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Jul 23, 2021
A newsletter reported a powerful Catholic priest regularly used Grindr. Their source? "Commercially available app signal data"
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Jul 23, 2021
The latest update to the Apple TV includes a robust new calibration feature to save you time and money
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Jul 22, 2021
Vaccination rates are lagging among young people as the Delta variant spreads
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Jul 21, 2021
Forcing social media users to provide I.D. hurts people who genuinely need to stay anonymous, and won't help solve racism
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Jul 20, 2021
An international media effort reports that governments tracked the phones of activists, politicians and journalists
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Jul 20, 2021
The announcement is the latest sign that the administration is preparing a broad crackdown on large technology companies
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Jul 19, 2021
YouTube will start labeling health videos with information on how authoritative the source is as Biden criticizes social media
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Jul 19, 2021
Activist groups are calling on governments to step in to regulate the sale of spyware after data was leaked to major news outlets showing hundreds of journalists, activists, dissidents and lawyers around the world likely had their phones targeted by invasive surveillance software was leaked to major news outlets. "The industry has shown that it…
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Jul 18, 2021
Pegasus infiltrates phones to vacuum up personal and location data and surreptitiously control the smartphone's microphones and cameras
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Jul 15, 2021
"I sold my soul for $16.50 an hour," says one content moderator who works for Accenture, a third-party contractor
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Jul 14, 2021
Twitter Inc. "took action" on a record number of user accounts for violating the company's hate speech policies during the second half of 2020, a reflection of the company's decision to expand its rules. Twitter "actioned" 1,126,990 different accounts between July and December 2020 for infringing its hateful conduct policy, a 77% increase over the…
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Jul 14, 2021
Norsk Hydro decided it would not pay a ransom, instead it reached out to cybersecurity experts
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Jul 14, 2021
Facebook wants FTC Chair Lina Khan to be recused from participating in decisions about the agency's monopoly lawsuit against the company.
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Jul 13, 2021
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to urge social media companies to take action to stamp out racial abuse on their platforms on Tuesday, after the profiles of Black England soccer players were bombarded with racist comments. Johnson was set to reiterate "the urgent need for action" by social media companies against "utterly disgraceful"…
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Jul 13, 2021
Will Beijing's tough crackdown have serious consequences for investor confidence and the country's development goals?
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Jul 09, 2021
It was supposed to be one of the hottest IPOs of the year, the listing of the most dominant ride-hailing service in China, Didi Global. More dominant than Uber, Didi commands almost 90% of the Chinese market, and with its attendant services like bicycle rentals and a growing business in autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence.…
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Jul 07, 2021
Trump was suspended from Twitter and Facebook after his followers stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6
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Jul 06, 2021
The news comes just days after Didi Global Inc.'s contentious decision to go public in the U.S.
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Jul 06, 2021
Is it worth a hefty $169 price tag? That depends
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Jun 30, 2021
A version of this story first appeared in the Climate is Everything newsletter. If you'd like sign up to receive this free once-a-week email, click here. Portland General Electric (PGE) Vice President Larry Bekkedahl seemed remarkably cool considering the 110°F temperatures outside the window of his Portland office—and the unprecedented energy demand his system is…
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Jun 30, 2021
Amazon.com Inc. wants FTC Chair Lina Khan recused from any matters involving the company because of her history criticizing the company.
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Jun 30, 2021
Facebook won a major victory this week when a judge dismissed two lawsuits that argued the social media giant was a monopoly. But critics of Big Tech hope the rulings will be just the leverage they need to update antitrust laws that still have legal grounding in the effort to break up Standard Oil more…
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Jun 29, 2021
Both Brady, a celebrated American football player, and Bündchen, a world-renowned supermodel, will serve as ambassadors for FTX
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Jun 28, 2021
A federal judge said the FTC failed to establish that Facebook has a monopoly in social networking
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Jun 28, 2021
A federal judge said the FTC failed to establish that Facebook has a monopoly in social networking
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Jun 24, 2021
Facebook promoted pages that shared pro-military propaganda in Myanmar, even after it banned accounts linked to the military from the platform due to human rights abuses and the risk of violence, according to a report by the human rights group Global Witness. Myanmar's armed forces, known as the Tatmadaw, overthrew the country's civilian government in…
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Jun 24, 2021
Popular finance TikTok creators say meme stock mania is fueling unrealistic expectations around investing
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Jun 17, 2021
Reporters Without Borders called the move 'judicial harassment'
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Jun 16, 2021
DETROIT — General Motors will raise its spending on electric and autonomous vehicles and add two U.S. battery factories as it gambles that consumers will eagerly switch from gasoline to the new technology. The announcements Wednesday came as crosstown rival Ford said its entire Lincoln luxury brand lineup would be electric or gas-electric hybrid by…
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Jun 16, 2021
Amazon's planned new Africa headquarters in Cape Town has drawn criticism from members of the indigenous Khoisan people.
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Jun 15, 2021
And why Chopra believes technology is an extension of human consciousness
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Jun 15, 2021
The charitable contributions bring her total donations since her first giving spree in July 2020 to $8.5 billion.
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Jun 15, 2021
The future of the Internet is under greater threat than ever before and democratic governments need to step up, says human rights group.
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Jun 14, 2021
Potential uses for the have caused concern among experts who say security and privacy could be at risk
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Jun 09, 2021
More than 30 Facebook pages linked to the Sanatan Sanstha were active until TIME pointed them out to the social media giant
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Jun 07, 2021
The company's many updates and announcements of privacy-centric features might be the most important aspect of this year's WWDC
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Jun 07, 2021
Apple's new $29 device-tracking AirTags make it pretty damn hard to lose anything, accidentally or otherwise
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May 26, 2021
The World Health Organization has been criticized for offering no memorable names for new COVID-19 variants
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May 25, 2021
Alaska Airlines has trained its human flight planners to work with new artificial intelligence designed to make flights more fuel efficient and safer
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May 21, 2021
"They promised they would revisit and reevaluate their framework"
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May 20, 2021
A battery backup feature could be a big draw for electro-skeptics
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May 20, 2021
For years, China's tech entrepreneurs were considered rock stars: Icons whose rags-to-riches career paths, guile and contempt for the rulebook earned them cult-like status. But over the past few months regulatory scrutiny, combined with growing anger at their obscene wealth, accumulated on the backs of downtrodden workers, is wobbling the perch of these previously untouchable…
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May 10, 2021
The pipeline delivers roughly 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast
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May 06, 2021
No matter if Clubhouse sinks or floats, its matzo-loving Jewish community is committed
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May 06, 2021
Facebook's new Oversight Board, a new, quasi-independent organization that acts as a kind of supreme court for Facebook's moderation decisions, issued its most important decision yet. In a lengthy ruling, it determined that Facebook was "justified" when it suspended Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts on January 6th, 2021, but that it shouldn't have imposed…
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May 05, 2021
The decision by Facebook's handpicked Oversight Board opens the door for Trump to return to social media
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May 03, 2021
In identical tweets, they said they had made the decision to end their marriage of 27 years
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Apr 27, 2021
For TIME's cover story on the future of business and the digitization of everything—which accompanies our list of the 100 most influential companies—we turned the space over to an artist who's been at the forefront of the digital art movement for more than a decade. Artist Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple) wanted to take our readers…
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Apr 27, 2021
In March 2020, as businesses across the world sent non-essential workers home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a 2.6 million-sq.-ft. General Motors plant in Kokomo, Ind., sat idle. At the same time, ventilators—the breathing machines essential to keeping critically ill COVID-19 patients alive—were in frighteningly short supply. And so within a week of…
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Apr 23, 2021
Robert Chapman of Carmel, N.Y., appears to have said on the dating app that he 'did storm the Capitol'
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Apr 16, 2021
'Do you think anybody really wants an EV pickup truck?'
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Apr 13, 2021
Apple's new app tracking transparency rules require developers to submit information about the user data they collect
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Apr 06, 2021
'This is huge for a vibrant tech industry to continue innovating'
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Apr 06, 2021
What should you hear from an electric Vehicle? Automakers are working on answers--and composing the soundscape of the 21st century city
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Apr 05, 2021
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is telling everyone who will listen that it is time to regulate the internet. But do Facebook and other platform companies support meaningful oversight or simply a regulatory Potemkin Village? Zuckerberg's efforts began with a 2019 op-ed in the Washington Post, "The Internet needs new rules." The article proposed…
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Apr 02, 2021
President Biden faces challenges greater than any president since FDR. The country is struggling with a deadly pandemic that has shaken the economy and exposed its structural flaws. His political opponents refuse to engage with those challenges, choosing instead to focus their efforts on undermining democracy. Powerful business interests in technology, health care, finance, energy,…
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Apr 01, 2021
For a decade, the Kremlin has sought to control online information. But anti-government protests earlier this year have kicked efforts into higher gear
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Mar 24, 2021
A Twitter user who claims to have found shrimp tails in a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch has kicked off a viral Twitter saga
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Mar 23, 2021
Facebook tweaked its algorithms in October, but advocacy group Avaaz finds the platform had already amplified false and toxic content by then
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Mar 22, 2021
'Non-fungible tokens' let artists sell digital creations in a unique new way--and open a window on the nature of value
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Mar 22, 2021
The day Françoise Brougher was fired from Pinterest began like so many of her workdays. It was April 2, 2020, and the company's chief operating officer—with her rescue dog Dogbert nearby—was a few weeks into the pandemic and remote work, managing her team of 750 from her home in Silicon Valley. The gentlest social media…
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Mar 19, 2021
It's an effort to get Facebook's popular products into the hands of the next generation of internet users
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Mar 18, 2021
Critics say NFTs and other crypto-based technologies are taking a disastrous toll
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Mar 15, 2021
Houses on real estate sites can run the gamut from wonderfully weird to straight up cursed
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Mar 14, 2021
And why the humble phone call is a better way to connect
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Mar 14, 2021
New research reports that video and social calls leave you lonelier and more stressed
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Mar 14, 2021
And why the humble phone call is a better way to connect
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Mar 11, 2021
The Indian government must suspend sweeping new Internet regulations, 10 international NGOs said in an open letter Thursday. The new rules, brought in by executive order in late February, give the Indian government an arsenal of muscular new powers that will force tech companies and news outlets to comply with government surveillance and censorship demands.…
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Mar 08, 2021
The White House has called the hack an "active threat" and said senior national security officials were addressing it
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Mar 05, 2021
In October 2019, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was asked what she thought historians would see when they looked back on the Trump era in United States history. Justice Ginsberg, known for her colorful and often blistering legal opinions, replied tersely, "An aberration." As President Biden's administration settles in, many feel an…
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Mar 01, 2021
It says it will use a "strike system" to remove accounts that repeatedly violate its vaccine misinformation rules
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Mar 01, 2021
It's the strongest action the company has taken against the armed forces, known as the Tatmadaw, or indeed those in power in any nation
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Feb 24, 2021
Australia's parliament on Thursday passed the final amendments to the so-called News Media Bargaining Code
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Feb 23, 2021
The ban is to be lifted after a deal was struck on legislation that would make digital giants pay for journalism
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Feb 17, 2021
Australian users cannot share Australian or international news. International users outside Australia also cannot share Australian news
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Feb 08, 2021
The reported block appeared an explosion of discussions over the weekend on taboo topics from Taiwan to Xinjiang
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Feb 04, 2021
Natural Cycles uses fertility awareness methods, which carry a relatively high rate of unintended pregnancy
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Feb 01, 2021
Twitter blocked access to accounts associated with farmers protesting against the Indian government on Monday, in a localized blackout of some 250 accounts and tweets. The blocks, which only applied for viewers based in India, came after the Indian government hit Twitter with a legal demand. One thing many of the accounts appeared to have…
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Jan 29, 2021
The ruling on the Trump case is a major test of whether users and lawmakers will trust the company's attempts to regulate itself
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Jan 29, 2021
The year's most consequential events so far can be understood as a battle between the mobs and the mods
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Jan 28, 2021
Online violence leads to real world violence. The January 6th storming of the U.S. Capitol and the role of social media in helping coordinate the riots was not a surprise and the emerging details show this could have been mitigated, if not prevented, if Facebook had taken years of warnings seriously. Buzzfeed reported that for…
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Jan 28, 2021
The collective push by hyper-online investors also sought to fight back against a system that they feel deserves a reckoning
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Jan 26, 2021
The battle for privacy is moving to the next medium: money
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Jan 22, 2021
'If you want people to ride bikes, it can't just be about safety'
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Jan 22, 2021
The author discusses how we can regulate the murky world of big tech platforms
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Jan 22, 2021
The author discusses how we can regulate the murky world of big tech platforms
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Jan 22, 2021
Under President Biden, tech reform will take on a new urgency
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Jan 22, 2021
The rules proposed by the government aims to make Google and Facebook pay Australian media companies fairly for using news content
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Jan 21, 2021
The episode reveals the immense power held by Amazon's AWS and rival cloud services
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Jan 21, 2021
Creatives evolved "Bernie Sanders in a Chair" beyond the confines of a normal meme
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Jan 21, 2021
To be a responsible member of today's increasingly digital society requires a new set of "cyber citizenship" skills. This goes far beyond the need to protect oneself from on-line scams or the theft of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Such skills should go to the very heart of what it means to be a U.S. citizen.…
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Jan 18, 2021
Greene gained large followings on social media in part by posting incendiary videos and comments and has also embraced QAnon
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Jan 15, 2021
Wikipedia, which celebrates its 20th birthday on Jan. 15, lives on—and it's not just surviving, but thriving.
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Jan 13, 2021
In centuries past, these call-and-response work songs maintained a ship crew's focus on safely navigating often dangerous waters
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Jan 12, 2021
If democracy is a river, or a forest, or a pristine meadow, then social media platforms are a factory spewing toxic pollutants into it. Even if you block the new effluent, the pollution that has already escaped won't just go away. It needs to be cleaned up. That's the analogy used by Whitney Phillips, one…
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Jan 08, 2021
The social media platform announced on Friday evening that it would be permanently suspending it "due to the risk of further incitement of violence"
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Jan 07, 2021
The events at the Capitol seemed a glaring sign that the risk to democracy was finally greater than the necessity of giving a sitting President a platform to speak
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Jan 06, 2021
This appears to be the first time that Twitter has locked down engagement with one of Trump's tweets
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Jan 06, 2021
This appears to be the first time that Twitter has locked down engagement with one of Trump's tweets
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Jan 06, 2021
The social media giants removed posts by President Donald Trump, and blocked him from posting to his tens of millions of followers on Wednesday
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