YouTube is seeking to clear up some of the confusion over its copyright rules. The video site said it’s important for creators accused of a violation to understand where the supposed infringement occurred and what the next steps are. “Starting today, we will require copyright owners to provide timestamps to indicate exactly where their content …

Android Q Beta 5 has launched, with Google including gestural navigation updates, so you can swipe from the corners to get Google Assistant. The fifth beta, launched Wednesday, is “very close” to what we’ll see in the final release, Dave Burke, Android vice president of engineering, said in a blog post. Google will be launching Android Q later this summer, …

The US Federal Reserve System has added its voice to the chorus of doubts raised by lawmakers, politicians and others worldwide about Facebook’s newly announced cryptocurrency, Libra. While speaking to House lawmakers Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the US central bank has “serious concerns” about Libra, The Wall Street Journal reported. Facebook last month unveiled the global digital coin, which …

Tumblr has jumped on the dark mode bandwagon, announcing that its mobile app will now support the feature. Tumblr’s Color Palette allows users to choose the hue for their dashboard in both Android and iOS. Dark mode inverts the colors of apps by putting white text on a black background, which Google has previously said reduces smartphone battery usage and …

After a federal court ruled that it’s unconstitutional for President Donald Trump to block users on Twitter, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been hit with two lawsuits by a pair of politicians she’d blocked. New York congressional candidate Joseph Saladino and former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind filed separate suits against Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday.  “I have officially filed my lawsuit against …

The Federal Communications Commission has voted to free up another band of wireless spectrum for next-generation 5G wireless service. But the vote wasn’t without controversy.  On Wednesday, the agency voted 3-2 to auction spectrum in the 2.5GHz band. This sliver of airwaves, known as the Educational Broadband Service, had been set aside for educational purposes during the 1960s. License holders …

A Lord of the Rings online game is coming, and it’s being co-produced by Amazon Game Studios and Leyou Technologies’ Athlon Games label. The massively multiplayer online game based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien will be free to play, with a release date yet to be set. Amazon Game Studios, launched in 2012, makes games including New World, The …

We can thank Europe for building much of what made the modern mobile phone. Companies like Nokia and Ericsson built the first blockbuster devices, and the continent gave us GSM, the network technology used around the world. With the latest generation in mobile data speeds, though, Europe isn’t leading, it’s following. Over the past year the US and South Korea …

Some of the computing industry’s biggest innovations have come from research labs. The  transistor was created at AT&T’s Bell Labs, the hard drive by IBM Research and the graphical user interface at Xerox’s PARC.  NTT, one of Japan’s telecommunications giants, wants similar success. It’s already got thousands of researchers in Japan working on projects with near-term potential, but now it’s …

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