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Can you really call eSports a sport? ESPN thinks so

Jan 30, 2024

Products sales don't account for all of the $111 billion that the video game industry generates, eSports play a big...

Twitter’s new homepage is great but it doesn’t solve the big issues

Jan 30, 2024

Less than a fourth of American adults use Twitter, far less than the 71% who use Facebook. While trailing behind...

China used a cyber super weapons to take down GitHub

Jan 30, 2024

Remember that prolonged cyberattack that GitHub suffered last month, the one that was suspected to have been conducted by the...

HRW is suing the DEA for decades of bulk data collection

Jan 30, 2024

It looks like the NSA isn't the only government agency in the United States that's collecting vast amounts of data...

Instagram isn’t banning pictures of menstrual blood after all

Jan 30, 2024

Facebook has some notoriously aggressive anti-sexual policies when it comes to the content posted on its website and its subsidiary,...

Twitter is the next tech company to get hit with a discrimination lawsuit

Jan 30, 2024

It doesn't look like any tech company is safe from the explosion of gender discrimination lawsuits in Silicon Valley right...

CrowdFlower has raised $12.5 million to keep big data nice and clean

Sep 17, 2014

It's nice to know that the human touch is still needed in a world where robotics and artificial intelligence are...

The Alamo Drafthouse has banned the use of Google Glass

Jun 10, 2014

Keep your eyes on the screen. No, the other screen. The movie theater chain known for its tongue-in-cheek attitude and...

Sr. Pago is bringing Spuare-like payments to Mexico’s “unbanked” citizens

Jun 10, 2014

Sr. Pago, one of the two largest mobile point of sale services in Mexico, today announced the launch of the...

Did Google censor search results for a potential Nest competitor?

May 31, 2014

Forget net neutrality — do we need search neutrality as well? Pando reports that home automation company Vivint found itself mysteriously removed from Google search...

Google has started accepting censorship requests from Europeans

May 30, 2014

Google is starting to accept requests from Europeans who want to erase unflattering information from the results produced by the...

Protesters target Google exec for trying to evict tenants

Apr 12, 2014

The fuel behind the latest Google bus protest Friday morning was outrage over a Google executive who, protesters say, is...