Vine has previously taken steps to hide pornographic and sexually explicit videos shared by its users, but today it's outright banning the content. The company has updated both its rules and terms of service to prohibit sexually explicit material. "As we’ve watched the community and your...
"We don’t have a problem with explicit sexual content on the Internet — we just prefer not to be the source of it." Vine
Outside of select government and military applications, on demand satellite imagery and video is still little more than a dream. But a few startups are working on tackling that problem, and we're getting to see the first fruits of their labor. SkyBox Imaging has released a video showing off its...
In the wake of this morning's Newsweek article purportedly unmasking mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, the man known as Dorian Nakamoto has become the subject not just of more investigative reporting but of a car chase and is apparently denying being the creator of the currency. Los Angeles Times reporter Joe Bel Bruno and others have taken to Twitter as they follow Nakamoto and an...
In August 2011, CNN bought the newsreading app Zite for $20 million. At the time, the cable-news giant said that Zite’s algorithms for personalizing news would transform its digital presence. "The Zite technology can also help CNN’s websites and apps serve more personalized content, making our current digital services even better," said KC Estenson, general manager of CNN Digital, at the time.
Yet yesterday, CNN unloaded Zite onto Flipboard in an all-stock deal that gives it a small equity stake in the company. Allowed to operate mostly independently for two and a half years, the app’s growth had slowed, ad revenue was negligible, and that vaunted Zite technology never materialized on CNN’s digital properties. Naturally, everyone involved hailed the deal as a rousing success. "We didn’t wither and die, we actually thrived," Zite’s CEO, Mark Johnson, told The Verge of Zite's time at CNN. "It didn’t work out exactly as planned, but it worked out for everybody involved."
...A dream deferred — again
Rich Miner strolls the halls of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, pausing every few minutes to check out the latest gadgets on display. As one of the co-founders of Android, he is walking through a world that has been all but conquered by the operating system he helped create. Now, as a general...
Americans don't sleep enough: according to the CDC, 35 percent of adults report they get less than the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep each night. Jawbone today is launching an app that tries to tackle one of the biggest reasons we don't...
Newsweek has published a story purporting to have uncovered the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the enigmatic creator of cryptocurrency Bitcoin. A trail of investigation reportedly led to "a 64-year-old Japanese-American man whose name really is Satoshi Nakamoto," and who...
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