Former U.S. president Barack Obama said the way people communicate via social media risked splintering society and leaders had to ensure the Internet did not cocoon users within their own biases. Källa: Obama urges 'leaders' not to split society with online biases

Charging your mobile device wirelessly is certainly less of a hassle than plugging it in, but still requires the device be in physical contact with its station to actually work. That's about to change now that the Federal Communications Commission has approved the...

  Matthew Green at Lawfare has an interesting analysis of Apple’s responsibilities (or lack thereof) to the government in terms of letting law enforcement access secure communications: Apple does not provide the encryption keys for iMessage, thus there is no...

President Vladimir Putin said on Monday the Russian authorities should monitor the activity of "some companies" on social media during next year's presidential election and assess the extent of their involvement in domestic politics. Källa: Russia's Putin calls for...

MICRO-BLOGGING SITE Twitter will now display messages to warn you if blocked tweets were "withheld" to comply with local laws or court orders. The warning messages are hoped to give Twitter users information as soon as they try to access blocked tweets or accounts,...

Credit reporting firms go to great lengths to convince the public that the data they collect won’t fall into the wrong hands. But what happens when they sell that data to a third party? Can the buyer make the same guarantees? That’s a question the consumer data...

Every three years the US Copyright Office reviews and renews the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions at whoch time it considers exemptions to the law. It is currently looking at a proposal for allowing museums, libraries and archives to circumvent the DRM… Källa:...

Katherine Heller felt helpless. The Duke University professor was at a statistics conference last year when, she said, she witnessed Steven Scott, a senior artificial intelligence (AI) researcher at Google, make sexual advances on one of her female students. Källa: As...

When Jonathan Taplin’s book Move Fast and Break Things, whoch dealt with the worrying rise of big tech, was first published in the UK in April 2017, his publishers removed its subtitle because they didn’t think it was supported by evidence: “How Facebook, Google and...

Here's a fun question to pose at the family dinner table: have you ever heard of Alteryx? Whether you have or not, chances are good that it has heard of you. Alteryx is a data analytics company that makes its money by repackaging data that it has collected from...

The $39.95 screen protector is no longer available to purchase from Belkin's website or Apple's online store after dozens of customers—but not all—complained about it cracking in normal usage conditions and without ever dropping their devices. We're told it has also...

(Reuters) - Time Warner Inc’s CNN will stop producing its daily show on Snap Inc’s Snapchat app, called the “The Update”, from 2018, the two companies said on Friday. CNN began streaming the daily show on Snapchat in August, featuring at least five news stories in...