This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Facebook says it’ll label links that come from state-controlled media companies, in an effort to make it clear where people are getting their news from. It’s because these news sources “combine the influence of a media organization with …
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has announced another round of Start Small business grants. During the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and protests across the US against the death of George Floyd in police custody, Dorsey says $3 million will go to former NFL player and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp, which works to educate, empower and mobilize “the next generation …
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Amazon said Wednesday that it will donate $10 million to groups focused on social justice and aiding black communities. The pledge is one of several from major tech companies made this week after a white police officer in Minneapolis was charged with the second-degree murder in the death George Floyd, a black man. The funds will go to organizations fighting against …
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Facebook’s former employees are reportedly calling on CEO Mark Zuckerberg to take action on President Donald Trump’s online posts after current staffers have criticized his stance on not fact-checking or labeling them. In a letter published online Wednesday by The New York Times, around three dozen of the social media company’s longest-serving employees said the chief executive’s position is a “betrayal” of Facebook’s community values. …
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Coronavirus lockdowns and quarantines may be lifting in some areas, but many people are still going to be working and socializing from home for the foreseeable future. Video-chat apps have never been more popular, with Zoom seeing 300 million daily meeting participants, and services like Microsoft Teams, Skype, FaceTime, Google Meet and Google Hangouts offering new features and free tiers …
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A group of civil rights leaders issued a scathing statement about Facebook on Monday in the wake of a meeting with the social networking company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and other top executives, according to a report by Axios. The meeting was set-up to discuss Facebook’s decision to leave up a post by US President Donald Trump that the civil rights …
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Back in September, in a period I like to call “the before,” I tried out a prototype virtual reality headset from a Taiwanese company called XRSpace. I strapped bulky orange goggles over my eyes and stepped into another world without actually leaving the hectic Berlin conference hall that housed the IFA consumer electronics trade show. Eventually, the unit would run …
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Please don’t go for the easy joke — yes, I know that my ears are getting older. But that’s beside the point. The speakers built into modern TVs are terrible and do a lousy job of reproducing dialog. Compound that problem with the fact that many modern TV shows go for a more realistic approach to sound design, which means …
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Facebook employees are reportedly unhappy with the social media giant’s stance on the fact-checking and warning labels being applied this week to posts by US President Donald Trump about the Minnesota protests and mail-in ballots. Internal message board posts showed employees calling on Facebook execs to explain their stance, The Verge reported Friday. The internal Facebook complaints follow a week of …
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Facebook‘s app-focused New Product Experimentation (NPE) team on Friday released a second-screen companion app, called Venue, aimed at connecting fans and commentators during live events in a new interactive way. During a live event, commentators can host a venue on the app where they can provide commentary and post interactive questions and polls. Venue also lets commentators open up …
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