You won’t believe this one weird trick Facebook is using to fight clickbait and spam
Like any social network, Facebook has its fair share of problems, but its historic inability to accurately manage, filter, and verify the content being shared …
Like any social network, Facebook has its fair share of problems, but its historic inability to accurately manage, filter, and verify the content being shared …
As the outrage surrounding President Donald Trump’s Executive Orders over immigration continues to swell, actor Kal Penn decided to transform a hateful Instagram comment into …
Customer service is a hard job. You deal with all sorts of people who’ve taken the mantra “THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT’ to heart, and …
Elite Iraqi units clearing Mosul from Islamic State occupation face aerial bombardment from modified ISIS drones every day. I just returned from two weeks on …
Donald J. Trump is now President Donald J. Trump, and with great power comes control of the @POTUS Twitter handle. But so far, Trump has …
In the mid-2000s, the movie industry sponsored a series of ads that equated illegally downloading a movie to committing a series of badly-shot crimes out …
In an interview with Axios, President-Elect Trump apparently said that Apple CEO Tim Cook is open to building the iPhone in the US. This would …
Snapchat is one of the most popular apps on the planet, and the second most active social media platform to boot, which is why it’s …
An incredible drone’s-eye video that shows an unfortunate flying robot crashing into Seattle’s famous Space Needle has just been released. The bizarre crash, which occurred …
Earlier today, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange decided to hold an AMA on Reddit. A virtual online press conference is exactly the kind of thing the …
Fake news is a huge problem on social media, and Facebook in particular has taken a ton of heat for unwittingly promoting stories that are …
Wikileaks sparked an online firestorm on Friday when they tweeted that they were considering making an “online database” of Twitter’s verified users— those accounts that …
President-elect Trump’s cleansing of Obama appointees continues at pace today, as Gizmodo reports that the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will be clearing out his …
President Obama has handled the transition process with PEOTUS Trump superbly diplomatically. But under the veneer of respect for the peaceful transition of power, you …
Owning Bitcoin is always a rollercoaster ride of emotion and monetary loss, but this morning was particularly bad. Everyone’s favorite cryptocurrency started the day at …
At 2PM Eastern today, T-Mobile is promising another big Uncarrier announcement. That’s a fancy word for a standard press conference, but T-Mobile does actually have …
U.S. Navy-trained dolphins are being tapped to save the world’s smallest porpoise, an extremely elusive creature that is in the verge of extinction in the …
Believe it or not, TV news is still a thing. No, seriously. Local television networks across the country regularly broadcast reports covering all sorts of events. …
There is a limit to Amazon’s free Prime shipping. It’s called Add-On items: stuff that Amazon will sell, but is too insignificant to ship alone. …
What a year. What. A. Year. To call 2016 a rollercoaster ride might be the understatement of the decade. But somehow, barring any further calamity …
As Twitter struggles to stay relevant in a world that is becoming increasingly dominated by giants like Facebook and up-starts like Snapchat, Twitter has announced …
With a prime location in San Francisco’s Financial District, Quince is widely heralded as one of the city’s finest restaurants. It has plenty of buzz, premium pricing, an …
According to reports on social media and Presidential pool reporters, Trump Tower at 56th and 5th in Manhattan has been evacuated. NYPD is apparently responding …
Facebook’s Safety Check feature has been erroneously triggered in Bangkok by a wave a false social media reports about a bomb explosion that didn’t happen. …
The Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent, two of the biggest remaining torrent sites on the internet, appear to be unavailable for users right now. According to TorrentFreak, …
Five days left of 2016, and the bad news just keeps coming. The internet is mourning the passing of George Michael today, but he’s not …
Fake news isn’t just something your out-of-touch uncle gets riled up over; Pakistan’s defense minister apparently can’t tell the difference between false narratives and reality either. …
It’s been a bad year, but it’s not that bad. Despite what Sony Music’s official Twitter account might be claiming, Britney Spears is not dead. Which leads …
Look, 2016 has been pretty rough, whichever way you cut it. Sometimes it’s nice to read a story that has no sadness and one particularly …
Reports from Turkish media claim that Apple has been asked to help unlock an iPhone belonging to the Russian ambassador’s assassin. The device, a relatively …