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Facebook has been overestimating the average time it told advertisers that users were spending watching videos on its platform for two years, possibly affecting marketer spending on Facebook ads. The metric was artificially inflated because it only counted videos as viewed if they had been seen for three or more seconds, not taking into account …

We can learn a lot from a 6-year-old boy, says President Barack Obama. After seeing the heartbreaking photo of Omran Daquneesh, a shell-shocked 5-year-old boy who was wounded in an airstrike in Syria, a 6-year-old from New York named Alex wrote President Obama with a request. “Can you please go get him and bring him to [my home]?” he said …

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. Most people think of Greece as a great place to escape from the stress of everyday life. But not to the more than 57,000 people now trapped there. In 2015, more than 1.1 million …

Apps. How retro. Bookings by bots are outstripping the growth of the early app economy, according to a Citigroup research note reported by Bloomberg. Bots, short for chatbots, are software applications that use artificial intelligence to do simple tasks: answer a question, write an email or book travel. Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company’s messaging service, …

Editor’s note: Hungarians voted October 2 on whether to allow the European Union to set the number of refugees the country must accept. The EU wanted Hungary to take in 1,294 people, and said it would fine the country about $280,000 for each refugee it refuses. More than 98 percent of Hungarians who voted Sunday sided with the Hungarian government …

After Korryn Gaines entered her Baltimore apartment earlier this month, she pulled out a shotgun and then her phone. She opened the Instagram and Facebook apps so she could post details of her standoff with the police. Facebook cut her off. Gaines wasn’t the first black person to post about a run-in with the police. Others include Philando Castile, whose …

Michael Doherty can’t live without his iPhone. He sends text messages to his friends, uses the phone to check football scores and even followed the Olympics this year. Being both deaf and blind, it’s one of the few ways Doherty can interact the world. The combination of hearing and vision disabilities makes navigating the world incredibly difficult. But with the …

This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. Maria Booth and I sit at a table at Mälarpaviljongen, a gay-friendly bar and cafe in Stockholm. It’s a sunny, breezy day on the Baltic waterway that surrounds the city. The cafe’s floating patio …

Now playing: Watch this: Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian… 2:02 This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. I was in the kitchen at my parents’ house when my phone vibrated. It was a WhatsApp message from …

Now playing: Watch this: Australia keeps refugees in radio silence 4:45 This is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series “Life, Disrupted,” about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis — if at all. Behrouz Boochani has been stuck on an island in the middle of the Pacific for the past three years. He’s 7,000 miles from …