Cloudflare, an online infrastructure service that helps websites mitigate DDoS attacks. Cloudflare has announced that it will no longer provide security services to the far-right site 8chan following the deadly, mass shooting by a white nationalist in El Paso, Texas. Cloudflare has been reluctant to pull its services from extremist websites, citing free speech issues. […]
Facebook and Instagram appear to be experiencing an outage in some parts of the world, with users complaining that they were unable to log in, upload pictures, or update their status. According to DownDetector, the outage appears to have begun just before 10:00AM ET, and the problems appear to have popped up around the United […]
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it had approved the first drone flight beyond the operator’s sight line, a major advance for retailers like Amazon.com Inc seeking to speed up deliveries by drone. Drone flights are currently required to remain in the operating team’s sight to spot and avoid aircraft and other obstacles. […]
Many companies set up their own, secretive technology programs. A new report from CNBC outlines the drama behind its secretive hardware division, Building 8, and how it’s struggled to develop its own hardware to compete with the likes of Amazon and Google. Facebook brought in former DARPA and Google technologist Regina Dugan to run the […]
Facebook has declared it is not its job to stop fake news circulated by actual politicians in the months leading up to Australia’s federal election. The nation’s Labor Party suffered resounding losses this spring, which some are linking to the deluge of social media posts that falsely claimed that the party wanted to impose hefty […]
Ahead of the launch of the Apple Card, the customer agreement for the card has been found on the Goldman Sachs website, offering up a look at the ins and outs of how it will work. The agreement goes over eligibility (an Apple ID and two-factor authentication are required), how accounts may be used (no […]
Pressure from the EU over the issue of humans reviewing recordings from their respective digital assistants. While Apple and Google paused human review, Amazon has decided to offer a clearer, more comprehensive opt-out setting to Alexa users. Amazon already offered a much clearer set of privacy policies than either Google or Apple having set up […]
Facebook the social network giant is going to add “Facebook” to their names. Instagram will soon become “Instagram from Facebook” and WhatsApp will turn into “WhatsApp from Facebook.” The company already follows this approach with its Workplace app. The Information first reported the planned changes, which Facebook confirmed directly. The new titles will appear in […]
Verizon changing its offerings. It introduced four new unlimited plans Start, Play More, Do More and Get More which will replace the three current unlimited plans. The changes aren’t that sweeping: there are $5 price cuts across the board; new names for two of the old plans; and the third plan is now split into […]
If you’re one of the very few people still using the Amazon Dash button, it’s time to say goodbye. The company has announced that Dash buttons will cease working worldwide on August 31. Introduced in 2015, the stick-on buttons allowed customers to reorder common household necessities like laundry detergent, trash bags and toothpaste with the […]
Following an antitrust ruling by the European Union, Google is explaining its plans to offer a choice of search providers to Android users. From 2020, a new choice screen will be displayed on all Android devices shipped in Europe. This will, eventually, let users select the default search engine, and browser, for their hardware. Google, […]
Windows 10 has long since established itself as the dominant operating system on PCs. In January, it finally eclipsed Windows 7 with roughly 39 percent global adoption versus windows 7 36 percent. With ransomware attacks and an official end of support date (January 14, 2020) both presenting security threats to Windows 7 users, this is […]
Last week a report by The Guardian dug into a program where third-party contractors listened in to anonymized recordings of Apple users asking Siri questions to judge the assistant’s responses, and now Apple has shut it down. In a statement to TechCrunch, the company said that while it conducts a “thorough” review, it’s suspending the […]
Sony is hoping it can rally its PlayStation fans around esports. Sony announced seasonal PS4 tournaments. It’s inviting users of all levels to participate in competitive online gaming through their PS4 consoles, and it’s even offering cash prizes. The PS4 Tournaments: Challenger Series will kick off with Mortal Kombat 11 on August 6th. Each tournament […]
President Donald Trump announces an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports this tariff is much smaller than many tech companies previously feared further 25 percent tariffs were expected but this change will still likely have a significant impact on the bottom line of several US-based companies; many of which outsource a large portion of […]