YouTubers Are Fighting Algorithms to Make Good Content for Kids
Animated videos dominate the kids YouTube space. Humans are fighting against YouTube’s algorithm to try and compete.

March 20, 2019 at 06:53AM
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FCC Admits in Court That It Can’t Track Who Submits Fake Comments
The process for tracking down instances of comment fraud at the FCC is, as its lawyers accurately portrayed in court, a f**king headache. But what this really means is, if the commission is going to continue to use the ECFS to solicit public comments, the system needs to be retrofitted or completely re-built to facilitate fraud detection.

March 19, 2019 at 05:00PM
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Why The iPhone’s Durability Is A Double-Edged Sword For Apple
Used iPhones have a much higher resale value than other smartphones, which means that Apple is increasingly competing against the secondary iPhone market.

March 19, 2019 at 05:00PM
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Kickstarter’s Staff Is Unionizing
The staff of Kickstarter announced plans to unionize today. If recognized, Kickstarter would be the first major tech company with union representation in the United States.

March 19, 2019 at 05:00PM
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Why Do We Need So Many Different Messaging Apps?
Slack, Signal, Hangouts, Wire, iMessage, Telegram, Facebook Messenger. Why do we need so many apps to do one thing?

March 19, 2019 at 01:52PM
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Why I’m Swapping My iPhone For An Alarm Clock From 1939
Columnist Michelle Slatalla makes a case for turning back the hands of time and embracing an object designed to perform a single task flawlessly.

March 19, 2019 at 01:04PM
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This Incredible AI Can Turn Basic Sketches Into Real Images
Of course, this will work a bit better with things like nature scenes, where the lines and textures are a bit easier to estimate, but this work from Nvidia is still super impressive.

March 19, 2019 at 01:07PM
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Google Stadia Gaming Platform Details
Stadia seeks to combine any-screen game streaming with the video streaming of YouTube.

March 19, 2019 at 12:27PM
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Massive US Machines That Hunt For Ripples In Space-Time Just Got An Upgrade
Scientists are about to restart the two giant facilities in the United States that register gravitational waves, the ripples in the very fabric of the universe that were predicted by Albert Einstein more than a century ago.

March 19, 2019 at 11:33AM
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An Exclusive Look At An Original iPhone Prototype
Apple created special prototype development boards that contained nearly all of the iPhone’s parts, spread out across a large circuit board. The Verge obtained exclusive access to the original iPhone M68 prototype board from 2006/2007.

March 19, 2019 at 07:20AM
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