Feminist Frequency panel at XOXO Andrea Damewood I woke up Monday morning, tired AF but smiling. XOXO 2018 (my first!) is over, and Monday was the bittersweet start of the rest of the week. After three and a half straight days of constant stimulation—interesting conversations! Strange new games! Talks from smart and funny and famous […]
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XOXO Fest, Day 2: Lisa Hanawalt, Demi Adejuyigbe, Is This Las Vegas For Nerds?
Demi Adejuyigbe Andrea Damewood After telling people all week that I was headed to XOXO Festival this weekend for the first time, I wasn’t sure what to tell people. Is it a tech conference? An art festival? A giant meetup? Following the first full day of events, I think it’s easiest to say that XOXO […]
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XOXO Fest, Day 1: FREE Carly Rae Jepsen Soda, the Albina Vision Project, Cameron Esposito’s Rape Jokes
Suzette Smith Last night little-known, much-loved technology and art festival XOXO kicked off its sixth year at its new home: Veterans Memorial Coliseum. I wrote about the fest back in June, when tickets were still on sale. This year Mercury Food Editor Andrea Damewood and I will attend XOXO and report back on interesting happenings, […]
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A Peek Into Portland’s E-Scooter Future
Courtesy Kathleen Marie, Superstar As Alex reported yesterday, the controversial e-scooter ride share business has arrived in Portland. Yesterday afternoon, Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) announced (READ: Sighed and threw up its hands, because they knew this sorry state of affairs was an eventuality) it was issuing temporary permits to two e-scooter companies, Bird and […]
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XOXO’s New Look: Changes to the Fest and Expanding to Veterans Memorial Coliseum
⏰ Reminder: XOXO 2018 registration is open until this Friday noon PT/3pm ET! https://t.co/6EVw1d9Wof— XOXO (@xoxo) June 26, 2018 Registration for tickets to this year’s XOXO Festival will close tomorrow, Friday, at noon PST. The fest’s registration opened last Tuesday with the intention of only remaining available for ten days. Line-up for the festival includes […]
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With Municipal Broadband, Cities Are Taking Back the Internet—and Making It Faster and Cheaper. Can Portland Do the Same?
What If Portlanders—Not Corporations—Owned Our Internet?
What if Portlanders—not corporations—owned our internet?
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Don’t Know What Palantir Is? You Need To.
Peter Thiel, founder of Palantir, endorsing Donald Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Alex Wong / Getty Images If you watched Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before Congress earlier this month, you might have heard Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell questioning the Facebook CEO about his awareness of a company called Palantir. Cantwell’s first question to […]
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Facebook Could Lose Billions in Class Actions
Is Zuck fucked? David Ramos/Getty Mark Zuckerberg is having quite the month. Less than a week after the tech world’s aging Doogie Howser testified before Congress about Facebook’s role in the Cambridge Analytica fuck up, a federal judge in California ruled Monday that the company will have to face a class action lawsuit for allegedly […]
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Facebook Has Been Keeping Records of Some of Its Users’ Calls and Texts
Remember: on Facebook, you are the product. Eli Sanders Via Ars Technica: This past week, a New Zealand man was looking through the data Facebook had collected from him in an archive he had pulled down from the social networking site. While scanning the information Facebook had stored about his contacts, Dylan McKay discovered something […]
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What You Need to Know About the Facebook Data “Breach”
A Facebook data center. According to recent reports, another repository of Facebook data is Cambridge Analytica, a firm that worked for the Trump campaign and managed to buy personal data on 50 million Facebook users. Rainier Ehrhardt / Getty Images If you missed it over the weekend, The New York Times and The Guardian have […]
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The Revolution Will Be Robotized
J.B. Spector This Saturday, March 17, OMSI is opening the Robot Revolution exhibit to the public—a traveling crew of over 40 robots from nine different countries, accompanied by a team of robot specialists. We recommended this exhibit in our last issue but couldn’t say no when offered the chance to play with the robots ourselves. […]
