Trolls made photos of Bianca Devins' death go viral on Instagram. Now, the teen's family wants answers.…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Dec 17) |
Without money and resources, it's hard to fill the diversity gap in tech, especially for women of color.…
HuffPost Tech (Fri Dec 13) |
The heads of Facebook-owned WhatsApp and Messenger services told Barr and his U.K. and Australian counterparts that…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Dec 11) |
Twitter said this week it would pause plans to purge inactive accounts after some users worried about memorialized…
HuffPost Tech (Fri Nov 29) |
Twitter is pausing its plan to erase inactive accounts after concerns emerged over the pages of deceased users.…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Nov 27) |
In response to Instagram's opaque standards for "inappropriate" content, women have started switching their gender…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Nov 19) |
Amazon will challenge a $10 billion Pentagon contract awarded to Microsoft, saying the process was tainted by "poli…
HuffPost Tech (Fri Nov 15) |
Facebook's biannual transparency report tells how it's fighting fake news and child sexual exploitation.…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Nov 14) |
Apple Inc co-founder Steve Wozniak joined in the online debate over accusations of gender discrimination by the alg…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Nov 12) |
A man said the Apple Card offered him a credit limit 20 times greater than it gave to his wife, even though she has…
HuffPost Tech (Sun Nov 10) |
The Pentagon awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract, snubbing early front-runner Amazon,…
HuffPost Tech (Sat Oct 26) |
A Democratic lawmaker who was at Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg slammed the Facebook co-founder's revisionist history…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Oct 23) |
With 8chan now inaccessible, the message board’s hordes of displaced hatemongers are searching for a new place to s…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Oct 21) |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Facebook was the "new cigarettes" and called for the tech giant to be broken up.…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Oct 17) |
One person who watched confidence-building videos from a drag queen ended up in an echo chamber of homophobic rants…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Oct 15) |
Transfixed Fortnite fans watched black hole for hours, wondering if anything else was going to happen.…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Oct 14) |
The tech company said the app violated its rules because it was used to ambush police and by criminals who used it…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Oct 10) |
Gaming giant Blizzard said pro gamer Blitzchung violated competition rules when he said, "Liberate Hong Kong!" in a…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Oct 08) |
YouTube banned supremacist content in June, but such content is still rampant on the site. Here's the latest exampl…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Oct 08) |
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg held a livestreamed Q&A with employees in which he addressed leaked remarks he made in…
HuffPost Tech (Fri Oct 04) |
The union campaign at Kickstarter is heating up
HuffPost Tech (Thu Sep 12) |
Google is facing scrutiny from 50 attorneys general over possible antitrust violations.
HuffPost Tech (Mon Sep 09) |
The Amazon has been burning for weeks. Scammers see the fires as an opportunity.
HuffPost Tech (Thu Sep 05) |
Earlier this summer, Facebook lost an appeal in a class action lawsuit claiming that its facial recognition tech am…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Sep 03) |
Somebody has been sending emails to Kaitlyn Siragusa, aka Amouranth, asking for money to stop repeated removals of…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Aug 26) |
Claims that Facebook or Instagram is changing its terms of service and will make everything public unless users rep…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Aug 21) |
A report authored by a former Republican senator shows no evidence of anti-conservative bias at Facebook.…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Aug 20) |
Twitter told The Associated Press that it's shut down more than 200,000 accounts believed to be part of a Chinese g…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Aug 20) |
The House Homeland Security Committee issued a bipartisan subpoena Wednesday for 8chan owner Jim Watkins to testify…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Aug 14) |
Scammers have set their sights on TikTok to try to cash in on its meteoric rise as a video-sharing app for young pe…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Aug 14) |
Facial recognition software prompts privacy, racism concerns
HuffPost Tech (Fri Aug 09) |
The suspended account Trump retweeted described itself as a Trump supporter and “not a bot.”
HuffPost Tech (Thu Aug 01) |
The investigation comes as a growing number of lawmakers have called for stricter regulation or even breaking up of…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Jul 24) |
YouTube's top conspiracy theory channels are still thriving despite the platform's crackdown on disinformation.…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Jul 23) |
If you, like a shockingly large number of celebrities, recently installed FaceApp to predict what you’ll look like…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Jul 17) |
Trump says he will "take a look" at Google following billionaire investor Peter Thiel's speculation that the tech g…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Jul 16) |
Twitter is expanding its definition of what qualifies as "hateful conduct" on the platform.
HuffPost Tech (Tue Jul 09) |
House Democrats urged Facebook to delay plans for its digital currency, Libra, until regulators could figure out ho…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Jul 03) |
Facebook is rolling out a plan to combat misinformation on the 2020 census, but some civil rights advocates say it'…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Jul 01) |
Ive will leave the iPhone maker later this year to form an independent design company.
HuffPost Tech (Thu Jun 27) |
Family vlogging is a burgeoning industry in which thousands of parents and kids upload home videos to YouTube for m…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Jun 18) |
Facebook unveiled an ambitious plan to create a new digital currency similar to Bitcoin for global use, one that co…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Jun 18) |
One of the Google employees behind last year’s mass walkout protesting the tech giant’s poor handling of sexual har…
HuffPost Tech (Fri Jun 07) |
Apple is expected to announce the total replacement of iTunes during its developer conference Monday, signaling a m…
HuffPost Tech (Sat Jun 01) |
Uber says it will start deactivating riders with a history of low ratings, just as it does for drivers.…
HuffPost Tech (Wed May 29) |
An interview from 24 years ago has resurfaced in which the late fantasy author Terry Pratchett warned of the spread…
HuffPost Tech (Wed May 29) |
Twitter and Facebook announced they've deleted a massive number of disinformation accounts linked to Iran.…
HuffPost Tech (Wed May 29) |
That’s roughly equivalent to 1.6 percent of the entire population of Earth, if you assume the population of Earth i…
HuffPost Tech (Thu May 23) |
Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos said CEO Mark Zuckerberg should hire a replacement, arguing he's become…
HuffPost Tech (Wed May 22) |
″There’s nothing a user could have done here, short of not having the app,” said researcher John Scott-Railton.…
HuffPost Tech (Tue May 14) |
Instagram is blocking a slew of anti-vaccine hashtags to stem the flow of misinformation on its platform.…
HuffPost Tech (Fri May 10) |
“Even Uber did this." Google employees are demanding independent, third-party investigators to examine claims of ha…
HuffPost Tech (Wed May 08) |
Twitter rolled out an update that allows users to add gifs, pictures and videos when they retweet. And many people…
HuffPost Tech (Mon May 06) |
The company said the warning lights didn't impact the safety of the planes and that other common safety features we…
HuffPost Tech (Mon May 06) |
Facebook Dating users can now tell up to nine of their friends that they're interested in them using a new feature…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Apr 30) |
“Google’s retaliation isn’t about me,” wrote one organizer of the mass walkout at the tech company. “It’s about si
HuffPost Tech (Tue Apr 23) |
Facebook says "millions" of Instagram passwords were stored improperly, an increase from "tens of thousands" it sai…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Apr 18) |
With YouTube's help, a conspiracy theory video about Notre Dame has gained nearly 100,000 views.…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Apr 17) |
Facebook realized by September 2018 that, rather than boost trustworthy content, its efforts may have had the oppos…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Apr 17) |
TikTok’s failure to enforce its policies against hate speech has attracted extremists who have been kicked off othe…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Apr 16) |
Facebook shelled out millions in additional spending to ensure Mark Zuckerberg's safety last year, according to a n…
HuffPost Tech (Sat Apr 13) |
The Secret Service says a data forensics analyst would never just pick up a thumb drive and plug it into a laptop,…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Apr 09) |
Here's why influencers flout the FTC's rules on sponsored content in their social media posts.…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Apr 02) |
Sources told TechCrunch the charging coil design produced too much heat for safe use. Despite Apple’s best efforts,…
HuffPost Tech (Fri Mar 29) |
A series of internal emails leaked to Business Insider show Facebook executives struggled this week over how best t…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Mar 28) |
After a gunman broadcast live footage of his attack on a New Zealand mosque on Facebook, the social media giant say…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Mar 28) |
The French Council of the Muslim Faith launched a complaint Monday against two tech giants for not being quick enou…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Mar 26) |
Up to 600 million Facebook users had their account passwords logged and stored internally as plain text files.…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Mar 21) |
An audience watched a Facebook livestream of the New Zealand shooting, but the company says not a single user repor…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Mar 19) |
Facebook says it has removed more than a million videos of the New Zealand mosque massacres.
HuffPost Tech (Sun Mar 17) |
“It all comes down to people spending time on the site,” a member of the Counter Extremism Project said. “YouTube’s…
HuffPost Tech (Sat Mar 16) |
Horrific video storms through Facebook's screening system.
HuffPost Tech (Sat Mar 16) |
The spread of footage from Friday's New Zealand mosque shootings is reigniting debate over social media's role in c…
HuffPost Tech (Fri Mar 15) |
Queen Elizabeth made her first Instagram post on TBT.
HuffPost Tech (Thu Mar 07) |
Zuckerberg laid out his vision in a Wednesday blog post
HuffPost Tech (Wed Mar 06) |
A group of Microsoft workers is demanding the company cancel a contract supplying the U.S. Army with HoloLens heads…
HuffPost Tech (Sun Feb 24) |
U.K. Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee report on disinformation argues tech giants, like Fac…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Feb 18) |
In an interview hosted on his own platform, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey acknowledged that when it comes to tech respons…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Feb 13) |
A former Google engineer applauded YouTube for tamping down on the spread of the conspiracy-mongering videos he onc…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Feb 11) |
Apple will pay an Arizona teenager who revealed a major security flaw on its devices last month.…
HuffPost Tech (Sat Feb 09) |
Apple could remove apps that record users' screen activity without their explicit knowledge.
HuffPost Tech (Fri Feb 08) |
Apple has released a software update that fixes a FaceTime bug that allowed users to listen to and watch others wit…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Feb 07) |
Facebook says it'll appeal the ruling, the culmination of a three-year probe.
HuffPost Tech (Thu Feb 07) |
Apple is reportedly delaying its fix for a bug on the app that allowed eavesdroppers to listen in on calls and even…
HuffPost Tech (Sat Feb 02) |
Facebook admitted to TechCrunch it was running the Research program to gather data on usage habits.…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Jan 30) |
iPhone users were urged to immediately disable FaceTime after the discovery of the bug.
HuffPost Tech (Tue Jan 29) |
Salesforce's Marc Benioff is calling out his own industry for its role in fostering inequality and homelessness.…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Jan 23) |
We sat down with the Twitter CEO to talk about Trump, fixing Twitter, and those controversial Myanmar tweets.…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Jan 17) |
"It is very difficult for folks earning what would be an average salary to buy what should be an average house."…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Jan 17) |
YouTube said it is cracking down on videos that encourage dangerous activities — yes, likely including the "Bird Bo…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Jan 16) |
Amazon's Alexa interrupted a presentation with an attempted fact-check.
HuffPost Tech (Tue Jan 08) |
Wrapping up Facebook’s worst year yet, CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he has no fix for the hate speech and elec…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Jan 02) |
"Give me the scroll back!"
HuffPost Tech (Thu Dec 27) |
This year, Facebook faced a litany of firestorms about privacy and data, election meddling, and a lack of diverse h…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Dec 19) |
And Google's top trending people and topics for 2018 are...
HuffPost Tech (Wed Dec 12) |
Barack Obama is riding high in Twitter's annual roundup. Donald Trump? Not so much.
HuffPost Tech (Wed Dec 05) |
“The Boring Company is no longer seeking the development of the Sepulveda test tunnel and instead seeks to construc…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Nov 29) |
Here's everything Facebook is under scrutiny for this week. Spoiler: it's a lot.
HuffPost Tech (Tue Nov 27) |
“We’re doing this to provide Ohioans more options and ease in paying their taxes and also to project Ohio’s leaders…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Nov 27) |
Elliot Schrage, Facebook's head of communications, defended the company's decision to hire Definers Public Affairs.…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Nov 21) |
"The allegations saying I personally stood in the way are also just plain wrong," she wrote in a Facebook post Thur…
HuffPost Tech (Fri Nov 16) |
Definers Public Affairs reportedly tried to connect an anti-Facebook group to the financier in an effort to deflect…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Nov 15) |
In addition to Long Island City and Arlington, the company will also open a major office in Nashville.…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Nov 13) |
White supremacist Christopher Cantwell was one of the first to post. “Hey Jews! We’re back on Gab now,” he wrote.…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Nov 05) |
The Google protest swelled from 200 employees to a global walkout in less than a week.
HuffPost Tech (Thu Nov 01) |
“What naturally happens is you end up with one company dominating the field so through history there is no alternat…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Nov 01) |
"While Google has championed the language of diversity and inclusion, substantive actions to address systemic racis…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Nov 01) |
"We ban these organizations and individuals from our platforms and also remove all praise and support when we becom…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Oct 31) |
Who is Gab Founder Andrew Torba?
HuffPost Tech (Tue Oct 30) |
“They really wanted to show the world they haven’t forgotten about the iPad and the Mac," one expert said.…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Oct 30) |
Several companies that had provided Gab with crucial services to keep the site running ? including its domain provi…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Oct 29) |
TwitchCon's promise of stringent safety measures after an attack on gaming competitors in August “simply didn’t hap…
HuffPost Tech (Sun Oct 28) |
“We at Apple are in full support of a comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States,” he said.…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Oct 25) |
Now there’s one less excuse to not vote.
HuffPost Tech (Mon Oct 15) |
The company said hackers targeted the social network's "View as" feature.
HuffPost Tech (Fri Sep 28) |
Former Facebook employee Selena Scola seeks a class action suit on behalf of moderators, saying the company has fai…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Sep 24) |
For $9 a month, parents can connect the app to monitor texts, emails and social media posts. It's designed to detec…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Sep 24) |
Every time your iPhone or iPad updates, it comes with a slew of security patches to prevent crashes or data theft.…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Sep 18) |
When disaster calls.
HuffPost Tech (Sat Sep 15) |
None of the new iPhones will include a free adapter, which Apple charges $9 for.
HuffPost Tech (Thu Sep 13) |
QAnon revolves around the notion that Trump is secretly working to put Democrats and Hollywood elites in jail.…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Sep 13) |
“Look at the work that Elon’s companies do and focus on that," Gwynne Shotwell said.
HuffPost Tech (Wed Sep 12) |
After @HuffPost reached out to Amazon, it dropped some of the books by Daryush Valizadeh, who profits off glorifyin…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Sep 11) |
“The online aspect of this is huge,” said Steve Monchak, a drone pilot recruiting volunteers to search for missing…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Aug 29) |
Look out for half-off promo codes from Lyft next Election Day.
HuffPost Tech (Thu Aug 23) |
Facebook says it removed 652 disinformation accounts linked to russia and iran
HuffPost Tech (Wed Aug 22) |
A Facebook representative says some users maliciously flag everything as fake if they dislike it, whether it's true…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Aug 21) |
The states argue the FCC action could harm public safety, citing electrical grids as an example.…
HuffPost Tech (Tue Aug 21) |
Previously, the page had stated that “with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored.”…
HuffPost Tech (Thu Aug 16) |
"@RealAlexJones is now in @Twitter prison!"
HuffPost Tech (Wed Aug 15) |
The conference's organizer says it's naive to think Russia's not already doing the same thing.…
HuffPost Tech (Mon Aug 13) |
How this woman is helping vulnerable communities through digital identities
HuffPost Tech (Sun Aug 12) |
Alex Jones may be safe on Twitter, but "Western chauvinist" Proud Boys are not.
HuffPost Tech (Sat Aug 11) |
“We know that’s hard for many but the reason is simple: he hasn’t violated our rules."
HuffPost Tech (Wed Aug 08) |
Law enforcement turns to a fitness tracker to help find Mollie Tibbetts, who was last seen jogging.…
HuffPost Tech (Fri Jul 27) |
Facebook repeatedly declined to ban a group called “If she puts you in the friend zone, you put her in the RAPE zon…
HuffPost Tech (Fri Jul 27) |
Cloudflare triggered outrage for helping fascists thrive online. What about the radical misogynists it empowers?…
HuffPost Tech (Wed Jul 25) |
The car's built-in system for automatic emergency braking was disabled.
HuffPost Tech (Thu May 24) |
Facebook moderated millions more posts containing hate speech, terrorist propaganda, graphic violence and content f…
HuffPost Tech (Wed May 16) |
Drivers forget that the engines don’t shut off automatically.
HuffPost Tech (Mon May 14) |
Soon you'll be able to stop Facebook from linking browsing data with your account.
HuffPost Tech (Tue May 01) |
The dating app, Zuckerberg said, is meant to help bring people together in long-lasting relationships, not random h…
HuffPost Tech (Tue May 01) |
“You as a Facebook user are not the customer. You are the product they sell.”
HuffPost Tech (Wed Mar 21) |
Instagram may start ratting on you if you screenshot someone's story
HuffPost Tech (Mon Feb 12) |
2017 was the year of hacks. 2018 probably won't be better.
HuffPost Tech (Sat Dec 30) |
AOL Instant Messenger to sign off forever after 20 years
HuffPost Tech (Fri Oct 06) |
Use these 7 apps to save money on Halloween costumes this year
HuffPost Tech (Wed Sep 27) |
EU to hand Apple a bill of $1.1 billion over tax dodging allegations
HuffPost Tech (Tue Aug 30) |
The iPhone X is here
HuffPost Tech (Wed Sep 13) |
Why air travel still sucks
HuffPost Tech (Tue Jul 25) |