The Verge

JULY 22, 2021

Photo by Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images. In June, a single customer hit a bug that brought down Fastly’s CDN service — and Reddit, Twitch, and The Verge went down with it. During the outage, consumers were unable to access services like Ally Bank, Fidelity, Sony’s PlayStation Network, Airbnb, and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Photo and Bio. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. These are icons or image overlays that you add to your profile picture the same way people do declare they voted, or donated blood, or got vaccinated.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. The first clue came earlier this week when a Reddit user posted a picture of Apple Music appearing in the PS5’s music menu. A Reddit user’s photo of Apple Music on PS5. Soon, though, the console might get support for another service: Apple Music. image: u/HOLYWARS1990.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Reddit user Odellot posted a massive collection of see-through gadgets, including a PS5 and DualSense controller. If you love seeing the internals of Apple devices, Zompetti also posted pictures of an AirPower prototype earlier this year, showing off some incredible circuitry. Image: u/Odellot.

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The Verge

AUGUST 18, 2021

The flaw affects the hashing system, called NeuralHash, which allows Apple to check for exact matches of known child-abuse imagery without possessing any of the images or gleaning any information about non-matching pictures. The GitHub post also includes instructions on how to extract the NeuralMatch files from a current macOS or iOS build.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. Lots of discussion threads that come out of Reddit such as “I can’t believe that someone who is a minister acted this way.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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The Verge

AUGUST 13, 2021

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. The survey, shared by a Sonos customer on Reddit , describes an on-device voice control system that would improve user privacy by not routing questions and commands through the cloud.

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Tweaks that apply to all phones receiving the update (from the Pixel 3a to any devices released more recently) can address problems with live wallpapers, crashes during the use of picture-in-picture, and a problem that could black out the notification shade and Quick Settings.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

One of them adds a parental control option to Messages, obscuring sexually explicit pictures for users under 18 and sending parents an alert if a child 12 or under views or sends these pictures. If the classifier detects this content, it obscures the picture in question and asks the user whether they really want to view or send it.

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Towards Data Science

MAY 7, 2024

A list to make evaluating ELT/ETL tools a bit less daunting Photo by Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash We’ve all been there: you’ve attended (many!) This will help create an overall picture of logging, metadata, latency, CDC, and all the other things that come with a pipeline.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its 200+ customers include Reddit, Instacart, Pinterest, Duolingo, and Databricks. Users of the Perplexity mobile app users can even snap pictures of items to see related products and buying information. model, which introduced the ability to dress up videos with people, objects, and places from photos they upload to the app.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As for what the phone looks like, Google itself has revealed a side profile of the device (see the picture at the top of this post). Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge. Reddit user u/fuzztub07 , who was lucky enough to buy the device from Walmart, has posted a video of the operating system in action. Image: WinFuture.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge. In an apparent attempt to retaliate against the scalpers, some eBay users are listing Nvidia RTX 3080 “paper editions,” which are just printed pieces of paper featuring a picture of the GPU. This ended listing here has one for $472, though it seems it never sold.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Over the weekend, several female celebrities had their personal devices hacked, photos stolen, and illegally posted on the internet. These pictures began appearing on sites around the internet, including a subReddit called The Fappening. But not everyone was impressed. To: Guys, we’re literally worse than cancer. Let me be clear.

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The Verge

MARCH 26, 2022

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge. Photo by Umar Shakir / The Verge. Photo by © Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS/VCG via Getty Images. I also had an itch to nix my Mac’s clamshell because screenless MacBooks have been trending on Twitter and discussed on Reddit ever since that patent was published.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Today’s release will be the first chance for most people to try iOS 14’s new bells and whistles, which include new home screen widgets, a picture-in-picture mode, and a new Translation app, to name just a few. Legit probbaabbblyyy not gonna do any of that “sleeping” stuff tonight. ??

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Our founder, Eglantyne Jebb, was arrested in May 1919 for distributing provocative leaflets depicting photos of starving children. We conducted a live donor call from Jordan and a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) with two of our staffers who recently returned from the Syria region. We even have a T-shirt coming out later this month.

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The Verge

AUGUST 25, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge | Photo by Vivian Zink/NBCUniversal via Getty Images. We attempted to look into this for Instagram, as well, but Social Blade only had data on about half of the guests — not enough to create a complete picture of the trends. There could be various explanations for the monthslong dip. “For

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge. In addition to the usual suspects like weather and calendar, you can add a particular note or featured photos from your iPhone gallery. It’s just a daily calendar with a picture of a cat. Maybe it’s the modern equivalent of having your kid’s class picture in your wallet. It’s great.).

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Members post pictures of their cannabis plants in tiny pots grown in secret inside their houses. But young smokers often don’t have an idea about what is good or not, so they search on Reddit or join Facebook groups to find information and connect with fellow smokers, Janith said. And of course there are memes and TikTok videos.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 11, 2020

People have known about the phenomenon for a little while (the first reference we could find online appears to be this Reddit post from July 2019), but frankly, we don’t think it’s had the attention it deserves. Here’s a collection of photos posted to Reddit by u/GallowBoob. Note the subtle bicep kiss.). GIF: YouTube.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The latest version of Apple’s iOS 15 beta seems to be making subtle improvements to photos by processing out the green lens flares that can show up in outdoor pictures ( via 9to5Mac ). But when you go to view the final picture, the flare is nowhere to be seen (in some cases; we’ll get to that in a bit).

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The Verge

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Photo: Columbia Pictures. Twitter already feels like it favors whoever is willing to shout the loudest in the room at any given time, but platforms like Reddit offer ways to limit the reach of bad actors (with downvotes and editable posts that allow for spoilers to be hidden by mass voting or removed by the original poster).

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The Verge

JULY 8, 2020

In the summer of 2016, that company had hired the team behind Highlight , a boldly invasive app that broadcast your name, photo and other information to other users in hopes of introducing you to strangers. About one out of every dozen photos uploaded was a penis for a good while,” one told me. Let’s start at Pinterest. And finally.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Ask the audience Crowdsource your content: Have users post their own photos to Instagram using a hashtag you create, and repost the best submissions. Make everyone on your team a photographer Equip your team to take photos and videos at on-the-ground events whenever possible. Was there a recent news story related to dogs in your field?

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Whole Whale

MAY 1, 2024

Ask the audience Crowdsource your content: Have users post their own photos to Instagram using a hashtag you create, and repost the best submissions. Make everyone on your team a photographer Equip your team to take photos and videos at on-the-ground events whenever possible. Was there a recent news story related to dogs in your field?

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

In one demonstration, for example, a group of players hit their nets on a picture of Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong. People across the internet banded together in the hunt for an elusive island with a high selling price, with dedicated Slack channels (I was part of two at Vox Media), Reddit forums, and Discord servers.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Should Reddit pay its volunteer moderators? Reddit’s content moderation scheme differs sharply from the Facebook News Feed or the Twitter timeline. But the moderators themselves often become collateral damage, Reddit executives said. “To

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge. Twitter removed a picture from a tweet by President Trump after it received a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint from the New York Times , which owns the rights to the photo. Popular Information ). Sara Fischer / Axios ). Bobby Allyn / NPR).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Communities across Reddit and 4chan tapped the AI system to generate realistic and anime-style images of nude characters, mostly women, as well as non-consensual fake nude imagery of celebrities. These racial biases have been extensively documented across applications of machine learning, from facial recognition to photo editing.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Thanks to generative AI tools such as DALL-E and Midjourney , which can turn a written prompt into a photo-like image in seconds, we now live in an era of point-and-click photorealism. I encourage you to check out the Artnet storys pictures and explanation of why Sauter Morera chose to synthesize them rather than take them with a camera.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

A company that has done this with some success is Reddit, which sets a “floor” of speech rules (no spam!) Six years ago, for example, Reddit’s laissez-faire attitude toward moderation led a lot of people to post stolen nude photos on the site without the subjects’ consent. Reddit issued such a statement last week.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

If you like taking photos at all, don't do the 16e to yourself. You can still use the lock screen shortcut, of course, but I don't want to have to pull out my phone, swipe the screen, and then take a photo. You could only see our photos and our live blog. And I will say like having seen the picture.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

A member of the far-right militia, Boogaloo Bois, walks next to protestors demonstrating outside Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department Metro Division 2 just outside of downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 29, 2020 | Photo by LOGAN CYRUS/AFP via Getty Images. Why are there so many Boogaloo groups on Facebook and elsewhere?

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

They would use his profile photo, select a user name similar to his, and tweet out an offer that was effective despite being too good to be true: send him a little cryptocurrency, and he’ll send you a lot back. Instagram accounts that match people’s names to pictures of animals have exploded in popularity over the past week.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2020

It would appear a much more widely used version of facial recognition system is that of Clearview AI, a secretive company now facing down a number of privacy lawsuits after scraping social media sites for photos and building a more than 3 billion-photo database it sells to law enforcement. Mark Gurman / Bloomberg).

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The rowdy feed of matches, jumble of explicit photos, and stimulating calls-to-action offering all types of sex makes it heaven for anyone looking for a good time with no filter — and hell for someone who wouldn't be caught dead clicking on a "There are hot singles in your area" ad. Or at least that used to be the case. 10 years ago.

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