Tech

A Navy sailor and his pregnant wife are in the hospital after they were shot multiple times Saturday night trying to meet up with who they thought was a teenage girl selling a cellphone over the OffersUp app.

The Black Students’ Organization at Columbia University is demanding that administrators cut off funding to the school’s College Republicans chapter.

(Reuters) BRUSSELS — Facebook, Twitter, Google’s YouTube and Microsoft on Tuesday agreed to an EU code of conduct to tackle online hate speech within 24 hours in Europe.

YouTube removed a parody video that mocked them last week, before reposting it following community backlash.

An artificial intelligence bot built by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology writes new, short horror stories every hour, according to a report.

The FBI unit ran fingerprints from about 1,500 bodies through a new computer algorithm that could make matches from low-quality prints or even a single finger or thumb. Previously, the standard algorithm typically needed quality prints from all 10 fingers to make a match.

ATWATER, Calif. (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s self-driving car unit stopped developing features that required drivers to take control in dangerous situations, its chief executive said Monday, as autopilot reliance left users prone to distractions and ill-prepared to maneuver.

Elon Musk tweeted an image of the first tunnel his Boring Company is drilling under Los Angeles to demonstrate his progress toward integrating Tesla, Hyperloop, the Gigafactory, and SpaceX. The ultimate goal: “Transportation-as-a-Service.”

Last month a preview article shared by WikiTribune, the recently launched London-based journalism project of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, was criticized for blatant anti-Trump bias in its coverage promoting a conference on the United Nations-linked Global Goals campaign.

The University of Michigan has announced that 20 students will be offered free room and board in exchange for their progressive activism on campus.

Twitter is set to crackdown on revenge porn amid new rule changes on the platform, according to a report.

A Ford seat-testing robot is made to mimic movements of the “human butt,” according to a report.

New York Times columnist Frank Bruni argued that universities need to do a better job of embracing Trump-minded students, in a column that was published on Saturday.

A team of medical researchers has developed artificial intelligence that can scan and identify signs of opioid abuse on Twitter, according to a report.

The former aide to President Nixon and longtime Trump ally has been permanently banned by Twitter, according to reports.

The over 9 million citizens of Hangzhou, China, have been under constant surveillance by artificial intelligence since October 2016.

“Silicon Valley is the new Wall Street,” a Bannon ally says.

Vassar College students “were whipped into a frenzy” ahead of a speech given on campus this week by Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson on the topic of hate speech on college campuses.

University of Oregon President Michael Schill argued that the leftist practice of shutting down campus speaking events is “awfully close” to “fascism” this week.

The Guardian called the rise of free-thinking, LGBT conservatives “troubling” in an article on Thursday.

Yelp, Apple, and PayPal all plan to sign an amicus brief encouraging the Supreme Court to rule that refusing service to LGBT people based on religious beliefs is not a First Amendment right, but rather anti-LGBT discrimination.

Google is partnering with the International Fact-Checking Network, an organization run by the George Soros-funded Poynter Institute.

In an article about the most prominent threats to Silicon Valley, Axios claimed Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon “is railing against the ‘Lords of Silicon Valley.'”

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk camped out on the roof of his “Gigafactory” this week after hundreds of workers were fired from Tesla and its subsidiary SolarCity.

During a congressional hearing on the state of free speech on college campuses held on Thursday, Middlebury professor Allison Stanger claimed that faculty at the college encouraged students to derail a February speaking event with Charles Murray.

The British government has revealed that North Korea was behind the WannaCry ransomware hack that targeted British hospitals.

Union-led protests against Tesla’s firing of between 400 to 1000 manufacturing employees may impact a labor complaint filed by the National Labor Relation Board (NLRB) against Tesla’s labor practices on August 31.

The Dutch government has admitted that technology from the Netherlands may have been used to develop weapons of mass destruction in Iran, Pakistan or Syria.

Seven liberal and conservative groups wrote a letter to AG Jeff Sessions, urging him to block the merger between AT&T and Time Warner.

Open borders organizations and the cheap foreign labor industry have teamed up with tech giants to push amnesty for roughly 800,000 to potentially 3.3 million illegal aliens in the United States.

Utah-based robotics company Sarcos is focused on augmenting, rather than replacing, human workers with robots.

Tesla has fired more than 200 additional employees from their SolarCity subsidiary, some of which claim that performance reviews never took place.

The student senate at Clemson University has impeached its Vice President, shortly after he sat during the pledge of allegiance at a student government meeting.