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Facebook: We’re making life hard on trolls trying to influence you

Nathaniel Gleicher used to fight hackers from the White House as member of the National Security Council during the Obama administration. Now, he’s trying to stop coordinated influence campaigns from spreading across Facebook. The two jobs aren’t that different, he says. As head of Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, he’s responsible for the team that’s …

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AR and VR made simple

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are seem to have been on the cusp of mainstream success for years. But you can’t decide if they offer something for you until you understand what they offer at all.  Now playing: Watch this: What is AR and how does it differ from virtual reality? 3:17 Augmented reality AR is when you …

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Pokemon Go to add PVP mode by end of year

The insanely popular mobile game of 2016, Pokemon Go, will get a much anticipated feature by the end of the year. As reported by the Polish news site Gram, Niantic’s head of marketing for the European, Middle Eastern and African regions, Anne Beuttenmüller, gave a Q&A about the software company’s future plans. In addition to adding a player-vs-player mode by …

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The Touch Bar might be the keyboard of the future on coming MacBooks

In the wake of user complaints and multiple lawsuits concerning problems with the “butterfly switch” keyboard Apple has used in its laptops since 2016, the company may be developing new user interfaces that depend less on moving mechanical parts.  iFixit / GIF by Sean Hollister/CNET The company has filed three new keyboard-related patents, Mashable reported on Monday.  One of the patent …

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Facebook bans Alex Jones’ and Infowars pages over violence, hate speech

Facebook has cracked down on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones by removing four of his pages, citing breaches of its community standards. The social media site removed the Alex Jones Channel Page, the Alex Jones Page, the Infowars Page and the Infowars Nightly News Page, Facebook said in a blog post Monday.  The ban follows Apple’s and Spotify’s removal of his podcasts on …

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Why phones are getting even more expensive

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Top 5 gadgets for college students

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What is AR and how does it differ from virtual reality?

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Google questioned over Chinese search engine rumours, Amazon removes neo

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