New ‘Dark Ads’ pro-Brexit Facebook campaign may have reached over 10M people, say researchers
A major new campaign of disinformation around Brexit, designed to stir up U.K. ‘Leave’ voters,…
Tag: Tech
Essential lays off nearly one-third of its staff
Layoffs are never an easy pill to swallow, but for Essential, it seems the writing…
Apple rebukes Australia’s “dangerously ambiguous” anti-encryption bill
Apple has strongly criticized Australia’s anti-encryption bill, calling it “dangerously ambiguous” and “alarming to every…
A flood of fake installers will really update Flash for you – but also install cryptocurrency mining malware
If you think that Flash, the once-popular web plugin, couldn’t die fast enough, even those…
Google-incubated AdLingo uses chatbot integration to create conversational ads
“Conversational marketing” is a phrase that I hear a lot, but when the team at…
Make your own phone with MakerPhone (some soldering required)
There’s no shortage of interesting electronics kits out there to occupy an idle Sunday, but…
At what point do we admit that geoengineering is an option?
In 1883, Krakatoa erupted, spewing volcanic ash and gas into the stratosphere, making clouds more…
NASA plans ‘on schedule’ Soyuz launch despite failure of Russian rocket
The high-profile failure of a normally reliable Soyuz rocket during a crewed mission to the…
Judge denies Lime’s request to block electric scooter deployment
A judge today denied Lime’s request for a temporary restraining order that would block Skip…
Why missing Saudi journalist’s Apple Watch is an interesting, but unlikely, lead
Police investigating the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi are searching for his Apple Watch to…