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One Video: I’m the One by DJ Khaled http://ift.tt/2qmT6X6 Every week, a slew of new music videos hits the web. Watching them at your desk is not time theft because you deserve it; think of it as a nice reward for surviving another work week. But what if you don’t have time to watch every video — maybe you have a deadline, a hungry pet, or other grown-up concerns. In consideration of your schedule, Lizzie and Kaitlyn bring you a series called One Video. Each week we’ll tell you “one video” you need to watch, why, and for how long. This week’s video: “I’m the One” by DJ KhaledLizzie Plaugic: This week’s video is about blessing up, and inviting all your friends over to your house to celebrate your existence. Actually, you call Chance the Rapper and ask him to invite all your friends over to your house. You’re busy! There’s a horse in your backyard! Kaitlyn Tiffany: “I’m the One” by DJ Khaled was the obvious pick for this week’s One Video because, as we’re constantly reminding you, you deserve it. Within the first seconds of this video, DJ Khaled loops in Chance the Rapper, Justin Bieber, Quavo (one third of the Atlanta rap trio Migos), and Lil Wayne. They spend the whole video palling around, dancing near a nice pool, and lining up to stride dramatically out of some kind of elaborate hedge maze. Sound familiar? It should if you’ve ever seen a music video for a boy band. And friends, this is the boy band the world truly needs. Who is “I’m the One” executive producer Asahd Khaled?Lizzie: Asahd Khaled is a baby. Specifically, DJ Khaled’s baby. Kaitlyn: Asahd is also a mogul, according to his Instagram, which he personally runs, and which his father comments on constantly with words of encouragement like “ASAHD YOU ARE A ICON” and “I love you!!!” and “I love you so much!” Khaled loves baby Khaled so much that it has become a meme, one of the sweetest memes you’re likely to see. Can you believe this internet — the same one where our president posts his tweets, the same one that 4chan exists on, the same one that makes people say things like “I want to move to the woods” — produced a meme where the core joke is “a person loves another person a lot, and it’s funny because it’s just a freakin’ dream?” Lizzie: I think you could also say that DJ Khaled’s long-standing reign as a human meme has ended, and now he’s passing the crown to his firstborn. What is special about “I’m the One” by DJ Khaled:Lizzie: I’m not sure if you Verge readers have heard of a little something called The Streaming Wars, but Chance the Rapper is leading the charge: “We just watching Netflix, she ain't got no cable (okay though).” Here we learn that Chance is okay with dating a cord cutter. Granted, you probably could’ve guessed that because this isn’t the first time Chance has referenced Netflix. Never Hulu though. Never Hulu. Kaitlyn: As I said, I think everything about this video is good. Justin Bieber’s new hair — nice. Lil Wayne and DJ Khaled willfully acknowledging that they’ve known each other a long time and it’s because they are pretty old — endearing. Chance the Rapper in a hoodie covered in horses — adorable, I’m going to pass out. But what’s really special about “I’m the One” is the return of a very good joke called “pretend something that isn’t a phone is a phone.” You can see Lil Wayne doing that here with a bottle of some kind of liquor, and you might remember Young Thug doing it with a stack of money in the video for “No Problems,” or Beyoncé doing it with her foot in the video for “7/11.” Will it ever stop being funny? No, but I have to ask. How long everyone should watch “I’m the One” by DJ Khaled:Lizzie: Until Asahd Khaled is a teenager. Kaitlyn: Until you feel like a teenager. Gadget News via The Verge http://ift.tt/oZfQdV April 28, 2017 at 01:35AM
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Facebook creators will profit from people stealing videos http://ift.tt/2ppkXGT Facebook's video platform has grown like a weed, mainly thanks to auto-plays and a significant rise in accounts presenting other people's work as their own. In 2015, the company introduced a video matching system aimed at curbing the practice, and now it's taking that one step forward with the promise that original video creators can profit when other people pirate their creations. According to Facebook, the updated version of its Rights Manager tool will still tell rights owners when their work has been stolen, but it can now also automatically act on their behalf too. When a video is flagged, creators can decide whether they want the system to block offending content immediately after it's been uploaded, monitor the pirated video's metrics in order to make a more informed decision or simply decide at a later date. Rights owners will also be given the option to claim ad earnings against video content that matches their own. Facebook is still in the early days of testing ad breaks midway through videos, but if a flagged video does generate an advertisement, the original creator can claim a share of the cash. YouTube employs a similar policy, allowing rights holders to profit from videos flagged by Content ID. It's a notable step by Facebook, as it attempts to lure viewers away from YouTube and Twitch towards its own News Feed and Live platforms. It knows that if creators can't trust it to filter copycats, they may not consider posting there at all. Facebook says the updates are already rolling out and will be available globally in the coming weeks. Via: Recode Source: Facebook Newsroom Gadget News via Engadget http://www.engadget.com April 28, 2017 at 01:27AM Suitcase GPS? Scented bags? Collapsible sunglasses? The latest travel gadgets - National Post4/28/2017 Suitcase GPS? Scented bags? Collapsible sunglasses? The latest travel gadgets - National Post http://ift.tt/2qekRBU
Gadget News via gadgets - Google News http://ift.tt/2kFSCd9 April 28, 2017 at 01:22AM Apple to halt royalty payments to Qualcomm until end of ongoing legal battle http://ift.tt/2pbye7D Apple is no longer paying iPhone manufacturers for any of the royalties it owes to Qualcomm, and is planning to withhold them entirely until current lawsuits are resolved, the latter company said on Friday. Gadget News via AppleInsider - Frontpage News http://appleinsider.com April 28, 2017 at 01:14AM
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Home Depot left customers' unprotected personal data online http://ift.tt/2pbBr7f It's been awhile since hackers broke into Home Depot's servers and stole 56 million customers' credit card information back in 2014. But recently, a tipster pointed business watchdog site Consumerist to a web address under the HomeDepot.com domain. The unprotected page stored photos of various home improvement projects...and 13 Excel spreadsheets filled with customer data. All told, it had names, phone numbers, and physical and email addresses for up to 8,000 people. And all those files sat there unprotected, unencrypted and discoverable by search engines for an unknown period of time. Home Depot has since removed the files from the site, according to Consumerist. The spreadsheets didn't contain credit card data, bank account information or Social Security numbers -- all of which are legally protected, and land whomever exposed it in legal hot water. In other words, leaving this non-financial/non-SS personal information accessible on the internet (however indirectly) isn't necessarily illegal. It is, however, terrible for an exposed user's privacy -- and could potentially leave them open to future scamming. Names, phone numbers and physical and email addresses are all details that could be used in a phishing attempt to pretend familiarity while asking for more crucial information. The personal data left online were all complaints logged for Home Depot's MyInstall program, which the company offers to help customers communicate with contractor installers. It included product types, installation services and the name of the person servicing the complaint -- yet more details that could have further helped scammers pretending to contact customers on an official basis. To be clear, this wasn't a breach of security, just an unfortunate patch of customer data erroneously left open to the public. "The information was out there, and as hard as it would have been for anyone to find, it shouldn't have been. This was an inadvertent human error that we addressed as soon as we discovered it. Although the data was low-risk, we take the matter very seriously," a Home Depot spokesperson told Engadget over email. Unfortunately, even though the data wasn't released as the result of a deliberate hack, it was still available for an unknown period of time. We won't know the ramifications of this mistake unless someone attempts to take advantage of any of Home Depot's 8,000 unlucky customers affected. Source: Consumerist Gadget News via Engadget http://www.engadget.com April 28, 2017 at 01:09AM
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What Trump’s first 100 days have meant for tech, science, and the future http://ift.tt/2qeb1jL April 29th marks President Trump’s 100th day in office, a "ridiculous standard" that he has promised to surpass nonetheless. Trump had big plans going in: repealing and replacing Obamacare, suspending immigration from "terror-prone regions," building a border wall and making Mexico pay for it. While he’s had a handful of victories, like getting Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court, many other plans have collided the courts, Congress, or administrative chaos. Yet it has been an eventful hundred days. We won’t delve into every executive order and diplomatic shift, but the beginning of the Trump administration has had a profound impact on technology, science, and the future course of the planet. Media, politics, and so much else seems to have entered a new era, and it’s a surreal one. Even more than before he took office, Trump permeates the culture: news, television, music, even things that aren’t direct responses to Trump get pulled into his gravitational field. Rollbacks of environmental regulations and aggressive tweeting about North Korea mean we can now worry about two apocalypses at once: nuclear winter and climate change. (The fact that tweets can raise the specter of nuclear war is new, too.) The wall may end up being more of a fence or maybe just a metaphor, but metaphors have power, and hostile rhetoric coupled with aggressive deportations means the future looks more isolated and less connected than ever. Meanwhile, one of the primary drivers of interconnection, the internet, is being divvied up by corporations. Gadget News via The Verge http://ift.tt/oZfQdV April 28, 2017 at 01:07AM
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Uber is making it easier to delete your account http://ift.tt/2qex0K8 Today, Uber announced a new Privacy Settings system within the app, rolling out to users over the next few weeks. The new controls will give users more control over mobile notifications sent by Uber and any contacts shared with the system. The new settings also let users grant or withhold location data from within the app, a choice previously made at the operating system level. The biggest functional change is the system for deleting accounts, which users will now be able to do from within the app itself. Simply uninstalling the Uber app doesn’t delete server data, and deleting that data previously required directly contacting Uber’s support team. The new process lets users start an automatic 30-day countdown from the Privacy Settings page, after which all customer data will be deleted, including data from the UberEats app. “We would often get a lot of questions about what’s deleted from our servers,” says project manager Zach Singleton. “Internally, this lets us manage it better in terms of scale.” The feature comes after the #DeleteUber campaign earlier this year, which reportedly caused more than 200,000 users to delete their accounts in response to CEO Travis Kalanick’s perceived collaboration with President Trump. That campaign was followed by new harassment and anti-regulatory scandals, leading some to call for a shift in leadership within the company. Uber insists today’s changes aren’t a response to those campaigns. A spokesperson said today’s release has been scheduled for several months, and the changes have been in the works for even longer. “We’ve been working on improving this [account deletion] experience for more than a year,” said an Uber spokesperson. The new settings also make it easier for users to control their location data, although that control is still limited. The new settings include a toggle for sharing your location with friends, and a new option to decline location-sharing from within the app. However, location-sharing is still mostly an all-or-nothing choice, and users that decide not to share will have to manually input their location when they hail a ride, significantly limiting the functionality of the app. In November, Uber began tracking users for five minutes after the end of the ride, even when the app is operating in the background, a move that raised privacy concerns with some users. Gadget News via The Verge http://ift.tt/oZfQdV April 28, 2017 at 01:07AM
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Chinese manufacturer gambles on new case based on alleged 'iPhone 8' schematics http://ift.tt/2oPNkME A case design has popped up on social media from a Chinese manufacturer, but appears to be based on the assortment of "leaked" schematics from April and may not be accurate. Gadget News via AppleInsider - Frontpage News http://appleinsider.com April 28, 2017 at 01:07AM
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How good is your #hashtag game? http://ift.tt/2oEqnRb When, why, and how should you use hashtags on social media? We can help you answer that! The hashtag is a powerful tool for categorizing content, finding and participating in discussions, and organizing communication around a specific topic. It's also — depending on who you ask — a silly tool for brands and social media influencers to get more engagement (likes, views, retweets, shares, etc.) for their advertisements and posts. No matter how you feel about #hashtags, one thing's for sure: They're part of our modern culture — especially in media. You'd be hard-pressed to find a news broadcast, advertisement, or media promo that didn't include a hashtag somewhere. Put simply, there's no escaping hashtags so why not learn a little about them? The history of hashtagsThe first hashtag is said to have been created in August 2007 by Chris Messina. Messina was looking for a way to group related tweets together so folks could tune in and participate in discussions around particular topics and events.
Nearly 10 years later, we're still using hashtags in much the same way: You write a tweet or a Facebook post about a particular topic, add a hashtag, and send your thoughts out into the internet; someone comes across the hashtag or searches for it and they can see your tweet or post, as well as any other tweets or posts using the same hashtag. It's simple, it's elegant, and it's pretty damned ingenious if you ask me! Since the inception of the hashtag, the tool's use has morphed. You can use 'em to be silly and ironic, you can use 'em to spark conversation with strangers, you can use 'em for participating in national events, and you can use 'em to help others find (or hide) your posts. Yep, hashtags are pretty powerful. How to use hashtags without driving your friends crazyHashtags are beautiful in their simplicity and universality. If a site supports hashtags, using them is simple: You simply need to add a pound symbol (#) before the word or words that you want to make your hashtag. Think of hashtags like keywords: short nouns and adjectives to describe the content you're sharing. You'll need to practice a little empathy, because your goal is to hashtag (yes, it can be used as a verb) your posts with keywords that you think others would associate with your content. In this tweet, for example, we wanted to make sure when people were looking for posts about the Nintendo Switch they could find our how-to on creating a Nintendo Switch Dock sock. Because hashtags can only be a group of characters without spaces or punctuation (
In this Instagram post, I wanted people searching for posts about The Office to be able to find my HILARIOUS prank. I knew "office" wasn't going to be specific enough — that hashtag often leads to photos of peoples' home offices, stationary, etc. I took the title of the show and combined the words (remember, hashtags can't have punctuation or spaces) to create the hashtag
Generally speaking, you can use this same thought process when creating hashtags on any social media site. Whether your hashtag is one word ( Some Site-Specific Hashtag TipsDifferent social media sites have different hashtag etiquette. You can choose to follow these pseudo-rules and suggestions or ignore them completely — it's entirely up to you! Your social media presence is your own and you should feel free to run things how you choose. I have to admit, I try to avoid hashtagging on Twitter as much as possible. When I first joined Twitter in late 2008, I can remember being staunchly anti-hashtag. Hashtags get a bad rap due to their association with brands and — sigh — growth-hacking. Nefarious folks will add popular hashtags to their posts even if they're unrelated, because they know more people will see it. Pro tip: Don't do that. Here are some quick tips for hashtagging on Twitter:
Facebook jumped on the hashtag train long after Twitter and it's still pretty rare (for me, at least) to see a regular user hashtagging their Facebook posts. That said, Facebook supports hashtags and you should definitely use them as you see fit! Here are some quick tips for hashtagging on Facebook:
Instagram is all about the hashtag. When you're looking for adorable dog photos, new recipes, craft ideas, etc., chances are you're finding these posts based on hashtags. Your Instagram hashtag game will determine who comes across your posts and how frequently they do. Here are some quick tips for hashtagging on Instagram:
Other tipsThere are plenty of other social media sites that support hashtags and have their own rules surrounding their use. If you use the tips I've mentioned above to help inform your hashtagging technique on other sites, I think it'll go swimmingly. The most important thing you can do is know what kind of post you're creating and what you hope to gain by using hashtags. Once you've got that figured out, you can decide whether you need loads of keyword hashtags, a couple topic hashtags, or a sprinkling of ironic hashtags. Questions?There's a lot to consider when you're using hashtags (not least of which is whether you want to use hashtags in the first place)! If you have any particular questions or need any clarification, leave a comment below or shoot me a message over on Twitter so we can … ?➡️? … hash it out. Gadget News via iMore - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch blog http://www.imore.com/ April 28, 2017 at 01:02AM
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HTC teases next phone’s squeezable gimmick with new ad http://ift.tt/2pFTJig HTC’s next mobile is going to have some sort of “squeezable” frame. At least, that’s the message coming through loud and clear in the company’s latest ad. Earlier this month, the Taiwanese phonemaker announced it would be unveiling something new on May 16th with the tagline “Squeeze for the brilliant U,” and this short video teaser really Although a squeezable smartphone sounds a bit silly, it’s actually been done before. Nearly five years ago, Japanese carrier NTT Docomo made a prototype handset with touch sensors on the edge of the frame. This allowed users to launch apps, perform voice searches, and more, just with a squeeze of the hand. The HTC U will probably perform in a similar fashion — just take a look at this leaked video of an unknown HTC phone codenamed the HTC Ocean:
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