Google, Allegedly: Snitches Get Stitches
After a year of protests by its own staff against its work with the military, alleged plans to build a censored Chinese…
Report: Paul Manafort Tried to Score Deal With Ecuador to Hand Julian Assange Over to the U.S.
Julian Assange, the embattled Wikileaks founder who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012…
Advertisers Suing Facebook Allege It May Have Committed Fraud on Video Ad Metrics
A group of advertisers suing social-media giant Facebook in California over bungled video metrics now alleges in court…
Journalists Start Using Drones to View Immigrant Detention Camps After Government Blocks Entry
Reporters are regularly being denied access to America’s concentration camps along the U.S.-Mexico border. And on the…
Congressman Divulges Unreleased Study to Win Support for Life-Hunting Mission to Jupiter's Moon Europa
A mission that would sample plumes of gas shooting off of Jovian moon Europa appears to remain on track for a 2022…
Here Is Your Warning That Fake Twitter Followers Are Now a Thing With Consequences
This weekend, the New York Times published an in-depth report on the online market in social media identity theft and…
Google’s New App Asks Random People to Start Writing the News
Google has quietly launched a pilot for a news app that it says will “put a spotlight on inspiring stories that aren’t…
Bloomberg Is Starting a '24-Hour Social News Network' Based on Twitter
Twitter has not exactly survived the last few months with a sterling reputation, in between continued controversy over…
Facebook: Hey, Nice Media You Got There, Shame if Some Kind of News Feed Change Happened to It
Facebook tests of a major change to the way its News Feed works in at least six countries have once again raised fears…
Google Says Plan to Partner With News Publishers on Subscriptions Still in Early Stages
Google is planning to roll out a new system in which it helps news publishers zero in on potential subscribers in…
Journalist Nearly Banned from YouTube and Gmail For Posting Al-Qaeda Videos From Chelsea Manning Trial
YouTube’s latest push to ban terrorist propaganda across its ubiquitous video platform is getting off to a rough start.…
Facebook's 'Fake News' Solution Isn't Going to Solve the Problem
Ever since the term was popularized by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump—and subsequently appropriated by…
Report: New York Times Acquires The Wirecutter for $30 Million
Recode’s Peter Kafka reported today that the New York Times has agreed to pay $30 million for The Wirecutter and The…
Wow, This New York Times Reporter Sure Likes to Yell at Brands on Twitter
People use Twitter for different reasons. Celebrities use it to self-promote, teens use it to talk about Selena Gomez,…
Can You Tell Which One of These Baseball Stories Was Written By a Robot?
It’s only a matter of time before robots replace all jobs, right? Well, today they’re coming for mine.
8 Ways Virtual Reality Is For More Than Just Video Games
Virtual reality, a dream of science fiction writers for decades, is the closest to a true reality than it’s ever been.…
Virtual Reality Lets You Live the News Instead of Reading It
I look to my left and see a sorrowful parent sitting on the curb, comforting his daughter. I look to my right, and I…
Watch a North Korean Military Parade In VR With This Free App
I went to Pyongyang today: I stayed in an immaculate North Korean hotel room, watched as the country’s ballistic…
The New York Times' Virtual Reality App Is Here–And It's Very, Very Cool
As new technology appears, news agencies have constantly been reinventing themselves. That’s why the New York Times is…
Two Months Later, Amazon's Still Complaining About That Times Hit Piece
It’s been over two months since The New York Times published a lengthy and rather scathing report on what it’s like to…