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Small talk: Pink lights, games with cats, Google ads
The news that didn't quite make the headlines. This week: using pink lights to deter criminals, an interspecies iPad game you can play with your cat, Google replacing ringtones with ads.
Will 2018 be the year of less tech, not more?
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In 2017, tech companies experienced a series of bad headlines. Could that mean less tech enthusiasm in 2018?
Can any person (or robot) put an end to fake news?
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It's probably going to take more than algorithms.
What you need to know about Twitter, Facebook and election interference
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Tech companies are in the hot seat over ads linked to foreign accounts.
Are major tech companies too big to escape regulation?
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Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU Stern, says the tide is turning against Big Tech.
Google makes a $1 billion bet on hardware
In the everything old is new again department, Google is betting big on hardware. The company already bought and sold Motorola in the past five years and now Google’s announced it’ll pay $1.1 billion for a chunk of HTC. To be clear Google’s not acquiring the company here. It’s acqui-hiring pretty much the entire engineering […]
Hate groups sidestep Big Tech
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Alternative crowdfunding site Hatreon is among the niche platforms that don't care if their users are neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
Big Tech is spending a lot on lobbying, but it’s not clear what goes toward immigration
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Google, Apple, Microsoft and others have loudly denounced Trump's immigration policy, but their lobbying reports tell a different story.
The business of designing a restaurant for Instagram
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Looking good pays off.
Walmart partners with Google to enable voice-activated shopping at home.
Walmart has been playing catch up online. Last year it bought the e-commerce site Jet.com. Today the company announced it was partnering with Google to add Walmart items to Google Express and allow voice-ordered purchasing of those items using Google’s virtual assistant. Is this another way to challenge Amazon’s dominance of the online market? Click […]