Advertisement Supported by Tech Fix Facebook Did Not Securely Store Passwords. Here’s What You Need to Know. ImageMark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook. The company said millions of user account passwords had been stored insecurely.CreditCreditStephen Lam/Reuters By Brian X. Chen March 21, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook said on Thursday that millions of user […]
Social media companies have been told to “clean up their platforms” or be prepared to face the “force of the law” by Home Secretary Sajid Javid. The warning comes after a gunman who killed 49 people at two mosques in New Zealand filmed the attack and live-streamed it directly to Facebook. Writing in the Daily […]
Enlarge / Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren at SXSW 2019. Nathan Mattise AUSTIN, Texas—”So yesterday you made a pretty big announcement about tech. Then like the gangster you are, you flew down to a tech conference… “ Time Editor-at-Large Anand Giridharadas led with that at his South by Southwest conversation with Massachusetts Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth […]
Tech firms, such as Google and Facebook, must improve their “inadequate” responses to privacy and data breaches and anti-social content, a House of Lords report says. The House of Lords Communications Committee wants a digital authority to help laws keep pace with technology. Content moderation used by tech firms was “unacceptably slow,” it said. The […]
Advertisement Supported by Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook ImageSenator Elizabeth Warren’s plan creates two tiers of companies that would fall under the new regulations.CreditCreditElizabeth Frantz for The New York Times By Astead W. Herndon March 8, 2019 Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is bidding to be the […]
Huawei says the P30 Pro smartphone will feature “revolutionary camera technology that no company has ever used before,” and promises it will have a similar impact to the introduction of its monochrome lens on the P10, which improved overall picture quality, particularly in low light. This is quite a promise from Huawei, given the amount […]
Supported by The Shift Why Napalm Is a Cautionary Tale for Tech Giants Pursuing Military Contracts ImageCreditCreditMatt Chase By Kevin Roose March 4, 2019 Over the past few months, a fierce debate has erupted in Silicon Valley over whether large technology companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft should join forces with the United States military, […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A war is brewing. On the one side: data-grubbing giants set on gathering (and monetizing) your personal information. On the other: a growing army of informed users, a surprising number of concerned tech executives, and… the long arm of the law. While it’s too early to announce a winner, increasing global privacy […]
Supported by Tech Fix Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus Review: A $ 1,000 Smartphone With Compromises Despite being an excellent phone with an innovative wide-angle camera, Samsung’s new flagship device lags Apple in biometrics. ImageA Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus smartphone during a product preview in San Francisco.CreditCreditEric Risberg/Associated Press By Brian X. Chen Feb. 27, 2019 […]
Supported by China’s Tech Firms Are Mapping Pig Faces As a devastating disease afflicts the country’s swine, companies are scrambling to roll out facial and voice recognition and other unproven ways to save them. By Sui-Lee Wee and Elsie Chen Feb. 24, 2019 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 ImageA system made by Yingzi Techology, a small Chinese company, scanning […]
Supported by It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town ImageNew York City is home to thousands of fledgling companies, and the region regularly ranks second to the Bay Area in attracting venture capital, the lifeblood of the start-up economy.CreditCreditRobert Wright for The New York Times By Steve Lohr Feb. 22, […]
Supported by The Strange Experience of Being Australia’s First Tech Billionaires ImageScott Farquhar, left, and Mike Cannon-Brookes at the Sydney headquarters of their company, Atlassian. “The orthodoxy amongst the Australian tech companies is to stay away from politics,” an Australian venture capitalist said. “And then now there’s these guys.”CreditCreditMatthew Abbott for The New York Times […]
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Enlarge Valentine’s Day and consumer technology don’t exactly go hand in hand. Every couple is different, but if you’re getting a loved one a gift for the holiday, it should come from the heart. A new smartphone or portable hard drive is nice, but it doesn’t always scream “romance.” For the tech-obsessed robots at Ars […]