Monday, 29 November 2021

Elizabeth Holmes Accuses Ex-Lover, Business Partner Of Abuse

In a tearful testimony, the disgraced entrepreneur said she was the abused puppet of her former business partner and ex-lover Sunny Balwani.

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Jack Dorsey Expected To Step Down As Twitter CEO: Reports

He helped launch the social media company in 2006.

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Thursday, 25 November 2021

Macy's Is Auctioning Off Thanksgiving Day NFTs, And Bids Are Topping $300,000

A bidding war has erupted over 10 holiday graphics, with hundreds of thousands of dollars being offered for digital ownership of the NFTs, which benefits charity.

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Wednesday, 17 November 2021

Under Pressure, Apple Will Allow Self-Repairs To iPhones, Macs

The company has long prohibited users to repair their own devices. The shift reflects a strengthening “right to repair” movement.

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Friday, 29 October 2021

What Is The Metaverse And How Will It Work?

Mark Zuckerberg and his team are hardly the only tech visionaries with ideas on how the metaverse should take shape.

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Thursday, 28 October 2021

Facebook Rebrands As Meta Amid Intense Scrutiny

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his company is rebranding itself as Meta, an effort to encompass its virtual-reality vision for the future.

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Monday, 25 October 2021

Facebook Profits Rise Amid Revelations From Leaked Documents

The social media network's net income grew 17% in the July-September period to $9.19 billion, buoyed by strong advertising revenue, up from $7.85 billion a year ago.

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People Or Profit? Facebook Papers Show Deep Conflict Within

The "Facebook Papers" depict a company where data on the harms it causes is abundant, but solutions, much less the will to act on them, are halting at best.

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Sunday, 24 October 2021

Facebook Faltered In Curbing Hateful User Content In India

Leaked documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Facebook in India was selective in combating hate speech and anti-Muslim content.

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Friday, 22 October 2021

Facebook Papers Reveal How It Had Been 'Fueling This Fire' Ahead Of The Insurrection

New internal documents provide a rare glimpse into how the tech giant appears to have stumbled into the Jan. 6 riot.

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Monday, 18 October 2021

Microsoft Says It Warned Bill Gates About Workplace Flirting In 2008

Gates’ private office said “these claims are false, recycled rumors from sources who have no direct knowledge, and in some cases have significant conflicts of interest.”

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Sunday, 10 October 2021

How One Facebook Worker Unfriended The Giant Social Network

Frances Haugen's testimony before Congress signaled that the era of the Big Tech whistleblower has most definitely arrived.

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Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Mark Zuckerberg Defends Facebook After Whistleblower's Damning Claims

The CEO denied an ex-manager's remarks — based on Facebook’s own research — that the company puts “profits before people,” saying this was “just not true.”

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Wednesday, 29 September 2021

CNN Pulls Facebook Pages From Australia After Court Says Media Liable For Comments

Australia’s high court ruled earlier this month that publishers were legally responsible for comments added to their posts, even if stories were accurate.

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Tuesday, 21 September 2021

Facebook Moves To Tout Image Rather Than Apologize For Rogue Content: Report

The effort, called Project Amplify, would be a dramatic shift in policy for the social media giant, which had taken to apologizing publicly for any untoward content.

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Saturday, 18 September 2021

SpaceX's 1st Tourists Splash Down In The Atlantic Off Florida

The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional astronaut.

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Thursday, 26 August 2021

Apple Concedes To Anti-Trust Concerns, Changes Payment Rules

The agreement is part of a preliminary settlement of a lawsuit filed on behalf of iPhone app developers in the U.S.

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Wednesday, 28 July 2021

One Simple Step Can Thwart Phone Hackers From Stealing Your Info

Cybersecurity experts say rebooting your phone once a week is the most basic thing you can do to protect your info.

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Thursday, 22 July 2021

Amazon Is Lobbying To Get 'Keys' To Apartment Buildings Nationwide

The megacorporation wants unfettered access so they can leave packages when people may not be home.

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Tuesday, 20 July 2021

Gardening Group Has A 'Hoe' Lotta Problems With Facebook's Algorithms

The platform's automated systems keep insisting the word "hoe" violates community standards.

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Friday, 11 June 2021

FBI Director Christopher Wray: Don't Pay Ransomeware Payments After Cyberattacks

In the past month, major companies have participated in multimillion-dollar transactions aimed at getting their systems back online.

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Friday, 28 May 2021

Glitch Sends NASA’s Mars Helicopter On A Wild Ride

Ingenuity, the first aircraft to make a powered flight on another planet, began tilting back and forth and suffered power spikes.

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Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Tinder Introduces Background Checks To Increase Dating Safety

Match Group is partnering with Garbo to provide reports on arrests, convictions, harassment and restraining orders.

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Friday, 22 January 2021

Italy Puts Age Block On TikTok Following Death Of 10-Year-Old Girl

Italy’s data protection authority said Friday it was acting with “urgency” following the death of a 10-year-old girl in Sicily, who died while participating in a so-called “blackout” challenge.

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Tuesday, 12 January 2021

Sheryl Sandberg Slammed For Saying Capitol Riot Was Not 'Largely' Planned On Facebook

A misinformation watchdog identified at least 70 "Stop the Steal" groups that were active on the platform before Facebook took action Monday.

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