Has the rise of fake news plunged democracy into crisis? Some UK politicians believe it has. Britain should have more powers to regulate and scrutinize the world’s largest tech companies, says a report published Sunday by Parliament’s committee investigating fake news. The report paints a picture in which people’s data is being manipulated and voters …

Good news: Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome are working to reduce the amount of memory and other resources their browsers use. You might have noticed that browsers impose an increasingly onerous burden on your phone or laptop. Websites are getting bigger and browsers are getting features that make them more like full-fledged operating systems than mere document viewers. One example, …

Best Buy’s Black Friday in July sale is underway and ends tonight (Saturday) at 11.59 p.m. CT. It’s nothing like Amazon’s Prime Day or even Best Buy’s true Black Friday sale, but there are a handful of decent deals to be had. Here’s a quick look at the ones that caught our eyes. Several of these products are available for …

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MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe apologized Friday after the movie-ticket subscription service went down a day earlier.  An SEC filing on Thursday showed the company had run out of money and wasn’t able to pay for tickets, causing the outage. “We have handled the issues on the back-end, and our app is now up-and-running with stability at 100%,” Lowe wrote in a statement.  The company …

Google banned cryptocurrency mining Android apps from the Android Play Store, following in Apple’s footsteps. The company continues to allow mining as long as the processing takes place in the cloud, but on-device mining on Android hardware is no longer allowed, CNET sister site ZDNet reports. “We don’t allow apps that mine cryptocurrency on devices. We permit apps that remotely …

MoviePass remains the best thing I’ve bought this year, and even though some very disconcerting stuff is going on with their finances, I’m in too deep to abandon the service now. It’s better than my AirPods, which I use every day. And it’s not because I now go to more movies, it’s because I spend way way less money doing …

When Cory Doctorow needed a babysitter, he decided to send a text — “Hey! Are you free to sit.” Google’s autocomplete thought it might be fun to add three rather specific words: “on my face.” “Sit on my face,” in other words.  Which is probably not what you want to text your babysitter. Yeah.  Also maybe don’t Google that? I was …

Facebook has deleted or blocked 362 posts over the past six months to comply with Germany’s new law against hate speech. Germany kicked off 2018 with a strict law against online hate speech. The law allows for fines against tech companies, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, of up to $58 million (£44 million, AU$79 million) if they don’t remove offending …

After $2.3 billion in funding and nearly four years of secrets, Magic Leap is on the verge of shipping its first headset — this summer, in fact — but we still have very little idea what you’ll see inside. Until today, perhaps — because it sure looks like images of Magic Leap’s proposed user interface have just leaked onto the …

Apple appears to be making some big changes to the chips in its upcoming iPhones — and that could mean your next iPhone downloads data slower than rival Android devices. Qualcomm, a major supplier of 4G chips for smartphones, on Wednesday said it doesn’t expect to supply modems for any upcoming iPhones. “We believe Apple intends to solely use our …

Update, Aug. 9: The Galaxy Note 9 is now official, and we’ve gone hands-on. Original story follows. From subtle transparent coverage to basic black and rugged, Samsung’s accessories for its forthcoming Galaxy Note 9 have popped up online in what really look like leaked marketing photos. And despite rumors to the contrary, Clear Silicone Case and purple S Pen shots indicate that …

Feels like summer just started, but here we are planning the next school year already. For example: Kids need a laptop for homework and whatnot? Today’s deal might be the perfect fit, albeit with one caveat. For a limited time, Best Buy has the Lenovo Yoga 710 15.6-inch 2-in-1 laptop for $550 shipped (plus tax). It normally sells for $800, …