DraftKings and FanDuel, the two biggest daily fantasy sports sites, are said to be huddling over a possible merger as they confront scrutiny over the legality of their operations. Investors in the two privately held companies are pushing for a partnership of some type, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing anonymous sources described as familiar with the …

Facebook activated its Safety Check tool to help people near the site of a deadly shooting early Sunday in Orlando, Florida let friends and loved ones know they are safe, the first time it has done so in the US. The tool was activated after a man with an assault-style weapon killed at least 50 people inside a gay night …

The amount of hate speech on Twitter has grown too much for one prominent journalist. Jon Weisman, an editor at The New York Times, said Wednesday that he will abandon the microblogging site as the result of anti-Semitic and other comments. Weisman, the newspaper’s deputy Washington editor, announced in a tweet that he “will leave @twitter to the racists, the …

Yahoo is stepping up its fire sale with the addition of a portfolio of about 3,000 patents it hopes will fetch more than $1 billion, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. The beleaguered web pioneer has in recent weeks sent letters to prospective buyers who might be interested purchasing the patents, some of which date back 20 years to the …

The Anti-Defamation League has added the echo symbol, denoted by triple parentheses, to its database of online hate symbols. The civil rights organization said the symbol — with a name inserted into triple parentheses as such (((NAME))) — has become popular with white supremacists and anti-Semites to single out Jews on Twitter and other social media sites. The symbol originated …

Stanford University swimmer Brock Allen Turner had faced up to 14 years in prison after being convicted on three felony counts of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on the Stanford campus after a fraternity party last year. But the case captured the attention — and ire — of the internet last week after the presiding judge sentenced Turner to just …

Gawker’s founder and CEO wants to publicly debate the Silicon Valley billionaire who secretly spent millions of dollars on a lawsuit against him. Gawker Media’s Nick Denton issued his challenge to PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel in an open letter on Thursday, a day after Thiel admitted he was the bucks behind a defamation lawsuit that Terry Bollea — better known …

What kind of phone would Batman have on his utility belt? Samsung hopes the Caped Crusader would pick the Galaxy S7 Edge, so much so that it has created an Injustice Edition of the flagship handset. The limited-edition phone comes in black with gold accents, including the familiar Batman seal on the back. Created in collaboration with Warner Bros., the …

Microsoft and Facebook are teaming up to build an undersea cable across the Atlantic Ocean to meet growing demand for high-speed online and cloud services. The new “MAREA” cable is designed to have an estimated initial capacity of 160 terabits of data per second, the highest-capacity subsea cable to ever cross the Atlantic, the companies said in a statement Thursday. …

Eric Schmidt believes that dramatic advances in the health and technology will change the world in the near future. The executive chairman of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, said that he expects technology will improve gene sequencing and make health care more efficient and personalized as the medical industry becomes more digitized. “There’s tremendous optimism around this next generation of scientists …