Category: Technology
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions Are Involved In a War of Words Over Alabama’s Senate Race
The President voiced his displeasure with Jeff Sessions yesterday on Twitter:
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Apple to Phase Out iTunes
Apple has announced the discontinuation of its music purchasing program iTunes. The announcement was made today at the company’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, California.
In lieu of Apple’s iconic music marketplace, the tech giant will break …
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Google Halts Business with Smartphone Maker Huawei
Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc, has discontinued business with Huawei in the wake of the Trump administration adding the Chinese smartphone maker to a blacklist of companies prevented from doing business in the U.S.
The business includes any operations that …
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Social Media FOMO Causes You to Spend More, Survey Finds
More than a third of Americans say their spending habits are influenced by the spending habits of their social media connections. They say “fear of missing out” on experiences shared by friends on social media causes them to spend …
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Singapore Looks to Get Tough on Fake News
Updated 4/3/19 at 5:48 p.m.
Singapore may be the first nation to hold social media platforms responsible for allowing fake news to go unchecked on their platforms with a new law being proposed. The law, submitted in its parliament yesterday, …
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McDonald’s Bets Big on Machine-Learning Based Menus
McDonald’s is betting that it can use data to take intelligence around customer orders to a new level.
“How do you transition from mass marketing to mass personalization?” asks McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook. “To do that, you’ve really got to …
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YouTube Plans Changes to Curb Conspiracy, “Clickbaity” Videos
Video portal YouTube has announced changes that will make it harder for videos espousing conspiracy theories and other subjects meant to fool viewers into clicking on them, to be found the company announced last month.
“When recommendations are at their …
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Twitter CEO Says Conservative Employees Don’t Feel Safe Expressing Political Viewpoints
The CEO of social media giant Twitter contends in an interview that many of the company’s employees with conservative-leaning views are afraid to express their opinions.
“We have a lot of conservative-leaning folks in the company as well,” CEO …
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Paris Regulates Airbnb
Paris, France, has announced record fines for those who list their homes on the residence-listing service, Airbnb. Additionally, French lawmakers are close to the enactment of a law that would make the American company liable for thousands of unregistered listings …
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The Food of the Future: Meat Created in Laboratories
Food companies are betting big that consumers will eat meat not derived not from animals or even plants, but created in laboratories. And they’re betting that marketing will help the adoption of the new category.
“Clean meat” is the term …
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Facebook Closes 32 Accounts it Says Was Spreading Fake News
Facebook announced it has removed thirty-two accounts from both the Facebook and Instagram platforms that were involved in what it calls inauthentic behavior. The company did not attribute the activity to any group or country but said some of the …
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WhatsApp to Limit Message Forwarding in Wake of Spate of Lynchings in India
The message-sharing app WhatsApp has announced it will be taking steps to limit the number of times a message can be forwarded after a series of lynchings rocked the country of India. The lynchings are believed to be the result …
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Google Hit with Record $5B Fine by EU
Tech giant Google was hit with a record $5 billion fine by the European Union today for abusing its position as the world’s dominant mobile operating system provider. The Google Android operating system is by far the most widely used …
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