Eau Claire woman accused of passing fake $50 bill
New Thorp High School class to combine math, tech ed, car racing. © 2018 Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, WI. All rights reserved. To Top. Applying filter… Read More
Instagram to Show More Recent Posts First
Instagram is moving away from its algorithmic feed and will start showing newer posts near the top. The company isn't fully bringing back the chronological feed, though it will make a better effort to show users the most timely posts. In addition, Instagram will stop automatically refreshing the feed and … …
Bye Facebook, hello Instagram: Users make beeline for Facebook-owned social network
SAN FRANCISCO — Before turning in for the night, Katie Clark curls up with Instagram, not Facebook. More personal, less drama. "I just think it's a nicer place to be," the 28-year-old blogger from Littleton, Colo., says of Instagram. On Facebook, "everything feels like an advertisement or an argument.". Read …
Instagram’s chronological feed is (almost) back: Firm reveals its algorithm will now make sure …
In 2016, Instagram changed its algorithm so that newer posts would no longer appear at the top of the feed. As a result, many users complained that they kept seeing the same posts over and over again, or that they'd be shown old posts from several days ago, missing newer …
WhatsApp nails lie of actor’s hubby
Taking WhatsApp chats as evidence, the Punjab and Haryana high court recently ordered that perjury proceedings be started against Rahul Bhandari, husband of actor Lovina Bhatia. Rahul had claimed in court that he had no idea his wife had spent three months in jail in 2009 in an alleged murder … …
Liverpool’s James Milner finally gets Twitter – and sends the perfect first tweet
The @BoringMilner personality has racked up over 500,000 followers for its deadpan tweets, but the real deal is now finally set up. Milner's first few hours online saw him rack up thousands of followers using the handle @JamesMilner and he immediately poked fun at himself in homage to his Twitter … …
James Milner finally gets Twitter as Liverpool midfielder bids to outdo his ‘Boring’ parody account …
Twitter beware, Liverpool midfielder James Milner has finally opened an official account on the social media platform. Milner signs up for Twitter following the remarkable success of his 'Boring James Milner' parody account and tweeted for the first time on Thursday afternoon. The 32-year-old tweeted a … Read More
Twitter is flirting with its lowest close in over a month
Social media stocks have been getting whacked following news of a massive data breach at Facebook. The breach is prompting concerns about future data regulation, that could hurt social media stocks. Watch Twitter stock in real time here. Twitter shares are sliding Thursday, down 3.33%, as social … Read More
If Facebook controls your mind, so do a lot of other tech companies
Can Facebook's algorithms control our population and politics? Yes, and it is uniquely bad, says François Chollet, an artificial intelligence researcher at Google and author of the well-known machine learning library Keras. But in hyping up the power of AI, he is underestimating how hard it is to change … Read …
The Facebook Data Cambridge Analytica Took Was Either Extremely Valuable or Totally Worthless
A voter-profiling firm that worked with Donald Trump's campaign improperly obtained information on 50 million Facebook users, but experts say the data was both extremely valuable and possibly worthless. Cambridge Analytica, which worked with both Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential … Read More