Technology

A chubby robin sporting a very small metallic backpack having a antenna jumps around a suburban lawn at Takoma Park, then plucks a cicada in the floor to get a bite.Ecologist Emily Williams watches from behind a bush. With...
Jennifer Sherlock met a few men through dating apps early in the coronavirus epidemic. She said that the dates were "weird" because they were unmasked, distant, and out in nature.Sherlock found it reckless that a date kept their identities secret...
Snopes.com's co-founder and CEO has admitted plagiarising from numerous articles published by major news outlets over many years. He called the plagiarism "serious lapses of judgment."From 2015 to 2019 -- and possibly even earlier -- David Mikkelson included material...
Facebook's semi-independent oversight panel has stated that it will examine the company's "XCheck," which is a cross-check system, following an investigation into The Wall Street Journal about the use of this system. It exempts high-profile users from certain or all of...
Practices employed by the search engine giant to market advertisements"interrupts Google's opponents" together with publishers of cellular websites and software, the Competition Authority said Monday. It's the obligation of a firm with a dominant market position to prevent undermining...
First time, the Federal Trade Commission banned a company making stalkerware -- software that is used to secretly track the location of a cell phone user -- from being in the surveillance app industry.Wednesday's action is for the SpyFone...
After reports that his phone and the phones of ministers were being targeted by spyware, French President Emmanuel Macron called an emergency cybersecurity meeting.Macron uses his phone regularly, and he is "taking it very seriously," Gabriel Attal, a government...
China's cyber-watchdog announced Friday that it will conduct an investigation into Didi's cybersecurity. This follows earlier criticisms of Didi's handling of customer data, which caused shares in the New York-traded company to plummet.Two weeks ago, the regulator announced that...
Twitter on Thursday said it is concerned about the safety of its staff in India and known for its government to respect freedom of expression, days after Indian police visited its office at New Delhi within its tagging of...