After a security researcher dove deep into its systems, Facebook says it plans to review its bug bounty guidelines.
A security researcher who discovered vulnerabilities in an Instagram server apparently traded barbs this week with Instagram parent Facebook’s chief security officer over whether his explorations of the system’s weaknesses went beyond ethical limits.
From big data to the gig economy, 2016 may be the year that familiar buzzwords start having real, mainstream impact.
Depending on the sort of entrepreneur, employee, freelancer, or company leader you might be, the year ahead holds varying degrees of promise and pitfalls. Some of the changes afoot are already affecting some more than others.
You’ll be able to create your own position, apply over social media, work from any city, interview over video, and more.
Many people take the New Year as an opportunity to start fresh in a new job. The good news is that there will be plenty of openings to suit a wide range of seekers as CareerBuilder reports that over 100 occupations in the U.S. have more job posting activity than hiring month to month and a recent report from a record 78% of hiring managers anticipate more hiring in the first half of 2016 compared to the second half of 2015.
What does it take to keep PayPal running smoothly? Lots of data, techies ready to spring into action, and software that can fix itself.
I’m sitting in the “War Room” at PayPal’s headquarters in San Jose, California, talking to Sri Shivananda, the company’s VP of global platform and infrastructure. Despite the evocative name, it’s just a conference room. But one of its walls is actually a giant window—and what it reveals on the other side of the glass is anything but ordinary.
However you like to get around, it got better in 2015.
2015 was the year we continued to see new types of transportation, including self-driving cars and buses, all kinds of drones, and even futuristic trains, like Elon Musk’s Hyperloop.
Sick? There’s an app for that. But maybe it doesn’t matter, because of the anti-aging pill.
In 2015, improving sensor and mobile technology continued to provide creative ways to improve health monitoring. Ingestible “stethoscopes” can now monitor our health all the time, smartphones can test for HIV, and biosensor patches can report back our vital signs.
The company, which leases coworking space, grew its membership about as quickly as it expected in 2015.
WeWork has met its aggressive expansion goals for 2015, according to new numbers the startup published Monday.
From Google and Snoop Dogg to Hillary Clinton and The New School, it’s been an exciting and controversial year in logos and branding.
Leading into an election year, branding always gets red, white, and blue. But candidates’ branding wasn’t the only thing that made a splash in 2015. Google gave us a new logo in 16 years. Sonos visualized as something other than a waveform. Pentagram made a brand of premium weed for Snoop Dogg. (Is this real life?) And, yes, the Hillary Clinton campaign broke the Internet. Here are the best and worst moments in branding in 2015.
Tacky ornaments included.
You can tell a lot about people by their Christmas decorations. Do they festoon their homes with yards of lights and tacky reindeer? Do they painstakingly recreate a full-scale crèche? Or are they grinches who decide to shun adornment? After Phoenix-based photographer Jesse Rieser caught a glimpse of a 40-foot-tall inflatable Santa in his rear-view mirror, he decided to document the creative—and often garish—displays that commemorate Christmas In America.
Pantomime will license its tech to third-party app developers.
With few exceptions, there’s no way with today’s virtual reality systems to have a multi-user experience, especially one that involves any kind of action by one or more of the users.
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