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Alphabet’s Jigsaw wants to explain tech jargon to you

It might sound obvious, but the thing about tech is that sometimes it can get really, well, technical. So Alphabet wants to help make nitty-gritty tech jargon simpler to explain to the masses. On Tuesday, Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Google’s parent company, launched a website called the Sideways Dictionary that takes jargon and puts it into terms normal …

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Facebook: Moderation tool flawed during BBC investigation

Facebook has been under fire after a report from the BBC last week called out the social network for not taking down sexualized images of children on its site. On Tuesday, Facebook said the moderation tool that should have flagged the images during the investigation wasn’t working, according to a follow-up report by the BBC. “We welcome when a journalist …

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