You arrive home from a long day of work. Your partner greets you at the door with your favorite beverage, eases you into a chair, and massages your shoulders to get rid of the kinks accumulated by the day. Supper—healthy and one of your favorite meals—is already on the stove. After you eat—your partner spends…
Follow Squiggly Line Guy on Facebook or Twitter Infowars creator Alex Jones was the first to have his accounts removed in a concerted effort by several platforms including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple. Followers of Jones declared him the catalyst of a coming purge. First it would be Jones, and others would be next. They called this a…
Gavin Hanson The FBI has asked Facebook not to reveal who may be behind a recent hack that exposed highly sensitive personal information of 14 million users, according to a Facebook security update Friday. A hack on Facebook, which originally was reportedto have affected 50 million users, now has been confirmed to have only affected 30…
Chris White Billionaire tech guru Elon Musk agreed to step down as the chairman of Tesla after the Securities and Exchange Commission sued the electric vehicle company for fraud, according to court documents published Saturday. Musk, who owns roughly 20 percent of the company, also agreed to pay a $20 million fine in connection with…
Anders Hagstrom Nearly 50 million Facebook users had their information compromised in an attack on the social media site’s computer network, Facebook announced Friday. Facebook uncovered the attack earlier this week, finding that hackers had taken advantage of a piece of code allowing them to take over users’ accounts, The New York Times reported Friday. Facebook said…
Kyle Perisic on August 10, 2018 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said a “starting consideration” for the company’s potential new values could be based off the United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights Whether Dorsey knew it or not, several key rights found in the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights advocate for free speech and freedom of…
By Dries Van Thielen Even though the YouTube ban of Alex Jones took most of the limelight this week, other individuals lost access to their social media accounts as well. Radio host Scott Horton (Fool’s Errand, Libertarian Institute), whistleblower Peter Van Buuren (We Meant Well), and Liberty Report’s host Daniel McAdams were all banned from…
Evie Fordham Men are more likely than women to react positively to gene editing human embryos to make babies healthier or even smarter, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Sixty-five percent of men believe that “gene editing to reduce a baby’s risk of developing a serious disease later in life” is an acceptable use…
Eric Lieberman Lyft, the ride-sharing little brother to Uber, is considering a feature in which a user can notify the driver that it doesn’t feel like talking. The concept, which is for now referred to as “zen mode,” is very tentative and is not on the top of the list for company priorities. “We have…
Kyle Perisic When lawmakers had the chance to ask Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook — one of the largest and most influential companies in the world — they turned not to technology experts, digital rights advocates, or anyone with a technical credibility, but rather their own constituents, who seem perplexed on how to use the…