Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been…

Młodzi użytkownicy internetu mają niebywałą potrzebę kreowania swojego wizerunku. Portale społecznościowe, takie jak Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook…

Unlawfully re-uploading copyrighted video content — also known as freebooting — is a regular occurrence in the online world. One site where the issue is a big problem is YouTube.

Dostawców usług VOD na polskim rynku jest kilku - mamy w czym wybierać. Porównujemy najważniejszych graczy: Netflix, HBO Go, Showmax, Amazon, Player i Iplę.

Samba TV, which has deals to put its software on sets made by about a dozen TV brands, uses viewing data to make personalized show recommendations. But that’s not the big draw for advertisers.

Choć w marketingowym kontekście słowo influencer (dosł. osoba mająca silny wpływ na swoich odbiorców) jest nadal niezaprzeczalnie nowe – najszybszy wzrost jego popularności miał miejsce w latach 2012-2017 – historia tego określenia jest znacznie dłuższa, niż mogłoby nam się wydawać. Badania twórców słownika oksfordzkiego wskazują, że jedno z pierwszych, bardziej szerokich i generalnych zastosowań, należało do brytyjskiego filozofa Henry’ego More’a, który w 1660 roku w swojej pracy “A Modest Enquiry into the Mystery of Iniquity” odniósł się do głowy i influencera całego Kościoła.

Kim Dotcom, who has been in the news so often that it’s hard to believe his company MegaUpload was shut down way back in 2012, is running out of lives. A New Ze…

Memes and social networks have become weaponized, while many governments seem ill-equipped to understand the new reality of information warfare. How will we fight state-sponsored disinformation and propaganda in the future?

“DATA SLAVERY.” Jennifer Lyn Morone, an American artist, thinks this is the state in which most people now live. To get free online services, she laments, they hand over intimate information to technology firms. “Personal data are much more valuable than you think,” she says.

The arrival of the General Data Protection Regulation a month ago led to a flurry of activity, clogging email inboxes and flooding people with tracking consent notices. But experts say much of that activity was for show because much of it fails to render companies compliant with GDPR.

Booksy, a Poland-based booking application for the beauty business, has raised $13.2 million in a Series B effort to drive global growth. The company, founded in 2014 by Stefan Batory and Konrad Howard, is currently seeing 2.5 million bookings per month.

New limitations in deep learning — called “AI Winter” by skeptics — could pose a serious problem for autonomous car projects by Tesla, Waymo, and Uber.

HTC isn’t gone just yet. Granted, it’s closer than it’s ever been before, with a headcount of fewer than 5,000 employees worldwide — that’s down from 19,000 in 2013. But in spite of those “market competition, product mix, pricing, and recognized inventory write-downs,” the company’s still trucking on.

As corporations take control of nerd culture, science fiction’s most esoteric epic remains gloriously untamed.

Developing strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies.

Imagine a single advertising campaign, so powerful that it lasted for over a decade, worked in more than 50 countries, was successful across TV, digital and social media and won multiple awards.

In an excerpt from her new book, Microsoft researcher Nancy Baym demonstrates how music lovers used fan culture to build a worldwide web.

The medium of podcasting continues to evolve as it engages and entertains growing audiences. Nielsen’s Fanlinks Survey asks households to rate their interest in overall podcasting as well as various genres of podcasts.

The Information Commissioner’s Office said it was fining Facebook 500,000 pounds — the maximum allowed — for letting Cambridge Analytica harvest users’ information without their consent.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A decade ago, Apple opened a store peddling iPhone apps, unlocking the creativity of software developers and letting users truly make their mobile devices the

What her half-sister Kim Kardashian West did for booty, Jenner has done for full lips. Like Kardashian West, she has leveraged her assets to gain both fame and money. But while her sister is best-known for the former, Kylie Jenner has proved adept at the latter. In historic fashion.

Over $46 billion will go to programmatic advertising in the US this year, according to eMarketer’s latest programmatic forecast—about $10 billion more than last year.

Back from a family vacation in Saint-Tropez, I wonder if I shouldn’t someday write a how-to Monday Note on enjoying the magic of the place, Ramatuelle included, where obscene consumption coexists…

The telecom giant, which just acquired Time Warner, is seeking to drastically change the premium-cable channel in order to compete with the likes of Netflix.

App blamed for circulating false information in India, Brazil, Kenya and now the UK

Cody Wilson makes digital files that let anyone 3-D print untraceable guns. The government tried to stop him. He sued—and won.

Przy tworzeniu przepisów o prostej spółce akcyjnej ochrona wierzycieli nie powinna być priorytetem — uważa prezes fundacji Startup Poland

The bear market for bitcoin and other virtual tokens has dragged down Coinbase, a digital-asset exchange and darling of the crypto-startup world. As prices plunge, the exchange’s download ranking has fallen to its lowest level among US finance apps since April last year. The drop reflects the fleeting fancy of retail traders that comprise most of…

Digital media giant YouTube has been named in class action lawsuit tied to the collapse of BitConnect, the cryptocurrency lending platform widely accused of fraud.

When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience, Adrian Chen writes.

A newspaper in Texas posted excerpts of the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July, but the phrase “Indian savages” made Facebook’s systems mark the post as hate speech. The post has since been restored and Facebook has apologized.

Psychologist Michal Kosinski says artificial intelligence can detect your sexuality and politics just by looking at your face. What if he’s right?

But reports suggest a new confidence is emerging at the younger end of the cohort

A Harvard professor’s before-and-after data could settle the case for office walls.

THE race to bring driverless cars to market is fierce and crowded. All the leading carmakers are in the field: on May 31st SoftBank’s Vision Fund said that it would invest $2.25bn in the autonomous vehicle (AV) arm of General Motors.

The cryptocurrency market is sadly tethered to Bitcoin’s price. Bitcoin’s price is probably at the mercy of large-scale market manipulation and cryptic factors that even the crypto frauds and…

Inside the creepy and impressive startup funded by the Chinese government that is developing AI that can recognize anyone, anywhere

Polar, a fitness app, is revealing the homes and lives of people exercising in secretive locations, such as intelligence agencies, military bases and airfields, nuclear weapons storage sites, and embassies around the world, a joint investigation of Bellingcat and Dutch journalism platform De Correspondent reveals. 

“Essentially, we believe that further erosion of privacy is inevitable.”

The superstar’s new album rewrites the mark for the most streams globally in a seven-day period.

Finish fitness company Polar has pulled its global activity map after a pair of reports pointed out flaws in the app’s privacy settings that made it easy for someone to locate the location data of users. It is a worrying discovery, as one report was able to locate thousands of users who appeared to work for military and intelligence services, echoing a prior privacy incident earlier this year with similar fitness app.

Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google are offering huge salaries that the University of Cambridge can’t compete with. Some researchers at the tech giants earn over $1 million a year.

A new report projects that the smart speaker market will continue its torrid growth, with Google and Amazon battling for dominance and Apple stuck in a distant third place.

Shares fall on first day of trading, after disappointing listing.

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At the end of June, News UK title The Times and the Sunday Times reached 500,000 subscribers, with digital-only subscriptions overtaking print for the first time, up 20 percent from the previous year to 255,000.

In an excerpt from the new book ‘Valley of Genius,’ Silicon Valley insiders give an oral history of Atari, the company behind Pong

How Vladimir Putin is revolutionizing information warfare

Shares of Twitter Inc fell 9 percent on Monday after a report said the social media company had suspended more than 70 million fake accounts in May and June, which could lead to a decline of monthly active users in the second quarter.

A new paper has troubling implications.