Now playing: Watch this: The reviews are in for the Amazon Fire Cube — don’t… 4:29 On this podcast, we talk about: The new Amazon Fire TV Cube Google’s latest privacy update A Supreme Court decision that means you’ll pay more when shopping online Intel’s CEO stepping down The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and …
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Facebook is ramping up its fight against misinformation. The company announced Thursday that it’s expanding its third-party fact-checking program to 14 countries and plans to grow it even more by the end of 2018. Misinformation, propaganda campaigns, hoaxes and conspiracy theories have thrived on social networks and services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, recognized fake news …
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Verizon and AT&T are hanging up on companies that boasted they could track any American with a phone. In a letter sent to Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, Verizon’s chief privacy officer, Karen Zacharia, said the company is ending its contracts with location aggregators like LocationSmart and Zumigo. “We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of our customers’ location …
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When Anu Jain was raising her daughter, she was worried. Jain had many concerns about the dangerous world her daughter was heading into, and didn’t feel comfortable with her loved one heading into it alone. Violence against women runs rampant across the world, with one-third of women experiencing physical or sexual violence at some point in their lives, according to …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Amazon’s Fire TV Cube A cube that is powered by Amazon’s Alexa for your TV A six-sided 3-D version of a square that — you get the point, it’s all about Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought to you by …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. You’re not limited to being a robot or a poop emoji anymore — now Apple lets you make your own Animoji, calling it “Memoji.” At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, on Monday, Apple announced new features coming to Animoji, …
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Mark Zuckerberg was saved by the bell at the European Parliament on Tuesday. The Facebook CEO sat through about an hour of questions from members of the group, and then spent only about 25 minutes answering them. The format for Zuckerberg’s testimony in Brussels was a stark contrast from his appearance on Capitol Hill in April. Instead of answering each …
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Those smartphones we’re always carrying with us? The police have a simple way to turn them into a tracking device without our knowledge. On Thursday, The New York Times revealed that Securus Technologies, a service that monitors calls to prison inmates, has been used by a former Missouri sheriff to monitor people’s phones and track their location. The sheriff, who was …
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The US government’s export ban on ZTE has effectively brought the Chinese telecom giant and phone maker to its knees. In a Hong Kong Exchanges filing on Wednesday, ZTE told investors that the “major operating activities of the company have ceased” because of the US Commerce Department’s export ban. In April, US officials said they were imposing a “denial of export …
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Colorizing old black-and-white photos is just one of the new AI-powered features for Google Photos. At Google I/O on Tuesday, the company announced new AI features for Google Photos, its platform for storing and sending images. At Google’s annual developers conference, company CEO Sundar Pichai talked about all the different ways artificial intelligence can help with its products. Pichai introduced …
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