When a Harvard student built an application that exposed a privacy risk, Facebook yanked his internship offer.
Landing a high-profile internship is a coup for any college student. But even before Harvard student Aran Khanna began his internship at Facebook, he was already hard at work in his dorm room on a browser application that piggybacked off users’ location data on Facebook Messenger.
The partnership means some episodes of the beloved children’s show won’t be available on Netflix and Amazon.
The makers of Sesame Street announced a five-season deal with HBO that will allow it to produce almost twice as many shows and will give HBO, and all of its subscription apps and services, exclusive rights to the new programs for nine months.
The app, which landed partnerships with Apple Music and several major record labels, wants to be a Snapchat for songs.
A new app aims to combine the best parts of Spotify and Snapchat: Msty will allow users to send instant messages with images and short lines of text accompanied by songs. The London-based startup boasts it is the first messaging service to partner with Apple Music, Universal, Sony, and Warner.
It’s neither bargain basement nor impossibly high-end—and it looks pretty slick.
Once upon a time, when Google first talked about Chrome OS and the Chromebooks that run the mobile operating system, it pitched them as business tools. But when Chromebooks finally started to catch on, it wasn’t in the workplace. Except for a few higher-end machines such as Google’s own Pixel, Chrome OS systems have mostly catered to consumers and schools on a tight budget.
It not only collapses down to fit in a bag or a purse—it’s stylish, too.
We can debate all day whether or not, given proper infrastructure, bike helmets are necessary. Regardless, in America, the infrastructure isn’t there, which makes helmets something everyone should wear. But we don’t, for a variety of reasons: because they’re bulky to lug around all day, because bike sharing programs like CitiBike don’t offer them, or because we’re thoughtless assholes with a god complex.
Big Blue’s cognitive computing platform is being integrated into a new app from Edge Up Sports to provide deep fantasy football analysis.
Looking for a little competitive edge in your fantasy football league this year? How about a little help from IBM’s Watson?
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