Donald Trump won the popular vote. The Clinton Foundation bought $137 million worth of illegal arms and ammunition. An FBI agent associated with Hillary Clinton’s email leaks was found dead in a murder-suicide. The Pope endorsed Trump. If you saw any of these stories on the internet over the past few weeks, let’s be crystal …

World travelers, language nerds and everyone in between, you’re in luck. Google said Tuesday it has vastly improved its Google Translate app, available on phones and the web. The search giant said it’s now incorporating “neural machine translation” into the software, which means it can translate whole sentences at a time, instead of breaking the text down to smaller chunks …

Facebook wants to give the bots a jolt. Earlier this year at F8, the social network’s most important conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed a big investment in chatbots, which use artificial intelligence to allow people to text with the software to help them do things like schedule calendar meetings or buy a pair of shoes. Now Facebook wants to help …

Did Facebook help get Donald Trump elected? CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last week that it’s a “pretty crazy idea” to think his social network might have swayed the vote by letting fake news proliferate on its site. That came after numerous allegations that the fake news shared on the social network helped Trump win. Now there’s a report that Facebook …

You really can’t believe everything you read on the internet. Google on Monday acknowledged its algorithms screwed up and that it placed a fake news story about Donald Trump winning the popular vote in last week’s election prominently in the search engine’s widely-read news section. “The goal of Search is to provide the most relevant and useful results for our …

Now playing: Watch this: Facebook says don’t blame it for Trump 1:09 After Donald Trump won the US presidential election on Tuesday, some commentators argued that fake news circulating on Facebook helped the real estate mogul turned reality TV personality win. There was, for example, this story from the nonexistent Denver Guardian about an FBI agent associated with Hillary Clinton‘s …

Will Fitbit stay or will it go? No need for your heart rate to rise. Fitbit isn’t going away. CBS Interactive That was the question earlier Thursday after hedge fund firm ABM Capital said it had approached Fitbit’s board about buying the company for $12.50 a share. ABM revealed that information in an SEC filing that listed an address in …

Google’s Android software powers almost 9 out of every 10 smartphones in the world. Now Google is hoping its app store can keep up. The search giant is making changes to Google Play, its online marketplace where you can download apps and games, Google said during a software developer event in San Francisco on Thursday. The company is also making …

How do you convince more people to record themselves and post videos on your social network? If you’re Facebook, you do it with scuba masks and pumpkins. In the last few weeks, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has added new weapons to Facebook’s online video arsenal. They include masks, which allow people to add digital images — like scuba gear and pumpkins …

Facebook may be getting Snapchattier. The social network on Thursday began testing new camera and messaging features that look and feel similar to staples of Snapchat, the social network’s trendy rival, beloved by teens and young adults. The new features include digital masks, which uses software to superimpose an image onto your face, similar to Snapchat lenses. There are other …