This Week’s Top 5 Tech Stories You Must Know- March Week 1
Lots has happened this past week in the tech world! With data cables slashed in the Red Sea, major outages for numerous social platforms, Adobe adopting generative AI, and more, […]
Widespread Facebook and Instagram Disruptions for Users
Popular Meta platforms, Facebook and Instagram, experienced widespread service disruptions during the morning hours of Mar. 5. Per Downdetector, more than 500,000 Facebook users had issues logging into their profiles […]
Are Facebook and Instagram About to #Freethenipple?
#FreeTheNipple on Instagram and Facebook has been a movement that continues to grow in popularity. The rule on both platforms can be restrictive and confusing, especially when it comes to the female nipple. Facebook and […]
A Digital News Curator Talks Modern Media consumption
“Digital news curator” is not a job title that existed two decades ago. Yet, in 2022, it is a job that legacy media veterans are flocking to. Why? Because, according […]
Is U.S. Social Media Becoming the New WeChat?
When WeChat was released in 2011, it became the most popular standalone mobile app in the world with over 1 billion monthly users, eclipsing Facebook in monthly traffic, according to […]
5 Things to Know This Morning — Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
Facebook has a misinformation problem, and is blocking access to the data
Ethan Zuckerman, University of Massachusetts Amherst Leaked internal documents suggest Facebook – which recently renamed itself Meta – is doing far worse than it claims at minimizing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation […]
What is the metaverse? 2 media and information experts explain
Rabindra Ratan, Michigan State University and Yiming Lei, Michigan State University The metaverse is a network of always-on virtual environments in which many people can interact with one another and […]
5 Things to Know With Your Morning Coffee — Thursday, October 28, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know With Your Morning Coffee — Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know With Your Morning Coffee — Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know With Your Morning Coffee — Thursday, August 19, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know With Your Morning Coffee — Thursday, June 17, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know With Your Morning Coffee — Thursday, June 10, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Thursday, April 8, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Monday, April 5, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Friday, March 19, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Monday, March 15, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
Signal Rolls Out New Features for Dejected Facebook, WhatsApp Deserters
Encrypted messaging app Signal is enjoying it’s newfound attention, and is making changes to ensure it can hang on to its new users. Signal rose to superstardom in the social […]
5 Things to Know Before Your Morning Coffee — Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021
Every day we wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and get ready for work. Following are a handful of stories from around the tech world condensed to fit into […]
Making Sure Your Social Media Can Control Who Sees What
Today we live in a world that is entirely driven by technology, and getting any work done requires plenty of dependencies on the internet. These days the gateway to someone’s life is through their electronic devices, whether it be their phones, computers, or even their MP3 players. Applications like Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, freeaccount.one and TikTok have all risen to popularity over the last decade tremendously. Even though questions regarding their privacy issues and lack of security have often done the rounds, it still has not stopped their immense popularity.
Can Social Media Really Be Regulated?
Last week, President Trump introduced an executive order in response to Twitter’s fact-checking labels. The situation then initiated discussions around regulating social media platforms. Though Trump is attempting to introduce new changes to the 1996 Communications Decency Act, tech experts and government officials are skeptical of how far the order can go.
Cambium Networks Teams Up With Facebook to Bring the World Gigabit Wireless Connectivity
The solution aims to provide last mile access to subscriber homes, enterprises, and multi-dwelling buildings, as well as transport for video surveillance and public Wi-Fi networks. Additionally, it serves to operate as a backhaul for 4G or 5G network traffic.
Facebook Launches Startup Incubator Subsidiary in China
In 2009, sparked by riots in Xinjiang, Facebook was officially banned from the country of China. Since then, the social media giant has tried many times, in a variety of […]
Opinion: Does Facebook just suck?
It seems like for over the past year or so, people have been asking this question a lot. The once social media pioneer-turned-titan has taken a beating recently, and the […]
Facebook Moving Forward with Music and MLB Streaming
In this fast-paced world, companies are constantly needing to adapt and expand in order to be successful. It’s no different for social media platforms, which often find it necessary to […]
Mark Zuckerberg Named “Misinformer of the Year”
With the end of the year comes a myriad of awards in the classic format “______ of the Year.” While most of these are welcome honors to the recipient, there […]
Facebook Admits That Social Media Might Be Bad For Us
“With people spending more time on social media, many rightly wonder whether that time is good for us. Do people connect in meaningful ways online? Or are they simply consuming […]
Should Brands Try To Be Cool?
In the age of so much free content, you quickly learn to expect you’re going to be advertised to a lot. And, most of the time, these advertisements are harmless […]
Facebook Fortune Telling with Computer Scientist Jen Golbeck
In a popular TED Talk, Jen Golbeck reveals the so-called “curly fry conundrum.” She points to a study in which Facebook likes were tallied and analyzed in order to predict […]
The Problem With Facebook Live Audio
Ever determined to be more than just a place to scroll past baby photos, Facebook is continuing to expand itself with Facebook Live Audio, part of their new Live 360 […]
Coming this August: An Undersea Cable over 4,000 Miles Long
Online and cloud services may soon be on par with oil as a precious resource. Joining numerous pipelines this August will be a massive trans-Atlantic undersea cable approx. 4,100 miles […]
Facebook’s Biometric Lawsuit: It’s Not Polite to Point
Both Facebook and the public at large are finding out how tricky privacy law is becoming in the age of biometrics. For those who don’t know, “biometrics,” according to the […]