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Soon you won’t even need to do anything to have your smartwatch identify you if a recently published Samsung patent ever makes it into one of the company’s products. The patent is for a sensor on the bottom of a smartwatch that takes pictures of its user’s vein structure and unique
Last October, the European Court of Justice ruled that the Safe Harbor laws that allowed companies to transfer user data between the European Union and United States with ease were invalid, which was a potentially massive blow to American technology companies. Fortunately, the European Commission an
Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding Twitter TV Ratings to include Facebook as well, and is renaming it to Social Content Ratings. What this means is that the company will now factor social media shares on both Facebook and Twitter into its ratings for American television program
NASA has been able to gather unprecedented amounts of information on Mars using a single, land-bound drone, so just imagine what it could do with a flying drone. It sounds like NASA has already started imagining it, and it must like what it sees, because there’s a good chance that the Mars 202
With how popular ad-blockers have become recently, it’s clear that online advertisers are doing something wrong, and even though those mistakes have been pretty damn obvious to us for years, the advertisers themselves are only just now starting to understand that they messed up. The advertisin
Discovery and collection are what Pinterest is all about, and the Place Pins feature that the company introduced a couple of years ago is supposed to take those two things and apply them to the travel market. With the feature, users are able to take Pinterest’s unparalleled visual discovery ab
Cancer and spam are just about the only thing you’ll ever find in the comments section below most web articles, which is why so many websites have decided to do away with comments sections entirely, but Digg wants to solve the problem, not just avoid it. In what’s probably going to be th
Sharing is caring, but it also means less people paying for premium subscriptions. That’s why Amazon has decided to limit how many people you can share your Amazon Prime membership with. Starting now, the number of people you can share your membership with has been reduced from four adults to
When it comes to using machine learning for the purpose of music discovery, few people know as much about it as Brian Whitman. A decade ago he co-founded a music data company known as The Echo Nest, which was the acquired by Spotify last year for $100 million, thus landing Whitman his current positi
As heartfelt as liking a post on Facebook post to show your support for a cause or charity is (sarcasm), don’t you think actually donating money would be a little more useful? Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales certainly thinks so, which is why he has released a new MVNO/social network known as The
Digg was more or less the Reddit of its day, but we all know how that story ended. Considering how similar the two websites are, it’s common for people to compare the two, which is why many people have been recalling the downfall of Digg during the recent “Reddit Revolt” that went
Getaround, the vehicle sharing service that allows people to lease out their vehicles for a few hours a day, has formed a rather surprising partnership with Ford. The automaker is advertising this partnership as a cost-cutting opportunity for its customers and is encouraging them to help pay off the
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