SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Friday approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data without the pe...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/27/judge-approves-650m-facebook-privacy-lawsuit-settlement/
Facebook is weighing whether to add facial recognition technology to the smart glasses it’s developing, one top executive says. The tech titan plans to have a public discussion about the featur...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/26/facebook-weighs-adding-facial-recognition-to-smart-glasses/
Bots on major social media platforms have been hyping up GameStop and other “meme” stocks, according to an analysis by Massachusetts-based cybersecurity company PiiQ Media, suggesting organiz...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/26/bots-hyped-gamestop-on-major-social-media-platforms-analysis/
Nikola admitted that founder and former chairman Trevor Milton made several “inaccurate” claims about the electric-truck maker’s business before he resigned under pressure last year. An int...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/26/nikola-admits-founder-trevor-milton-made-inaccurate-claims/
Bitcoin's price tumbled Friday, putting it on pace for its deepest weekly loss in nearly a year -- on the heels of its equally staggering rally.
https://nypost.com/2021/02/26/bitcoin-heads-for-biggest-weekly-loss-since-march/
The billionaire Tesla chief appeared to welcome rumors that the agency was probing his Twitter posts about Dogecoin, his favorite meme-inspired cryptocurrency.
https://nypost.com/2021/02/26/elon-musk-sec-probe-of-dogecoin-tweets-would-be-awesome/
Twitter is branching out from advertising to find more ways to make money — both for itself and for its most prolific users, whether those are businesses, celebrities or regular people. In an i...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/25/twitter-to-let-users-charge-followers-to-see-premium-posts/
Twitter said Thursday it expects to double annual revenue to at least $7.5 billion and reach 315 million users in 2023, sending its shares up more than 8 percent. In an announcement ahead of its...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/25/twitter-shares-hit-record-high-as-it-forecasts-doubling-revenue/
Anne Kornblut, a former Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winner who now works for Facebook, is the latest candidate to pull out of the race for top job at the Los Angeles Times, Media Ink has learn...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/25/facebook-exec-withdraws-from-race-for-la-times-top-editor-post/
Stockholm – Virtual work parties? You can’t really mingle with colleagues or dance with them and it’s tough to get in the disco mood in your home office. On the other hand, you can’t spre...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/25/virtual-work-parties-the-good-the-bad-and-the-plain-peculiar/
Facebook banned Myanmar’s military from the social network amid violent protests against the coup that was carried out there this month. The Silicon Valley giant also booted the Tatmadaw armed ...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/25/myanmar-military-banned-from-facebook-instagram-after-coup/
Australia’s parliament officially passed a landmark law Thursday effectively forcing tech titans to pay for news content following intense public opposition from Facebook and Google. The first-...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/25/australia-passes-law-requiring-facebook-google-to-pay-for-news/
"It’s glorious, it's dusty, and we love it!" NASA wrote on Instagram.
https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/nasa-releases-new-high-definition-photos-from-mars/
Polish video games maker CD Projekt is delaying the release of a patch for its Cyberpunk 2077 game until the second half of March, it said on Wednesday, after a cyberattack slowed down work on fi...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/cd-projekt-delays-cyberpunk-2077-fix-due-to-cyberattack/
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message, thanks to a puzzle lover on the spacecraft team. Systems engineer Ian C...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/mars-rovers-giant-parachute-carried-secret-message/
Sheryl Sandberg and other top Facebook execs silenced a Kurdish group at the request of the Turkish government in a bid to protect its business in 2018, according to a new report. According to Pr...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/facebook-silenced-kurdish-group-to-stop-hit-on-its-business/
Australian lawmakers advanced a bill that effectively will force Google and Facebook to pay media companies for news content, clearing the last major hurdle for legislation that could set precede...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/australian-lawmakers-push-news-law-after-facebook-concessions/
BANGKOK — Amnesty International says it has found that a hacking group known as Ocean Lotus has been staging more spyware attacks on Vietnamese human rights activists in the latest blow to free...
https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/amnesty-international-hackers-attacking-vietnam-dissidents/
The bounce came after digital payments firm Square announced that it bought some 3,318 bitcoins for a total of $170 million, adding to a $50 million purchase it made last year.
https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/bitcoin-rebounds-after-square-microstrategy-purchases/
Shares of a blank-check company that's set to merge with electric-car maker Lucid Motors tumbled Tuesday after it inked a deal to take the Tesla rival public.
https://nypost.com/2021/02/23/lucid-motors-spac-shares-tank-after-deal-to-go-public/