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Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call Group | Getty Images Lawmakers interrogated David Marcus, Facebook’s cryptocurrency chief, asking how the company will educate the 1.7 million unbanked customers it plans to reach. Elected officials at the House Financial Services Committee hosted a hearing on Wednesday to discuss …

If you think watching pornographic material in the “incognito” mode will not let anyone know, you are mistaken. Google, Facebook and even Oracle cloud are secretly tracking the porn you watch even when you switch on the “incognito” mode on your laptop or smartphone. A new joint study from Microsoft, …

filadendron | E+ | Getty Images Amazon‘s 48-hour Prime Day is over, which means regret over some of your purchases might be sinking in. You’re not alone. Eddie McNamara, a 43-year-old cook in New York, still regrets his Prime Day purchase of two Instant Pots — one for him and …

Kosslyn was onto something—something whose implications extend well beyond the threats he discussed. Despite the Christchurch video, YouTube (reports The Economist) is not about to rethink the premise that “people around the world should have the right to upload and view content instantly.” But YouTube should rethink that premise, and …

Image Source | Getty Images Once Facebook’s Libra makes it to the cryptocurrency mainstream, there may be a new threat to consumers: Their own bad spending habits. Libra is a proposed cryptocurrency designed by Facebook and operated with a consortium of partners, including payments providers, credit card companies and consumer …

El Kaliouby’s company makes AI systems that analyze human perception and attempt to draw inferences about people’s emotional states. Using machine learning, the systems try to automatically identify “facial action units” based on categories devised by the psychologists Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen in the 1970s. After analyzing millions …

This is the chart that launched a thousand digital-media PowerPoints. Mary Meeker’s time/ad-spend chart from 2010 (Mary Meeker) The chart also reflected the stark reality for print publications, especially newspapers. From 2008 to 2017, newspapers laid off 32,000 people, 45 percent of their workforce. It was a nasty downward spiral. …

Read more: When kids Google themselves A child of the ’80s, I too was subjected to parental technological documentation; there are plenty of photographs of me around my mom’s house. But what I endured is nothing like the unblinking surveillance my own children face. Gigabytes and gigabytes of photos and …

Facebook stuck to its guns, while YouTube eventually “demonetized” Crowder’s account. Both decisions were mocked and defended, crystallizing just how disputed the terrain of content moderation on platforms has become. The idea of “a platform” doesn’t make sense anymore, and it’s being challenged from every direction. Beyond the Maza-Crowder dispute, …

Tek Image | Science Photo Library | Getty Images Morgan Stanley is starting a new program that will let clients donate money to find treatments and cures for diseases. The program, called Morgan Stanley GIFT Cures, began today in tandem with a two-day conference the financial services firm is hosting. …