Sentences with phrase «former gizmodo»
This isn't the promise of goggle - based computing that William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and even former Gizmodo EIC Annalee Newitz have espoused in their cyberpunk novels, but it's the first mixed reality experience that feels like more than a gimmick or a tool for gamers alone.
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Separately, StoryBundle, the startup founded by former Gizmodo and Lifehacker editor Jason Chen, announced its new «Holiday Gift Bundle.»
«This service, run by former Gizmodo pop star Jason Chen, is one of the cooler offerings out there right now...» - TechCrunch
Not exact matches
The investigation comes after Gizmodo reported on Monday that a former Facebook employee claimed workers «routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers,» while «artificially» adding other stories to the trending list.
To be fair to Facebook, Gizmodo's report is based on interviews with anonymous and disgruntled former employees.
A leak by an anonymous former contractor led Gizmodo to report Facebook was suppressing conservative news in its Trending section.
He also cited a 2016 Gizmodo report about a former Facebook worker who said the company prevented conservative topics from appearing in the list of trending news topics (a Facebook executive said the company «found no evidence that the anonymous allegations» were true).
As reported in Gizmodo yesterday: Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network's influential «trending» news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project.
Several former Facebook «news curators,» as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially «inject No one outside Facebook knows for sure how it does this, and no one inside the company will tell you.
- Raju Narisetti, CEO, Gizmodo, and former managing editor of The Washington Post
He is former senior editor of Dwell magazine, a contributing editor at Wired UK, and Editor in Chief of Gizmodo.
Several former Facebook «news curators,» as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially «inject» selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren't popular enough to warrant inclusion — or in some cases weren't trending at all.
A leak by an anonymous former contractor led Gizmodo to report Facebook was suppressing conservative news in its Trending section.
Other contributors to this guide include Jacqui Cheng, Wirecutter editor in chief and former senior editor at Ars Technica; Brian Lam, Wirecutter founder and former editor in chief of Gizmodo; Kevin Purdy, author of our Android smartwatch guide and former Lifehacker editor; and Jim McDannald, Wirecutter fitness writer, residency - trained podiatrist, distance - running coach, and the author of our fitness tracker guide.
(Thiel secretly funded a lawsuit that led to the bankruptcy of Gizmodo's former parent company, Gawker Media.)
Yesterday, Gizmodo and other outlets signal - boosted recent statements from former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya saying that social media sites are «ripping apart the social fabric of how society works.»
Biggs is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch and former editor of Gizmodo.
A former employee of the company told Gizmodo that the company's plan in the US was to use its success in China to «buy its way into marketshare.»
The sources are referring to a controversy that started in May, when Gizmodo published a story in which former Facebook workers revealed that the trending news team was run by human «curators» and guided by their editorial judgments, rather than populated by an algorithm, as the company had earlier claimed.
The Gizmodo report, which relied on a single anonymous former Facebook worker with self - described conservative leanings, claimed that Facebook downplays conservative news subjects on its trending feature.
A former journalist who was involved with curating the «What's trending» section told Gizmodo that stories from conservative news websites are often left out of the section, due to individual biases of workers.