Google’s diversity crisis worsens, CEO cancels town hall
Google’s crisis over the anti-diversity memo that started circulating internally last week just got worse on Thursday. Even with the…
FaceApp’s ethnicity filters vanish after racism claims
On Wednesday, FaceApp introduced a new update that added four different “ethnicity change filters” to selfies: Caucasian, Black, Indian, and…
Facebook’s Watch is here with new original Shows
Facebook introduced Watch on Tuesday; a new video platform for original content and short-format Shows right within the social network.…
Essential Phone release date in Amazon, Best Buy coming soon
On Wednesday, Essential secured an additional $300 million in funding from Amazon’s Alexa Fund and the Chinese internet giant Tencent.…
Disney plots streaming service, will end Netflix deal in 2019
On Tuesday, The Walt Disney Company reached an agreement with BAMTech to acquire a majority of its ownership for $1.58…
Current password standards creator regrets everything
In June, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued an updated version of its Digital Identity Guidelines, which…
Google fires engineer who authored anti-diversity memo
On Monday, Google fired the software engineer who penned the internal memo titled ‘Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber’ last week. Since…
The Bitcoin fork and Bitcoin Cash explained
On August 1, the cryptocurrency community experienced a fork that led to the creation of Bitcoin Cash as a new…
ASUS’s Zenfone AR brings Tango to the next level
Last week, ASUS finally launched the Zenfone AR in the United States. The Google Tango-powered device is available unlocked from…
Google engineer questions ‘Ideological Echo Chamber’
Over the weekend, reports of an ‘anti-diversity manifesto’ written by a senior engineer at Google started circulating in the media.…