Platforms big and small have both the ability and responsibility to stop their sites from becoming a battleground in the information war. | Continue reading
In data-hungry, tech-happy chain restaurants, customers are rating their servers using tabletop tablets, not realizing those ratings can put jobs at risk. | Continue reading
“I was just trying to think, how are we going to connect these two? How can we guarantee that the parents are going to get their own child back?” | Continue reading
Some say Elon Musk’s paranoia and late-night Twitter rants reveal a billionaire cracking under pressure. But those who know him best say this is nothing new. | Continue reading
A bird emerges from the ashes. | Continue reading
The company rolled out new tech it says can help automatically identify pages spreading fake news. | Continue reading
Medium says posting the LinkedIn data of a targeted group of employees constitutes doxxing. The artist who made the database disagrees. | Continue reading
A new plant-based additive sprayed onto avocados will help prevent them having the lifespan of a mayfly. | Continue reading
"They edited video of Razan al-Najjar to justify her slaughter." | Continue reading
"Anthony Bourdain spoke up for me at a time when people all over the country were making great fun of the column I write," said Marilyn Hagerty. | Continue reading
Former Tory culture minister Ed Vaizey says the government must now "pull the plug" on the failed Local TV initiative, following a BuzzFeed News investigation into That's TV. | Continue reading
“I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump. I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.” | Continue reading
"The Tesla’s speed increased — starting three seconds before impact and continuing until the crash — from 62 to 70.8 mph. There was no braking or evasive steering detected prior to impact." | Continue reading
By the end of 2018, Britain should take a definitive position on conditions of its withdrawal from the European Union, which is scheduled for 29 March, 2019. | Continue reading
The commenting giant Disqus has said repeatedly that it doesn’t allow hate speech. But its platform is overrun with trolls, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis. | Continue reading
The UK’s most senior trade official wanted the firm to spearhead a marketing campaign billed as “#dataisGREAT”, emails released to BuzzFeed News reveal. | Continue reading
“The basic idea is to create doubts in people’s minds, whether about Big Agriculture, or chemtrails, or anything else.” | Continue reading
Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene told employees during an internal meeting that the tech company was "not following through" on Maven. | Continue reading
In the age of the viral doggo, shelters and rescue organizations are recognizing the need to hop aboard the meme train — or risk getting left behind. | Continue reading
Amazon says the Echo mistakenly heard the "Alexa" wake word, in addition to multiple confirmation prompts. | Continue reading
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But mostly the worst. | Continue reading
Nigeria is facing catastrophic levels of opioid addiction — and no one seems to know how to stop it. | Continue reading
On the day of the third Republican presidential debate, Trump personally signed the letter of intent. | Continue reading
During one livestream, someone using the screen name National Socialist spent $100 to display the message “WHITE PRIDE WORLD WIDE!” | Continue reading
Thirty minutes and a little bitcoin can buy you an army of believable Facebook users. | Continue reading
Scot Peterson retired from the Broward County Sheriff's Office after facing criticism for his response during the massacre. Now he's getting a hefty pension check. | Continue reading
Act like a jerk, and Twitter will start limiting how often your tweets show up. | Continue reading
It comes days after Google announced big changes in how it ranks news publishers. | Continue reading
You don't know the whole story of how close we came to one of the deadliest political shootings in US history last year. | Continue reading
And reporters in DC do. | Continue reading
Google has always asked users to sacrifice a piece of themselves for the future. Its latest I/O Keynote took the idea a step further. | Continue reading
"They’re doing it more blatantly now. They know they’re not going to get in trouble or get arrested." | Continue reading
A vast web of Amazon review fraud lives online, and it's designed to evade the company’s efforts to thwart it. | Continue reading
Academia taught me how to do one thing well. It wasn't until recently that I understood how well it prepared me to do another. | Continue reading
The miniature schnauzer was tracked down and returned after her owner emailed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos directly. | Continue reading
"It is our determination that altright.com crossed the line and encouraged and promoted violence in a direct and threatening manner," a GoDaddy spokesperson said. | Continue reading
They might have fallen off the back of a truck... | Continue reading
In March, the consulting firm was engulfed in controversy about how it obtained and used data on millions of Facebook users in American elections. | Continue reading
WE NEED YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER. | Continue reading
Startup CEO Aaron Traywick, 28, was found dead on Sunday morning in a flotation therapy tank. | Continue reading
A responsibility "to find common ground." | Continue reading
A responsibility "to find common ground." | Continue reading
“I kept coming across people who I knew were smart people and sensitive people who were sharing fake stuff," says Felicia Cravens. | Continue reading