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Jack Dorsey just met with Trump to talk about the health of Twitter’s public discourse –
Twitter’s co-founder and CEO historically doesn’t have the most discerning tastes when it comes to who he decides to engage with. Fresh off the podcast circuit, today a thoroughly beardy Jack Dorsey sat down with President Trump for his most high-profile tête-à-tête yet. Unlike his recent amble onto the Joe Rogan show, Dorsey’s 30-minute meeting […] → Read More
Congress readies for Mueller report to be delivered on CDs
If there weren’t enough obstacles already standing between Congress and the results of the special counsel’s multiyear investigation, lawmakers are expecting to need an optical drive to read the document. → Read More
Co-Star raises $5 million to bring its astrology app to Android
Nothing scales like a horoscope. If you haven’t heard of Co-Star, you might just be in the wrong circles. In some social scenes it’s pretty much ubiquitous. → Read More
Facebook’s Portal will now surveil your living room for half the price
No, you’re not misremembering the details from that young adult dystopian fiction you’re reading — Facebook really does sell a video chat camera adept at tracking the faces of you and your loved ones. → Read More
YouTube’s algorithm added 9/11 facts to a livestream of the Notre-Dame Cathedral fire
Some viewers following live coverage of the Notre-Dame Cathedral broadcast on YouTube were met with a strangely out of place info box offering facts about the September 11 attacks. → Read More
Facebook taps Peggy Alford for its board, Reed Hastings and Erskine Bowles to depart
Facebook’s board is undergoing its biggest shakeup in memory. On Friday, the company announced that Peggy Alford would be nominated to join the company’s board of directors. → Read More
Nancy Pelosi warns tech companies that Section 230 is ‘in jeopardy’
In a new interview with Recode, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made some notable comments on what by all accounts is the most important law underpinning the modern internet as we know it. → Read More
Democrats draw up bill that would require tech platforms to assess algorithmic bias
Democratic lawmakers have proposed a bill to address the algorithmic biases lurking under the surface of tech’s biggest platforms. → Read More
‘Hateful comments’ result in YouTube disabling chat during a livestreamed hearing on hate
At today’s House Judiciary hearing addressing “Hate Crimes and the Rise of White Nationalism,” hate appears to have prevailed. → Read More
Proposed bill would forbid big tech platforms from using dark pattern design
A new piece of bipartisan legislation aims to protect people from one of the sketchiest practices that tech companies employ to subtly influence user behavior. → Read More
Researchers find thriving Facebook cybercrime groups with 385,000 total members
You might be surprised what you can buy on Facebook, if you know where to look. → Read More
HyperSciences raises an untraditional $9.6M for its hypersonic drilling vision
We profiled HyperSciences in February, when the team had just successfully completed a launch milestone for a small business grant with NASA. → Read More
Behind the scenes at Laika’s wildly imaginative new stop motion movie, Missing Link
We take a peek behind the curtain at Laika, a movie studio dedicated to fusing high tech 3D printing techniques with the time-honored art of stop motion animation. Laika’s latest film, Missing Link, is its most wildly ambitious to date. → Read More
Google’s anti-trans controversy is the latest case of big tech overcorrecting to the right
Google just smoothed over one spat with the LGBT community, but it’s already well into the next one. → Read More
Google pulls controversial anti-gay religious app from the Play Store
The same day the Human Rights Campaign downranked the company in its index of the best LGBTQ-friendly employers, Google decided to yank a controversial app accused of promoting conversion therapy from the Play Store. → Read More
Facebook’s handling of Alex Jones is a microcosm of its content policy problem
A revealing cluster of emails leaked to Business Insider offers a glimpse at how Facebook decides what content is objectionable in high profile cases. → Read More
Palantir wins $800 million contract to build the U.S. Army’s next battlefield software system
Palantir just landed a landmark contract with the U.S. Army worth north of $800 million. → Read More
Facebook is finally banning white supremacy that goes by other names
Facebook is abandoning a longstanding policy of allowing white supremacy to flourish on its platform under the guise of terms like white nationalism and white separatism. → Read More
FAA proposal aims to ‘streamline’ regulations for future space launches
On Tuesday, the FAA and Department of Transportation published a proposal that greases the wheels for the commercial space industry, long bound by outdated regulations that were not created with a modern vision of private spaceflight in mind. → Read More
No Man’s Sky’s next update will let you explore infinite space in virtual reality
No Man’s Sky just figured out a way to make a wildly absorbing space exploration game even more immersive. → Read More