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YouTube Admits Defeat, Will End Targeted Ads in Kids Videos YouTube is throwing in the algorthmic towel: The Alphabet-owned video giant has revealed plans to stop running targeted ads on its videos aimed at child audiences. -
Facebook Accused of Grilling Trauma Counselors for Staff Information Facebook has a moderator problem: An internal letter has accused Facebook of pressuring its moderators' onsite trauma counselors to divulge confidential information. -
Samsung Reveals the Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10 Plus Samsung just debuted the next two installments in its decade-old flagship Galaxy Note line: The Note 10 starts at $949, and the larger Note 10 Plus starts at $1099. They're available on August 23. You can preorder from the Microsoft store online or across the country. -
How the Plain View Project Got 13 Police Officers Fired for Online Racism The Philadelphia police department plans to fire 13 officers for advocating violence through prejudiced social media posts. Thank the Plain View Project, a research project that has compiled a database of Facebook posts from more than 3,500 police officer accounts. -
FaceApp’s Russian Ties Spur Fears of Online Photo Privacy FaceApp's viral images come with a policy offering little data privacy, a company based in Russia, and 80 million users' photos. Should we be worried? The app's backlash might not be entirely justified, but it definitely says a lot about how public opinion on photos has evolved. -
Facebook AI Beats Professional Poker Players For the first time, an artificial intelligence system has beaten a team of professional poker players in a game of six-player no-limit Texas hold 'em. It's just the latest and greatest example yet of AI-powered bots excelling at games that once belonged entirely to humans. -
Amazon Keeps Alexa Voice Recordings Indefinitely In May, Deleware's Sen. Chris Coons sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking how long the company keeps recordings and transcripts of its customers. Amazon says it keeps the records indefinitely, deleting them only when a user makes the move to delete the data first. -
Google Filed a Weird Multiple-Page Smartbook Patent The race towards a great foldable phone now has its strangest entry yet: Google has filed a new patent for a book-like device that might have as many as five foldable screen "pages" to flip through. Here's how it would work and how likely it is to actually happen. -
US Tech Giants Are Reportedly Selling to Huawei Despite Ban In May, the Trump administration issued a blanket ban on US companies supplying hardware or software to the Chinese tech giant Huawei. Now a new report claims that tech companies including Intel and Micron sold millions of dollars worth of products since the ban was announced. -
The First-Ever Under-Screen Selfie Camera Is in “The Near Future” Chinese Smartphone company Oppo has just debuted a first look at their new innovation: a phone with a forward-facing camera embedded underneath its screen. Here's how it works and when we can expect it. -
What’s the Impact of Internet Users Ditching Desktops for Mobile? Two big internet researchers dropped new studies within the past few days, and they both make the same point: Way more internet users opt for their smartphones over desktop or laptops when getting on the internet. A growing number are even smartphone-only. -
The New Nokia 2.2 Is the Cheapest Smartphone Around The just-revealed Nokia 2.2 smartphone costs just €99, or about $112. It's the absolute cheapest option for anyone who wants an Android One phone capable of running Android Q. Here are all the specs to know.