Editors’ note: This story is part of our Turned On special report exploring the intersection of sex and technology. It contains sexually explicit descriptions and may not be suited for younger readers. In the sunny living room of a Mediterranean-style house in Oakland, California, Rosalind sips coffee through a straw. The 24-year-old research assistant wears …
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Using your penis as your password isn’t new (you can already do it on an iPhone), but one porn site wants to make it standard practice for members. On Thursday, live-cam site CamSoda launched “Dick-ometrics,” a stand-up new way to log in to your account. (CamSoda assured us this is not a belated April Fools’ joke.) CamSoda has a history …
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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the sexual assault last month of a 15-year-old Chicago girl that was livestreamed on Facebook Live. The unidentified suspect faces felony charges of aggravated criminal sexual assault, manufacturing of child pornography and dissemination of child pornography, police said Sunday during a news conference. More arrests are expected in connection with the …
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Steam, the world’s biggest PC game store, is about to get a lot bigger. That’s because its owner, game developer Valve, is done picking and choosing which games will appear there. (Yes, the same Valve behind Half-Life, Portal and DOTA 2, among other popular games.) Valve has been experimenting for the past five years with a feature called Steam Greenlight, …
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Whether they want to or not, nearly half of Tumblr‘s users are seeing porn on their dashboards. Tumblr has had a hard time keeping porn off its site. In 2012, Tumblr founder David Carp said 2 to 4 percent of the site’s traffic was porn-related. An Italian study published last month suggests that number has grown significantly. Adult content has …
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This is the first story in a two-part series about the complications of Facebook‘s unique media impact. Facebook has titanic media power. The only thing that matches that influence may be the company’s denial it exists. The US election crystallized the stakes. There are a myriad of reasons behind the voting decisions of millions of people, and the world’s biggest …
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They say that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But if you’re Village Roadshow, the studio behind the wildly popular Lego Movie franchise and one of the most vocal critics of film piracy, you’re quite happy to make “one hell of a mistake” all over again. On March 30 next year, Australians will be able to see …
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It might be hard to remember, but Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is still running a business. Over the past few weeks, the internet pioneer has been in the headlines for just about anything except its products. Instead, Mayer and her team have drawn scrutiny after suffering what could be the biggest hack and theft of personal account info in history, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Time to quit Yahoo? Site reportedly spied on emails for… 2:17 Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, pictured at the Fortune Global Forum in San Francisco in 2015, complied with a US government order to scan all user email according to reports from Reuters and the New York Times. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Yahoo went searching for something …
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Apple’s new iOS 10 software for iPhones and iPads has a nifty new feature: you can search for and insert animated GIF images directly from the Messages app. It appears to have turned not-so-nifty though as people discovered it can be a conduit for porn, too. Deadspin flagged a My Little Pony image for adults, not kids, with a search …
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