Trevon Maurice Franklin, from Fresno, California, was arrested on Tuesday by federal agents for posting the entirety of Deadpool on Facebook while it was still being shown in movie theaters.
A patent filed by Disney details a method of confusing digital scanners used with 3D printers, in an apparent move to block people from copying figurines of their characters at home.
Theresa May, the newly re-elected British Prime Minister spoke at a press conference on Tuesday ahead of a visit to meet with the French President Emmanuel Macron, revealing that the two countries would be working together to push a new legal liability on social media and technology companies to remove “unacceptable” content that is promoted on their platforms.
IT workers at the University of California intend to file a lawsuit challenging their dismissal after they were replaced by offshore workers, arguing that those sacked from the UC San Francisco campus were discriminated against based on age and national origin.
Amazon’s new Echo Look contains a feature known as “Style Check” that will let strangers judge your outfits.
Representatives of the Chinese government and the European Space Agency have been in talks regarding the construction of a possible moon base in the near future, it has been revealed.
Webroot’s antivirus service accidentally misidentified core parts of Microsoft Windows as threats to the rest of the computer, shutting down thousands of customer’s systems on Monday evening.
According to Business Insider’s 2017 Digital Trust survey, Facebook and YouTube are regarded by consumers as having the most annoying advertisements.
Google has been releasing new information on its homegrown machine learning chip; but at the same time, most of the original development team have secretly splintered off to form their own project.
Zara, a Spanish clothing retailer, has removed from sale a denim skirt with patches that bore a striking resemblance to Pepe the Frog.
MasterCard is currently testing a credit card with a fingerprint scanner embedded within it, creating an extra layer of biometric authentication to keep the accounts of their customers as safe as possible.
Facebook shareholders have demanded a report on so-called fake news and the apparent threat it poses to democracy and free speech, according to a proxy filing made on Friday.
Google has responded to claims that it rated InfoWars as a “low-to-medium” website on a reliability scale to limit its appearance in search results, blaming a vendor for doing so without their knowledge.
The German Federal Network Agency has ordered parents to destroy any “My Friend Cayla” dolls that their children have, or face more than $25,000 in fines for not complying. This ruling comes after the smart dolls were found to be transmitting audio recordings to a third party specializing in voice recognition for police and military forces.
Roku-enabled TVs will soon be able to direct viewers to similar content by detecting what they are currently watching.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s new “Spying on Students” report, educational establishments that provide students with devices such as laptops or tablets are not respecting their privacy rights.
A 13-year-old boy was found dead by his mother on Monday evening after accidentally shooting himself while streaming on Instagram Live.
In a press conference on Wednesday, the Italian-born artist behind Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull” statue, Arturo di Modica, argued that the recently installed “Fearless Girl” statue was tantamount to a violation of copyright. Mr Di Modica’s attorney, Norman Siegel,
University of Sydney Union has canceled an upcoming screening of Cassie Jaye’s documentary about men’s rights activism, The Red Pill, alleging that the film is “anti-woman.”
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said in a press conference on Tuesday that Hitler did not use chemical weapons during WWII, arguing that Russia would be on the wrong side of history in supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This sparked a clamor online of people quick to point out the existence of the gas chambers used to murder millions in concentration camps.
A video from China showing a factory floor where dozens of orange robots scuttle around delivering packages with extreme efficiency, removing the need for an army of menial workers, has gone viral.
Chris Bevington, an executive at Spotify, has been named as the British victim killed in Friday’s terror attack in Stockholm.
The CEO of WPP, the largest advertising company in the world, told CNBC that companies are looking for other platforms to place their advertising online beyond the “duopoly” of Facebook and Google. “What our clients want, and indeed what the
Taser has shocked the law enforcement world by announcing that it will be offering free body cameras and a year of access to the company’s cloud storage system to all American police forces.
Twitter, Instagram, and 6 other tech companies will contribute around $5.3 million to a payment fund for consumers who used their apps between 2009 and 2012 if a settlement for breaching the privacy of users is approved.
US Navy SEALs have begun testing the effects of concentrated electricity on the brain in order to improve performance in strenuous situations.
In a meeting with Amber Rudd, the British Home Secretary, tech companies including Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft promised to crack down on terrorist content being accessible on the internet after the Westminster attacker, Khalid Massood, reportedly found tips as to how to orchestrate such an attack online.
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, has surpassed both Amancio Ortega and Warren Buffett to become the world’s second-richest man.
Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have created artificial heart tissue with functioning vasculature by stripping a spinach leaf of its original cells and replacing them with human cells.
In response to criticisms that millions of recalled Galaxy Note 7 phones will be dumped with no regards to the environment, Samsung has announced three “principles” to assure customers that nothing will go to waste, including recycling materials and selling refurbished versions of the phone.
According to analysts from Nomura Instinet, Google could potentially lose $750 million or more as a result of the advertising boycott that it is currently facing for allowing advertisements to appear on extremist videos.
Google’s parent company Alphabet lost around $20 billion in value last week, due to a 2% drop in its share prices as a result of a coordinated advertising boycott by big companies worried about their advertising being placed next to inappropriate content.
Venezuelan internet users have quantified the “Rare Pepe,” converting the internet meme into a Bitcoin-linked alternative currency to escape the economic controls imposed by Venezuela’s socialist regime.
A report from mobile defense specialists Skycure has identified that 71 percent of Android users have security patches that are at least two months out of date, leaving them at risk of data breaches and malware.
The Solicitor General for England and Wales, Robert Buckland, has claimed that Google may be in breach of the Terrorism Act for failing to take down material from proscribed extremist organizations.
A patent filed by Facebook detailing a proposed meme analysis engine has been uncovered.
Google has vowed to fight a search warrant put forward by a Minnesota judge to collect information on anyone who Googled the name of an identity theft victim.
Google’s European boss has announced a policy change along with apologizing for allowing advertisements on Google and YouTube to appear next to extremist material. Multiple organizations, including the UK government, have already pulled their advertisements for fear of damaging their brands and contributing to the funding of groups whose videos their advertisements appeared next to.
The British Government has pulled all advertising from YouTube over concerns that their adverts were appearing on “inappropriate” videos. The BBC, the Guardian and Channel 4 also backed out of YouTube advertising over similar worries. The Cabinet Office said that
58 technology companies have signed an amicus curiae brief against President Trump’s latest immigration order, filed in a challenge brought upon the order in the state of Hawaii. However, tech giants such as Apple, Google and Facebook have not joined them.
