How one researcher is using Facebook's anonymized data sets and new colocation maps to identify social distancing habits
Facebook's mapping tools are helping researchers in California track whether people are following social distancing orders. — As the COVID-19 outbreak continued … Tweets: @emilydreyfuss , @issielapo...
Profile of Venezuela Hasta Los Tuétanos, a channel on the walkie-talkie like app Zello, that Venezuelans turn to in search for food, medical supplies, and truth
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired : Tweets: @zello and @zello Tweets: @zello : Since January 23, when opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself the rightful president of Venezuela, downloads of Zello insid...
Spammers are emailing businesses, schools, and other locations in the US, Canada, and New Zealand, demanding bitcoin as ransom to not detonate a supposed bomb
and a ‘Terrible Strategy’ Francisco Memoria / CryptoGlobe : US Government Advises Bitcoin Bomb Threat Victims to Ignore Ransom, Inform the FBI Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada Blog : Bitcoin Scammers ...
Sue Gordon, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, explains the need for a new partnership between the intelligence agencies and Silicon Valley
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired : Tweets: @john_sipher Tweets: John Sipher / @john_sipher : “I think there's a lot of misconception about those of us who work in national security and intelligence. We swear t...
US government ran the first nationwide test of its wireless emergency alert system at 2:18PM ET Wednesday, with a message going to all US wireless users
At 2:18 p.m. ET today … Chris Morris / Fortune : Wondering Why You Didn't Get the Presidential Text? So Is the Government Garrett M. Graff / Wired : The Long, Strange History of the Presidential Text ...
Psychology researchers claim bots might be responsible for uptick in low-quality data in recent surveys they conducted via Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired :
Psychology researchers claim bots might be responsible for uptick in low-quality data in recent surveys they conducted via Amazon's Mechanical Turk
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @withfries2 Tweets: @wired : Mechanical Turk survey data is used in thousands of studies a year. If the platform has developed the bot problem some researc...
Snapchat comes under fire for ‘digital blackface’ filter that turns you into Bob Marley
and failed miserably Emily Dreyfuss / Wired : Marijuana Memo: Seriously, Guys. Do We Even Need 420 Anymore? Tweets: The Next Web / @thenextweb : Following Snapchat backlash, MSQRD's quietly removed it...