Popular health and fitness apps scrambled to stop sending sensitive personal information to Facebook Inc. after The Wall Street Journal reported Friday many were transmitting detailed information about topics including their users’ weight and menstrual cycles.
Google-owned YouTube removed ads from videos promoting anti-vaccination rhetoric that violated its ad policies and Pinterest blocked all searches on vaccination to stem the flow of misinformation amid a measles outbreak in Washington state.
The Pentagon is working with industry to explore the possibility that bomb, missile or laser-armed F-35s could destroy an attacking nuclear-armed Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) targeting the US, potentially bringing a new dimension to existing defenses.
More than 150 Microsoft employees signed a letter demanding the tech giant cancel a $480 million contract to build a HoloLens for the Pentagon, saying they "refuse to create technology for warfare and oppression."
Remember shortcuts you could enact with a computer keyboard? Using a particular combination of CNTL, ALT, and FN, you could quickly scroll through documents, open and close programs, and move elements around. They still exist, of course. Here’s a whole bunch of Facebook keyboard shortcuts you never knew existed.
Following Amazon’s decision earlier this month to scrap plans to build a second headquarters in New York City, Florida Sen. Rick Scott seized the moment and encouraged the tech giant to consider moving to the Sunshine State.
The Air Force is revving up production of the air-dropped, precision-guided BLU-129 bomb increasingly in demand by warzone commanders - so accurate, lethal and precise, it is called “the world’s largest sniper accuracy.”
Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including when they want to work on their belly fat or the price of the house they checked out last weekend. Other apps know users’ body weight, blood pressure, menstrual cycles or pregnancy status.
Google-owned YouTube is dealing with an exodus of some of its major advertisers in the wake of disturbing claims that pedophiles have not only been infiltrating the comments section of childrens videos, seemingly without consequence, until now, but that YouTube's own technology may have been facilitating this disturbing trend.
New billboards slamming Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have popped up in Times Square, continuing to criticize the freshman lawmaker for Amazon's decision to pull part of its planned second headquarters out of New York.
Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly meeting with a top British official after the British government released a report accusing the social media giant, and similar companies, of behaving like a “digital gangster.”
CHICAGO (AP) — Police tapped into Chicago's vast network of surveillance cameras — and even some homeowners' doorbell cameras — to track down two brothers who later claimed they were paid by "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett to stage an attack on him, the latest example of the city's high-tech approach to public safety.
For months, American officials have been warning that Chinese telecommunications giant is obligated to their government and has the capacity to spy on people in countries where its technology exists. But its spawned into more than just a spy story – now challenging Washington’s relations with European partners.
A coalition of 16 consumer groups on Thursday called on the FTC to investigate whether Facebook engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices in violation of a major children's privacy law.
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