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Twitter forged a small number of super-powerful users a few years back when it rolled out its suggested users list. This is a list of recommended users that new sign-ups were presented with. Accounts on that list accumulate many thousands of followers, but a one-size-fits-all approach isn’t always the best. Now Twitter is changing the [...]
Whenever a blockbuster title is about to hit, video game retailers are going to look for ways to maximize profit off of that popularity. Amazon, GameStop, and Best Buy are already starting to sing their siren song to the tune of pre-order bonuses, trying to lock-in sales for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. For [...]
When we think about technological progress we generally assume things improve over time — they will get smaller, lighter, more efficient, and more precise. That’s true, but when it comes to privacy and the sharing of data, more precision is not always a good thing. Fully understanding the conflict between sharing and accurate data, such [...]
It wasn’t all that long ago that Mozilla and Google started making web browsers that, in their own ways, completely changed the way we interact with websites. The goal for both companies was pretty simple — get people away from Internet Explorer and make a better web. Since then, Mozilla and Google have been consistently [...]
Since the early days of Android, the loyalists in the Google ecosystem have hoped that one day Andy Rubin would descend from the Googleplex with a series of devices that were stock Android with unlocked bootloaders. In other words, the simultaneous release of multiple “Nexus” type devices is the dream of a large part of [...]
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