Facebook and its photo service Instagram are rolling out a new way for you to lodge a challenge if you think your content has been wrongly pulled down. The social networks remove millions of posts, photos and videos every quarter for violating their rules against nudity, hate speech and other types of offensive content. If you’re …
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The US Department of Justice on Tuesday filed a landmark lawsuit against Google that accuses the tech giant of illegally holding monopolies in search and search advertising, the culmination of a more than yearlong investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices at the company, and the first such antitrust case in the tech world in decades. The federal government alleges that Google …
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Doing office work in VR isn’t easy. It isn’t just the lack of software plugins for VR and most productivity apps, since VR headsets can already transform into wearable monitors. The keyboard part is what gets really frustrating. Facebook’s working on a way to bypass physical keyboards altogether with hand tracking. Facebook Reality Labs’ latest research project, being presented at …
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Facebook may soon be moving in on Nextdoor’s turf with a new feature that helps users connect with others who live near them. The feature, called Neighborhoods, lets users display local posts, groups and marketplace items, a Facebook spokesperson said, confirming information in a tweet sent earlier Tuesday by social media consultant Matt Navarra. “More than ever, people are using …
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Instagram is being investigated by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission due to concerns that the social network handled the data of children in a way that may have violated European data protection laws. The investigation, which according to a statement issued by the DPC on Monday, was opened back in September, follows concerns that children may have had their email addresses …
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Google on Friday said it’s adding voter information to its search engine and maps app, including details on polling places, early voting locations and ballot drop-off areas. The information appears in search results if someone, for example, enters the query “ballot drop boxes near me.” The update comes as millions of Americans have already begun early voting ahead of Election …
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will testify before Congress on Oct. 28. The US Senate’s Commerce committee had voted unanimously to subpoena the appearances of Zuckerberg, Pichai and Dorsey, but the CEOs agreed to appear without being subpoenaed, according to The Washington Post. The hearing will be called “Does Section 230’s Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech …
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It’s the rare TV that wouldn’t benefit from an audio upgrade, in part to get speakers that are actually pointed at you (rather than down) and in part to bring bass into the mix (courtesy of a subwoofer). Let’s not forget overall volume, either. Even a cheapie soundbar would improve your aural experience — though, as evidenced by today’s deal, …
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Zoom on Wednesday unveiled OnZoom, a platform for posting and finding quarantine-friendly virtual events ranging from concerts to cooking and fitness classes. The video chat platform also revealed “Zapps,” or Zoom apps — that live within Zoom and let you access them directly from video chats, for easier workplace collaboration. Finally, Zoom said it would begin rolling out end-to-end encryption …
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Twitter will start removing Holocaust-denial content from its social media platform under its hateful-conduct policy, a report Wednesday said. The move comes two days after Facebook updated its hate-speech policy to prohibit “content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.” A spokesperson confirmed to Bloomberg that Twitter will remove content that “attempts to deny or diminish” violent events such as the …
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