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Facebook Employees Blast Company’s Political Ads Policy

At least 250 Facebook employees signed a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticizing the company's hands-off policy against fact-checking ads posted by politicians ...

New Surface Line Makes the Earth Move for Microsoft Fans

Microsoft has launched a slew of new devices designed to reshape the world: the Surface Laptop 3, the Surface Pro 7, the Surface Pro X, Surface Earbuds, and the upcoming Surface Neo and Surface Duo ...

eGobbler Malvertising Attack Infects More Than a Billion Ads

Two eGobbler malvertising exploits impacted 1.16 billion programmatic ads between Aug. 1 and Sept. 23, according to Confiant, which has been tracking the threat for about a year ...

Amazon Enlists 30 Partners in Voice Interoperability Initiative

Amazon on Tuesday announced that dozens of partners have joined it in a Voice Interoperability Initiative. The aim is to support multiple, interoperable voice services on a single device so customers can access the one they want by saying the appropriate wake word ...

Google’s ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Approach Wins Nod From EU Court

Google need not comply with the right to be forgotten outside of the European Union, according to a European Court of Justice ruling released Tuesday ...

Facebook’s New Portals: More Ways to Follow

Facebook on Wednesday announced three additions to the Portal family: a new Portal, Portal Mini and Portal TV ...

Amazon Goes for the Gold With HD Streaming Music Service

Amazon on Tuesday announced Amazon Music HD, which offers 50 million CD-quality songs -- 16 bits at 44.1 kHz. Customers also can stream millions more songs in Ultra HD -- better than CD quality -- with a bit depth of 24 bits and a sample rate up to 192 kHz ...

California Applies Brakes to Galloping Gig Economy

California Assembly Bill 5, which would require many businesses to hire workers as employees rather than independent contractors -- and reclassify their existing workforces accordingly -- has passed its second reading ...

50 AGs Gun for Google in Antitrust Offensive

The attorneys general of 48 states, plus those from United States territory Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., have joined in an investigation into whether Google stifled online advertising and search competition ...

Amazon Trying Out Hand-Scanning Payment System: Report

Amazon reportedly is testing scanners that can identify a human hand to use as a payment method for in-store purchases ...

Sleep Monitoring Slated for Apple Watch

Apple has been developing sleep tracking functionality for the Apple Watch, according to 9to5 Mac. ...

Apple Says Sorry for Listening In on Siri Talks

Apple on Wednesday said it has suspended audits of consumer interactions with Siri, and undertaken a review of practices and policies related to the voice assistant ...

Storm Erupts Over Google’s Advice Against Blocking Cookies

Google's recent announcement of Privacy Sandbox -- an initiative to develop a set of open standards geared toward fundamental enhancements of privacy on the Web -- has stirred up a controversy ...

Major Browsers Block Kazakhstan Government’s Fake Safety Cert

Google, Mozilla and Apple on Wednesday blocked a fake root certificate issued by Kazakhstan's government to spy on its citizens' online activities ...

Facebook Gives Privacy-Minded Users Some Control Over Activity Tracking

Facebook on Tuesday announced the release of Off-Facebook Activity, a tool that will let members see which apps and websites supply information about their online activity, and clear that information from their Facebook accounts if they wish ...

28M Records Exposed in Biometric Security Data Breach

Researchers associated with vpnMentor, which provides virtual private network reviews, on Wednesday reported a data breach involving nearly 28 million records in a BioStar 2 biometric security database belonging to Suprema ...

Spotify for Podcasters Hits the Open Road

Spotify on Tuesday launched Spotify for Podcasters following a year-long beta involving more than 100,000 podcasts from 167 countries ...

The Apple Card Difference: Security

Apple sent emails to a small number of customers last week, inviting them to apply for the company's new Apple Card, and a privileged few have become the first to enroll in the program. ...

Galaxy Note10 Sharpens Samsung’s Mobile Experience Vision

Samsung on Wednesday announced new devices and a deepening of its relationship with Microsoft at Samsung Unpacked, which showcased innovative new mobile experiences that work seamlessly and continuously anywhere and anywhen ...

UCSF Researchers Synthesize Speech From Brain Waves

Researchers led by speech neuroscientist Edward Chang at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) on Tuesday reported their success at decoding speech attempts in real time by reading the activity in the speech centers of test subjects' brains ...

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