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Playboy is the latest brand to #DeleteFacebook
2018-03-28

The company has announced it will deactivate all of its accounts on the beleaguered social media network, reports CNBC. In a statement announcing the move, Playboy said: “The recent news about Facebook’s alleged mismanagement of users’ data has solidified our decision to suspend our activity on...

Facebook Just Announced These Changes To Try To Ease Your Mind On Privacy And Data
2018-03-28

Amid the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal, the changes make it easier for users to find privacy settings, control what they share, and delete their data. This morning, Facebook responded to the ongoing Cambridge Analytica scandal by announcing a series of changes to its privacy settings—essentially...

Airbnb will start sharing host information with China’s government
2018-03-28

The U.S. company has announced it will begin sharing Chinese host information with China’s government to comply with local regulations, reports Reuters. In an email sent to Chinese hosts, Airbnb China said the decision is “similar to other hospitality companies that do business in China” and that...

Watch out for the fake Poloniex phishing apps on Google Play
2018-03-28

Avid cryptocurrency traders ought to be extra careful what apps they download from Google’s Play Store – especially if they do their trading on popular exchange desk Poloniex. ESET security researcher Lukas Stefanko has stumbled upon a malicious Poloniex copycat app designed to phish your credentials and steal...

Facebook reportedly shelving plans to unveil its smart speaker in May
2018-03-28

Surprising no one, Facebook has suspended plans to unveil its AI-powered smart speaker at its F8 developer conference at the beginning of May, reports Bloomberg. That’s because the company is still in the thick of one of the biggest scandals to have rocked the social network; over the past few weeks, it was revealed...

Prevent Facebook from tracking you all over the web with this Firefox extension
2018-03-28

In light of the data scandal that’s rocked Facebook and its community of users in recent weeks, it’s important to understand that the social network collects a lot more information about you than you may be aware of. If you’re still keen on using Facebook, though, you might want to access it through Mozilla’s...

OnePlus 6 leak shows off wooden back and headphone jack
2018-03-28

Perpetual leaker Evan Blass is at it again, this time with one of our best looks at the OnePlus 6 yet. While we’d previously seen the device leaked with a glass back – sighs – this new leak suggests the phone could come with an awesome wooden back as well. Oh yeah, it still has a headphone jack. Yay! You've been...

Consumers prefer experiences over products, but what about personalization?
2018-03-28

The Adobe Summit is currently underway in Las Vegas, and 13,000 attendees received the message that we are now buying experiences rather than products and that consumers prefer a personalized experience. However, with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation on the horizon, combined with an increasing...

Apple Should Have Cut iPad Price Further For Schools, Say Analysts
2018-03-27

Apple announced another affordable iPad and some cool new educational software today, but it might be too pricey to unseat Chromebooks in many classrooms. This morning, Apple took a shot at Google’s dominance of the education market with its announcement of a new low-priced iPad and a series of new and upgraded...

Exclusive: Facebook’s leadership sinks over 20 points in corporate reputation poll
2018-03-27

Facebook’s reputation has fallen dramatically over the past few months, as the company grapples with scandals involving unauthorized data use by Cambridge Analytica, according to new data from The Harris Poll. In an annual survey called the Reputation Quotient administered most recently in December and January,...

Where can I stream that movie? Now Google Play will show you the way
2018-03-27

Google is building a search engine for streaming video services into the Google Play Store and Google Play Movies & TV app. When you search for a movie or TV show, Google will tell you if it’s available through other services, including Hulu, Amazon Prime, HBO Now, DisneyNow, and ABC. (It looks like Netflix...

Report: Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress
2018-03-27

Mark Zuckerberg, meet the U.S. government. Citing anonymous sources, CNNMoney reports that the Facebook CEO is “currently planning the strategy for his testimony.” The news comes amid an ongoing data-privacy scandal and follows revelations earlier this month about how the social network handled...

TNW’s Big Spam: Today’s fungible stories
2018-03-27

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie is appearing before the digital, culture, media, and sport committee in the House of Commons today. Check out the live updates here. It’s fascinating. Top trending tech news: 😬 Facebook faces FTC privacy inquiry (BBC) 🚗 Arizona blocked Uber’s self-driving car tests (TNW)...

Apple announces $329 iPad with Pencil support to take on Chromebooks
2018-03-27

Apple today announced a new, $329 iPad at an education-focused event in Chicago. The tablet is clearly aimed at Chromebooks, looking to stave off Google’s increasing dominance for cheap laptops in classrooms. For schools, the tablet will only cost $299. The new iPad looks pretty much identical to the standard...

Apple announces Classkit, an app framework for classroom surveillance
2018-03-27

Apple today announced its new Classkit API, a framework specifically designed for educational apps, as part of its push to bring the iPad into more classrooms. The company debuted Classkit at alongside its new $329 iPad, along with Apple Pencil support for several of its apps. Apple bringing Classroom to Mac, reveals...

How Amazon Helped Cambridge Analytica Harvest Americans’ Facebook Data
2018-03-27

A personality quiz on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk received multiple complaints in 2014, but the quiz-makers continued to use the platform for at least another year. Facebook has been rocked by reports of a massive data scrape carried out by Cambridge Analytica and one of its then-contractors, a Cambridge...

Apple’s new iPad is about the Pencil and more school apps, not price
2018-03-27

I’m at Apple’s education-themed event at Lane Tech College Prep high school in Chicago. Some of the pre-event scuttlebutt involved the company releasing a cheaper new iPad to compete with Google’s Chromebooks for adoption in schools. But the new 9.7″ iPad, which Apple’s Greg Jozwiak...

Here’s Apple’s hella cute video from its education event in Chicago today
2018-03-27

Apple is holding an event in Chicago this morning to announce a new lower-priced iPad and to try to get its mojo back in the classroom amid fierce competition from Google and its ubiquitous Chromebook. The company kicked off the event with this incredibly cute video: Apple is holding an event in Chicago this morning...

Bad to worse: Now Facebook is being sued over housing discrimination
2018-03-27

The National Fair Housing Alliance, along with three other nonprofit housing advocacy organizations around the country, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook over its alleged discriminatory advertisements. The nonprofits, over the last few months, created a fake real estate company and used the Facebook ad platform to...

Facebook is hiring more Washington lobbyists as privacy scandal continues
2018-03-27

The company is looking to hire 11 policy managers for its Washington, D.C., office amid increasing scrutiny from governments in the U.S. and U.K., reports Bloomberg. Because of the privacy scandle involving data given to Cambridge Analytica, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has already been asked to appear before Congress...

Judge tosses lawsuit alleging YouTube censored conservative voices
2018-03-27

A California federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit brought by conservative radio host and YouTuber Dennis Prager, alleging the Google-owned site placed age restrictions on some of his videos and refused to run ads on them without a “compelling, significant, or legitimate reason,” reports the Hollywood...

A Slovakian court has ordered the suspension of Uber in the country
2018-03-27

The court made its decision on March 6, though it wasn’t made public until today, reports Reuters. In January, a Bratislava-based association of certified taxi drivers took Uber to court, saying the ride-hailing service was unfairly competing with licensed taxi drivers. The defendants alleged that Uber drivers...

Mark Zuckerberg is refusing to face U.K. lawmakers
2018-03-27

Facebook has announced that Zuckerberg has declined a request from the U.K.’s parliament to appear before it to answer questions about the data scandal that is engulfing the company on both sides of the Atlantic, reports Bloomberg. Instead, Zuckerberg “has personally asked one of his deputies to make...

Elon Musk’s Boring Company will now sell “Lego-like” rocks
2018-03-27

The rocks are the excavated leftovers of the Boring Company’s tunneling machines. They’ll be formed into large bricks that can be interlocked with one another. Musk announced the upcoming “I know I can sell anything to my fans” sale on Twitter, saying the rock bricks will be bored on the...

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