Look Inside Kylie Jenner’s Butterfly-Filled Nursery for Baby Stormi
One month after Kylie Jenner welcomed her first child into the world with Travis Scott, the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star is ready to share even more details about her motherhood journey. In a new Snapchat posted Monday afternoon, the new mom gave fans an inside look into Stormi's …
Former Texas Wesleyan baseball coach talks about his anti-liberal recruiting email
Mike Jeffcoat, the former Texas Wesleyan University baseball coach, replied to an email from a Colorado recruit and said he was not longer looking at players from that state. His reason? He said he had issues in the past with Coloradan players passing drug tests. Here's what the former Ranger …
Cain’s Quest bigger, faster in 2018
Team Iron City Racing, Justin Heulin (Grand le Pierre) and Ryan Pratt (Labrador City) arrive at the check point in Postville during the 2018 Cain's Quest snowmobile race March 4. – Thom Barker. It bills itself as “the world's longest and toughest snowmobile endurance race.” And, at roughly 3,200 … Read …
The Latest: West Virginia senators offer raise ‘compromise’
Senators negotiating pay-raise legislation say the Senate leadership is offering House counterparts "a compromise position" and all plan to meet again Tuesday morning to further consider it. Details were not disclosed at the public conference committee meeting Monday evening. Read More
How YouTube’s algorithm prioritizes conspiracy theories
A former YouTube engineer is speaking out against the company's recommendation algorithm, saying that it is programmed in a way that could lead to the promotion of conspiracy theories. Guillaume Chaslot, who has a Ph.D in computer science and worked on the YouTube recommendation algorithm … Read More
Playlist for Prefab Houses: YouTube and the Revitalization of Japanese Ambient Music
“Thank science for algorithms because they brought me here, to my destiny.” – YouTube user “Becky” on Hiroshi Yoshimura's Soundscape 1 surround (1986). Liz Pelly's recent article for The Baffler, “The Problem with Muzak,” bemoans music journalism's embrace of Spotify. Algorithmically fueled … Read More
YouTube Prank Culture Needs To Take A Long, Hard Look At Itself
A couple of weeks ago, popular Youtube prankster Arya Mosallah decided it would be funny to throw water in people's faces in London and record it. Apart from being a childish nuisance, it takes on a whole other level of insensitive in light of London's rising acid attacks. Mosallah, who …
Token Pre-sale of the World’s First Social Challenge Network is in Full Swing
PROVOCO is really proud of the people who are working on the project. It has been officially announced that Dylan Sharkey, LinkedIn's former Head of Sales Solutions, has joined the advisory team. He will greatly contribute to developing monetization strategies, as well as the company's business plan. Read More
The 2017 Silicon Bayou 100: Group 9
Sara is a New Orleans native and the Deputy Chief Information Officer at the City of New Orleans' Office of Information Technology and Innovation since 2015. She focuses on strategic planning for the IT department, its budget, HR, procurement, program and project management, and more. On LinkedIn. Read More
LinkedIn (LNKD) Earns Coverage Optimism Rating of -0.06
LinkedIn logo Press coverage about LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) has been trending somewhat negative on Monday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern identifies positive and negative press coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources. Accern ranks coverage of … Read More