CLEVER Portland Deploys Thief-Proof Bike Racks 16 diggs citylab.com Design Unless you encase your bike in concrete and chip it out whenever you need to use it, there’s no way to 100-percent guard your cycle against theft, but Portland's clever new bike racks are a good start.
A 7-year-old flaw in Intel chips could enable hijackers to gain total control of business computers and use them for malicious purposes. The Intel AMT vulnerability is the first of its kind, according to Embedi, which released technical details about it last week. Attackers could exploit the flaw to get full control over business computers, even those turned off but plugged into an outlet.
The manifesto also proposes that internet companies will have to pay a levy, like the one currently paid by gambling firms. Just like with gambling, that money will be used to pay for advertising schemes to tell people about the dangers of the internet, in particular being used to "support awareness and preventative activity to counter internet harms", according to the manifesto.
Get updates via RSS feed Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed.
A better word than “monotony” for this chronic mixing of moods would be “bathos,” which describes the deflation or anticlimax that occurs when two opposing tones or registers clash in a work of art. We owe the term to the eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, who coined it in a corrosive treatise called “Peri Bathous; Or, the Art of Sinking.” While Western writers had long been interested in language’s ability to transport the listener or reader to an exalted, sublime plane of experience, Pope saw in the work of his peers a tendency in the opposite direction. Lacking the genius necessary to reach the lofty heights of sublimity, they unintentionally followed “the gentle down-hill way to the Bathos.”
Advertising helps fund our journalism and keep it truly independent. It helps to build our international editorial team, from war correspondents to investigative reporters, commentators to critics.
Arms, the highly anticipated fighting game for Nintendo's Switch, will be available next Friday, and based on the early reviews, the company just may have found the magic bullet. Nintendo's Switch console, launched earlier this year, has been something of a surprise success. Prior to its launch, it seemed like a risky play for the company, which has been bobbing and weaving in recent years.
Microsoft on Thursday announced Mixer, a rebranded version of its game-streaming service previously known as "Beam." In addition to the name change, the service will include a number of new features designed to attract more gamers. The added features will unlock new possibilities for social streaming, while also helping viewers find specific content across the service, according to Microsoft.
The public got a rare view into how Facebook tries to keep offensive and dangerous content offline in a report published Sunday. Leaked confidential documents exposed the secret rules by which Facebook polices postings on issues such as violence, hate speech, terrorism, pornography, racism and self-harm, as well as such subjects as sports fixing and cannibalism.
Google Translate recognised the word as Samoan, though could offer no English translation. A BBC reader has written in to debunk any suggestion that the president is a secret Samoan speaker. Among many other reasons for this, the language does not even have a letter C.
Facebook has announced the beta launch of Facebook Spaces, a new app that allows users to connect with friends and colleagues in an interactive virtual reality environment. It provides a way for social media users to hang out as they might otherwise in person -- even bridging great distances -- noted Rachel Franklin, head of social VR at Facebook. An avatar represents each user in the VR world.
Genesys on Monday introduced G-Nine. "Think of G-Nine as the Genesys innovation framework that guides many aspects of our business -- product strategy being one of those," said Genesys CMO Merijn te Booij. "Within the G-Nine innovation framework, we have defined our themes related to technology and consumer trends that we'll focus on in the next two years."
Cortana can now help you score deals through Microsoft Edge By Parker Wilhelm Microsoft augments the Edge browser with another Cortana feature to save you a few bucks shopping. A fitting name for your website – finding the perfect domain name By Sponsored TechRadar Pro Finding the perfect name for your business just got much easier. Ethical hackers show that Windows 10 isn’t immune to WannaCry By Darren Allan Here’s why a future WannaCry-style assault could well hit even Microsoft’s most secure operating system. Apple cuts the cost for 2TB of iCloud storage in half By Michelle Fitzsimmons Flying under the radar of all the new hardware at WWDC 2017 is an iCloud price change. Samsung is about to launch a mesh Wi-Fi system of its own By Parker Wilhelm For those looking for a new home project, Samsung has announced pricing and release date for its new Wi-Fi hub. Google is adding an ad blocker to Chrome in 2018 By Michelle Fitzsimmons Tired of annoying ads? Starting next year, Google will remove all ads from sites that don't fall in line. Gmail gets new powers to fight phishing, ransomware and more By Darren Allan TechRadar Pro Google’s webmail service can now block malicious emails with an incredibly high accuracy. How to hide your identity from snooping ISP's By Sponsored TechRadar Pro ISP's have started tracking user data – but you can stop them if you encrypt your online activity. Twitter just changed the way you can receive Direct Messages By Michelle Fitzsimmons Want greater control over your DMs? Twitter introduces Accept and Delete for missives from users you don't follow. Google makes it easier to find your own stuff from the search box By David Nield In a significant update to its search engine, Google now helps you search your own content as well as the web.
Facebook last week signed agreements with several content firms -- among them Vox, Buzzfeed, ATTN and Group Nine Media, according to reports. The deals are widely viewed as part of the company's strategy to attract millennials to its live-streaming Web content. Facebook will offer multi-tiered programming, according to a report that cited sources familiar with the plans.
The regulator will slap financial penalties on sites found in violation of the regulations, the Paper cited the official as saying. A representative of Sohu declined to comment on the report. Tencent, Sina and NetEase didn’t respond to messages and phone calls seeking comment. The cyberspace administration has yet to respond to a faxed request for comment.
Microsoft executives, led by CEO Satya Nadella, introduced a series of enhancements to the company's critical data and cloud services at the kickoff of its annual Build conference, demonstrating new ways to expand adoption of artificial intelligence, personal digital assistants and other innovations. There will be more than 25 billion intelligent devices in the world by 2020, Nadella said.
The future is now, or at least it is coming soon. Today's technological developments are looking very much like what once was the domain of science fiction. Maybe we don't have domed cities and flying cars, but we do have buildings that reach to the heavens, and drones that soon could deliver our packages. Who needs a flying car when the self-driving car is just down the road?
The party has long been sensitive to the potential for negative reporting to stir up unrest, the greatest threat to its decades-old hold on power. Regulations forbidding enterprise reporting have been in place for years without consistent enforcement, but the latest ordinance suggests “they really mean business,” said Willy Lam, an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Center for China Studies.
The government is now considering ways to exert a more direct form of influence over the country’s online media institutions. In recent months, Chinese authorities have held discussions with internet providers on a pilot project intended to pave the way for the government to start taking board seats and stakes of at least 1 percent in those companies. In return, they would get a license to provide news on a daily basis.
The government now appears to be launching a similarly radical change in the way that social networks and internet companies work. While much of the internet is currently controlled by private businesses like Google and Facebook, Theresa May intends to allow government to decide what is and isn't published, the manifesto suggests.
A phishing scam that surfaced earlier this week used Google Docs in an attack against at least 1 million Gmail users. However, that amounted to fewer than 0.1 percent of Gmail users were affected, according to the company. Google last year put the number of active monthly Gmail users at more than 1 billion. Google shut down the phishing scam within an hour, it said.
Comedian John Oliver, incensed over proposed changes to unravel Net neutrality protections for consumers, unleashed a torrent of criticism against the FCC and urged viewers to register their protest online. The response led to a digital meltdown on the agency's site Sunday night. Oliver targeted a proposal that would loosen Net neutrality regulations.
A technician hurriedly slings his backpack over his shoulders, straps on his M9 pistol, and bolts out of the transport with his squad of commandos in a hail of gunfire. As soon as his team reaches the compound, he whips out a laptop and starts deploying a rootkit to the target server, bullets whizzing overhead all the while. Army Cyber Institute's recruits are training to do just that.
This summer, Facebook could be seen grappling with its ambiguous position as both a co-edited family photo album and an outlet for information. It made two adjustments to the algorithm governing its News Feed, lurching bathetically between the local and the global. The first change came in late June, announced in an official blog post. “FRIENDS AND FAMILY COME FIRST,” a caps-locked subheading assured us; personal stories would be prioritized. But then, on August 11th, another blog entry appeared, this time explaining that “informative” posts would receive higher billing. The news was back, although Facebook intended to maintain the intimate tone. The News Feed, the company explained, would be improved through “global crowd-sourced surveys of tens of thousands of people per day.” To the layperson, this is one of Big Data’s stranger qualities—that the portrait of an individual emerges from the crunched crowd. And when the main criterion for relevance is general interest, the individual is left exposed to the two extremes of popularity—spectacular events and viral trivia. Just because most people like cat videos and most people care about terrorist attacks, it does not follow that most people want to experience them side by side.
ABC Radio announced that it has entered a collaboration with Spotify to create a podcast called Brilliant Minds. In addition to the joint project, ABC Radio podcasts hosted by the network’s anchors, correspondents, and contributors will now be available on Spotify via a non-exclusive agreement. Continue Reading →
This vignette gets its bathetic comedy from the collision of two scales: the immensity of war and its mass casualties hitting against private comforts. Proust mercilessly shows how thinking small can trump thinking big, how a buttery morsel can dwarf life’s grandest horrors. Pope writes in his mock-guide for bad poets that their eyes “should be like unto the wrong end of a perspective glass, by which all the objects of nature are lessened.” Alas, Madame Verdurin’s sinking feelings are not hers alone, since who among us isn’t implicated in this moment of tactless pleasure? It is part of our hourly adventures in the News Feed, with its blithe slide show of photogenic pastries and bloodied refugees. This digital bathos, the deflating consequence of an amoral algorithm, no doubt contributes to our general sense of unease about the social-media project. For in these continual descents from the tragic to the whimsical, we are troubled both by the sufferings of others and by our own placid, treacherous consolations.
Most people who spend time on the Internet will likely have asked themselves whether things are really getting worse, or whether it just feels that way. Constant online exposure to the world’s troubles no doubt encourages an end-of-days mood, but the consequences of using social media as a news channel are more complex than your run-of-the-mill existential dread. To blame “monotony,” a blasé description in the context of “people killing each other,” is to miss that the defining feature of social media is a mismatch of scale. The feed is where we go both to be informed about the world and to escape its violence. It is designed to accommodate the personal and the planetary, political awareness and head-in-the-sand retreat. These opposite poles of life are dressed in identical trappings, and we’re invited to react to them with a single, limited set of coded responses. The same thumb goes up when friends post photos of their Canadian camping trip and when they check in safe after an attack in Brussels or Nice or New York or Berlin. As a result, the social-media news cycle demands of us a bifocal gaze, one that comes with a particular emotional toll.
Parents don't need a poll to tell them their teenagers are addicted to smartphones. After all, smartphones are a permanent fixture rather than accessories on the visages of kids of all ages these days. Even so, polls move these everyday observances from anecdotal to official problem when the numbers tilt in that direction -- and a Common Sense Media poll hit full tilt.
The Cyberspace Administration of China imposed the ban on several major news portals, including Sohu.com Inc. and NetEase Inc., Chinese media reported in identically worded articles citing an unidentified official from the agency’s Beijing office. The companies have “seriously violated” internet regulations by carrying plenty of news content obtained through original reporting, causing “huge negative effects,” according to a report that appeared in The Paper on Sunday.
Have we since outgrown this taste? Televised news, unlike eighteenth-century English poets, has always been wary of bathos, which is why those cheering stories that form the news’s lighter side are typically reserved for last, often with a cushion of sports or weather in between. This format imposes a crude narrative structure on the day’s events, with peril ultimately usurped by a happy, or at least whimsical, conclusion. Yet such careful management of emotional tone is absent in the social-media news feed, which in this sense is closer to the rawness of real life, with its moments of shock and unexpected shifts in mood.
A second helicopter lands on London Bridge as police are responding to three incidents in the capital, amid reports that a vehicle collided with pedestrians on London Bridge, Scotland Yard said. Officers are dealing with reports of stabbings in Borough Market, where armed officers attended and shots were fired. They are also at an incident in the Vauxhall area
Twenty-five years ago, would we have classed ‘digital’ as an industry its own right? Absolutely not. Predictions might’ve been made about the seismic changes the internet would have on existing industries, but no-one knew for sure that it would evolve to become one itself – encompassing markets as it grew and leaving others in its wake to cause a merging of arenas; ‘super sectors’.
Facebook on Wednesday told its F8 conference audience about two new cutting-edge projects that could change the way humans engage with devices. Over the next two years, the company will work on a new technology that will allow anyone to type around 100 words per minute -- not with fingers, but using a process that would decode neural activity devoted to speech. What Facebook envisions is a technology that would resemble a neural network.
For all his criticisms, America's most celebrated architect wasn’t intrinsically opposed to cities. Instead, he urged us to examine what they had become and recognize that none of their failures were inevitable.
"Fake news" is the buzzword of 2017. Barely a day goes by without a headline about president Donald Trump lambasting media "bias", or the spread of "alternative facts". May 30, 2017 in Internet 10 5
https://newsklic.com
The manifesto even suggests that the government might stop search engines like Google from directing people to pornographic websites. "We will put a responsibility on industry not to direct users – even unintentionally – to hate speech, pornography, or other sources of harm," the Conservatives write.
All of the major video game developers, publishers and console hardware makers, as well as many retail buyers and the gaming press, will descend on Los Angeles for E3 2017 next week. The annual event -- a showcase for computer, video and mobile games and related products -- will kick off officially on Tuesday and run through Thursday at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
A 7-year-old flaw in Intel chips could enable hijackers to gain total control of business computers and use them for malicious purposes. The Intel AMT vulnerability is the first of its kind, according to Embedi, which released technical details about it last week. Attackers could exploit the flaw to get full control over business computers, even those turned off but plugged into an outlet.
The manifesto also proposes that internet companies will have to pay a levy, like the one currently paid by gambling firms. Just like with gambling, that money will be used to pay for advertising schemes to tell people about the dangers of the internet, in particular being used to "support awareness and preventative activity to counter internet harms", according to the manifesto.
Get updates via RSS feed Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed.
A better word than “monotony” for this chronic mixing of moods would be “bathos,” which describes the deflation or anticlimax that occurs when two opposing tones or registers clash in a work of art. We owe the term to the eighteenth-century English poet Alexander Pope, who coined it in a corrosive treatise called “Peri Bathous; Or, the Art of Sinking.” While Western writers had long been interested in language’s ability to transport the listener or reader to an exalted, sublime plane of experience, Pope saw in the work of his peers a tendency in the opposite direction. Lacking the genius necessary to reach the lofty heights of sublimity, they unintentionally followed “the gentle down-hill way to the Bathos.”
Advertising helps fund our journalism and keep it truly independent. It helps to build our international editorial team, from war correspondents to investigative reporters, commentators to critics.
Arms, the highly anticipated fighting game for Nintendo's Switch, will be available next Friday, and based on the early reviews, the company just may have found the magic bullet. Nintendo's Switch console, launched earlier this year, has been something of a surprise success. Prior to its launch, it seemed like a risky play for the company, which has been bobbing and weaving in recent years.
Microsoft on Thursday announced Mixer, a rebranded version of its game-streaming service previously known as "Beam." In addition to the name change, the service will include a number of new features designed to attract more gamers. The added features will unlock new possibilities for social streaming, while also helping viewers find specific content across the service, according to Microsoft.
The public got a rare view into how Facebook tries to keep offensive and dangerous content offline in a report published Sunday. Leaked confidential documents exposed the secret rules by which Facebook polices postings on issues such as violence, hate speech, terrorism, pornography, racism and self-harm, as well as such subjects as sports fixing and cannibalism.
Google Translate recognised the word as Samoan, though could offer no English translation. A BBC reader has written in to debunk any suggestion that the president is a secret Samoan speaker. Among many other reasons for this, the language does not even have a letter C.
Facebook has announced the beta launch of Facebook Spaces, a new app that allows users to connect with friends and colleagues in an interactive virtual reality environment. It provides a way for social media users to hang out as they might otherwise in person -- even bridging great distances -- noted Rachel Franklin, head of social VR at Facebook. An avatar represents each user in the VR world.
Genesys on Monday introduced G-Nine. "Think of G-Nine as the Genesys innovation framework that guides many aspects of our business -- product strategy being one of those," said Genesys CMO Merijn te Booij. "Within the G-Nine innovation framework, we have defined our themes related to technology and consumer trends that we'll focus on in the next two years."
Cortana can now help you score deals through Microsoft Edge By Parker Wilhelm Microsoft augments the Edge browser with another Cortana feature to save you a few bucks shopping. A fitting name for your website – finding the perfect domain name By Sponsored TechRadar Pro Finding the perfect name for your business just got much easier. Ethical hackers show that Windows 10 isn’t immune to WannaCry By Darren Allan Here’s why a future WannaCry-style assault could well hit even Microsoft’s most secure operating system. Apple cuts the cost for 2TB of iCloud storage in half By Michelle Fitzsimmons Flying under the radar of all the new hardware at WWDC 2017 is an iCloud price change. Samsung is about to launch a mesh Wi-Fi system of its own By Parker Wilhelm For those looking for a new home project, Samsung has announced pricing and release date for its new Wi-Fi hub. Google is adding an ad blocker to Chrome in 2018 By Michelle Fitzsimmons Tired of annoying ads? Starting next year, Google will remove all ads from sites that don't fall in line. Gmail gets new powers to fight phishing, ransomware and more By Darren Allan TechRadar Pro Google’s webmail service can now block malicious emails with an incredibly high accuracy. How to hide your identity from snooping ISP's By Sponsored TechRadar Pro ISP's have started tracking user data – but you can stop them if you encrypt your online activity. Twitter just changed the way you can receive Direct Messages By Michelle Fitzsimmons Want greater control over your DMs? Twitter introduces Accept and Delete for missives from users you don't follow. Google makes it easier to find your own stuff from the search box By David Nield In a significant update to its search engine, Google now helps you search your own content as well as the web.
Facebook last week signed agreements with several content firms -- among them Vox, Buzzfeed, ATTN and Group Nine Media, according to reports. The deals are widely viewed as part of the company's strategy to attract millennials to its live-streaming Web content. Facebook will offer multi-tiered programming, according to a report that cited sources familiar with the plans.
The regulator will slap financial penalties on sites found in violation of the regulations, the Paper cited the official as saying. A representative of Sohu declined to comment on the report. Tencent, Sina and NetEase didn’t respond to messages and phone calls seeking comment. The cyberspace administration has yet to respond to a faxed request for comment.
Microsoft executives, led by CEO Satya Nadella, introduced a series of enhancements to the company's critical data and cloud services at the kickoff of its annual Build conference, demonstrating new ways to expand adoption of artificial intelligence, personal digital assistants and other innovations. There will be more than 25 billion intelligent devices in the world by 2020, Nadella said.
The future is now, or at least it is coming soon. Today's technological developments are looking very much like what once was the domain of science fiction. Maybe we don't have domed cities and flying cars, but we do have buildings that reach to the heavens, and drones that soon could deliver our packages. Who needs a flying car when the self-driving car is just down the road?
The party has long been sensitive to the potential for negative reporting to stir up unrest, the greatest threat to its decades-old hold on power. Regulations forbidding enterprise reporting have been in place for years without consistent enforcement, but the latest ordinance suggests “they really mean business,” said Willy Lam, an adjunct professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Center for China Studies.
The government is now considering ways to exert a more direct form of influence over the country’s online media institutions. In recent months, Chinese authorities have held discussions with internet providers on a pilot project intended to pave the way for the government to start taking board seats and stakes of at least 1 percent in those companies. In return, they would get a license to provide news on a daily basis.
The government now appears to be launching a similarly radical change in the way that social networks and internet companies work. While much of the internet is currently controlled by private businesses like Google and Facebook, Theresa May intends to allow government to decide what is and isn't published, the manifesto suggests.
A phishing scam that surfaced earlier this week used Google Docs in an attack against at least 1 million Gmail users. However, that amounted to fewer than 0.1 percent of Gmail users were affected, according to the company. Google last year put the number of active monthly Gmail users at more than 1 billion. Google shut down the phishing scam within an hour, it said.
Comedian John Oliver, incensed over proposed changes to unravel Net neutrality protections for consumers, unleashed a torrent of criticism against the FCC and urged viewers to register their protest online. The response led to a digital meltdown on the agency's site Sunday night. Oliver targeted a proposal that would loosen Net neutrality regulations.
A technician hurriedly slings his backpack over his shoulders, straps on his M9 pistol, and bolts out of the transport with his squad of commandos in a hail of gunfire. As soon as his team reaches the compound, he whips out a laptop and starts deploying a rootkit to the target server, bullets whizzing overhead all the while. Army Cyber Institute's recruits are training to do just that.
This summer, Facebook could be seen grappling with its ambiguous position as both a co-edited family photo album and an outlet for information. It made two adjustments to the algorithm governing its News Feed, lurching bathetically between the local and the global. The first change came in late June, announced in an official blog post. “FRIENDS AND FAMILY COME FIRST,” a caps-locked subheading assured us; personal stories would be prioritized. But then, on August 11th, another blog entry appeared, this time explaining that “informative” posts would receive higher billing. The news was back, although Facebook intended to maintain the intimate tone. The News Feed, the company explained, would be improved through “global crowd-sourced surveys of tens of thousands of people per day.” To the layperson, this is one of Big Data’s stranger qualities—that the portrait of an individual emerges from the crunched crowd. And when the main criterion for relevance is general interest, the individual is left exposed to the two extremes of popularity—spectacular events and viral trivia. Just because most people like cat videos and most people care about terrorist attacks, it does not follow that most people want to experience them side by side.
ABC Radio announced that it has entered a collaboration with Spotify to create a podcast called Brilliant Minds. In addition to the joint project, ABC Radio podcasts hosted by the network’s anchors, correspondents, and contributors will now be available on Spotify via a non-exclusive agreement. Continue Reading →
This vignette gets its bathetic comedy from the collision of two scales: the immensity of war and its mass casualties hitting against private comforts. Proust mercilessly shows how thinking small can trump thinking big, how a buttery morsel can dwarf life’s grandest horrors. Pope writes in his mock-guide for bad poets that their eyes “should be like unto the wrong end of a perspective glass, by which all the objects of nature are lessened.” Alas, Madame Verdurin’s sinking feelings are not hers alone, since who among us isn’t implicated in this moment of tactless pleasure? It is part of our hourly adventures in the News Feed, with its blithe slide show of photogenic pastries and bloodied refugees. This digital bathos, the deflating consequence of an amoral algorithm, no doubt contributes to our general sense of unease about the social-media project. For in these continual descents from the tragic to the whimsical, we are troubled both by the sufferings of others and by our own placid, treacherous consolations.
Most people who spend time on the Internet will likely have asked themselves whether things are really getting worse, or whether it just feels that way. Constant online exposure to the world’s troubles no doubt encourages an end-of-days mood, but the consequences of using social media as a news channel are more complex than your run-of-the-mill existential dread. To blame “monotony,” a blasé description in the context of “people killing each other,” is to miss that the defining feature of social media is a mismatch of scale. The feed is where we go both to be informed about the world and to escape its violence. It is designed to accommodate the personal and the planetary, political awareness and head-in-the-sand retreat. These opposite poles of life are dressed in identical trappings, and we’re invited to react to them with a single, limited set of coded responses. The same thumb goes up when friends post photos of their Canadian camping trip and when they check in safe after an attack in Brussels or Nice or New York or Berlin. As a result, the social-media news cycle demands of us a bifocal gaze, one that comes with a particular emotional toll.
Parents don't need a poll to tell them their teenagers are addicted to smartphones. After all, smartphones are a permanent fixture rather than accessories on the visages of kids of all ages these days. Even so, polls move these everyday observances from anecdotal to official problem when the numbers tilt in that direction -- and a Common Sense Media poll hit full tilt.
The Cyberspace Administration of China imposed the ban on several major news portals, including Sohu.com Inc. and NetEase Inc., Chinese media reported in identically worded articles citing an unidentified official from the agency’s Beijing office. The companies have “seriously violated” internet regulations by carrying plenty of news content obtained through original reporting, causing “huge negative effects,” according to a report that appeared in The Paper on Sunday.
Have we since outgrown this taste? Televised news, unlike eighteenth-century English poets, has always been wary of bathos, which is why those cheering stories that form the news’s lighter side are typically reserved for last, often with a cushion of sports or weather in between. This format imposes a crude narrative structure on the day’s events, with peril ultimately usurped by a happy, or at least whimsical, conclusion. Yet such careful management of emotional tone is absent in the social-media news feed, which in this sense is closer to the rawness of real life, with its moments of shock and unexpected shifts in mood.
A second helicopter lands on London Bridge as police are responding to three incidents in the capital, amid reports that a vehicle collided with pedestrians on London Bridge, Scotland Yard said. Officers are dealing with reports of stabbings in Borough Market, where armed officers attended and shots were fired. They are also at an incident in the Vauxhall area
Twenty-five years ago, would we have classed ‘digital’ as an industry its own right? Absolutely not. Predictions might’ve been made about the seismic changes the internet would have on existing industries, but no-one knew for sure that it would evolve to become one itself – encompassing markets as it grew and leaving others in its wake to cause a merging of arenas; ‘super sectors’.
Facebook on Wednesday told its F8 conference audience about two new cutting-edge projects that could change the way humans engage with devices. Over the next two years, the company will work on a new technology that will allow anyone to type around 100 words per minute -- not with fingers, but using a process that would decode neural activity devoted to speech. What Facebook envisions is a technology that would resemble a neural network.
For all his criticisms, America's most celebrated architect wasn’t intrinsically opposed to cities. Instead, he urged us to examine what they had become and recognize that none of their failures were inevitable.
"Fake news" is the buzzword of 2017. Barely a day goes by without a headline about president Donald Trump lambasting media "bias", or the spread of "alternative facts". May 30, 2017 in Internet 10 5
https://newsklic.com
The manifesto even suggests that the government might stop search engines like Google from directing people to pornographic websites. "We will put a responsibility on industry not to direct users – even unintentionally – to hate speech, pornography, or other sources of harm," the Conservatives write.
All of the major video game developers, publishers and console hardware makers, as well as many retail buyers and the gaming press, will descend on Los Angeles for E3 2017 next week. The annual event -- a showcase for computer, video and mobile games and related products -- will kick off officially on Tuesday and run through Thursday at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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