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CHEAP: Samsung’s Galaxy Watch range has some BEEFY DISCOUNTS

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 1:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Smartwatches face a simple, important question: why? As cool as the tech is, why does anyone need one? Especially when many of the devices are so expensive. Well, we have a solution to part of that problem: here’s a whole load of smartwatch discounts. Yes, that’s right, the Samsung Galaxy Watch range is currently on offer. This includes 10 percent off the new Galaxy Watch Active, making it a very reasonable $180, and the 46mm Galaxy Watch for under $300, saving you $50. Let’s start…

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Tumblr’s Head of Culture and Fashion shares the platform’s most curious subcultures

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 1:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, creative, distract, Social Media, TNW Answers


Valentine Uhovski started his career as an editor and journalist, and has written for the likes of The Wall Street Journal and Interview Russia. He’s now in his eighth year manning the helm of Tumblr‘s Culture and Fashion verticals. Since joining, he’s helped to foster and shape Tumblr‘s community of millions of creators worldwide and has worked with countless big name brands, designers, and artists to build their Tumblr presence. Uhovski wound up on the social platform by accident, he told Ad Age: “I never dreamt that I was going to work at a tech company focused on fashion.”  And what…

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How Facebook plans to keep your data private while opening it up to researchers

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 1:08 pm
Posted In: Around the Web


Ever since the 2016 US presidential elections, social network Facebook has been at the receiving end of criticism for its outsized influence on worldwide electoral processes, and threats to democracy from the spread of fake news. Now more than a year after Facebook announced a new initiative to aid independent research analyzing the platform’s influence on elections, the company has made good on its promise by opening up its data for the first time to more than 60 researchers from 30 academic institutions across 11 countries. To that effect, it has outlined a differential privacy-based approach that it expects will…

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The digital farming revolution will cost workers their power, dignity, and possibly their jobs

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 12:59 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


There’s a lot of talk about digital technology and smart cities, but what about smart farms? Many of us still have a romantic view of farmers surveying rolling hills and farm kids cuddling calves, but our food in Canada increasingly comes from industrial-scale factory farms and vast glass and steel forests of greenhouses. While the social and environmental consequences of agri-food industrialization are fairly well understood, issues around digital technology are now just emerging. Yet, technology is radically transforming farms and farming. And while different in scale and scope, technology is playing a growing role in small and organic farming…

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