Pinterest aims for products from the store down your street as its next big ad business

Pinterest is known for having, and promoting, a lot of business content. It’s actually a majority of the content, and it’s usually from some of the most well-known brands that feed into the kinds of sometimes dream-level wants and needs of its users. And while Pinterest a majority of Pinterest’s potential is locked up there, […]

Do You Weigh More at the Equator or at the North Pole?

In which a physics professor very severely overthinks his daughter's science homework.

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You can learn all aspects of getting your message out to your most receptive audience with this massive Digital Marketing Foundations Mega Bundle ($39, over 90 percent off from TNW Deals).

Is deleting your Facebook account really going to solve anything?

We’re in the middle of a full-fledged Facebook panic. A couple of weeks ago, it was revealed that the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica used data improperly taken from Facebook by a third-party app to influence voters in the 2016 Presidential election. Compounded in part by the revelation of Cambridge Analytica’s unethical tactics and in part by CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s several days of silence on the issue, users began to get the #DeleteFacebook hashtag trending, and scrubbing their Facebook pages of data they don’t want third parties to see. Privacy concerns, with regard to technology, aren’t exactly new, but they…

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IOTA is going through a very messy public break-up with a former member

Fledgling blockchain developer IOTA Foundation has found itself entangled in yet another controversy. In a Twitter post from earlier today, co-founder David Sønstebø accused former employee Per Lind of exploiting the brand for personal gains. He further claimed that Lind has never held a position in the foundation – and went as far as deeming him a “charlatan.” For the record, @pclind1 has never been an official member of the IOTA Foundation. He is a charlatan that exploits the brand to get equity and tokens in startups. He couldn't handle a calculator if his life depended on it. This guy…

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Mark Zuckerberg Should Answer This One Question When He Testifies Before Congress

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has finally agreed to appear before Congress—which means he might finally get at the real issue behind Facebook's woes.

Read Mark Zuckerberg's media Q&A on data security

Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hosted a call with the media in which he spoke about the Cambridge Analytica situation and how Facebook is working to protect its users' data going forward. The transcript of that call, including the Q&A th...

TNW’s Big Spam: Are you as dumb as your apps?

Almost there… Top trending tech news: 😮 FB confirmed it spies on our Messenger conversations (TNW)😬 … and confessed the Cambridge Analytica breach could have affected 87 million users (TNW) ☠ Russia says ‘nyet’ to free exchange of cryptocurrencies (Hard Fork) What we’re talking about: Someone raised over $100k to make a wooden egg on Kickstarter. What a time to be alive. Apple is working on a way to let us use our iPhones without actually touching them. Zuckerberg revealed yesterday that every single Facebook user should assume their data was compromised by third-party scrapers. The true victim of Cambridge Analytica? Tinder. “Buy the Dip” is the cryptocurrency comedy sketch we didn’t…

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CometML wants to do for machine learning what GitHub did for code

Comet.ml allows data scientists and developers to easily monitor, compare and optimize their machine learning models. The New York-based company is launching its product today, after completing the TechStars-powered Amazon Alexa Accelerator program and raising a $2.3 million seed round led by Trilogy Equity partners, together with Two Sigma Ventures, Founders Co-Op, Fathom Capital, TechStars Ventures […]

Sony will make almost $1 billion on Spotify's IPO

Spotify finally realized its IPO, after going the road less travelled and listing directly. Shares have already increased in value from $132 initially to settle around $140 for now. For those that already owned some Spotify stock, it was a good day....

Kahuna comes out of the gate with customer engagement platform

We keep hearing about the value of customer experience from some of the world’s biggest software companies. Last week Adobe trotted out the customer experience system of record at Adobe Summit. Meanwhile, Salesforce announced its Integration Cloud. Today Kahuna, a Redwood City, California startup, announced a platform to compete with the giants to help brands […]

Got questions for the first ever VR porn star? Ela Darling is joining us on TNW Answers

What are the most exciting VR projects in porn right now? How has the #metoo movement affected the adult film industry? Is there a way technology could bring more gender equality? What is it about VR that has made it catch on so quickly in the industry? What new problems could you see it posing for adult film actors? Are there many other women leading VR or other leading tech companies in porn? Ask all this and more to CAM4VR’s Ela Darling. Ela Darling is the world’s first VR cam girl. After earning an MA in Library Sciences at the age of…

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How to Get the Comics Backstory for *Avengers: Infinity War* for Less Than $20

Need a cram session before the next Marvel movie? This one won't break the bank.

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Samsung 2018 QLED TV : The First Look in Newyork Highlight

During the 2018 First Look in New York on March 7, 2018, the Samsung QLED TV was unveiled to the world. Here’s what you missed.

Fully autonomous drone: Skydio R1 review

The Skydio R1 is the world’s first fully autonomous consumer drone. It uses AI and a mix of cameras and sensors to pilot itself and follow a subject through complex environments. To test those claims, we took the R1 to a park in San Francisco to see how well it could handle following a subject hiking, biking, and skateboarding. Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Follow us on: www.instagram.com/verge www.facebook.com/verge twitter.com/verge And read more on TheVerge.com We want to hear from you and we love comments that follow our community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv

'Alex's Sci-Fi World' is a beautiful piece of VR animation

Hand-painted VR animation isn't new. Oculus developed Quill, a 3D painting package for the Rift, back in 2015 for its now defunct Story Studio. It was released to the public in Dec. 2016 and updated with a slew of filmmaking features three months ago...

Proof-of-Work tech under fire after 51% attacks on Electroneum and Verge

Two cryptocurrencies have recently become victims of the dreaded ‘51 percent attacks’ on their blockchains.  Electroneum suffered a 51 percent attack which was discovered when it was noticed that a massive amount of empty blocks were being constantly mined on the currency’s blockchain one after another, preceded by a sudden drop in hashrate. Following the Electroneum attack it was reported that Verge’s blockchain had also been compromised by a 51 percent attack. Around 250,000 XVG were stolen by the attacker, as the attacker was able to mine multiple blocks one second apart using the same (scrypt) algorithm. This feat would…

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