Jan 04 From electric skates to an AI-powered bird feeder, CES 2023 will showcase latest tech By Adriana Morga, Haleluya Hadero, Cara Rubinsky, Associated Press Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest products at CES, formerly known as the Consumer Electronics show. Continue reading
Jan 04 European Union fines Facebook parent Meta 390M euros for privacy violations By Kelvin Chan, Associated Press European Union regulators have hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for privacy violations and banned the company from forcing users in the 27-nation bloc to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity. Continue reading
Jan 03 Drone advances amid war in Ukraine could bring fighting robots to front lines By Frank Bajak, Hanna Arhirova, Associated Press Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a technology trend that could soon bring the world's first fully autonomous robots to the battlefield and inaugurate a new age of warfare. Continue reading
Nov 11 Twitter Blue unavailable after flood of fake accounts By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press Twitter's relaunched premium service — which grants blue-check "verification" labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month — is unavailable after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts approved by Twitter. Continue reading
Nov 05 Millions depend on private messaging apps to keep in touch. They're ripe with misinformation By Saher Khan, Vignesh Ramachandran And while social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have come under intense scrutiny for hosting misinformation, private messaging services like Telegram, South Korea’s Kakao, the China-based WeChat and the largest--WhatsApp--have been more difficult to monitor because they host private,… Continue reading
Oct 28 Facebook grilled by U.K. lawmakers making online safety rules By Associated Press Lawmakers pressed Facebook to provide its data to independent researchers who can look at how its products could be harmful. Facebook has said it has privacy concerns about how such data would be shared. Continue reading
Oct 25 Facebook has struggled to curb divisive content in India By Sheikh Saaliq, Krutika Pathi, Associated Press Internal company documents on India highlight Facebook's constant struggles in quashing abusive content on its platforms in the world's biggest democracy. Communal and religious tensions in India have a history of boiling over on social media and stoking violence. Continue reading
Oct 25 Facebook's language gaps allow terrorist content and hate speech to thrive By Isabel Debre, Fares Akram, Associated Press Internal company documents show the problems are far more systemic than just a few innocent mistakes, and that Facebook has understood the depth of these failings for years while doing little about it. Continue reading
Oct 25 Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over human trafficking By Jon Gambrell, Jim Gomez, Associated Press Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast. Continue reading
Oct 21 Trump says he's launching a new media company with its own social media platform By Jill Colvin, Associated Press Trump says his goal in launching the Trump Media & Technology Group and its "Truth Social" app is to create a rival to the Big Tech companies that have shut him out and denied him the megaphone that was paramount… Continue reading