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Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. You know what's never a good look? Delivering the patented Zuckerberg blank stare to questions about the well-being of kids. Big Tech CEOs Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sundar Pichai of Google, and Jack Dorsey of Twitter had to answer questions about disinformation on social media in a virtual congressional hearing Thursday. As […]

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. Instagram for kids? What could possibly go wrong?! A report from BuzzFeed says that parent company Facebook is working on a new version of Instagram for child and tween users. Currently, Instagram users have to be 13 or older. Vishal Shah, Instagram’s vice president of product, reportedly announced the initiative in a […]

Stay updated with the latest in Tech, Science, Culture, Entertainment, and more by following our Telegram channel here. The stats on the CDC's vaccine data website are cause for both hope, and — for Black and brown communities — sadness-tinged outrage. The CDC added a vaccine stats section to its COVID data hub at the beginning of January. It includes counts of vaccine doses distributed to states, those administered to […]

Tech CEOs are appearing (remotely) before congress again, and the question is still whether the event will be more spectacle or substance. The House Energy & Commerce Committee announced Thursday that it is hauling in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai for testimony on March 25. The topic will be misinformation and disinformation on online platforms. "For far too long, big tech has […]

Changes are underway on iOS, and not everybody is happy about it. Apple's iOS 14 contains privacy updates affecting apps that rely on user data to make money. While the changes first began rolling out in iOS 14, they're becoming mandatory in upcoming versions. The new requirements, called App Tracking Transparency, mandates that apps ask for permission to track user behavior. iPhone users can accept or deny this permission on […]

In the immortal words of Derek Zoolander (who would have definitely loved Instagram), "who am I?" Instagram is considering yet another big change to its platform. It is working on a prototype of the Stories feed that scrolls vertically, like TikTok. Facebook, which owns Instagram, confirmed the new project to TechCrunch, which first reported the story after developer Alexander Puzzi posted a photo of the prototype on Twitter. Puzzi told […]

Facebook and Apple's public brawl over privacy concerns and monopoly power just got even more intense. Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at the European Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference on Thursday. He seemed to deliver harsh words for Facebook without actually naming Facebook, a true mean girl power move. "The fact is that an interconnected ecosystem of companies and data brokers, of purveyors of fake news and peddlers of […]

Donald Trump was banned from Facebook after his supporters stormed the Capitol. Now the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is outsourcing the decision on whether the former president will stay that way. Facebook announced Thursday that its "Oversight Board" would make the final call on whether Trump's suspension from Facebook will be lifted or become permanent. It was originally slated to last through the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Until the […]

With virtual booths and digital portals taking the place of convention center halls and showcases, CES in the time of coronavirus looked different. So did some of the tech. COVID-oriented tech products stood out at this year’s CES. Some brands debuted new products made for the pandemic, others found that items they’d been working on all along now have newfound applications and relevance. But is “COVID tech” really necessary? After […]