It’s tempting to see private vs. public as something binary or black and white, but there is a whole universe of human behavior expressed through services like Twitter and Facebook that… Read more »
Google’s Q2 revenue grew by 22 percent compared with the same quarter of last year, but its bottom line was smaller than analysts had been expecting, due to capital expenditures and… Read more »
A post on Google+ says that the social network has removed all remaining restrictions on what name a user can sign up with, meaning the platform has done away with its… Read more »
Political commentator Ronan Farrow says that social networks like Twitter and Facebook should do more to police violent content from terrorist groups — but who gets to draw the line between… Read more »
The president of LVMH’s watch division has told CNBC that the sales director for luxury brand TAG Heuer recently took a job with Apple as part of its iWatch team. The… Read more »
Google is telling British media companies that it has removed articles from its index as a result of an EU decision on “the right to be forgotten.” Critics say the company… Read more »
British blogger Eliot Higgins, who has become a self-taught expert in the crowdsourced verification of news under his alias Brown Moses, is planning to launch a site called Bellingcat that will… Read more »
Born without the ability to see color, artist Neil Harbisson decided to use technology to invent a new sense, so he implanted a chip in his skull and attached a flexible… Read more »
It’s no surprise that print-based media like newspapers are seeing their market share decline and their advertising revenues fall along with it — but these two charts show the fall is… Read more »
Google, Facebook and Amazon have shown us again this week why the combination of a quasi-monopoly, vested interests and an inscrutable algorithm can be a dangerous thing for internet users, since… Read more »