Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has taken aim at Facebook, saying the social media giant must be held accountable for information posted on its site. Benioff was responding to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement Wednesday that he’ll be making a speech Thursday at 10 a.m. PT about his views on free expression.  “Facebook is a publisher. …

Libra, Facebook’s ambitious but controversial cryptocurrency project, took a hit on Friday as five founding members of the association backing the global coin dropped out. Online marketplace eBay, payments provider Stripe and financial services giants Visa and Mastercard all said they’re no longer participating in the Libra Association, the nonprofit overseeing the project. Mercado Libre’s online payments platform Mercado Pago …

Yet another image of the Google Pixelbook Go has leaked, according to a report Monday, but this one is purportedly an official product picture. One of several leaked photos of the upcoming Nest Mini included the Pixelbook Go, 9to5Google reported. This image is the first of the product to show Google’s “G” logo in the top left corner of the …

Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday he meets with lots of people because that’s “part of learning,” a comment prompted by a report detailing a series of quiet meetings the Facebook boss has had with conservative figures in the US over the summer. The meetings, in the form of small, off-record dinners at his homes since July, have included conservative talkshow hosts, journalists and …

An initial coin offering by encrypted messaging service Telegram has been halted by a restraining order filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the SEC on Friday, the emergency action will temporarily prevent what it alleges is an unregistered ICO that’s already raised $1.7 billion. Around 2.9 billion digital tokens called grams have been sold to 171 …

Actor Jim Meskimen has released a video on YouTube giving a “deeper” look at his skills as an impressionist. The voice work is all his, but thanks to deepfake software, he also takes on the facial features of 20 celebrities — and becomes recognizably those people. Deepfakes, video forgeries that make people appear to be doing or saying things they …

CEO Tim Cook defended the decision to remove the HKmap.live app from the App Store in an email to Apple employees Thursday morning. The email from Cook was published by the developers of the app, and confirmed by Apple. The decision was “not easy,” Cook said in the email, adding that “technology can be used for good or for ill.” “The …

Fortnite players will never be banned for political speech or human rights statements, developer Epic Games has said. An Epic spokesperson told The Verge Wednesday that it “wouldn’t ban or punish a Fortnite player or content creator for speaking on these topics.” That follows game maker Blizzard removing a pro Hearthstone player from a tournament Tuesday after Chung “Blitzchung” Ng …

Microsoft has released a Windows 10 update that comes with the ability to answer calls to your Android phone on your PC. The Calls feature in Windows uses your computer’s speakers, microphone and screen so you can answer incoming calls, make calls and decline calls. The Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18999 (20H1) was launched as an early release Tuesday …

Epic Games has reached a settlement with a minor who was accused of creating and selling cheats for the video game Fortnite, as reported earlier Tuesday by the BBC. The terms of the settlement, reached Sept. 27, are unknown. Fortnite, one of the all-time most popular free-to-play games on consoles, launched in 2018 and became a cultural phenomenon, raking in $3 …