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This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all. Maria Booth and I sit at a table at Mälarpaviljongen, a gay-friendly bar and cafe in Stockholm. It's a suy, breezy day on the Baltic waterway that surrounds the city. The cafe's floating patio bobs gently in Riddarfjärden Bay. We're talking about Facebook. She's worried about a change taking place in her country that she saw first on the world's biggest social network: People she knew were posting comments against immigrants, calling them criminals and drains on society. "It has become perfectly legitimate to say we should close our bord...

Sorry, Maine. You sounded like a really nice place to visit, what with your beaches, B&Bs, lighthouses and lobsters. We could even overlook the fact that your native son, Stephen King, seems to be determined to convince everyone in the world you're full of killer clowns, possessed cars, rabid St. Beards and spooky fog that tus people inside-out. (Well, maybe that last one was "The Simpsons.") But there's no way to overlook the 10-foot-long (3-meter) snakeskin that police in Westbrook, Maine, photographed and waed their citizens about in a Facebook post.[embedded content] If you read the Facebook comments, you can see that some are convinced this is a hoax, that a shed snakeskin wa...

A hacker got away with roughly $72 million worth of bitcoin. Getty The hits continue for bitcoin owners.After Bitfinex revealed this week that a hacker made off with 119,756 bitcoin (about $72 million), the digital-currency exchange said Friday it is interested in a "socialized loss.""We are leaning towards a socialized loss scenario among bitcoin balances and active loans to BTCUSD positions," the company said in a blog post, noting that it has not made a final decision and that more details will be available Saturday. BTCUSD stands for Bitcoin/US dollar.In a socialized loss scenario, a company typically exp...

Sling Blake Krikorian, the co-founder of Sling Media and a longtime fixture in Silicon Valley, died Wednesday at age 48.His brother, Jason confirmed Krikorian's sudden passing on Facebook. According to Recode's Kara Swisher, he was "apparently struck by a heart attack while surfing in the San Francisco area." Krikorian had recently served as the corporate vice president for Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, following the acquisition of his company, id8 Group R2 Studios, by Redmond in 2013. But he was best known (to me and many others) as one of the visionary founders of Sling Media, which he co...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives. Why do bars exist? To make you feel a little better about the vicissitudes of existence. To make you commune with your fellow human and share life experiences. Why do phones exist? To make sure you post whatever you're doing to Facebook. To keep you from communing with your fellow human and sharing life experiences in real life.Enlarge ImageIt looks like a lovely place. Gin Tub/Facebook Steve Tyler decided to do something about it. He owns the Gin Tub bar in Hove, England. He got fed up with customers not talking t...

When Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton aounced that Sen. Tim Kaine would be her ruing mate, the inteet went wild with witty memes. Now it seem Kaine is trending again on Twitter as old photos of him surface online. Plus the young Kaine could double as Superman, which could come in handy. Not only are his new fans smitten with his dashing good looks, some are even giving the VP candidate hipster status just based on his '70s fashion sense. Kaine is getting a lot of attention for his cheekbones and laid-back swagger. But his Democratic cohorts likely have photos from their youn...

Four years ago, Facebook and Twitter shared the same small space on Radio Row at the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Both social networks were growing, but not quite mainstream.Not anymore. Social networks -- including Snapchat, Instagram, Medium, and YouTube -- have a ubiquitous presence that rivals traditional media this week at the RNC in Cleveland.Social media giant Facebook built a two-story structure dubbed "Facebook Central," outside of the Quicken Loans Arena, site of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Terry Collins/CNET Radio Row is now called Media Row. Walk up to the ...

[embedded content] Fresh off being named 2015's highest paid actor in Hollywood by Forbes last week, The Rock launched his own YouTube chael on Monday and he's called in a few ringers to show him the ropes.Chief among them is vlogger and comedian Lilly Singh, who gives Johnson the guided tour of YouTube's secret volcano lair recording studio. The online venture comes from a partnership between Johnson's 7 Bucks Productions, which he runs with ex-wife Dany Garcia, and Studio 71, Variety reports.Capitalizing on his 100-million-follower-strong social media presence, The Rock is now tackling the land of cat videos, beauty tips, couples yoga and doubl...

China has issued a waing to news sites over using social media as a source. César Salza/CNET China has issued a crackdown on online news organisations across the country, waing them not use social media as a source without carefully verifying and fact-checking claims first.The Cyberspace Administration of China issued the directive, with the state media agency Xinhua reporting that the move was made in a bid to combat "false news.""It is forbidden to use hearsay to create news or use conjecture and imagination to distort the facts," Xinhua reported, according to a translation in the South China Moing Post. "A...

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.Enlarge ImageThe Nickelback-hating poster created by the Queensland Police in Australia. Queensland Police; Facebook screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET It's a question I've often wanted to ask: Where were you when you started hating Nickelback?Would anyone know? Would only the most smart and self-righteous say, "When I first heard a Nickelback song"?Somehow, though, you're supposed to despise this band because you're supposed to despise this band. It's become so prevalent that even the police in Queensland, Australia...

"Avengers" director Joss Whedon -- best known for his hit TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Firefly" -- quit Twitter in 2015. "Twitter is an addictive little thing," Whedon told Buzzfeed, "and if it's there, I gotta check it. When you keep doing something after it stops giving you pleasure, that's kind of rock bottom for an addict. I just had a little moment of clarity where I'm like, You know what? If I want to get stuff done, I need to not constantly hit this thing for a news item or a joke or some praise, and then be suddenly sad when there's hate and then hate and then hate." Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Next year is finally now for Cleveland Cavaliers fans.Long-suffering Ohio basketball fans rejoiced Sunday as their team defeated the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors 93-89. And they did so in a way they couldn't when the franchise was founded 52 years ago: social media. In a blizzard of tweets, diehards, like Patrick Ward, celebrated the nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat Game 7 thriller. Ward lost his mind tweeting in the moments after LeBron James & Co. battled back to become the first NBA team facing a 3-1 deficit to win a NBA title: "Cleveland, this is for you!," said Finals MVP James. "Our fans deserve it. They deserve it. I came back to our ...

The music stopped the moment Shelby Belfast came on stage Wednesday night.Belfast, co-organizer of the local chapter of GRLCVLT (for "girl culture"), asked people to raise their hands and say "I'm a survivor." Slowly, about 200 men and women at the Starline Social Club, in Oakland, raised a hand and looked around in silent solidarity against what GRLCVLT calls "a culture of rape." The attendees then took action, signing petitions to remove Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky, who brought the inteet to a boil by sentencing a Stanford student to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. "Take my anger as just passion to want things to change," Belfast said, adding she ...

An update is coming to a 100-year old classic. Kent German/CNET In a day to remember for font geeks and transport nerds alike, Transport for London (TfL) aounced yesterday that it was updating the century-old font it uses across the London Underground.In a blog post by Monotype, the firm that helped TfL adapt the new font, type director Malou Verlomme said the expansion of the word's oldest underground railway (first opened in 1863) has put new demands on the typeface, especially as it publishes maps and information on digital platforms.Jon Hunter, head of TfL design, told the BBC that changing the font is an...

Netflix has picked up "Big Mouth," an animated half-hour comedy series from comedian Nick Kroll and "Family Guy" writer-producer Andrew Goldberg, the streaming service aounced Monday. The series, which will initially feature 10 episodes, will debut in 2017. "Big Mouth" will focus on "teenaged adventures in puberty," Netflix said in a statement.Kroll and comedian John Mulaney will voice the two main characters, Nick and Andrew. Other actors that will be featured on the show include Maya Rudolph, Jordan Peele, Fred Armisen, Jey Slate, Jessi Klein and Jason Mantzoukas.Let's block ads! بخوانید...

Plex Good news for Nvidia Shield owners: Not only can it run Plex's Android TV, but it will soon be able to run its Full Media Server, including support for hardware-accelerated video transcoding (H.264, MPEG2 and HEVC) with multiple simultaneous streams.For those who've never heard of Nvidia Shield it comes in three different versions: Android TV, Tablet K1, and Portable versions. All include a game controller. Android TV is its set-top streaming media and gaming box that has a 64-bit CPU and powerful GPU that lets you play games and stream content from a variety of sources at up to 4K resolutions.Plex s...

[embedded content] It's never too late to lea an important lesson: don't start something you can't finish. A two-year-old parakeet named Kiwi leaed it the hard way when he taught himself how to imitate the sound of his owner saying "Hey Siri," and check it out - it actually works! Siri registers the prompt and responds with an encouraging phrase of her own: "I'm listening." Sadly, the conversation goes downhill from there. The bashful budgie appears to be at a loss for words and can't think of what to say next, and the silence gets more and more awkward as seconds pass in silence. Kiwi's problem is that he reverses the order of his voice commands...

The message posted to a Pinterest page allegedly associated with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. OurMine Did the massive data dump of LinkedIn accounts last month also include Mark Zuckerberg?Ourmine, a hacker group with 41,000 followers on Twitter, claimed Sunday to have compromised the Facebook CEO's Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter accounts. Zuckerberg's verified Twitter account appears normal at this writing, but Engadget posted images showing it defaced. In a Tweet, the group bragged about the alleged hacks and invited Zuckerberg to contact the group. A similar mes...