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Shootings at YouTube’s HQ leave suspect dead and three injured
Updated: Three people were injured after being shot at YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, California, on Tuesday, by a suspect who died at the scene from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. The injured were taken to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Those include a 36-year-old male who is in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman in ...
Dating app Grindr shared very personal information with other companies
The gay dating app Grindr, used by about 3.6 million people worldwide, has been sharing the HIV status of its users with other companies, according to a report in Buzzfeed and confirmed by Norwegian nonprofit SINTEF. Users of the app can input details such as when they last were tested for HIV, and also state ...
Facebook will now fact-check photos and videos to reduce fake news
Facebook Inc. announced Thursday that it has started fact-checking photos and videos, a move that the company said will prevent the spread of doctored images that have been circulating on the platform. The social media behemoth said it was partnering with Agence France-Presse to start the fact-checking effort in France, which is all part of ...
The BBC says it’s being ‘squeezed out’ by US streaming services
The British Broadcasting Corp. is on the back foot, saying it fears it’s being overtaken by on-demand streaming services such as Netflix Inc., YouTube and Spotify. In its 2018/2019 charter, the BBC talked about how the number of younger viewers is falling because they are going instead to online services. It’s not just a matter ...
Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress, but he won’t be going to the UK
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before the U.S. Congress following the data harvesting scandal that has tainted the company’s reputation and prompted several investigations. According to reports today, Zuckerberg will face the music “within a matter of weeks” and the company is planning a strategy before Zuckerberg meets with the ...
Wal-Mart patents point to a smarter kind of shopping in the future
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. today filed for a range of patents that indicates the retail giant is looking to use new technologies to change the shopping experience altogether. One of those patents is a sensing device that may work with a shopper’s smartphone and a connected shopping cart, helping the shopper find certain items in the store. ...
Video of Uber autonomous car that killed woman shows it didn’t slow down, driver distracted
Video footage has been released of a crash that took place last weekend when one of Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving cars killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, as she was walking her bicycle across the street. And it isn’t pretty. The death of the 49-year-old woman, Elaine Herzberg, has raised questions concerning the safety of ...
Here’s how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to fix that data mess
Updated with Mark Zuckerberg’s post: After a sudden avalanche of criticism over recent revelations of potentially illegal and certainly unexpected use of its user data, Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg today outlined steps he’s planning to take to fix the mess. Whether his response and those steps outlined in a post on his Facebook ...
Cambridge Analytica execs secretly filmed talking about bribes, fake IDs, sex workers and voter manipulation
The U.K.’s Channel 4 television station broadcast a video on Monday showing executives at data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica talking about using sex workers, bribes and other nefarious traps to swing the outcome of elections. The video was the result of a four-month investigation by Channel 4’s undercover team into a company that prides itself ...
Facebook security chief will leave the company amid Russian disinformation scandal
Facebook Inc.’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, will leave the company, according to a report published in the New York Times. It seems Stamos (pictured) had disagreed with other executives at the company over the handling of the Russian misinformation campaign that partly took place on the social network last year. According to the report, ...
