August 21, 2019 Instagram Chief Debunks Copyright Apocalypse Hoax as Spread Reaches Top Levels of Government If you follow a boomer on Instagram you’ve probably seen the latest viral hoax going around warning about the incoming copyright apocalypse. Read more……
August 21, 2019 YouTube pressured to ban Chinese state media ads that spread misinformation about protesters Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via Getty Images YouTube is being pressured to remove ads from China Central Television, a state media channel that’s allegedly spreading misinformation…
August 21, 2019 Online sneaker reseller StockX faces lawsuit over data breach StockX is now facing legal action over a data breach that led to the theft of more than 6.8 million customer records. A class-action…
August 21, 2019 AT&T restores service to Breitbart after buying out upstart ad company Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In 2016, the ad tech company AppNexus took a stand against hate speech. Just two weeks after…
August 21, 2019 SiriusXM’s student plan only costs $4 per month SiriusXM thinks it has a simple way to get the back-to-school crowd listening to radio: offer it at an extremely steep discount. The satellite…
August 21, 2019 New Game From The Developers Of Her Story Is An Unsettling Trip Through Stolen NSA Footage Telling Lies, the latest work of interactive fiction from Her Story creator Sam Barlow, invites players to curl up in front of their computer…
August 21, 2019 ‘Telling Lies’ is bigger, but not better, than ‘Her Story’ In Her Story, developer Sam Barlow did a rare thing: He created a new video game format. Four years later, he's made Telling Lies,…
August 21, 2019 Extreme heat and humidity are putting athletes at greater health risk Photo by Judy Griesdieck / Star Tribune A combination of extreme heat and high humidity levels — commonly referred to as the “heat index”…
August 21, 2019 An old Instagram hoax is back, and it’s duping celebrities An Instagram hoax that first circulated in 2012 is back, and celebrities from Usher to Waka Flocka Flame, Julianne Moore, Julia Roberts and Rob…
August 21, 2019 What’s coming to Netflix in September: ‘The Politician’ and ‘The Spy’ We're edging into the final embers of the summer and as the weather starts to turn for many of us, we'll perhaps find ourselves…