March 8, 2019 Facebook wants to be WeChat Mark Zuckerberg laid out a new direction for Facebook this week that shifts its focus from a sprawling series of social apps to a…
March 8, 2019 A technology expert gives four suggestions on how to rein in algorithms “I hear a lot that algorithms are powerful technologies, and the companies are monopolies, and we are helpless against them, and Google is the…
March 8, 2019 Spotify will be pre-installed on the Galaxy S10 and other new phones Spotify and Samsung are expanding their partnership. The companies announced today that new Samsung smartphones will ship with Spotify preinstalled. For eligible owners of…
March 8, 2019 Philadelphia is the first US city to ban cashless stores Philadephia has passed a law requiring almost all businesses to accept cash payments, effectively banning cashless stores. It comes into force July 1st, and…
March 8, 2019 YouTube fought Brie Larson trolls by changing its search algorithm If you searched “Brie Larson” on YouTube a couple of days ago, the top search results were calls for a boycott of Captain Marvel,…
March 8, 2019 You can now make your Switch travel case cosplay as Mario It looks like Cappy has made his way to Amazon because this Nintendo Switch travel case definitely looks like Mario’s soul is trapped inside…
March 8, 2019 The best dash cam By Rik Paul, Molly K. McLaughlin This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks,…
March 8, 2019 Ape Out turns raging monkeys into improvisational jazz In 2014, when game designer Gabe Cuzzillo was still a student in New York, he was going through something of a rough patch. “I…
March 8, 2019 Chelsea Manning jailed after refusing to testify about WikiLeaks Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who shared military and diplomatic secrets with WikiLeaks in 2010, has been taken into custody today for…
March 8, 2019 Report claims that Apple could begin production of iPhone-powered AR glasses this year Apple could begin production of its long-rumored augmented reality glasses as early as the end of this year, noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said….