After reports of pedophiles using YouTube comments to sexualize videos of children, YouTube warns creators it may demonetize videos with inappropriate comments
A new controversy this week over the sexualized exploitation of children on YouTube has set off a wave of advertiser boycotts …
50+ Microsoft staff sign letter to Satya Nadella and Brad Smith demanding an end to a $479M US Army contract to license HoloLens tech for combat and training
A group of Microsoft employees is circulating a letter among the company's over 130,000-person staff demanding that executives cancel a $479 million contract with the US Army.
YouTube says it will remove ads on anti-vaccine videos, launches info panel below anti-vaccine videos that links to the Wikipedia page for “vaccine hesitancy”
YouTube on Friday said it would prevent channels that promote anti-vax content from running advertising …
What to expect at MWC 2019: new flagships from Sony, LG, and Chinese companies, foldable phones from Huawei and others, return of HoloLens, and a lot of 5G hype
5G's early steps will continue, and the Galaxy Fold could get some competition — In the next few days …
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Ev Williams is stepping down from the company's board
Twitter Co-founder and former CEO Ev Williams is stepping down from the company's board, according to a Friday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. — “It's been an incredible 13 years...
Leaked banner on display at MWC 2019 gives a sneak peek at the Huawei Mate X, the company's first foldable smartphone with the screen folding outwards
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Florida inmate sues the Florida Department of Corrections after he was told he has to repurchase $569 of music he bought after the FDOC changed music vendors
Prisoners who paid $1.70 per song lost access when the prison changed vendors. — Florida inmate William Demler says that since 2012 …
Some popular apps send sensitive info to Facebook via the company's analytics SDK, such as a user's heart rate, intent to get pregnant, and home listings viewed
Rise of ‘Surveillance Capitalism,’ China and Iran Go Hacking, Facebook as ‘Digital Gangster’ NBC News : Use an app to track your period? That data and more could end up with Facebook, WSJ reports John...
Sources characterize Zuckerberg's May announcement of Facebook's Clear History tool as an example of the company's history of prioritizing optics over substance
Last May, Facebook promised to create a “Clear History” function it said would give users more control over their data.
Apple to close both of its retail stores in the Eastern District of Texas, likely in a bid to deprive patent trolls of a jurisdiction notorious for its lawsuits
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A look at Chinese companies making surveillance-enabling tech, which count China's government as a major client or investor and have spawned 4+ billionaires
- Tiandy's Dai Lin is China's latest surveillance billionaire — Critics say the country's monitoring programs go too far
Epic Games commits another $100M for prizes in Fortnite competitions in 2019, announces Fortnite World Cup for July with $30M prize pool, esports' largest ever
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Sources: Amazon may be scaling down its expansion in Seattle, including subleasing offices it rented in a new skyscraper, and expanding in neighboring Bellevue
For years, Amazon has gobbled up office space in Seattle at a breakneck pace, creating a red-hot commercial real estate market in the city's urban core. Tweets: @mnickelsburg Tweets: Monica Nickelsbur...
How New York City evolved into a tech hub over the last two decades, fueled by Google's DoubleClick acquisition and the Bloomberg administration's policies
Euan Robertson started his job with New York City's economic development team at an ominous moment.
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé is retiring, and will be replaced by the VP of Sales and Marketing Doug Bowser on April 15
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NY Governor Andrew Cuomo orders two state agencies to investigate a report that Facebook may be collecting users' health data and other sensitive info
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered two state agencies to investigate a report that Facebook Inc …
Social media companies should gain more in-house knowledge about mental health to realize the impact of recommendation algorithms on users with mental illness
IT'S TROUBLING ENOUGH that British teenager Molly Russell sought out images of suicide and self-harm online before she took her own life in 2017. Tweets: @jvitak , @marylgray , @johndcook , and @wired...
Intel says it does not expect consumer products with its 5G modems to appear on the market until 2020
Stephen Nellis / Reuters :
Facebook has removed its Onavo VPN app from Google Play Store, will stop pulling user data from it for market research, and will eventually shut it down
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Academic paper argues that Facebook's potential abuses of monopoly power and violations of users' privacy are not separate but are two sides of the same coin
Once it became indispensable, it gained the power to reverse promises it had made not to gather certain data. Tweets: @waltmossberg Tweets: Walt Mossberg / @waltmossberg : And, yes, of course, I read ...
Officials in Auckland, New Zealand suspend Lime's license after a glitch in e-scooters resulted in sudden braking, causing at least 30 injuries in 155 incidents
Biz Carson / Forbes :
Circle, which makes a screen time management tool, raises $20M Series B from Netgear, T-Mobile, and others, bringing the total raised to $30M
Matt Burns / TechCrunch :
Verizon launches limited trial of Tech Pack, a mystery box service that sends gadgets to customers for testing and charges them for what they don't return
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
Beijing-based Nreal raises $16M after raising $15M this January for its smart glasses that look like ordinary sunglasses and weigh three ounces
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
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