At $5 billion, the fine the FTC is about to levy on Facebook is by far the largest it's given to a technology company, easily eclipsing the second largest, $22 million for Google in 2012.
Internet
Jul 12, 2019
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The internet has its perils with privacy breaches and fake news, but on the plus side, a whole generation of youth have been teaching themselves skills in leadership and community-building, according to a new University of ...
Social Sciences
Jul 12, 2019
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As the nation continues to get more diverse, it's common for immigrant populations in the United States to identify with two or more cultures at the same time.
Social Sciences
Jul 12, 2019
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A new report has found that corruption in the U.K. is being overlooked, despite the risk of corruption being fuelled by self-regulation, conflicts of interest and austerity.
Economics & Business
Jul 8, 2019
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Gossip is an efficient way to share information across large networks and has unexpected applications in solving other mathematical and machine-learning problems.
Machine learning & AI
Jul 8, 2019
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Facebook said it was "back at 100 percent" Wednesday evening after an outage on all of its services affected users in various parts of the world.
Internet
Jul 4, 2019
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Facebook acknowledged Wednesday an outage affecting users in various parts of the world and said it was working on a fix.
Internet
Jul 3, 2019
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Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the center of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, said he is dropping a defamation lawsuit against the social network rather than engage in an expensive, drawn-out legal ...
Internet
Jul 2, 2019
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Facebook is updating its terms and services guidelines to clarify how it makes money from the personal information of its users. The changes reflect its ongoing attempts to satisfy regulators in the U.S. and Europe, which ...
Internet
Jun 27, 2019
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The EU's powerful anti-trust authority on Thursday cleared the buyout by IBM of open source software company Red Hat, one of the biggest tech mergers in history which the computing giant said would enhance its cloud offerings.
Business
Jun 27, 2019
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