Новости за 26.03.2018

A plan that allows incarcerated people to take classes from state colleges helps lower recidivism–and the prison classes often have higher GPAs then the students on the outside.

HBO is celebrating “Silicon Valley” with a tech-based tribute to the pizza delivery startup featured in Sunday’s premiere episode. Bon appetit!

YouTube is continuing on its path to destroy cable TV, and its latest victory is a deal that allows it to live-stream this year’s NBA Finals on its subscription YouTube TV service. As the games’ presenting partner, YouTube will also get extra promotion: “The Finals presented by YouTube TV” logo will appear on the courts, …

When algorithms go haywire (and they do), we often don’t know what caused the problem, or even that the problem exists.

The hits just keep on coming for Facebook and its media-narrative frenemy Cambridge Analytica. Earlier today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it was investigating Facebook for its privacy practices, and now Cook County, Illinois, is suing the two companies, accusing them of misusing the data of millions of Illinois residents. According to the Chicago …

The hit cable series returned for season five, along with a subtle dig at Facebook’s ongoing drama involving Russia’s influence of the 2016 election.

Today’s post-interview headlines focus on an alleged threat against Daniels’s life in 2011. But she dealt a deadlier blow to Trump’s ego and Casanova self-image.

Today’s post-interview headline focus on an alleged threat against Daniels’ life in 2011. But she dealt a deadlier blow to Trump’s ego and Casanova self-image.

After a week of international headlines, Facebook is ready to focus on events a little closer to home. The social media network has just announced that it is taking its local news initiative international. Back in January, Facebook tweaked the site’s algorithm to give users a bigger dose of local news, perhaps as an antidote …

Chances are you spend more time sitting in front of a screen than doing anything else–including sleeping. (Adults spend an average of 11 hours a day in front of screens.) But even as we learn about the potential pitfalls of our increasingly technology-addled lifestyles, our dependence on tech shows little sign of waning. At the …

Student loans aren’t just for buying textbooks, No. 2 pencils, and apples for bribing teachers anymore. According to a recent survey, as many as one in five college kids may be using their student loans to cash in on the cryptocurrency craze. The Student Loan Report surveyed 1,000 current college students with student loan debt …

The disgraced ex-CEO hoped to ride the data analytics firm’s involvement in the Trump campaign to a big payday.

The event will likely be an expression of Apple’s desire to recapture some of the hold on the market it’s lost to Google and Chromebook.

We all have our share of pesky tasks we need to take care of. Here are some tips for tackling them in no time.

Louis Vuitton has just made streetwear designer Virgil Abloh the artistic director of menswear, making Abloh one of the few black executives at the helm of a European heritage luxury brand. And by bringing on a designer whose work has centered on streetwear and its intersection with hip-hop and rap culture, Louis Vuitton seems to be …

The Federal Trade Commission has opened a “non-public probe” into the company’s privacy practices. In a statement just posted on its website, the FTC wrote that it “takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook.” The investigation was first reported by Bloomberg. Now Facebook’s stock is plummeting even …

The Climate Ex map will tell you what the weather will be like in 2070–and where to go to get the weather you like in 50 years.

Vending machines have evolved way past the halcyon days of Cool Ranch Doritos and Diet Cherry Sprite. Thanks to a new partnership between Ford and Alibaba, car shoppers in China can now test drive a Ford vehicle dispensed straight out of a vending machine, no exact change required. The Super Test-Drive Center in Guangzhou, China, …

You already know that recruiters stalk you on social media. Here are the things that they look out for.

Is a Snapchat exodus upon us? If we look to some of the internet’s favorite celebrities, the answer might be yes. This weekend Chrissy Teigen tweeted that she stopped using Snap. I stopped using snap. The update, the constant complaints of people not being able to find me, plus the Rihanna poll…no bueno — christine …

French grocery chain Intermarche pulls the heartstrings to hype the quality of its own line of cookies.

How do you explain getting fired? What do you say about that jerk boss you fled?

Yep, no Netflix original film will ever be winning the prestigious Palme d’Or. The head of the most famous film festival in the world, Thierry Frémaux, told the Hollywood Reporter that while Netflix is welcome to screen its films at the festival, they will be ineligible for awards: “The Netflix people loved the red carpet …

Apple CEO Tim Cook made the comments while attending the three-day China Development Forum in Beijing, where he was serving as co-chair, reports Bloomberg. When asked if the user of a user’s data should be restricted following the revelations that 50 million Facebook users unknowingly had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica, Cook replied: “I …

The embattled social media network has taken to old-fashioned newspaper advertising to apologize for the data sharing scandal that has rocked the company for the past several weeks. The ad is signed by Mark Zuckerberg and states that if Facebook can’t protect users’ information, it doesn’t deserve to have it. Unfortunately for Zuck, most of …