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June 16, 2015
Privacy Advocates Boycott Facial Recognition Negotiations
Nine groups walked out en masse from facial recognition privacy talks organized by the Commerce Department.
The U.S. government's efforts to build a code of conduct for facial recognition software creators has hit a major snag: Privacy advocates are boycotting the process and saying adequate privacy controls aren't planned for massive databases that can identify millions of American citizens.
Etsy Debuts Crowdfunding Platform, Takes On Kickstarter
Fund on Etsy is a crowdfunding pilot program built directly into the popular online marketplace.
If you have a killer idea for handmade Father's Day tool belts—but don't have the cash to get started—Etsy just made life a little easier. Today, the online marketplace announced Fund on Etsy, its own spin on the crowdfunding model made popular by Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
The Fast Company Twitter CEO Fantasy Draft
Everyone seems to think the job is Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey's to lose...so who should step in if he does?
When it was announced last week that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo would be stepping down effective July 1st, social media became awash in reasoned analysis and thoughtful speculation.
The Father Of "Getting Things Done": You're Getting Me All Wrong
Productivity guru David Allen on Zen, doing nothing, and why some people need to "stop focusing on their goals and actually get shit done."
It's 10:47 a.m., and David Allen, the man behind the world's most popular productivity system and eponymous bestselling book, is sitting across from me at a cafe in Amsterdam, sipping a glass of white wine. He wants to clarify something.
Your Google Searches Will Now Pull Up Fast Food Calorie Counts
Uh oh.
Fast food lovers, beware: Your next Google search for a Jack In The Box Chick-N-Tater Melt Munchie Meal might end in calorie shame.
Amazon Is Considering Enlisting Ordinary People To Deliver Packages
If implemented, the service would pay people to ferry packages to customers on their way to other destinations.
Amazon is always looking to get a leg up on its e-commerce rivals and curb rising shipping costs. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company is now considering paying ordinary people to ferry packages to customers on their way to other destinations.
Today in Tabs: Beyond the Orange Room
"Dolezal" keeps autocorrecting to "doleful" and that doesn't feel like an accident, to be honest.
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BitTorrent Launches Shoot, A Mobile App To Share Large Files Without The Cloud
The peer-to-peer tech company is expanding its offerings to compete with Dropbox and Google Drive.
A month after launching super-private messaging app Bleep, peer-to-peer tech company BitTorrent is further expanding its suite of mobile apps built on its cloud-free file-sharing protocol.
Facebook Is Making Suggestions For Status Updates
Stumped? Take your pick of Facebook's trending hashtags.
Itching to write a status update on Facebook, but at a loss for words? Worried about maintaining your cloak of enigma while staying culturally relevant? Facebook wants to cure your writer's block.
A Practical Vision For The Hyperloop Experience
Why should high-speed tubes look all that different from high-speed flight?
In 2013, Elon Musk unveiled a radical idea for high-speed transportation: a metal tube that fired passengers to their destinations in canisters traveling 760 miles an hour. The Hyperloop, as he called it, could make a trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just 35 minutes.
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