Spotify Signs DC Superheroes For Podcasts
Spotify has announced a deal that will see superheroes and villains from DC Comics and Warner Bros star in narrative…
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Turning Off Political Ads On Facebook Could Have Unpredictable Consequences
It seems hard to believe now, but there was a time when political advertising was relatively uncontroversial. Sure, individual ads…
Amazon Plans To Show Premier League Matches For Free On Prime And Twitch
Amazon has announced that it is making all of its Premier League soccer matches free to watch on Amazon Prime…
Facebook And Instagram Will Let Users ‘Turn Off’ All Political Ads For The 2020 Election
Critics say Facebook is actively enabling the spread of political misinformation online, but the social network has now come up…
Volkswagen Electric SUV Leaked Months Ahead Of Release
Volkswagen’s first all-electric SUV, the ID 4, has broken cover thanks to leaked images from China’s Ministry of Industry and…
Lyft Says ‘100 Percent’ Of Its Vehicles Will Be Electric By 2030
Lyft announced a plan on Wednesday to transition to “100 percent” electric or zero-emission vehicles by 2030. By working with…
TikTok Clone Zynn Removed From The iOS App Store
Zynn, the Chinese video sharing app that’s a near button-for-button clone of TikTok, has been removed from Apple’s App Store.…
U.S., Brazil In Talks On Funding To Buy 5G Gear From Ericsson, Nokia
The United States is in talks with Brazil and its local telecommunications companies on funding the acquisition of fifth-generation gear…
Big Tech Companies Are Responding To George Floyd In A Way They Never Did For Michael Brown
nIn the days since the death of George Floyd, technology’s biggest companies and their leaders have made public statements expressing…
Tech’s Big Five Lost Nearly $270 Billion In Value In Thursday’s Market Plunge
The five most valuable tech companies lost more than $269 billion in value on Thursday, the worst day for U.S.…
Sony Unveils Playstation 5, Coming Later This Year
Sony unveiled the PlayStation 5 game console design on Thursday. The PS5 was unveiled at the end of a video stream…
Twitter Suspends Chinese Operation Pushing Pro-Beijing Coronavirus Messages
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter (TWTR.N) on Thursday said it was removing hundreds of thousands of accounts tied to a…
Amazon Bans Police Use Of Facial Recognition Technology For One Ye
Amazon said on Wednesday that it’s banning use of its facial recognition software by police for one year, as pressure…
Reddit Names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel As Alexis Ohanian’s Replacement
Reddit has named Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to its board of directors. In addition to running the well-known accelerator,…
Facebook Moves To Limit Spread Of Extremist ‘Boogaloo’ Pages And Groups
Facebook is limiting the spread of pages and groups linked with the word “boogaloo,” an internet slang term used in some…
George Floyd: Reddit Co-Founder Quits Board And Asks For Black Replacement
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has resigned from the tech firm’s board and urged the company to replace him with a…
Google Now Highlights Search Results Directly On Webpages
Google is trying to make it easier to find the information you’re looking for on external websites by highlighting relevant…
Apple’s 2021 iPad Pros Could Have 5G
Apple’s 2021 iPad Pros could have 5G, thanks to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X55 5G modem, according to Apple leaker L0vetodream on…
Snap Says it Will No Longer Promote Trump’s Content Within Snapchat
Snap announced Wednesday it will no longer promote President Trump’s content within Snapchat’s Discover feature. Snap shares were down more than…
How SpaceX Is ‘Revolutionizing The Space Industry’
The spectacular launch into orbit of NASA astronauts aboard a SpaceX capsule on Saturday proves what space investors are betting…
Microsoft Blocking The Windows 10 May 2020 Update On Many Devices
Microsoft is preventing a large number of devices from updating to the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. While the software…
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Faces Employee Backlash Over Trump Protest Comments
Facebook employees critical of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to act on President Donald Trump’s inflammatory comments about U.S. protests…
SpaceX Crew Dragon Delivers Two NASA Astronauts To International Space Station
Nearly 24 hours after launching from Florida, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule delivered NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to…
A New TikTok Clone, Zynn Hit The Top Of The App Store By Paying Users To Watch Videos
TikTok has a new competitor: Zynn, a nearly button-for-button clone of TikTok that differentiates itself with one key twist —…
The World’s ‘Largest All Electric Commercial Aircraft’ Completes Its First Flight
The planet’s “largest all electric commercial aircraft” has completed its maiden flight, the latest example of a zero-emission form of…
NASA And SpaceX Launch First Astronauts To Orbit From U.S. Since 2011
NASA astronauts are heading to space from U.S. soil for the first time in nine years, aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule,…
Google Search Results Will Take ‘Page Experience’ Into Account Next Year
Google will change how its algorithms rank websites in search results, the company announced today. Starting sometime early next year,…
Microsoft Has A New App To Help Parents Keep Tabs On Their Kids’ Xbox Time 4
Microsoft’s Xbox Family Settings App is a new way for parents and guardians to manage how their children spend their…
SpaceX Delays First Historic Crewed Launch To Space Due To Weather
Just 17 minutes before its planned launch, SpaceX postponed its first crewed flight to space on Wednesday afternoon due to…
Huawei Says New US Sanctions Puts Its Survival At Stake
Huawei has warned that its survival is at stake following the US government’s latest efforts to cut the Chinese company…