Web creator Tim Berners-Lee speaks out on fake news

World wide web creator Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out about fake news, political advertising and the misuse of personal data. In an open letter to mark the web’s 28th anniversary , he outlined issues he says need to be solved for it to “fulfil its true potential as a tool which serves all of humanity.”

Nude photo scandal shows Tailhook mentality lives in military

Active-duty U.S. Marine Marisa Woytek listens during a press conference in Los Angeles about personal photographs of women Marines being posted on a private Facebook account without their consent. Active-duty U.S. Marine Marisa Woytek listens during a press conference in Los Angeles about personal photographs of women Marines being posted on a private Facebook account without their consent.

WikiLeaks claims to have CIA hacking war chest

WikiLeaks says the archive appears to have been circulated among former government hackers and contractors, one of whom provided WikiLeaks with portions of it. The website says the CIA hacking division involved “more than 5,000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other ‘weaponized’ malware.”

Here’s Why Your Facebook Live Video Sucks

The Facebook Live feature is arguably one of the most game-changing features the social media giant has ever rolled out. It’s another platform for celebrities and pundits to engage more intimately with followers and allows average citizens to document their lives and all they witness to a tremendous audience.

Snap shares soar above $25 in early trading

Market makers at the New York Stock Exchange indicated the stock was set to open from $23.50 to $24.50 a share, CNBC reported . It’s not uncommon for the price of shares in an IPO to rise slightly from the company’s initial estimate.

Snap IPO Values Fading-Photo App Maker at Twice Facebook’s Worth

Snap Inc. , maker of the disappearing photo app dependent upon the fickle favor of the millennial demographic, is going public at a valuation at least twice as expensive as Facebook Inc., and four times more costly than Twitter Inc. statement Wednesday. At that price, it has a market value of about $20 billion, based on 1.16 billion shares outstanding after the IPO.

Facebook steps up suicide prevention – with robots

Facebook added suicide prevention tools to its live video service Wednesday, in hopes of bringing real-time help to users who may harm themselves while broadcasting on the social media platform. The new Facebook Live tools will allow users to report dangerous behavior and suicidal comments directly to Facebook, which will then intervene with help.

Snap prices IPO to give US$24b valuation

Snapchat parent Snap Inc. priced its share offering on Wednesday to give the popular social network a market value of some US$24 billion, media reports said. Snapchat parent Snap Inc. is the biggest share listing in the tech sector since Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba in 2014.

Beyond phones and 5G, mobile world seeks to reinvent itself

Next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will feature phone companies in various stages of acceptance that the industry’s predictable, decades-old business model based on selling data packages by the millions is running out of steam. Beneath the facade of shiny new phones and dusty debates over network technical implementations, Europe’s largest annual technology fair will see top phone companies parading far-reaching business makeovers.

Atari Announces RollerCoaster Tycoon Toucha Available Now On iPhone, iPad, iPod touch

Following the success of RollerCoaster TycoonA 4 Mobile a , which has garnered over 18 million downloads and 295 million sessions globally, comes the latest entry of the beloved RCT series, where players can design, customize and share their greatest park creations in full 3D with friends from around the world. RollerCoaster Tycoon Touch has already received early acclaim and is now featured as one of the App Store’s ‘New games we love.’

Apple Has Reportedly Acquired iCloud.net domain For unknown Price

Examples include iCloud.us , iCloud.eu and iCloud.tv , and ironically, I found the full list on an iCloud.net blog post – which means that you have until the end of this month to look at it if you’re curious. The owner doesn’t say what will happen to the social network, but he does mention that he’ll be starting up a new site that will provide online coupon codes to Chinese users.

Facebook Analytics for Apps Hits 1 Million Milestone, Adds Features

Facebook today announced new functionality in its Analytics for Apps tool for mobile and Web development, while announcing it has now been used in more than 1 million apps, Web sites and bots. Launched at the company’s F8 developer conference in 2015, Facebook Analytics for Apps helps companies understand their app users, measure how they use an app across different devices and improve marketing campaigns.

Illegally downloading movies and media from the internet is about to get a lot tougher

The highly-anticipated 89th Academy Awards are less than a fortnight away and online piracy websites are being flooded with high quality copies of the latest movie releases. Suppliers of the copyrighted material take advantage of the fact that movie studios send advance copies of films – known as ‘screeners’ – to members of The Academy for their consideration in order to help them decide how to cast their Oscars vote.

Torrent users beware: Search engines are clamping down on illegal downloads

The highly-anticipated 89th Academy Awards are less than a fortnight away and online piracy websites are being flooded with high quality copies of the latest movie releases. Suppliers of the copyrighted material take advantage of the fact that movie studios send advance copies of films – known as ‘screeners’ – to members of The Academy for their consideration in order to help them decide how to cast their Oscars vote.

Enterprise Apps May Be VR’s Future

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One in 10 U.S. readers consider Facebook a news outlet

Nearly half of Americans can’t remember where they got their news when they saw it online – and one in 10 people named Facebook as a news outlet when asked the name of the source of the story read online, according to a Pew study released earlier this week. As the way people consume news continues to move more and more online, this latest data shows just how difficult it is for readers to determine where the information they encounter is coming from.

Therese Poletti’s Tech Tales: The two views of Snapchat: An app that…

From New York to Silicon Valley to its hometown in Southern California, investors and analysts are sharply divided about Snap Inc. and its potential ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering. Investors are hoping that the Snapchat parent company’s much hyped IPO , the first from a “unicorn” tech company this year, will revive the moribund market for IPOs.