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- YouTube has 1.8 billion logged-in viewers each month
- Stock photos of scientists reveal that science is mostly about staring
- Instagram quietly added an in-app payments feature
- How to secure your Twitter account
- The Congressional Black Caucus says some Silicon Valley companies have ‘gone backwards’ on diversity
- The 100 producer Jason Rothenberg breaks down the show’s new season
- Black Panther and Stranger Things dominate MTV’s awards nominations
- Film academy finally catches up with the times and boots Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski
- Twitter advising all 330 million users to change passwords after bug exposed them in plain text
- Volkswagen’s former CEO charged in the US for diesel cheating scandal: report
| YouTube has 1.8 billion logged-in viewers each month Posted: 03 May 2018 04:55 PM PDT  YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says that 1.8 billion registered users are watching videos on the platform each month, not counting anyone who's watching without an account. Wojcicki announced the milestone at YouTube's Brandcast presentation to advertisers, alongside some of the year's most noteworthy successes — like Beyoncé's record-setting 41 million livestream views at Coachella and the "Despacito" music video passing 5 billion views last month. The company previously announced that it had 1.5 billion logged-in monthly users in mid-2017. Wojcicki used the Brandcast event to obliquely address some of the problems YouTube has faced, including questions over inappropriate kids' videos and conspiracy theories on the platform. "This is the... |
| Stock photos of scientists reveal that science is mostly about staring Posted: 03 May 2018 03:41 PM PDT  Science is mostly about white people staring, usually at colored liquids, but also sometimes at chickens and grass — at least, according to stock photos. So real scientists on Twitter are posting their favorite representation fails with the hashtag #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob. The whole thing started when Nicole Paulk, a biochemistry and biophysics professor at the University of California, San Francisco, was working on a presentation. "I was trying to find stock images that aren't too stuffy and more realistic, that don't show us with tweed jackets and elbow patches," she says. Instead, she found a scientist peering deeply at a chunk of dry ice. "No one on the planet, even a dry ice scientist, would ever do this," she says — so she tweeted... |
| Instagram quietly added an in-app payments feature Posted: 03 May 2018 02:59 PM PDT  Instagram just quietly added an in-app payments feature as a test appearing for some users, as first spotted by TechCrunch today. The feature lets users add a credit or debit card and a pin for additional security. After the initial setup, users can make purchases from within Instagram. Currently, some users are able to book appointments at spas and restaurants through a third-party integration with dinner reservation app Resy. Instagram confirmed to The Verge that users are able to book services from a limited number of businesses on the platform. The payments feature appears to be a continuation of Instagram's plans from March 2017 to give business profiles the option to let users book services. It's only rolled out to some users,... |
| How to secure your Twitter account Posted: 03 May 2018 02:47 PM PDT  Twitter just revealed that it made a monumental security blunder by exposing the passwords of users in plain text. The company says there's been no indication of a security breach tied to the log that contained those login credentials, but let's not kid ourselves. It's 2018. You need to change your password — on Twitter and with any other account where you might've repeated that password — and secure your Twitter account immediately. The full scope of what happened here isn't yet clear (or how many users were directly affected), but there's no downside to taking immediate action. Change your Twitter passwordOn the web: Go to Twitter.com, click your profile image in the upper right, choose Settings and privacy and then when the next... |
| The Congressional Black Caucus says some Silicon Valley companies have ‘gone backwards’ on diversity Posted: 03 May 2018 02:04 PM PDT  Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) visited Apple, PayPal, Twitter, Square, and Airbnb this past week to hold Silicon Valley accountable on the quest to become more racially diverse. Although the CBC has made the trip twice before, this time they sent the most members yet: Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). Lee, who serves on the diversity task force as a co-chair, said to The Verge in a phone interview that some of the companies they visited this time had made "small progress" while "others have gone backwards." She credited the drop in numbers to tech companies' failure to retain employees of color, but she would not name specific companies that... |
| The 100 producer Jason Rothenberg breaks down the show’s new season Posted: 03 May 2018 01:53 PM PDT  The CW's The 100 is a bit of a Trojan horse as far as television shows go. It invites viewers in with the promise of post-apocalyptic YA action-adventure, then sneaks in impossible moral conundrums, built around a simple thesis: "Who we are and who we need to be to survive are very different." The show is set 97 years after a nuclear apocalypse, as the descendants of survivors living aboard a clutch of international orbital stations learn that their home is running out of oxygen. The human race is headed for extinction if they can't move back to Earth. So to determine whether the planet is survivable, they send down their most dispensable population, their juvenile offenders. The good news is that Earth is survivable. The bad news is... |
| Black Panther and Stranger Things dominate MTV’s awards nominations Posted: 03 May 2018 01:52 PM PDT  MTV's annual Movie & TV Awards will air in June, and the network just released its final list of nominees in categories like Best Hero, Best Villain, Most Frightened Performance, and Best On-Screen Team. Black Panther racked up the most nominations, with seven total in categories like Best Movie and Best Hero. Netflix's Stranger Things earned six nominations, including Best Show, Best Performance in a Show (Millie Bobby Brown) and Best Kiss (Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard). 2017's It has a total of four nominations, while Black Mirror has just one: for Most Frightened Performance in "USS Callister." The awards are also so up-to-the-moment that Avengers: Infinity War, which just opened, is represented in several categories,... |
| Film academy finally catches up with the times and boots Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski Posted: 03 May 2018 01:23 PM PDT  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has booted convicted rapists Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski from its ranks. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Academy's board of governors voted to expel both men at its May 1st meeting. "The Board continues to encourage ethical standards that require members to uphold the Academy's values of respect for human dignity," the organization said in a statement. The move is part of the Academy's late-coming efforts to enforce the Standards of Conduct it established following the expulsion of longtime sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein. Of course, it's been almost three years since 35 women came forward with graphic accounts of the many ways in which Cosby drugged, assaulted, abused, and raped... |
| Twitter advising all 330 million users to change passwords after bug exposed them in plain text Posted: 03 May 2018 01:21 PM PDT  Twitter is urging all of its more than 330 million users to immediately change their passwords after a bug exposed them in plain text. While Twitter's investigation showed that there was no evidence that any breach or misuse of the unmasked passwords occurred, the company is recommending that users change their Twitter passwords out of an "abundance of caution," both on the site itself and anywhere else they may have used that password, which includes third-party apps like Twitterrific and TweetDeck. According to Twitter, the bug occurred due to an issue in the hashing process that masks passwords by replacing them with a random string of characters that get stored on Twitter's system. But due to an error with the system, apparently... |
| Volkswagen’s former CEO charged in the US for diesel cheating scandal: report Posted: 03 May 2018 12:53 PM PDT  Martin Winterkorn, the former CEO of Volkswagen, was charged with conspiracy to defraud the US related to the massive diesel emissions cheating scandal that has ensnared the German automaker for almost three years. According to Bloomberg, Winterkorn's indictment was unsealed in federal court in Michigan on Thursday. The former CEO was also charged with violations of the Clean Air Act. Winterkorn is the latest former VW executive to face charges in the Dieselgate investigation, which has cost the automaker billions of dollars in fines and settlement money and severely damaged its reputation on a global scale. Last December, Oliver Schmidt, the former head of Volkswagen's US environmental and engineering office, was sentenced to seven... |
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