How AOL Profits From Two Million Internet Access Subscribers
The most amazing thing about AOL’s business is the thing that drives AOL’s business: Millions of people, who started paying the company a monthly fee for Internet access more than a decade ago.
August 7, 2014 at 6:27AM
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This Computer Knows When “Literally” Isn’t Literal
Language is funny that way. We say things that are utterly false, but we seem to understand what the other person means, regardless. Intrigued by this quirk in communication, researchers built the first computational model that can predict humans’ interpretations of hyperbolic statements.
August 7, 2014 at 4:12AM
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Gmail now surfaces Unsubscribe links to the top of emails
Google today released a neat feature for those who like to reduce the number of emails they receive.
August 6, 2014 at 10:03PM
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Foursquare Now Tracks Users Even When the App Is Closed
Hiding in Foursquare’s revamped mobile app is a feature some users might find creepy: It tracks your every movement, even when the app is closed.
August 6, 2014 at 7:54PM
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AOL still has 2.3 million dialup subscribers—and they’re very profitable
AOL has spent the last decade — since the broadband era really took off — trying to build a business around online advertising. But its legacy dialup Internet subscription business is still generating a big portion of its sales — and most of its profits.
August 6, 2014 at 3:49PM
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The University of Michigan is building a fake city for driverless cars
The intention is that the facility will allow researchers to see how well the cars fare with unexpected situations: “tricky traffic signal timings, or a pedestrian stepping into the intersection at just the wrong time,” as Edwin Olson, an assistant professor at the university, puts it.
August 6, 2014 at 2:37PM
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The American Attitude to Self-Driving Cars
We’re more hopeful about — and scared of — autonomous vehicles than people in the UK or Australia.
August 6, 2014 at 1:34PM
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How A Simple Spambot Became The Second Most Powerful Member Of An Italian Social Network
The surprising story of how an experiment to automate the creation of popularity and influence became successful beyond all expectation.
August 6, 2014 at 1:34PM
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Uber and Lyft Both Launch Carpool Services
Here’s a parable about what it’s like to compete with Uber in the car-hailing business.
August 6, 2014 at 12:26PM
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300bn messages sent in UK forecast this year largely due to mobile flirting
WhatsApp has spawned a new generation of instant messaging superusers, with some teenagers and young adults using their smartphones to despatch up to 100,000 electronic messages a year, according to a study by Deloitte.
August 6, 2014 at 11:23AM
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