Facebook may have removed hundreds of fake accounts originating from Iran that are part of an influence campaign, but new findings have shown the operation is far bigger. An ‘apparent’ influence campaign from Iran designed to mislead and manipulate public opinion globally by spreading disinformation is ‘significantly bigger’ than previous findings have shown, Reuters reported […]

No yolk, a photo of an egg has supplanted Kylie Jenner as the most-liked Instagram post of all time. Originally posted on Jan. 5, 2019, by the account world_record_egg, the simple photo of an egg on a plain, white background has surpassed the 18.1 million ‘likes’ required to steal the record from Kylie Jenner. The […]

You know that feeling when something is important to you but other people just don’t care?   That’s how some congressional lawmakers felt this week after Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and, notably, no one from Google testified for a combined eight hours before two committees.   The hearings were kind of […]

Microsoft Azure on Thursday told Gab, a social network popular with conservatives and the alt-right, that it had 48 hours to ‘take appropriate action’ on two posts, according Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba. ‘Gab’s hosting provider, Microsoft Azure, has given us 48 hours to take action on two posts, or they will pull our […]

Looks like Google won’t make your Android apps obsolete whenever it switches to the Fuchsia operating system. A file posted on the Android Open Source Project suggests that the search giant is implementing a specially made version of Android Runtime (ART) — the architecture used by the apps — in the upcoming operating system, as […]

  When Amazon introduced Prime in 2005, it was an innovative concept. Give the company $79 a year and in exchange, you can get unlimited two-day shipping. That idea sparked a race to drastically speed up delivery times for online purchases. Fourteen years later, two-day deliveries are now much more common. Looking to stay one […]

  Amazon on Tuesday said it created a new global name — Amazon Hub — for its many lockers and pickup services. Hub includes Locker, the company’s self-service pickup and return kiosks that first came out in 2011. There are also staffed pickup and return spots, many at college campuses. Those have been renamed Locker+, […]