August 23, 2019 Alex Stamos, Ex-Facebook Security Chief, Blames Journalists for Cambridge Analytica Fallout A Facebook initiative announced last year designed to generate “independent, credible research about the role of social media in elections” is faltering, BuzzFeed reported…
August 23, 2019 Apple contractors were allegedly listening to 1,000 Siri recordings a day — each Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Each of the big five tech companies has been caught secretly using human contractors to listen to…
August 23, 2019 Report: The Ms. Marvel Live-Action TV Show Is a Go at Disney+ It’s Kamala Khan’s time to shine. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Marvel is developing a live-action Ms. Marvel series for Disney+, with writer and stand-up…
August 23, 2019 First Death From Vaping-Linked Lung Illness Reported by Illinois Health Officials A patient has died after suffering a mysterious lung illness linked to vaping, health officials said Friday. The death comes in the wake of…
August 23, 2019 A Last Ditch Legal Effort to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline Has Failed A new president is looking more and more like advocates’ only way of stopping the Keystone XL Pipeline. The Nebraska Supreme Court approved the…
August 23, 2019 LG’s smart home app adds voice control through Google Assistant Many smart appliance makers' apps still require that you tap buttons to control your home, but not LG's. It's introducing Google Assistant-powered voice control…
August 23, 2019 Epoch Times banned from advertising after sneaking pro-***** propaganda onto Facebook Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has banned conservative news site The Epoch Times from buying ads after it was discovered that…
August 23, 2019 Netflix test brings human-curated ‘Collections’ to streaming Netflix leans on algorithms for virtually all of its show suggestions, but it's trying something radical: curation from real, honest-to-goodness humans. The service is…
August 23, 2019 Users Permanently Alter Their Minds Inside a Network in an Excerpt From Jayinee Basu’s The City of Folding Faces Mara is very different now, after digitizing and uploading herself as a “space-time tubeform” into the network of the Roulette. There’s even a word…
August 23, 2019 Netflix tests Collections that are curated by humans instead of algorithms Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Netflix is testing a new Collections section that rounds up content into themed lists like “Watch in…