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Facebook posts without hashtags get more interaction than posts with hashtags

equivalent to filling all the storage on all of the iPhones sold in 2015 with porn

A group of pirate hackers stole data about ships before boarding them: “They’d board a vessel, locate by bar code specific sought-after crates containing valuables, steal the contents of that crate

Microwave popcorn factory employees suffer from a condition called “popcorn worker’s lung.”

The population of London could reach 12 million by 2050

We managed to crack the password on an old laptop in 30 mins with nothing more than YouTube, a memory stick and an 11 year-old boy.

Project Cybersyn was a Chilean project from 1971–1973 during the presidency of Salvador Allende aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy.
The project consisted of four modules: an economic simulator, custom software to check factory performance, an operations room, and a national network of telex machines that were linked to one mainframe computer.

This is futurism at its laziest: it’s enough to simply take an industry and search for its equivalent of eBay, Google, and Uber, or search for some well-known phenomenon from the 1990s and argue that it will repeat itself, albeit in a different sector.

We have a collection of nearly two million images that play very prominent roles in helping members pick what to watch. This blog describes how we use computer vision algorithms to address the challenges of focal point, text placement and image clustering at a large scale.

Several other websites Vice just recently added to its traffic-padding portfolio earlier this year are experiencing significant declines

The strategy apparently backfired last month when the biggest booster of Vice Media’s traffic, Distractify.com, suddenly experienced a meltdown after months of fairly consistent growth. Distractify went into free fall in February vs. the prior month, dropping a whopping 68%, from 15.7 million to just under 5 million.
Distractify’s audience is built on the notoriously volatile traffic that comes from counting on clickbait content like “13 Irish Heartthrobs to Satisfy All Your St. Paddy’s Day Needs” on social networks with shifting algorithms; a website riding high one month could find itself in a tailspin the next.

Vice Media… saw its Web traffic suddenly plunge 17.4% compared with the previous month

MasterCard and Visa didn’t make, or even look, for profits for decades. MasterCard started as a not-for-profit membership association, in 1966, and Visa did the same, in 1971.

An AI shouldn’t be more mental load than just tapping the damn button