It’s Twitter vs the Government in a Battle Over Free Speech
As if President Trump’s relationship to tech wasn’t already fraught enough, Twitter announced yesterday that it is filing a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security for attempting to unmask the anonymous user (or users) behind the @ALT_USCIS account. One of the several rogue government agency accounts that have popped up since the election to […]
Dogtown Media Happy Hour to Benefit Blood Cancer Patients
Blood cancer. It’s something that happens to other people, right? Unfortunately, it’s all too common, and can strike at any time — a fact that hit close to home for us at Dogtown this past December, when the brother of one of our team members was diagnosed with a rare for of leukemia. The fight […]
Facebook Looks for New Approaches to the Fake News Problem
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2016 was “surreal.” The Oxford English Dictionary went with “post-truth.” The Australian Macquarie Dictionary settled on “fake news.” No matter what term social media app developers prefer to use to define it, 2016 was the year that the conspiracies, propaganda, and outright hooey that used to be the purview […]
Musk’s Neuralink Venture May Connect the Human Mind to AI
The tech world is abuzz this week with chatter about Elon Musk’s latest privately-funded venture Neuralink. Details about the “medical research” company are scant, but everyone seems to be in agreement that the purpose of the venture is to pursue Musk’s dream of “neural lace” technology. The idea is to create a direct connection between […]
Google Vows Change After Ad Firms Exit Over Offensive Videos
Mobile app developers who have found themselves lost in a YouTube hole can attest to the existence of the platform’s dark corners. Really you don’t have to plunge all that far to find vile content — just look at the comments on even the most innocuous videos (although you’d be better off if you didn’t). […]
SpaceX Pursues Elon Musk’s “Space Internet” Ambitions
The big dreams of Elon Musk fascinate app developers worldwide, who admire the scope of his ambitions — and his ability to pull off so many of them. Fresh off the successful landing of the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket last month, the company is now moving forward with another one of Musk’s […]
Dogtown Media and Congressman Ed Royce Present 2016 App Challenge Winners
Dogtown Media’s commitment to tech education continues, as CEO Marc Fischer spoke on a panel alongside California Congressman Ed Royce at the awards ceremony for this year’s Congressional App Challenge. The presentation featured incredible app designs from some of the brightest elementary, middle- and high-school students in the 39th district of California. This isn’t the […]
Hackers Wreak Havoc Using IoT Exploits
This past Friday, much of the United States’ internet access came to a crashing halt. Services like Twitter, Spotify, Reddit and Netflix were rendered inaccessible because of a Mirai botnet attack on servers owned by Dyn (the source code was actually released a few weeks ago and the creator of the code, a hacker dubbed […]
Brexit Vote Sends Shockwaves Through Startup Community
The United Kingdom’s Brexit vote in favor of leaving the European Union (EU) has sent shockwaves through the business world, and tech is no exception. Surging stock prices only 24 hours before the historic vote saw Wall Street place their bets against the UK’s departure, making Friday’s 52:48 near-tie all the more bitter a pill […]
Siri Is Finally Bridging the Gap Between Mobile and Desktop
When Apple bought Siri back in 2010, few San Francisco iPhone app developers believed it would become quite so central to the mobile experience. That success on mobile has made Mac devotees eager to use the personal assistant on other apple devices and platforms — yet it’s been years without an apparent move to jump […]