Privacy Concerns

WASHINGTON (AP) Executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter faced questioning by a House panel Wednesday on their efforts to stanch terrorist content and viral misinformation on their social media platforms. The scrutiny comes as the tech giants step up safet…

Brief: Augmented reality entertainment app Mardles added characters from Disney/Pixar's "Toy Story 4" to its lineup to bring to life children's party products sold at Walmart, developer AliveLab said in an announcement shared with sister publication …

Under fire for the sheer amount of personal data it collects, Google will finally allow you to auto-delete your activity and location history, the company announced Wednesday. Users on both iPhone and Android can now opt in to auto-deletion of sensitive loca…

Overcrowded facilities. Sick, filthy and hungry children sleeping on concrete floors. Young children taking care of infants and toddlers in the enforced absence of their parents. News stories emerged last week about squalid conditions at a Border Patrol dete…

Scott A. Shay is co-founder and chairman of Signature Bank of New York and the author of In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism (Post Hill Press, 2018). Allowing Facebook to mint its own coin, the Libra, would turn it into the greatest anti-competit…

After 18 months of high-profile resignations, local resistance, and lots of listening, Google-affiliate Sidewalk Labs finally released its master plan to redevelop a swath of Torontos waterfront as a sensor-laden neighbourhood on Monday. The master plan, c…

A rendering of the Quayside neighborhood, which Sidewalk Labs is developing into a high-tech hub. Sidewalk Labs Alphabet's controversial smart city project just took its biggest step forward. Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's parent company, on Monday…

The Google Nest Hub and the Amazon Echo Show are two of the best options.  Chris Monroe/CNET Since the Amazon Echo Show launched in 2017, roughly a dozen smart displays have hit the market, with a new batch launching this summer. This blossoming category of…

Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. Thats why were disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, yall. This June-ish roun…

If you want to monitor how your kids spend time on their tablets or smartphones, Apple now has an app for that. But what about the apps that already existed to monitor screen time? Over the past year, Apple has removed or restricted at least 11 of the 17 most…