Facebook wants to set the record straight on its editorial policies so the topic will stop trending on the social network. The Menlo Park, California, company on Thursday made public its most current Trending Topics guidelines, part of an effort to combat reports that it’s politically biased. A 28-page internal document offered a glimpse at …
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The Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro could look like the movie “Contagion.” In the 2011 film, an American gets sick in Hong Kong and brings the illness back to the US, causing an epidemic. Now a report in the Harvard Public Review argues that the half million visitors who will descend on the Brazilian city could spur a similar …
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A Luxe driver was involved in a fatal traffic accident in San Francisco last month, three weeks after the fast-growing, on-demand valet service secured $50 million in financing to expand to new cities, CNET has learned. The valet was driving a Jeep SUV on one of the city’s main thoroughfares April 27 when he collided with a BMW making a …
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You’re probably asleep at 4:30 a.m. Not Tommy Gibson. He’s already awake for 40 minutes of military-style cross-training. Six days a week he pulls a car while wearing a harness, carries 75-pound sandbags, flips 400-pound tractor tires and whips thick “battle ropes” that work his entire body. But Gibson, 36, wanted to push himself even more. He decided to try …
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Top NFL draft prospect Laremy Tunsil couldn’t protect his Twitter account the way he protects his quarterback. Just minutes before the NFL draft began Thursday in Chicago, a 30-second video surfaced on Tunsil’s verified Twitter account showing the former University of Mississippi offensive lineman wearing a gas mask and smoking from a bong taped to it. The tweet was quickly …
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It’s more than four minutes of raw distress. But that’s exactly the point of “#MoreThanMean,” a video that squarely hits home at the harassment many women endure online. In the viral video produced this week by sports podcast Just Not Sports, several men read vicious comments that sports journalists Sarah Spain and Julie DiCaro actually received on Twitter, Facebook and …
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Most football players hope they can make a smooth switch from college ball to the NFL. Braxton Miller is hoping he can do that and change positions too. The former Ohio State signal caller makes one-handed catches in a new 360-degree virtual reality clip that are reminiscent of the jaw-dropping grabs of All-Pro wideout Odell Beckham, Jr. “I want to …
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The NFL’s Deflategate saga emerged with a single tweet shortly after midnight. Just hours after the New England Patriots thrashed the Indianapolis Colts in a crucial playoff game in January 2015, Indianapolis TV sports columnist Bob Kravitz tweeted that the league was investigating whether the victors had gotten an edge by deflating footballs. The ensuing brouhaha, which now is once …
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A fan who thinks Kanye West dissed him is fighting back with a lawsuit. Justin Baker-Rhett is suing the hip hop star on claims West lied when he said his album, “The Life of Pablo,” would be available only on streaming service Tidal, according to the proposed class-action suit filed Monday in US District Court in San Francisco. The lawsuit …
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Football fans flocking to Twitter to see free live-streaming of National Football League games on Thursday nights this season will see star quarterbacks Cam Newton, Tom Brady and Russell Wilson, but not too many big-time battles. The social network will air the NFL’s most storied rivalry when the Chicago Bears take on the Green Bay Packers in week 7 on …
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