Now playing: Watch this: Inside Facebook’s Oregon data center 1:48 Four tall, gray buildings stand among the homesteads and farms on Route 126 outside Prineville, Oregon. They house a Facebook data center stuffed with servers. Sitting on racks that resemble rows of grain, the servers store the videos of your Ice Bucket Challenge and the …

In Silicon Valley, hype and praise can only get you so far. The latest example is Facebook’s Paper app, originally revealed in January 2014 as a new way to read news while also surfing the social network. The app had two main functions: a feed of friend’s photos, videos and other activities, and a stream of news stories picked by …

Does a ban on hacking also prohibit free speech? That’s a question at the heart of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, claiming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes it impossible for researchers to legally investigate websites for discriminatory and poor behavior. “Websites have been found to use demographic data …

Silicon Valley’s new mantra: Have a problem? Solve it with training! The latest example comes from Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, who said the company has begun teaching employees how to spot and manage political bias in their work, following outcry over the company’s trending-topics feature and concerns it doesn’t equally display conservative and liberal news topics. The effort is part …

Facebook shareholders aren’t un-friending Peter Thiel this year. A month after the PayPal co-founder and early Facebook backer said he was bankrolling a series of lawsuits against Gawker Media, Facebook’s shareholders decided he should stay on the board. Thiel was re-elected alongside seven other board members, including Marc Andreessen, the prominent venture capitalist; Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix; and Erskine …

It’s almost undeniable that left turns are evil. Not only are poorly-managed left turns responsible for about half a million crashes and hundreds of deaths per year, but they’re also inefficient. UPS, the brown-truck delivery company, famously banned left turns for its drivers in 2004, and since then it’s avoided unnecessarily burning more than 10 million gallons of gas, cut …

Mozilla may have solved one of the web’s most annoying problems. The company that makes the Firefox web browser is testing a feature that allows people to surf the internet “in different contexts,” meaning they can choose to surf the web as if they’re logged into all their sites for work, or home, or a troll on Reddit. If you’re …

Amazon’s latest TV shows promise to be a little…interesting. The internet retail giant debuted two of its TV-like show pilots: “The Interestings,” about artistic teenagers in the ’70s, and “The Last Tycoon,” an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work about Hollywood power struggles. They’re available to Amazon subscribers starting Friday. The shows are part of Amazon’s efforts to find hit …

This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Depending on how you look at it, Apple Maps is about to get a lot more helpful or a lot more annoying. As revealed in a prerelease beta of iOS 10 software, Apple Maps now watches what users are copying and pasting in …

If you let anyone ask you a question, be prepared for doozies. That’s probably how Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg shrugged off a tongue-in-cheek message from a fan who was watching his Tuesday question-and-answer forum on the social network’s live video service. “Are the allegations true that you’re secretly a lizard?” Zuck read. “I’m going to have to go with no. …