In his 2014 annual letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote that a “dreamy business offering” comprises at least four elements: “Customers love...
This new tool can tell you if your online photos are helping train facial recognition systems
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When you post photos of yourself or friends and family online, you may not imagine they could be used to develop facial-recognition systems that...
In 1997, the year Amazon became a publicly traded company, CEO Jeff Bezos promised investors they would be in for a journey. Amazon would...
No, Ocasio-Cortez Didn’t Make Up Her Capitol Riots Experience 
Quest for Hollywood Fame Splits Redditors at Heart of Market Frenzy
The moderators of the Reddit message board WallStreetBets battled over movie deals after their sudden fame with the GameStop mania.Read More
Paris Hilton Has a Podcast, With a Twist
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The aughts fixture and proto-influencer’s new show with iHeartMedia aims to stake out a middle ground between podcasting and social media.Read More
Instagram Bans Hundreds of Accounts With Stolen User Names
Accounts operating under rare “O.G. user names” obtained through hacking were banned on Thursday after a monthslong investigation.Read More
Uber for Everything
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Delivery apps like Uber and Instacart are branching out. How this shakes out will affect all of us.Read More
This documentary, from the director of “Room 237,” is a lively yet superficial exploration of the theory that our reality is actually a computer...
Parler CEO John Matze Says He Was Fired
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John Matze, who led the social media platform that was popular with conservatives, said he recently disagreed with one of the site’s backers, Rebekah...