January 3, 2018 Logan Paul controversy: YouTube under fire for letting shocking video stay up Though YouTube star Logan Paul has faced severe criticism for posting a video to his channel that appeared to show a body hanging in a Japanese "suicide forest" (which he later deleted and apologized for), it appears the platform itself is also to blame.
December 31, 2017 Facebook, Google could face new tax in Britain for failing to tackle extremism Tech giants like Google and Facebook, already under fire for not doing enough to combat extremism and fake news, could face new taxes in the United Kingdom if a government official has his way.
December 29, 2017 Researchers using facial recognition tech to find Chinese missile sites U.S. researchers are using the same sort of deep learning artificial intelligence employed by Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook in their facial recognition technology to identify Chinese surface-to-air missile sites.
December 22, 2017 Google bigwig Eric Schmidt shocks with surprise resignation amid reports his personal life is being eyed In a surprise move, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman of the search giant’s parent company Alphabet next year.
December 21, 2017 Your data is being grabbed by Web 'trackers' The number of trackers on the Web collecting your data is alarming, according to a study.
December 18, 2017 Amazon Echo prices turn smart-speaker market on its ear Amazon.com Inc. has triggered a race to the bottom in smart speakers.
December 14, 2017 Scientists 'Googled' data from NASA's Kepler space telescope to discover new planet Data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope has been crunched using Artificial Intelligence, helping scientists discover a new planet outside our solar system.
December 13, 2017 Google reveals Matt Lauer and Hurricane Irma are 2017's top searches Google revealed Wednesday that the search engine’s top searches in 2017 included Hurricane Irma, Matt Lauer and Meghan Markle all topped the list.
December 12, 2017 Former Facebook exec won't let own kids use social media, says it's 'destroying how society works' Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and the CEO of venture capital firm Social Capital, said in a November interview that social media is damaging society and voiced concerns about its impact on his own children.
December 7, 2017 Tech titans voice concerns over California wildfires Two of the biggest titans of the tech industry, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai both weighed in with concerns over the southern California wildfires, which have wreaked havoc on the lower part of the state.
