TikTok’s Chinese Owner Offers To Forego Stake To Secure U.S. Deal: Sources
ByteDance agreed to divest from U.S. operations of the app after President Trump said he…
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Twitter Bans Thousands Of QAnon Accounts As Part Of Crackdown On Conspiracy Movement
Citing “an escalating degree of harm associated with the conspiracy theory,” the company says it’s…
Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates And Others Apparently Hacked In Bitcoin Scam
Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Michael Bloomberg, Apple and Uber appear to also be…
AI Responsible For Wrongful Arrest In First Known U.S. Case
A man was wrongfully arrested after facial recognition software mismatched his driver’s license photo to…
Civil Rights Groups Ask Advertisers To Stop Buying Facebook Ads In July
The groups in the “#StopHateforProfit” campaign say the social network isn’t doing enough to curtail…
eBay Staff Sent Live Spiders, Roaches To Harass Couple, Feds Say
Executives were upset about the newsletter’s coverage, so their employees set out to ruin the…
Snapchat Says It Is No Longer Promoting Trump’s Account
Snapchat said Wednesday that is has stopped promoting President Donald Trump’s content on its “Discover”…
Larry Tesler, Computer Scientist Who Pioneered ‘Copy’ And ‘Paste,’ Dies
Silicon Valley pioneer Larry Tesler created now-ubiquitous computer concepts such as “cut,” “copy” and “paste.”
Google Says Some Users’ Private Videos Were Accidentally Sent To Strangers
The privacy issue involved videos that were exported to the storage program Download Your Data,…
Groucho Mask, Man In Wedding Veil And Cockroach Among Year’s Newest Emoji
About 117 new emoji symbols will be rolled out this year, and there’s a special…