Arguably the biggest update iPhones received with Apple’s rollout of iOS 10 this month occurred within iMessage. What used to be a simple text messaging app can now send stickers, doodle, and let you search for GIFs. The new features aim to make messaging with friends more
As election day nears, every news outlet is forming its own strategy for election day coverage. But what could possibly be missing from that coverage? Perhaps, ballot selfies. In Boston, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is deciding on the case of
On Thursday afternoon, Yahoo Inc. revealed disturbing results of a recent internal investigation. The company confirmed via press release that “certain user account information”, including names, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and passwords, were stolen from its network in late 2014. The source, Yahoo believes, is
Snapchat just wrapped up hosting “The Voice on Snapchat,” a short form video series for NBC’s “The Voice.” This marked a step towards enticing advertisers and publishers to produce more professional content for the popular social networking app. NBC’s “The Voice,” a singing competition with
New York City residents and commuters were collectively startled Monday morning by a blaring notification on their mobile phones. The alert followed the bombing in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood Saturday night. It warned people to look out for suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, and to call authorities
YouTube has long been a haven for independent content creators to showcase their work and, if they are popular enough, profit off of it. Advertisers pay YouTube to place advertisements before videos. YouTube splits the ad earnings with the video creators. Everybody wins. Right? Late
As the saying goes: everyone’s a critic. “The Promise,” a soon-to-be-released movie set in the last days of the Ottoman Empire, has garnered over 80,000 user reviews on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Yet, it has not yet been released in the United States, and
As individual companies gain more control over what advertisements users can view, we have to ask ourselves – What is responsible online advertising? On September 13th, in an attempt to answer this question, Adblock Plus added an extension to sell ads through their Acceptable Ads policy, a
You’re standing in a dimly lit living room. You hear a woman’s voice desperately ask if her son is alive. Something crashes. The lights start blinking and you start to follow them towards the kitchen. The phone rings, but the sound is distorted. The volume
As the online saying goes, “if it exists, there’s a subreddit for it.” PokemonGo is no exception. The mobile game has captured the hearts, minds, and precious time of longtime fans and the general public alike. PokemonGo’s community on the popular message board site Reddit is