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Jan 14, 2020
Viral online disinformation is being used to inflame a politician's base and vilify their enemies: "There's a shared form of apathy in some cases for the fact that it was manipulated at all."
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Jan 14, 2020
Publisher Square Enix has said these delays will give the development teams more time to polish the titles.
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Jan 14, 2020
The Fortnite creators have lured in millions, despite controversy and complaints about "yet another storefront."
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Jan 14, 2020
Biden and Buttigieg will likely get a harder look in Silicon Valley.
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Jan 13, 2020
Tech companies could benefit from this light-touch approach.
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Jan 13, 2020
Why is this happening? "It's just an awesome game."
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Jan 13, 2020
Days after Trump ordered a strike that killed a top Iranian general, the president's 2020 campaign has turned the attack into a political pitch, purchasing more than 1,000 ads on Facebook that tout his military credentials — and seek to raise money for his reelection.
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Jan 13, 2020
Tech industry's optimism in Vegas is a jarring split screen to its political woes.
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Jan 13, 2020
The employees were fired after accessing users' data in a way that "exceeded what was necessary for their job functions," an Amazon official said.
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Jan 13, 2020
Women have long felt the pressure of looking the part. Now men are feeling it, too.
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Jan 13, 2020
One Twitter user lifted video of a woman hugging a kangaroo and mischaracterized it — then tried to profit off the deception.
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Jan 13, 2020
Isle of Armor and The Crown of Tundra are two expansions that will widen the world of Galar.
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Jan 13, 2020
Contemporary surgery training is primitive. Video game technology is changing that.
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Jan 13, 2020
Facebook has defied public calls to adopt significant limits on political advertising ahead of the 2020 presidential election, opting instead to introduce changes that allow users to control more of the ads they see.
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Jan 13, 2020
Vinod Khosla, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has claimed he's battling to block access to the beach based on principle alone.
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Jan 13, 2020
Seventeen-year-old Wolf Cukier found a rare planet with two stars only three days into his internship.
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Jan 13, 2020
After Boeing's Starliner spacecraft suffered a serious setback during a test last month, the space agency has to decide whether to require the company to repeat the uncrewed test flight or allow the next planned flight to proceed with astronauts aboard.
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Jan 13, 2020
CES shows us a happy, optimistic vision of our relaxing robot-filled future. But the stresses and concerns of the real world are increasingly finding their way in.
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Jan 13, 2020
Google's chief legal officer, David Drummond, will step down this month after a string of controversies and an executive shuffle.
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Jan 13, 2020
This is the second straight year that Sony will sit out the software mega-convention.
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Jan 13, 2020
Tesla has maintained its grip on the market with the most obvious tool at its disposal: range.
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Jan 13, 2020
"Gamer, esports athlete, social media influencer ... I'm just me, dude." Meet Turner Tenney.
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Jan 13, 2020
Observers fear its parent company, Facebook, went too far.
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Jan 13, 2020
There's been another salvo fired in the streaming wars.
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Jan 03, 2020
With an impressive catalogue and a low-cost incentive to try new titles, Game Pass could be a glimpse into the future of gaming.
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Jan 02, 2020
This is the decade that computers became the boss of you.
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Jan 02, 2020
The U.S. Army has banned military personnel from using the popular video app TikTok on government phones, following guidance from the Pentagon and highlighting growing tensions over the app's Beijing-based parent firm.
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Jan 02, 2020
Kalanick became one of the most visible executives in Silicon Valley by starting a company that has transformed urban transit. But he stepped down as CEO 2 1/2 years ago amid a clash with shareholders over the company's culture. This is a developing story. It will be updated.
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Jan 02, 2020
Critics say Uber's survivor-centric policies shield it from responsibility when it comes to rape and sexual assault on the platform.
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Jan 02, 2020
A stroke of luck at the dawn of the internet era is paying big dividends for the country in the streaming era.
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Jan 02, 2020
The Internet still exists, and so do you.
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Jan 02, 2020
Reactions have shaped the participatory Internet for two decades. Let's review.
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Jan 02, 2020
2020 marks a year of long-awaited releases like Cyberbunk 2077 and the Final Fantasy VII Remake.
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Jan 02, 2020
The decade was filled with successful new technology that changed the way we communicate, find love and get around. But it was also chock-full of failures, disappointments and delays.
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Jan 02, 2020
There is no such thing as "incognito," and other lessons from our tech columnist's year of wrestling data back from corporate America.
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Jan 02, 2020
Posts from MDL Beast's high-profile attendees used the hashtag #ad or MDL Beast partners or brand ambassadors.
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Jan 02, 2020
Thousands flock to watch Internet stars play games for a good cause.
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Jan 02, 2020
Key events that preceded Muilenberg's firing.
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Jan 02, 2020
Gaming's biggest show drew more eyes than ever and featured several innovative stunts, like a live interview with a character from the game Apex Legends.
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Jan 02, 2020
Facebook has quietly started removing some misleading ads about HIV prevention medication, responding to a deluge of activists, health experts and government regulators who said the tech giant had created the conditions for a public-health crisis.
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Jan 02, 2020
Pan Jian-Wei, a physicist known in China as the "father of quantum," helps oversee the country's efforts to harness quantum particles to build powerful computers and tools for processing information. Western countries are also hotly pursuing quantum research.
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Jan 02, 2020
The systems highlight how widespread surveillance has increasingly become a fact of life: Students "should have all the rights, responsibilities and privileges that an adult has. So why do we treat them so differently?"
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Jan 02, 2020
Experts attribute the growth of wellness apps on college campuses to digital-savvy millennials. Yet students may be giving up more information than they realize.
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Jan 02, 2020
The e-commerce giant warned workers who participated in environmental protests that future comments regarding company business practices could lead to termination.
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Jan 02, 2020
Google's shifting moral calculus around China illustrates the tech giant's transformation from an organization that portrayed itself as an exception to corporate norms into one driven by business imperatives and market opportunities.
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Dec 22, 2019
Google has fired another software engineer who alleges that the tech firm fired her for involvement in union activism.
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Dec 22, 2019
Amazon prohibits CBD sales on its site, but some sellers ignore the rule. To test the e-commerce giant's ability to police its marketplace, The Washington Post bought 13 products to see if they included CBD. Eleven did.
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Dec 22, 2019
Boeing's Starliner space capsule is scheduled to make its first flight at 6:36 a.m. Friday from Cape Canaveral, and although no astronauts will be on board, it's a must-succeed test for Boeing, besieged by questions over its 737 Max aircraft.
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Dec 22, 2019
Texas investigators are defending their decision to hire some of Google's longtime foes as part of an antitrust probe into the search giant, saying that the company's recent legal objections threaten to "severely compromise" states' scrutiny.
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Dec 22, 2019
Five days after false reports of a "do not prosecute list," a fake image of the list appeared online. It was spread by a campaign attributed to Russia.
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Dec 22, 2019
But the Facebook entity won't scrutinize politicians.
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Dec 22, 2019
The effort is an attempt to energize his base.
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Dec 22, 2019
An Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation found "reasonable cause to believe that Uber permitted a culture of sexual harassment and retaliation," officials said.
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Dec 22, 2019
Our privacy experiment found hundreds of sensors and an always-on Internet connection. Driving surveillance is becoming very hard to avoid.
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Dec 22, 2019
Data privacy, disinformation, content moderation, employee protests all made headlines.
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Dec 22, 2019
With the TRACED Act, lawmakers hope that new federal powers and key changes targeting the telecom industry will spell relief against spam calls that continue to harass Americans at record rates.
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Dec 22, 2019
Over the past 10 years, gaming became the dominant entertainment medium, and these are the titles that left the biggest impact on both players and the industry.
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Dec 22, 2019
"I think the queer Potter community is tired," said a longtime fan of Rowling's Harry Potter series.
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Dec 22, 2019
NASA says that the spacecraft is stable after the engine did not fire as expected and that the agency is assessing its next move.
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Dec 22, 2019
Facebook and Twitter on Friday disabled a massive, global network of fake accounts that targeted U.S. users, pushed pro-Trump political messages and at times covered its tracks using profile photos generated with the aid of artificial intelligence.
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Dec 22, 2019
Researchers found that most facial-recognition algorithms exhibit "demographic differentials" that can worsen their accuracy based on a person's age, gender or race.
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Dec 22, 2019
Facebook will remove posts, photos and other content that mislead people about the U.S. census starting next year, seeking to prevent malicious actors from interfering in a critical, once-in-a-decade process that determines political representation.
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Dec 22, 2019
The Starliner capsule's soft landing in the desert Sunday morning was a first, but the reason for the failure of its main engine to fire and place it on a path to rendezvous with the International Space Station Friday awaits further investigation.
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Dec 22, 2019
Several apps, such as BlueMail from the company Blix, saw dramatic spikes in their rankings in App Store search results after a news article examined how Apple ranked its own apps higher than competitors'.
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Dec 22, 2019
The final film of the Skywalker saga is just a series of fetch quests and DLC fertilizer.
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Dec 11, 2019
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a skew in the delivery of political ads based on the content of those ads alone.
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Dec 11, 2019
The tech giant delivered the message in a letter dated Monday, roughly two months after Barr and his foreign counterparts said that Facebook's efforts would hamstring law enforcement around the world, particularly as they seek to investigate crimes including child sexual abuse.
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Dec 11, 2019
Vanessa Bain was once an Instacart evangelist, but after drastic pay changes she became one of the most effective agitators against the grocery delivery startup, in what has become a stark test of how much leverage blue-collar on-demand workers can amass to win better treatment from technology companies that keep them at a distance.
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Dec 11, 2019
AT&T and Comcast are not immune from growing techlash.
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Dec 11, 2019
It might just gain traction in today's political environment.
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Dec 11, 2019
TikTok chief Alex Zhu has canceled a scheduled trip to Washington to meet with members of Congress, lawmakers said, a move that stoked fresh criticism of the social-media app at a moment when it's trying to repair its relationships with U.S. officials.
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Dec 11, 2019
The market leader in streaming is shelling out to keep three of its stars.
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Dec 11, 2019
Yahoo Groups forums are shutting down. Digital preservationists insist that we will one day wish we had been better record keepers of a world increasingly lived online.
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Dec 11, 2019
Attorney General William P. Barr said that the U.S. government has embarked on a wide-ranging review of top technology giants, signaling that the Department of Justice could play a more aggressive role in penalizing companies for their privacy abuses or the way they police their Web sites.
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Dec 05, 2019
The companies say the $2.3 billion electric battery operation will create 1,100 jobs near Lordstown, Ohio.
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Dec 05, 2019
YouTube abandoned its cameo-filled approach to "Rewind" and got out of the way instead.
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Dec 05, 2019
Free-speech advocates are challenging the Trump administration over its efforts to collect social-media accounts from foreigners entering the United States, alleging in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the policy violates federal law and runs afoul of the Constitution.
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Dec 05, 2019
The sheen has worn off on luxury automakers' entry-level offerings as Tesla grows.
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Dec 05, 2019
The Department of Labor is bringing one of the largest federal anti-discrimination cases to go before a judge.
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Dec 05, 2019
Critics are worried it could be a very slippery slope.
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Dec 05, 2019
The promise of the service's hiqh-quality game streaming too often requires compromise instead.
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Dec 05, 2019
The companies say the $2.3 billion electric battery operation will create 1,100 jobs near Lordstown, Ohio.
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Dec 05, 2019
Pichai, the current CEO of Google, is being elevated to the top job at the Alphabet, the holding firm overseeing the search giant and other well-known brands like YouTube, marking a major shift for one of the world's most valuable companies.
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Dec 05, 2019
The possible disclaimer is among a series of changes the company has mentioned to Democratic and Republican operatives.
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Dec 05, 2019
"This was a mistake and we regret it," Uber told Vice, following renewed criticism that Uber goes to great lengths to distance itself from its contracted workforce.
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Dec 05, 2019
Amazon's Andy Jassy criticized the decision by the Defense Department to award a $10 billion cloud-computing contract to Microsoft as biased.
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Dec 05, 2019
R.I.P.: Lil Bub, Grumpy Cat, Boo and Buddy, Keyboard Cat, Colonel Meow, Bandito, Gabe the Dog, Tillman the Skateboarding Dog....
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Dec 05, 2019
The lawsuit filed in California says Lyft failed to protect passengers and didn't take its duty to screen drivers seriously enough.
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Dec 05, 2019
The TRACED Act is headed to the Senate.
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Dec 05, 2019
The campaign seeks to weaponize U.S.-British trade documents.
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Dec 05, 2019
But he's already been playing the part for more than a year in Washington
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Dec 05, 2019
YouTube claims that U.S. viewers watched a lot fewer conspiracy videos, but the company left out lots of detail in its own data.
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Nov 30, 2019
Ear buds aren't just about audio quality. Consider how they fit, whether they're fashionable and the potential impact to your finances.
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Nov 29, 2019
Earbuds aren't just about audio quality. Consider how they fit, whether they're fashionable and the potential impact to your finances.
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Nov 28, 2019
TikTok on Wednesday acknowledged it had erred in penalizing a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device.
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Nov 28, 2019
The president tweeted a photo of himself with Sylvester Stallone's body, and here we are.
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Nov 28, 2019
Thanks to crowd-funding, some developers are fueling Nintendo nostalgia eight bits at a time.
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Nov 28, 2019
Homespun disinformation campaigns on social media represent a rising threat, capable of stoking conflict among voters and turning unwitting users into agents of online deception.
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Nov 27, 2019
We've compiled the best PlayStation Black Friday deals to make shopping easier for you.
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Nov 27, 2019
The quest to be the best comes with a cost.
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