The definitive device of the last two decades has been the mobile phone. It’s hard now to imagine life without one. Phone makers and phone fads have come and gone, and competition has always been intense. We’re seeing those rivalries play out in different ways. Smartphones have thrived as game platforms, for both fun and …
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Gab returned online after the social media network popular with right-wing users took itself down to fix a bitcoin scam. In a Friday blog post, CEO Andrew Torba said Gab took itself offline after several accounts “were posting bitcoin wallet spam and related content.” Fewer than 20 accounts were affected and no bitcoin was transferred, Torba said. “We have identified …
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Game consoles. Apple hardware and software. Those were the two big themes of the week gone by. Those of you who’ve been hankering to dive into the next generation of gaming got your wish. First, after months of teasing, Microsoft made its Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S available in stores and online. A few days later, Sony followed …
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This week, the attention of the country — and the world — has been on the US presidential election. While the results were up in the air, we kept you informed on key topics: how election officials and others were tackling cybersecurity, what social media companies were doing to fight misinformation, and how tech is slowly making elections more accessible. …
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The big iPhone 12 event happened today, and you can see everything Apple announced here. Possible leaks about the iPhone 12 continued to appear even on launch day. Just this morning, well known leaker Evan Blass corroborated the rumor about the iPhone 12’s new blue color option and hinted at a spherical shape for Apple’s rumored new HomePod. Last week there was …
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Four of the most powerful men in the world have been called to appear (virtually) before Congress in a star-studded event years in the making. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are set to be grilled over whether their respective companies exert too much influence and control — to …
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The following is the text of President Donald Trump’s executive order concerning alleged political bias by social media companies, which he signed on Thursday.
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The US Navy has banned Chinese app TikTok from government-issued mobile devices because of cybersecurity concerns. In a bulletin posted early this week to a Facebook page for military personnel, the Navy said those who didn’t delete the short-video app would be blocked from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet, Reuters reported Friday. NMCI users were directed “to not install/uninstall the app …
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Microsoft is discontinuing its Cortana mobile app for Android and iOS in the UK, Canada, Australia and several other countries, the company said this week. As of Jan. 31, Microsoft will no longer support the virtual assistant app in the above-mentioned countries, it said in three regional support notes. When asked if the iOS and Android apps will also be shuttered …
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Microsoft’s Bing search engine reportedly still served up child porn, nearly a year after the tech giant said it was addressing the issue. The news comes as part of a Saturday report in The New York Times that looks at what the newspaper says is a failure by tech companies to adequately address child pornography on their platforms. In January, …
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