How Brett Favre and Cameo were taken advantage of by anti-Semites and White Nationalists to spread anti-Semitic memes, and what that means for the future of social networks and platforms.
Reports surfaced that Google is working on a search app and a news app that will be censored to comply with Chinese laws. Both apps would mark a huge reversal of its previous stance against censorship made eight years ago, raising questions about what led Google to leave China in 2010 to begin with
Google Photos auto-syncs when you connect to Wi-Fi. Accidentally turning it on even once means you might end up uploading all of your photos to Google's servers.
New ‘Password Checkup’ Chrome extension found 1.5 percent of all website logins use compromised credentials, a figure that’s higher for porn websites.
As Slack prepares to go public, the company is warning potential investors that it's a target for malicious attacks from “sophisticated organized crime, nation-state, and nation-state supported actors,” according to an SEC filing published today.
Recent headlines have suggested that California lawmakers are considering a bill that would give Californians “unprecedented control over their data.”
A new version of reCAPTCHA reduces the number of annoying puzzles to solve before logging into a site. Some worry Google will use it to track users for its advertising business.
We never did find Wendy Jacobson. She, if you recall, was the mysterious woman who claimed that she'd met her husband ordering a "beef and...
It was a cool day in Dallas last November, when a small quadcopter lifted itself off the ground of an American Airlines hangar and buzzed towards a Boeing
What does Apple have planned for its new iPhone’s camera?
Privacy violation or good old-fashioned people-watching?
Wait People Pay For Tinder? Like a mobile game the dating app offers paid features that increase the odds of success. Lots of people are buying.
In our frenetic age, audio narratives offer a rare opportunity for slow immersion. But this intimacy can become manipulative, Rebecca Mead writes.
Tracking Phones Google Is A Dragnet For The Police The tech giant records people's locations worldwide. Now investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes running the risk of snaring the innocent.
Communicating has never been easier, but there are still limits to the intimacy we can experience with conventional technology.
Week 4: Microsoft When I initially planned to block all the tech giants from my life, I hadn’t thought to include Microsoft, mostly because Microsoft
Rather than establishing a set of rigorous habits, we may need to rethink our approach to life in general, Jia Tolentino writes.
Flashes of inspiration are considered a human gift that drives innovation – but the monopoly is over. AI can be programmed to invent and refine ideas and connections. What's next?
In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks.
The ACLU is protesting new surveillance systems being peddled by Amazon—but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
