The photo sharing service has built tools and algorithms to remove offensive comments for its 700 million users with the hope that it will reduce the amount of toxicity they experience online.
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Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Quotes
To Be an Instagram-Ready Restaurant, Don’t Forget Your Selfie-Optimized Lamps
Sleek-kitschy idiosyncrasy is all the rage.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
To Be an Instagram-Ready Restaurant, Don’t Forget Your Selfie-Optimized Lamps
Sleek-kitschy idiosyncrasy is all the rage.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Instagram Is Pushing Restaurants to Be Kitschy, Colorful, and Irresistible to Photographers
How the popular app has transformed the way diners, designers, and marketers approach restaurants. (Hint: that bold wallpaper pattern isn’t there by accident.)
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
An Expat by Any Other Name (Is Sometimes a Digital Nomad)
When your Ubud neighborhood becomes a luxury tech bubble.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality
After his father was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer, James Vlahos began programming a chatbot that could emulate his father using stories from his life.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Uncategorized
California’s Housing Crisis Is About Jobs, Not Houses
It’s not the pace of housing construction. It’s that the world’s most successful companies are gathered in a small number of cities.
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The Netflix Prize: How a $1 Million Contest Changed Binge-Watching Forever
In 2006, Netflix launched a competition to increase the efficiency of its recommender system by 10 percent, bringing together a ragtag group of engineers from around the world who helped make large strides in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Posted inArts & Culture, Business & Tech, Unapologetic Women
Another Tech Casualty: Dating
“I’ve lived in Seattle for seven years, single most of them. The only thing that has changed is the increase in men I’d never want to go out on a date with.”
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
Introducing the ‘Davos for Happiness,’ Powered by Coconut Water
Who needs fear and loathing in Las Vegas when you can have joy and harmony in Miami?