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An Instagram hack hit millions of accounts, and victims’ phone numbers are now for sale - The Verge

An Instagram hack hit millions of accounts, and victims’ phone numbers are now for sale – The Verge

A bug that exposed users’ contact information affected a far greater number of accounts than Instagram originally said. The bug, which appears to have been responsible for Selena Gomez’s account being hacked this week, allowed hackers to scrape email addresses and contact information for millions of accounts, Instagram said today. (It has since been fixed.) While the company first said the hack…

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Why young men might be playing video games instead of working.

No, the answer is not just “video games are fun.” A draft paper made available by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a clearinghouse for working papers in economic research, links at least part of this difference to video games: Statistical modeling by the authors suggests that young men are working an average of four fewer hours per week than they once did and spending three of those four…

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Adobe Flash Will Finally Die Off in 2020 | WIRED

No, for real this time. IN 2010, STEVE Jobs banished Adobe Flash from the iPhone. It was too insecure, Jobs wrote, too proprietary, too resource-intensive, too unaccommodating for a platform run by fingertips instead of mouse clicks. All of those gripes hold true. And now Adobe itself has finally conceded. The company announced Tuesday that it would “stop updating and distributing the Flash…

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Reddit raised $200 million in funding and is now valued at $1.8 billion - Recode

Reddit raised $200 million in funding and is now valued at $1.8 billion – Recode

Reddit has raised $200 million in new venture funding and is now valued at $1.8 billion, according to CEO Steve Huffman.The new funding round, the company’s largest ever, should expedite a number of internal product and business efforts, including a redesign of its homepage and its first foray into user-uploaded video, Huffman added in an interview with Recode.The money comes courtesy of a number…

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Apple and Cochlear team up to roll out the first implant made for the iPhone | TechCrunch Apple has teamed up with Australian-based Cochlear to bring iPhone users the first made for iPhone Cochlear implant.Approved by the U.S.

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How Your Phone Number Became the Only Username That Matters | WIRED

WhatsApp was among the first apps to equate your account with your phone number. Now apps like Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook Messenger do it too. Starting this fall, setting up your iPhone will be as easy as punching in your number. The supposedly super-secure way of logging into apps involves texting you a secret code to verify your identity. Phone numbers are killing the username, killing…

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Hyperloop One: Passenger pod tested successfully – BBC News Hyperloop One has carried out the first trial of the technology to include a large pod that may one day carry passengers at speeds of up to 650mph. Source: Hyperloop One: Passenger pod tested successfully - BBC News

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You’d Have to Click a Mouse 10 Million Times to Burn One Calorie | WIRED

That’ll only take 11.5 days. Get to work! You want to keep clicking that mouse until you burn one kilocalorie? Fine. Be my guest. You’ll have to click it 10 million times. Clicking 10 times a second (which seems pretty fast), you’ll be click-click-clicking away for 1 million seconds. That’s 11.5 days. I’m pretty sure you would burn more energy breathing. Ultimately, this value of one big calorie…

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Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of the future of AI is ‘limited’ | TechCrunch

It’s fascinating to imagine the conversations that happen behind closed doors between the world’s richest and most powerful, so when they occur in the open — and over topics that impact the future of the world — it’s hard to do anything but grab the popcorn and watch intensely. Billionaire business icon Elon Musk — of Tesla, SpaceX and more fame — just fired back at Mark Zuckerberg over his grasp…

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No, Facebook Did Not Panic and Shut Down an AI Program That Was Getting Dangerously Smart

In recent weeks, a story about experimental Facebook machine learning research has been circulating with increasingly panicky, Skynet-esque headlines. Facebook did indeed shut down the conversation, but not because they were panicked they had untethered a potential Skynet. FAIR researcher Mike Lewis told FastCo they had simply decided “our interest was having bots who could talk to people,” not…

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LinkedIn is rolling out a free service to pair users with mentors | TechCrunch The company is debuting a new service that identifies potential mentors and people who might be looking for mentorship in a specific area, and then helps match them to each other.

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Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers, outpacing Apple | TechCrunch

Spotify’s singular focus on music sees it adding subscribers faster than the iPhone company with a streaming app on the side. Spotify has added 20 million paid subscribers in less than a year, while it’s taken Apple Music more than a year and a half to make that progress. Spotify now has 60 million subscribers, compared to Apple Music’s 27 million (as of June).Spotify’s ability to accelerate its…

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Text San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and It Will Respond With Art to Fit Your Mood

For most people, visiting San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art isn’t exactly a casual trip. However, now you can see some of the art from the museum by just texting the museum and asking. To try it out, send a text to 572-51 with the words “Send Me” followed by what you’d like to see. I personally like testing the waters with emojis, which sometimes works and other times ends in failure. When…

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Amazon's new refunds policy will 'crush' small businesses, say sellers

Amazon’s new refunds policy will ‘crush’ small businesses, say sellers

Sellers are up in arms over a new returns policy that will make it easier for consumers to send back items at the merchant’s expense. Marketplace sellers who ship products from their home, garage or warehouse rather than using Amazon’s facilities were told this week by email that starting Oct. 2, items they sell will be “automatically authorized” for return. That means a buyer will no longer…

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HBO hack behind Game of Thrones season 7 script leak is a sign of things to come, warn cyber security experts | The Independent A leaked Game of Thrones script appears set to show what's going to happen next week. But the the hack that allowed it to be leaked in the first place could show what's going to happen in the coming years.HBO has confirmed that it has been hacked and had a range of important files stolen, which appears to include upcoming TV shows as well as the script.

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Discovery to buy Scripps: The good and bad for cord cutters | TechHive

The combined network could stream channels like HGTV and TLC on the cheap, but consolidation always comes at a cost. That would be a big win for cord cutters. Beyond its own eponymous channel, Discovery’s roster includes TLC, Animal Planet, and Investigation Discovery. Scripps channels include HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel, and DIY Network. Combined, the two networks operate five of the top…

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#cord cutter #Discovery #HGTV #Scripps #streaming #TLC

3 things SoundCloud should do to stay afloat

Saved from the brink of extinction by a last-minute investment, SoundCloud has one more chance at becoming the go-to platform for indie musicians. SoundCloud gave music fans quite a scare last month when it laid off nearly half of its staff – people thought the indie music platform was going to go belly up in a matter of weeks. Luckily, it got a new lease of life last week when it scored a $170…

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