Facebook built a now discontinued internal app, report says between 2015 and 2016, that let employees identify colleagues and friends via facial recognition
Facebook , which has been under fire because of privacy concerns, said Thursday it built an internal app that allowed employees … Source: Business Insider .
Sources: authorities have arrested an alleged member of The Chuckling Squad, the group that hacked Jack Dorsey's Twitter account in August
\u003Cp\u003EAuthorities have arrested an individual who is allegedly part of The Chuckling Squad, a hacker group that in August \u003Ca href="https …
Amazon filed its formal protest over JEDI on Friday, citing a Fox News segment and a Trump rally as evidence of improper political pressure from the White House
Amazon filed its formal protest over Microsoft's victory in a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract …
A former Facebook employee who was embedded with the 2016 Trump campaign details how he leveraged Facebook's ad-targeting tools and products to help them win
James Barnes is now focused on using digital-ad strategies to try to get Trump out of office — After the 2016 presidential election …
Source: Airbnb lost about $100M in Q2 2019, compared to the profit of $10M it made a year ago
Airbnb lost about $100 million before interest and taxes in the second quarter this year, a big swing from the profit of $10 million it made in the year-earlier period, according to financial informat...
Experts say ITU's newly agreed 5G radio-frequency standards will interfere with weather satellite readings of water vapor, impacting weather forecasts worldwide
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A look at the Legal Aid Society of New York City's efforts to close the tech gap between public defenders and law enforcement with respect to digital forensics
Public defenders lack access to gadgets and software that could keep their clients out of jail. — On April 27, a woman in eastern Brooklyn called the police. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @byrontau , @...
FCC bans carriers from using federal subsidies to buy equipment from Huawei and ZTE, considers ordering subsidy recipients to replace current Chinese equipment
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White nationalist outlets including VDare and Red Ice TV still operate on Facebook despite its ban on white nationalism; Facebook says it is investigating
Guardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook's promised ban Tweets: @juliacarriew , @adamserwer , @juliacarriew , @peterme , @caro...
A look at the team behind VLC, which started as a student-run project in 1996 that is now part of a nonprofit with a for-profit consultancy managed by ~10 staff
How a group of university students transformed a school project into a media-player mainstay. — Teams Tweets: @davezatz and @incrementmag Tweets: Dave Zatz / @davezatz : Not having to pay MPEG-2 lic...
Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns a lower-court order that required the suspect in a child-porn case to turn over the password to his computer
Prosecutors say forced disclosure permitted by “foregone conclusion.” Justices disagree. — The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution bars people …
Barbara Liskov, a Turing Award winner who invented some key principles of object-oriented programming, on what it takes a woman to get to the top of CS field
Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can't be overcome with good design alone. Tweets: @codeorg , @quantamagazine ...
ProPublica claims to have found 57 unlabeled state-sponsored channels on YouTube; after presented with a list, YouTube labeled only 35 of them as such
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. Tweets: @moonalice and @propublica Tweets: Roger McNamee / @...
As we shop more online and think less about how our purchases reach our homes, a look at how our home delivery habit is reshaping the physical world
The great trick of online retail has been to get us to shop more and think less about how our purchases reach our homes. By Samanth Subramanian
About 200 Googlers protest placing of two of their colleagues on administrative leave over the actions they took opposing some of Google management's decisions
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg :
Inside Spotify's plan to dominate audio by spending hundreds of millions on exclusive podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele, Mark Wahlberg and the Obamas
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter :
As Slack gets criticism from power users for its WYSIWYG editor and plans an option to revert, a look at the history of Markdown, used by Slack's old interface
Ernie Smith / VICE : Tweets: @alexislloyd , @vice , @artemr , @shortformernie , @katienotopoulos , @carnage4life , and @wongmjane Tweets: Alexis Lloyd / @alexislloyd : It's been fascinating to hear e...
How facial analysis software that classifies gender misidentifies trans and non-binary people, is inaccurate with people of color, and could harm these groups
Rachel Metz / CNN :
Every ad, political or commercial, should reveal its provenance, and all advertisers should stand by their ads and be held accountable for them
Tarleton Gillespie / Slate :
Inside Vumacam's plans to build a network of AI-powered CCTV cameras across South Africa in areas where people of color are already disproportionately targeted
Michael Kwet / VICE : Tweets: @leahk28 Tweets: Cllr Leah Knott / @leahk28 : “Racialized forms of inequality underscore the formation of Vumacam.” “Vumacam's strategy is to build private infrastructur...
Profile of Dongtu, a China-based Giphy-like service that is baked into some 3,000 apps with chatting features, including WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and Weibo
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
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