YouTube is investing $20 million in spreading knowledge through its Learning initiative. The video hosting site will put part of that money into the new Learning Fund, which supports education-focused video creators and expert groups, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said Monday in a blog post. Videos on topics ranging from career skills (interviewing and resume building) to …

Amazon Go has reportedly found its New York home across the street from the World Trade Center. The cashierless store, which the e-commerce giant last month confirmed would be coming to the Big Apple, will be in Brookfield Place, according to Recode. We don’t know when it’ll open, but Amazon has reportedly already started hiring staff. The Lower Manhattan shopping …

eBay will now let you sell your old phone in “a matter of minutes,” but there’s a small catch: You get paid in eBay vouchers. Known as Instant Selling, the service could be useful if your previous phone is just gathering dust and you’re bidding on some big-ticket item. The e-commerce site says it offers returns that are up to …

The New York Police Department removed thousands of officers’ body cameras Sunday after one cop’s camera exploded. The Staten Island officer was on duty around midnight Sunday when the Vievu LE-5 camera started to smoke, the department wrote. The police officer quickly removed the device, which then exploded on the ground. No one was injured, the department said. Now playing: …

Apple’s parental restrictions block sites that blatantly mention sex, but let some pornographic or extremist ones through. Most searches using the word “sex” are restricted. Apple/Screenshot by CNET The restrictions are accessed within Screen Time, which Apple added in September’s iOS 12 update, and let you stop kids from stumbling upon inappropriate content on iPhone web browsers. But sex education …

Twitter reportedly suspended a bot network pushing a pro-Saudi Arabia message regarding vanished journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The social network was reportedly alerted to the bots by NBC News, which on Thursday gave them a list of hundreds of accounts that “tweeted and retweeted the same pro-Saudi government tweets” simultaneously. An unidentified Twitter spokesperson told the outlet that the accounts were …

Facebook has apologized after a British woman who lost her child continued to see baby product ads after changing her advertising preference on the site. Anna England-Kerr found that her feed “was filled with ads for baby things” despite using the social media site to share the news that her daughter had been stillborn and changing her settings to avoid …

Twitter is subtly fighting fake news with a small addition to its Moments. The “annotations” appear under the highlighted tweet. Twitter/Screenshot by CNET The social network is adding “annotations” to its curated tweets, giving us more contextual information on the topic. The annotations are written by Twitter’s curation team with the aim of clarifying its highlighted tweets, according to TechCrunch. …

Facebook knew it was misleading advertisers about the average time users spent watching videos long before admitting it. And it tried to shift attention from the error, a lawsuit says. The social network revealed in September 2016 that it artificially inflated a key metric, total time watched divided by views, for two years because it only counted videos as viewed …

An intense Spotify commercial that aired on YouTube was banned by the UK ad industry’s self-policing group for “unduly distressing” children. The pre-roll ad shows a group of housemates playing Havana, a song by Camila Cabello. The song awakens a frightening, life-size doll sitting in a dilapidated room. It then appears to hunt them down, picking them off one by …