lived there and when—including a possible era…

  • A Guide to the Chemistry of Cold Weather

    Frozen ChicagoPhoto: AP You might have noticed that it’s pretty cold throughout much of the United States—frostbite-inducing, school-closing, scald-yourself-with-boiling-water-while-attempting-that-stupid-instant-snow-trick cold. You might wonder what that means, scientifically. I’m not talking biology—I’m talking chemistry (okay, and a little biochemistry). Temperatures like the -36 degrees Fahrenheit faced by my friends in Fargo, North Dakota this week approach…

  • How Wacom’s New Affordable Cintiq Beats the iPad

    Laptops & TabletsTablets Wacom Cintiq 16 Laptops & TabletsTablets Wacom Cintiq 16 Wacom Cintiq 16 WHAT IS IT? Wacom's cheapest, stylus-driven LCD tablet. PRICE $650 LIKE An industry-standard design tool made more accessible to amateurs and students. DISLIKE Hardware compromises might make more expensive models worth the upgrade. While significantly cheaper than Wacom’s other LCD…

  • Google Chrome Is Testing a Feature to Warn Users About Suspicious URLs

    Image: Google As phishing scams become increasingly sophisticated, Google’s engineers have been exploring ways to help users better identify potentially nefarious URLs. Google Chrome is currently testing a new warning to flag these types of domains, CNET reported Tuesday. The feature was highlighted this week by Emily Stark, an engineer on Google Chrome’s security team,…

  • New York Attorney General Finds That Sale of Social Media Bots, Fake Engagement Is Illegal

    New York Attorney General Letitia James, seen here during the 2018 campaign season.Photo: Kevin Hagen (AP) The New York Attorney General’s office has announced a settlement with Devumi LLC, a social media-marketing firm whose tactics were exposed by the New York Times last year, in what the office wrote is “the first finding by a law…

  • Sheryl Sandberg: The Teens ‘Consented’ to Putting Facebook Spyware on Their Phones

    Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg in 2017.Photo: Thibault Camus (AP) On Tuesday, news broke via TechCrunch that Facebook ran a sketchy “Research” program involving paid participants who downloaded an app onto their phones that was capable of monitoring virtually everything that they did—including in some cases teens as young as 13, who were recruited…

  • Turns Out Destroying Society Is Immensely Profitable

    Photo: Lachlan Cunningham (Getty) In a somewhat unbelievable feat considering Facebook’s absolute shitshow of a year in 2018, the social media company—freshly off of a new scandal involving a teen-targeting “research” app—reported record profit in its Wednesday earnings call. CNBC reported that Facebook surpassed estimates by analysts on earnings and revenue, with the company reporting…