It’s an interesting strategy: Facebook has teamed up with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in a new initiative that makes the Lifeline counselors available 24/7 on Facebook chat. ZDnet’s Emil Protalinski explains how it’s meant to work: If a Facebook friend spots a suicidal thought on someone’s profile, that person can report it to Facebook by clicking a link next [...]
Today at 11 a.m. porn site triple-x domain names will go on sale so that your favorites will no longer be .info, .biz or .inof, but .xxx, ostensibly so there can be no mistaking what you’re looking at, or — more importantly — what kids are looking at. It also allows people to use the term “MILFHunter.com” in an interview [...]
How did this happen? If you ask Siri to direct you to an abortion provider, she says she doesn’t have any. But isn’t she supposed to be omniscient? She knows about everything else. The American Civil Liberties Union is not pleased with what seems to be Siri’s political bias, and has said so on its blog. But Apple says it’s [...]
But only if it works. Because if it backfires, it’ll be dreadful.
CNN Tech writer Mark Milian has written an e-book about Steve Jobs based on his email correspondence. It covers the way Jobs was involved in customer service–so much so that he responded to his company email (sjobs@apple.com). You can read an article based on the e-book here, but it’s really fun to skim the thread at the MacNN forum about [...]
We love them both. And, for the record, I’ll be it was just a coincidence.
Today is American Censorship Day, and it’s supported by Reddit, MetaFilter, 4chan, Mozilla, Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Free Software Foundation, Free Press, Wikimedia Foundation, PPF (Open Congress), Torrentfreak, Boing Boing, Creative Commons, Grooveshark, Demand Progress, Hype Machine, Techdirt, Irregular Times, Engine Advocacy, Center for Democracy and Technology and other groups. It coincides with hearings in Congress of SOPA or [...]
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