Twitter Inc's shares rose 6 percent on Monday after a report that the company is partnering with Bloomberg LP for streaming news, marking the stock's third straight day of gains following strong results last week.Twitter and Bloomberg Media will create a service that...

Facebook's secretive advertising practices became a little more public on Monday thanks to a leak out of the company's Australian office. This 23-page document, discovered by The Australian, details in particular how Facebook executives promote advertising campaigns...

Twitter Inc is partnering with Bloomberg Media for a round-the-clock streaming television news service on the social networking platform, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.The channel, whoch is yet to be named and is expected to begin operations this fall,...

Social media were heavily criticized by a committee of British lawmakers on Monday for failing to do enough to remove illegal and extremist material posted on their sites, and for not preventing it appearing in the first place.Platforms such as Twitter, YouTube and...

Risk should be a boring movie. Sure, it’s the latest documentary from Academy Award-winner Laura Poitras, but it’s also about WikiLeaks. Haven’t we all had enough of Julian Assange and his cadre of world-warping weirdos? The thing is, you’ve never seen Assange like...

Google announced that it will start gradually distrusting Symantec’s certificates, after Symantec was caught improperly issuing 30,000 certificates over the past few years. Symantec’s Extended Validation (EV) certificates will also no longer be recognized--effective...

Broadband modems using Intel's bungled Puma 6 chipset can be overloaded and virtually knocked offline by a trivial trickle of packets, it is claimed.Effectively, if there's someone you don't like, and they are one of thousands upon thousands of people using a Puma...

I’ve never really been crazy about proximity keys, mostly because I’m a scatter-brained fool. The overall car industry loves them, though, and most new cars use these types of keyless entry systems. A team of Chinese researchers have figured out a very clever and...

The process of buying or selling a home can be extremely stressful and complex, but imagine the stress that would boil up if — at settlement — your money was wired to scammers in another country instead of to the settlement firm or escrow company. Here’s the story...

Images of Tinder users posting their sexiest selfies were swept up in a massive grab of some 40,000 photos from the dating app.The photos were sucked up days ago by a dataset collector who plans to use the selfies in artificial intelligence training, reports...

When Trump won the presidency, someone on 4chan wrote: “We actually elected a meme as president.”As terrifying as the idea of a meme having access to the nuclear codes is, the age of Trump has ushered in a new age of memes. Jokes on the internet often crop up in the...

President Trump and Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt aren't exactly fans of climate science, and they're scaling back the EPA's website to reflect their views. The EPA has started implementing a site revision that will "reflect the approach of new...