The banner ad that’s widely described as the first ever was a little rectangle purchased by AT&T on HotWired.com in 1994. About 44 percent of the people who saw it actually clicked on it.
A former director of the Copyright Agency describes the latest situation as “pathetic” noting that it was outrageous to extract millions from publicly-funded schools for a lobbying fund.
In sum, this is a huge win for net neutrality in Canada as the CRTC was ultimately guided by its longstanding principle that telecom regulation should restrict the ability of ISPs to determine winners and losers through their power as the Internet’s gatekeepers.
In 2013, Apple made iWork and iLife apps free for new Mac and iOS customers, but that meant you had to purchase a new Apple device before you could download any of those apps at no cost. Until now, users with hardware released before 2013 still had to pay for iWork and iLife if they hadn't made a new Apple purchase recently.
In 2014, Warner got an email from Google asking if he would be interested in giving the company access to his data in order to scrape it for Knowledge Graph, for free.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference in Northern California, Brian Cabral and team unveiled blueprints for two new cameras designed to capture spherical video with extreme fidelity. Facebook’s immediate aim is to provide professional filmmakers with the tools needed to shoot monoscopic 360-degree video for smartphones, laptops, and PCs as well as the stereoscopic 3-D video that gets shuttled into VR headsets like the Samsung Gear.
A collection of emulated software for the early Macintosh computer, created by Apple as the successor to the Apple II series. The Macintosh Software Library provides more than 40 programs from the 1980s and ’90s, from Microsoft Multiplan to Frogger.
A huge repository of data from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s stealth start up. The goal of the data exposure is to allow citizens to gather non-partisan information from government data points. Interesting that this idea sounds revolutionary in 2017.
When a rider uses Uber's app to hail a ride, the fare the app immediately shows to the passenger is based on a slower and longer route compared to the one displayed to the driver. The software displays a quicker, shorter route for the driver. But the rider pays the higher fee, and the driver's commission is paid from the cheaper, faster route, according to the lawsuit.
"Unsplash has been growing at an incredible rate and we were doing it a disservice if we didn’t give it more focus. Crew, meanwhile, was also growing but not at the rate we needed it to. We weren’t profitable yet, so we needed to reduce the team and put enough money aside for what we thought was needed to get Crew in the black."
A new mobile web experience which minimizes data usage, loads quickly on slower connections, is resilient on unreliable mobile networks, and takes up less than 1MB on your device.
A new service allowing for customers to display a barcode at a participating retailer and deposit cash directly to their Amazon account. Previously, anyone wanting to use Amazon without a bank card was forced to buy gift cards or prepaid debit cards.
Known as the Gaussian correlation inequality (GCI), the conjecture originated in the 1950s, was posed in its most elegant form in 1972 and has held mathematicians in its thrall ever since.
During the shutdown, Google said that the current moderation process was overloaded, noting that "every edit you make is essentially going to a backlog that is growing very fast."
Verizon plans to combine AOL and Yahoo into a new company called Oath, after completing the acquisition of Yahoo. The new name is already being ridiculed online, with one site saying, "At least it's better than Tronc."
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network. A decentralized alternative to commercial platforms, it avoids the risks of a single company monopolizing your communication. Pick a server that you trust — whichever you choose, you can interact with everyone else. Anyone can run their own Mastodon instance and participate in the social network seamlessly.