Social Media Baidu’s Translation Tech Rivals Google’s in Speed and Sophistication | Social Media Oct 31, 2018 Even the strongest translation technology often suffers from a lag, due to the innate differences in sentence structure across languages. Last week,…
Social Media Twitter May Soon Remove ‘Likes’ in Ongoing Effort to Promote Healthy Conversations | Social Media Oct 30, 2018 Twitter is reportedly planning to remove “likes” from the social media platform as its CEO Jack Dorsey told employees at an in-house event last week…
Tech News update A digital revolution is reshaping Democratic campaigns | Social Media Oct 30, 2018 Jordan Birnholtz is the cofounder of The Tuesday Company, which makes tools to help progressives organize in a digital world.Two weeks before the 2016…
Social Media Twitter is thinking about killing the Like button | Social Media Oct 30, 2018 Today The Telegraph reported that Twitter was thinking about killing the Like button — and the news spread fast. The source was a Twitter event…
Social Media LinkedIn gets serious about video with Vimeo integration | Social Media Oct 30, 2018 Professional social networking platform LinkedIn is finally bringing professional tools to video — on Monday, October 29, Vimeo announced…
Social Media TikTok Has Grown Too Big For Facebook To Ignore, So It’s Building Its Own Lip-Sync App | Social… Oct 30, 2018 Facebook is marching further into the music video domain — this time, by building a standalone, karaoke-like app, called Lasso, according to a report…
Social Media This Red Sox fan had his $650 World Series ticket stolen via Instagram | Social Media Oct 29, 2018 Robbie Johnson was so excited about getting a ticket for a World Series game that he posted a photo of it on Instagram. But when the Boston Red Sox…
Social Media Following the Portal, augmented reality glasses may be Facebook’s next step | Social Oct 29, 2018 Facebook recently told TechCrunch that it is working on its own augmented reality glasses. Following the launch of its Portal smart display, the move…
Social Media Online abusers have nothing to teach the toxic trolls who now debase parliament | Catherine Bennett… Oct 29, 2018 Embedded, for a while, among thousands of comments responding to the Guardian’s report on the People’s Vote march in London last weekend, was one…
Social Media Big tech must not reframe digital ethics in its image | Social Media Oct 28, 2018 Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s visage loomed large over the European parliament this week, both literally and figuratively, as global privacy…