An advert for one of Dyson’s £400 fans has been labelled misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The video, for the company’s Pure Hot and Cool Fan, suggests the fan is cordless when it actually needs to be plugged in, it said. Dyson told the ASA it did not think there was “any reasonable […]
Lawmakers made it clear at a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Tuesday that they believe the biggest roadblock to Facebook’s plan to enter the world of cryptocurrency and global finance is the company’s reputation. Facebook’s cryptocurrency project, Libra, has been in the works for more than a year. It has an ambitious goal: to offer […]
Officials say Bianca Devins, 17, was killed Sunday. Brandon Clark is charged in her death. (Devins family photo) Eli Rosenberg General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news July 16 at 12:08 AM Police arrived at the gruesome scene Sunday morning, alerted by frantic calls from users on the messaging app Discord. What police heard […]
Last week we told the story of the family whose children emptied their parents’ bank account buying players in the video game Fifa. It generated a big debate about whether parental controls are sufficient, how much responsibility lies with mum and dad – and the ethics of encouraging young players to spend money within games […]
It was not a given that Steve Hilton, the conservative Fox News host, and Tim Wu, a Columbia University law professor who worked in the Obama White House, would get along. But when they met by chance at a cocktail party in Washington last year, they quickly landed on one surprisingly strong point of agreement: […]
A Trump tweet and a poster defining “shadow banning” were on display at Thursday’s White House social media summit. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) President Trump’s “social media summit” probably marks the beginning, not the end, of Silicon Valley’s political headaches, opening the door for the White House and its conservative allies to intensify their attacks […]
Media playback is unsupported on your device US regulators have approved a record $ 5bn (£4bn) fine on Facebook to settle an investigation into data privacy violations, reports in US media say. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been investigating allegations that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained the data of up to 87 million […]
The Oculus Go virtual-reality headset. (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) July 12 at 4:35 PM For Walmart employees, seeking a promotion within the company has typically meant undergoing a comprehensive vetting process that included a detailed “paper-based assessment.” Combined with in-person interviews, the written component has traditionally helped managers judge how effectively someone might function in […]
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The Facebook Inc. logo is displayed for a photograph on an Apple Inc. iPhone in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Facebook is struggling to respond to growing demands from Washington to explain how the personal data of millions of its users could be exploited by a consulting firm that helped Donald Trump […]
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Amazon has increasingly turned to robots and automation technology to fetch products from the shelves of its warehouses to ship to customers. Now the company says it needs to help its workers adapt to the rapid change. The e-commerce giant said on Thursday that it planned to spend $ 700 million to retrain a third […]
Trolling on the internet was once a thankless pastime. Make edgy jokes on the right message board, get your sarcastic memes noticed by the right people, and you might score some retweets and Reddit upvotes, but that was about the extent of it. For today’s right-wing trolls, though, there is a bigger prize on the […]
After being hit by a scooter rider in Chicago in a crash that left blood on a sidewalk, Allyson Medeiros suffered multiple broken bones in his face and was hospitalized. The 32-year-old is working to find the person who hit him. (Courtesy of Allyson Medeiros/GoFundMe) July 10 at 1:32 PM The moments before the crash […]
People will be able to get expert health advice using Amazon Alexa devices, under a partnership with the NHS, the government has announced. From this week, the voice-assisted technology is automatically searching the NHS Choices website when UK users ask for health-related advice. The Department of Health in England said it could reduce demand on […]