Facebook has taken down 652 fake accounts and pages ahead of US midterm elections, the company announced in a blog post late Tuesday (Aug. 21). According to Facebook, some of the removed accounts were part of ”coordinated inauthentic behavior” originating in Iran and Russia.
Venture capitalists’ interest seems to come in waves (remember the “Uber for X” fad?), and right now, the company of the moment is the four-year-old workplace messaging company Slack.
Just before students head back to school, Microsoft is releasing its Minecraft: Education Edition for the iPad. The educational version of the popular block-builder game launched in 2016, and will be available for the iPad starting next month.
Over 50 million k-12 students will go back to school in the US this month. For many of them using a school computer, every word they type will be tracked.
With bags under his eyes and a ring in his nose, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat down with NBC’s Lester Holt on Wednesday (Aug. 15) to talk about the decision to temporarily suspend the account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from the social-media platform. But instead of sounding like the leader of two multibillion-dollar companies, Dorsey came across like a disappointed father.
First, a confession: I speak tech.
A week after Apple, Facebook, and Youtube removed the majority of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ content from their platforms, Twitter finally followed suit.
Google tracks your location—even when you tell it not to.
The security of the US election system just lost a vote of confidence.
A solar-powered aircraft built by Airbus broke the record for longest continuous flight this week. If the unmanned Zephyr S had stayed aloft for just three minutes longer, it would have flown for exactly 26 days.
Thursday morning (Aug. 9), Microsoft sent an ultimatum to the social networking site Gab: Take down two anti-Semitic posts from the platform in the next 48 hours, or we’ll stop hosting your site on our servers.
You may soon be able to use your voice to unlock, turn on, and navigate your car to the nearest Whole Foods.
West Virginia will let troops and other citizens living abroad vote by smartphone through an app this November, making it the first US state to allow voting on a smartphone in a federal election.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has a lot of mentions to sort through.
Snap’s users are ghosting.
This week, the tech industry reached a uniform—though apparently uncoordinated—decision to ban content from Infowars’ Alex Jones. The popular conspiracy theorist has argued that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy was a hoax and that the FBI engineered the Boston Marathon bombing. But platforms including Facebook and YouTube didn’t ban Jones’s content based on the veracity of his claims.
Wednesday should have been a big day for Tristan Harris.
In an effort to rid itself from the platform overlords, Epic Games announced today (Aug. 3) that it will not distribute its massively popular game Fortnite Battle Royale through the Google Play Store. Instead, Android users will be able to download the game directly from Fortnite‘s official website.
The past seven days have been historic for the tech industry.
In Silicon Valley, it’s notoriously hard to raise money for hardware products. Build hardware to help other people build hardware on the other hand, and it’s a different story.
To understand Silicon Valley’s diversity problem, simply follow the money.
Shareholders from Disney and 21st Century Fox voted to approve Disney’s $71.3 billion offer to purchase Fox’s major film and television studios today (July 27), a blockbuster deal which has been months in the making.
Twitter reported its second-quarter earnings today (July 27), its third profitable quarter in a row. But a decline in its user count sent the social network’s stock price nosediving in pre-market trading.
Perception is reality, but for techies it might be hard to see through their bubble.
