The GOP wants to remove social media’s protections from being sued for content posted by users…but also wants to sue platforms for censoring content, which would increase as a result of removing protections. GOP politicians MORE
“If a child used your computer, before you join a virtual hearing check the Zoom Video Options to be sure filters are off,” a Texas judge said of the incident. A virtual courtroom hearing came to MORE
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a Friday night interview that he believes Russia is behind a hack that breached dozens of federal agencies and companies, including the cybersecurity company FireEye. Speaking on the MORE
Google are currently suffering a massive global outage that is causing Google-account related services to no longer function. Among the affected services are search, email, storage and YouTube. MORE
The Trump administration acknowledged on Sunday that hackers acting on behalf of a foreign government — almost certainly a Russian intelligence agency, according to federal and private experts — broke into a range of key MORE
“We are currently bringing various programs back online, and those two items are included in that process,” Crumley said. “However, the voting process for our citizens has not been impacted due to the network issues.” MORE
Computer scientists working for a high-tech division of Google are testing how machine learning algorithms can be created from scratch, then evolve naturally, based on simple math. Experts behind Google’s AutoML suite of artificial intelligence MORE
The ubiquity in the modern world of consumer electronics has created a corresponding demand for better super-capacitors for energy storage, thereby enabling rapid charging for our mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and electric cars. But the MORE
Margaret Cuda thought her Ring doorbell camera was “the best thing since sliced bread.” She loved watching the world pass by through her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, guarding vigilantly for suspicious strangers and porch pirates MORE
As the Iowa Democratic Party scrambled to sort out winners and losers from Monday’s comic caucuses, the real victor could be the American people, who got to witness, in real time, the menace of relying MORE
Every year, CES takes over Las Vegas, creating a wonderland packed with new tech gadgets and ideas that range from useful to dystopian to bizarre. This year did not disappoint. While there were the usual MORE
In the wake of the US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and the retaliatory missile strike that followed, Iran-watchers have warned that the country could deploy cyberattacks as well, perhaps even targeting US critical infrastructure like the electric MORE
Those smart TVs that sold for unheard of low prices over the holidays come with a catch. The price is super low, but the manufacturers get to monitor what you’re watching and report back to third MORE
Google-owned YouTube will no longer allow anyone on its platform to post content that “maliciously insults” others based on protected traits including race, gender expression and sexual orientation, the company announced Wednesday. .@YouTube, we take it very seriously when MORE
brand new Tesla Cybertruck in person ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/UopYygEX22 — Daily Luxury 💸 (@DaiIyLuxury) November 23, 2019 “146k cybertruck orders so far, with 42% choosing dual, 41% tri & 17% single motor,” Musk said in a MORE
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are about to start experiments with “plasma guns” in the hope of achieving controlled nuclear fusion—a source of clean and near limitless energy. Nuclear fusion MORE
An ancient world leader in astronomy tried yesterday to land a robotic spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, but lost contact with the lander 2.1 km (1.3 miles) above the lunar surface. So far only MORE
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have released several spectacular and terrifying images of Hurricane Dorian captured from space. In the past few days, the two agencies have been monitoring the hurricane, MORE
CNET’s Roadshow reports that the third-generation BMW X6 release at the Frankfurt Motor Show may be a little hard to see. The car is spray-coated in Vantablack, a substance that holds the world record as MORE
A four year battle between the city of Fort Collins and the forces of Comcast and CenturyLink ended in a win for the consumers. Said one headline in 2017 after the vote: “ “Sorry, Comcast: MORE
Humana Pharmacy has deployed an artificial intelligence system in its call centers that gives the human employees gentle nudges to be more empathetic with customers. . . . The algorithm, built by the AI development MORE
Hours before a mass shooter killed 11 people inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, he posted an anti-Muslim rant to his account on Gab, a little-known social network that sold itself MORE
Fredrick Brennan, he creator of 8Chan, held an interview with the New York Times and told them, “Shut the site down. “It’s not doing the world any good. It’s a complete negative to everybody except MORE