Facebook said it will prioritize news sources by surveying users about their trust in media brands.
Source: Wired
After accidentally turning Damore into a conservative hero, Google execs say the former employee violated company rules. Period.
Source: CNET
Sundar Pichai talks about the fallout of firing James Damore saying he didn’t do it for political reasons.
Source: CNET
If you’re looking for a way to close out your week that’s entertaining, edifying, and looks like you’re doing real work, check out Chimeria:Grayscale, a game where you act as an HR person dealing with everyday office problems via email. Okay, maybe it doesn’t sound that exciting, but there’s more to it than that. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The social network will email more than 600,000 users in the US who saw tweets from Russian-linked accounts during 2016 election.
Source: CNET
Twitter has provided updated details on its investigation into Russian election interference on its platform in 2016. Its identification of more than 13,000 more Russian-linked bots that made election-related tweets puts the total over 50,000. In addition, about 3,800 (up 1,000 from Twitter’s data in the fall) were associated with the now-notorious Internet Research Agency. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he still believes that it was appropriate to fire James Damore. “I don’t regret it,” said Pichai, in an interview with Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC’s Ari Melber. It’s been almost six months since the company dismissed the engineer, who authored a controversial memo about purported gender differences. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Meet our UK reporter who loves CNET so much she worked for our site twice!
Source: CNET
Malwarebytes discovered an extension for Chrome and Firefox that prevents its removal and hijacks the browser. It’s only installed manually although under tricky circumstances and you can remove it too with a few tricks.
The post A sneaky extension for Chrome, Firefox prevents its removal, hijacks browser appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
Things aren’t going well down at the ol’ nano-factory. They’re having trouble getting all those tiny workers to synchronize and move quickly together. But leave it to the Germans to get things running smoothly! All it took was a careful application of that newfangled technology “electricity.”
Tiny nano-scale machines formed from DNA could be the future of… Read More
Source: TechCrunch