Facebook’s long-delayed content removal Oversight Board is now accepting appeals

Reuters October 22, 2020 9:05 AM

Hollywood-backed streaming service Quibi to shutter 6 months after launch

Reuters October 22, 2020 2:14 AM

FIFA 20, Final Fantasy XV, and big games that divided critics and players

Dean Takahashi October 21, 2020 12:17 PM

Syte raises $40 million to bring visual search to online retailers

Paul Sawers October 21, 2020 6:00 AM

Snap shares jump 23% as Snapchat user growth and revenue beat estimates

Reuters October 21, 2020 1:51 AM

Adobe’s Photoshop Neural Filters use AI to change faces, recolor photos

Jeremy Horwitz October 20, 2020 6:00 AM

Facebook opens Messenger API to Instagram messaging for businesses

Paul Sawers October 19, 2020 6:09 AM

Japan to join the U.S. and Europe in regulating Big Tech over market abuses

Reuters October 19, 2020 2:16 AM

Foursquare’s Marsbot for AirPods offers location-aware audio tips

Jeremy Horwitz October 16, 2020 4:54 AM

Prezi introduces dynamic video teaching tools as education moves online

Paul Sawers October 16, 2020 4:16 AM

Xsolla launches Unconventional for game-like virtual events

Dean Takahashi October 15, 2020 7:30 AM

Pew finds 69% of Twitter’s most prolific users are Democrats

Chris O'Brien October 15, 2020 7:00 AM

U.S. regulator: Twitter’s lax security enabled ‘simple’ celebrity account hack by Florida teen

Reuters October 15, 2020 1:59 AM

Zoom launches Zapps to bring third-party apps into video calls

Manasa Gogineni October 14, 2020 8:00 AM

Facebook bans ads that discourage people from getting vaccines

Reuters October 14, 2020 2:12 AM

U.S. TikTok rival Triller could go public

Reuters October 12, 2020 2:14 AM

Into the Mother Lands interview: Twitch invests in an RPG show led by people of color

Jason Wilson October 9, 2020 1:07 PM

AI Weekly: Nvidia’s Maxine opens the door to deepfakes and bias in video calls

Kyle Wiggers October 9, 2020 12:50 PM

Analysis

How social media and gamification fueled QAnon’s ‘crowdsourced cult’

Chris O'Brien October 9, 2020 5:52 AM

Facebook launches Hacker Plus loyalty program and FBDL bug description language

Paul Sawers October 9, 2020 3:03 AM

InfluenceMap: Facebook allows climate disinformation ads to flourish despite claims to the contrary

Kyle Wiggers October 7, 2020 9:00 PM

Facebook bans all QAnon groups in bid to curb misinformation

Reuters October 7, 2020 2:44 AM

U.S. Congress calls for antitrust reforms to limit powers of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

Khari Johnson October 6, 2020 3:16 PM

Senate panel votes to subpoena tech CEOs to testify over Section 230 legal immunity

Reuters October 2, 2020 12:33 AM

SendinBlue raises $160 million to automate repetitive marketing tasks

Kyle Wiggers September 30, 2020 10:00 PM

Chromecast with Google TV attempts to revive Android TV for the streaming wars

Emil Protalinski September 30, 2020 11:05 AM

How bots threaten to derail the 2020 U.S. elections

Kyle Wiggers September 30, 2020 7:30 AM

HP’s Reverb G2 Omnicept VR headset adds heart, eye, and face tracking

Jeremy Horwitz September 30, 2020 5:00 AM

Pew: 26% of U.S. adults get their news from YouTube

Chris O'Brien September 28, 2020 9:00 AM

U.S. judge blocks Trump administration’s TikTok download ban

Reuters September 28, 2020 7:34 AM

The Last of Us Part II voice actor breaks new ground with Twitch’s Artificial

Dean Takahashi September 26, 2020 10:25 AM

Facebook’s Oversight Board to launch in October — but not for election cases

Reuters September 25, 2020 1:42 AM

Analysis

Apple and Facebook spin antitrust claims: We’re misunderstood

Jeremy Horwitz September 24, 2020 1:31 PM

After boycotts, advertisers and social media giants agree on steps to curb hate speech

Reuters September 24, 2020 2:18 AM

Facebook removes ‘inauthentic’ Chinese accounts for U.S. political interference

Reuters September 23, 2020 12:31 AM

Microsoft’s Azure Communication Services handles enterprise video, voice, and text communications

Kyle Wiggers September 22, 2020 8:00 AM

Apparent racial bias found in Twitter photo algorithm

Khari Johnson September 20, 2020 3:09 PM

How U.S. tech policy could change if Democrats win back the Senate

Khari Johnson September 20, 2020 9:21 AM

Stardust Social Casino is a bet on enticing players with Las Vegas history

Dean Takahashi September 19, 2020 10:25 AM

John Carmack says he’s ‘kind of embarrassed’ over Facebook’s social VR during pandemic

Jamie Feltham, Upload VR September 19, 2020 3:13 AM