The exclusive carrier for Andy Rubin's Essential Phone is offering an 18-month plan to pay for the $700 phone.
Sprint is now taking preorders for the Essential Phone, and it’s offering subscribers a pretty good perk to jump on it early: a discount of about $260. Naturally, Sprint being a phone carrier, all kinds of confusing terms and conditions apply...
The long-awaited launch day for the Essential Phone is finally...almost here. Sprint, the exclusive US retail carrier for the phone, and Essential have announced that pre-orders are now open for the Black Moon model.
The Essential Phone has arrived, a bit later than originally announced. The first smartphone from the new company founded by Android creator Andy Rubin is now available to order, via Essential’s own site, Best Buy, and Sprint. The phone...
The social network closed the message board, which was popular with Donald Trump supporters, shortly after the election.
An anonymous in-house chatroom at Facebook that had become a “hub” for Donald Trump supporters was closed last year by the company after comments made on the forum disturbed management, according to several reports. The forum, called FB Anon,...
The internal company forum was called Facebook Anon, and it was created in May 2015 as a way for employees to freely discuss subjects about the Facebook workplace. However, the forum soon became a hub for political discussions and was increasingly...
Facebook dismantled a popular anonymous discussion board for employees last year that had become a forum for conservative political debate that sometimes degenerated into racist or sexist comments.
Outward-facing Facebook has always banned anonymity.
The White Hat collective obtained access to several Twitter accounts, including the main HBO account, "Last Week Tonight" and "Game of Thrones."
HBO just can't catch a break. The cable network got hacked again, though this time, the perpetrators targeted its social media accounts. A hacker group called OurMine took over the company's Facebook and Twitter accounts not to ask for...
The hacking group OurMine briefly took over not only the main HBO Twitter account but the official accounts for some of its shows, including Game of Thrones, reports BetaNews. The Twitter hack comes as what is believed to be separate hackers dumped...
Cook says in a note to employees that he disagrees with the president that Nazis are on the same level as those who oppose them.
Much like politicians, tech company CEOs are nowadays expected to take a position on the big social issues facing their country, and Apple boss Tim Cook has been the latest to join the fray with an email sent to all global employees of the company...
Payments giants disable support for sites that promote hate or sell items glorifying white supremacists.
The Apple CEO sent an email to employees about the events that took place in Charlottesville over the weekend that saw one woman killed at a white supremacist rally, reports Buzzfeed. In the email, Cook said “hate is a cancer” and that ...
Tim Cook made his stance about Charlottesville clear enough by tweeting out that "violence and racism have no place in America" as the tragic events were unfolding. This internal letter sent to employees that Recode obtained, however, will ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has criticized U.S. President Trump’s reaction to the violent events that took place over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, which left one woman dead. “I disagree with the president and others who believe that ...
There are plenty of good third-party Windows email apps out there, but not many of them work across all the platforms you might use. If you're the type of person who jumps between macOS and Windows, Newton (formerly CloudMagic) might be worth a ...
Newton Mail, a multi-platform email app that’s been available on Mac, iOS, and Android, is finally reaching the last major platform it had yet to be offered on: Windows 10. Aside from, you know, being offered on Windows, there’s not much else...
Apple has suspended support for Apple Pay on a handful of websites selling white-supremacy clothing and accessories, joining a cascade of technology companies currently cutting off hate groups online. Apple Pay no longer works on at least two...
Apple has disabled its payments system on websites that sell white supremacist and Nazi-themed merchandise, according to a report from BuzzFeed News. The move, which follows the violent white nationalist attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia this...
The company has cut off support for Apple Pay on three white supremacist websites that sell hate-related merchandise. The websites in question sold “sweaters with Nazi logos, T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase ‘White Pride,’...
The post-Charlottesville crackdown on internet hate speech is expanding at a very rapid pace. Squarespace, the web design and hosting service, has revealed to The Verge that it's removing a "group of sites" for violating its policy...
A growing chorus of executives on the President Trump’s business advisory councils have distanced themselves from the president. Here’s what they had to say.
African-Americans contemplate race in the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Bonnie Tyler will be belting out her 1983 hit on a cruise ship on eclipse day, but here are some other sonic suggestions for the big event.
When the sun goes dark for people in the path of totality, the stars will come out. It may also offer the rare opportunity to see a sungrazing comet with the naked eye.
On Aug. 21, the United States will be treated to a total solar eclipse - a rare solar event that hasn't happened since 1991 and which will not happen again until 2024. This year, the exciting eclipse will be visible throughout the nation at varying...
Get ready for the Aug. 21 solar eclipse with a gorgeous time-lapse video showing the 2012 eclipse in Australia.
Internet security provider pulls its protection after claims it was secretly supporting the neo-Nazi site's ideology.
Matthew Prince, cofounder and chief executive officer of CloudFlare. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) All week, the infamous hate site Daily Stormer has been battling to stay online in the face of a concerted social media...
Following the violent far right demonstrations in Charlottesville at the weekend, another two web services companies have terminated their business relationships with the Nazi propaganda website, The Daily Stormer. Read More
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The white supremacist website Daily Stormer keeps popping up, and like a bad game of whack-a-mole, the internet keeps trying to rid itself of the stain. Web hosting company GoDaddy dumped the domain itself, and even though the neo-nazi site briefly...
A comedian filed a defamation lawsuit against the white supremacist website, which briefly returned from exile with a Russian domain name.
Following violence in Charlottesville, accounts affiliated with the neo-Nazi website are "suspended" on the social media platform.
After being rejected by both GoDaddy and Google, neo-Nazi publication The Daily Stormer resurfaced today with a Russian domain extension. As Vox reports, Stormer's efforts to secure a Chinese hosting service (DailyStormer.wang) were cut short,...
Twitter joins a long list of companies.
Enlarge / Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince at a 2014 TechCrunch Disrupt conference in London. (credit: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for TechCrunch) Until recently, CloudFlared prided itself on its unwavering commitment to free speech. Even when he was ...
Following violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, the social network's CEO also condemns neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence today regarding the violent attacks in Charlottesville, VA this past weekend and the ongoing conversation around hosting hate groups online. In a message posted on Facebook, Zuckerberg said the company...
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is vowing to take down hate speech from his social media platform in light of the deadly white supremacist...
We can now add Mark Zuckerberg to the growing list of CEOs and public figures who have weighed in on the events of Charlottesville. Writing in a Facebook post Wednesday, the CEO said white supremacists and neo-Nazis are a "disgrace," while...
Soon, you can use Google's smart speaker to call your contacts.
Vizio TVs can now stream films and TV shows directly from Google, no Cast needed.
Back in May, Google said at its Google I/O developer conference that it would follow Amazon in enabling voice-activated phone calling on its smart speaker product. Well, it took a few months, but the service is going live for all Google Home owners...
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Google Home is getting a big upgrade today: The smart speaker can now place voice calls, no cellphone needed. This feature was first announced back at Google I/O in May, but it's now ready to roll out to users in the US and Canada. It's...
Google is rolling out a long-awaited feature for its Google Home smart speaker today: voice calling. The company just announced that Home users in the US and Canada will very soon be able to call people in their contacts and local businesses using...
Google’s smart speaker can now pull double duty as a phone for voice calls. The company just confirmed that it’s rolling out Google Home’s calling feature in the US and Canada beginning today. Users can dial anyone in their contacts and local...
Remember back in May, when Google announced plans to let people make free phone calls through the Google Home? That feature is rolling out starting today (alas, only for folks in US/Canada). Say something like “Ok Google, call the...
Users will be able to make voice calls in the US and Canada through Google Home. The catch: you can't call another Google Home or answer calls with it.
Amid a flurry of CEO resignations following the Charlottesville, Virginia, tragedy, Trump tweeted that he's doing away with two of his advisory councils.
Donald Trump’s Strategic and Policy Forum, a group made up of business leaders from various industries, has reportedly disbanded. CNBC says the group has agreed to terminate as a whole, which is distinct from what’s occurring with...
President Trump tweeted that he was ending two top business-advisory councils, a move that came amid CEO defections following his comments about violence in Charlottesville, Va.
After a conference call today organized by Stephen Schwarzman -- Blackstone CEO and head of the president's Strategic and Policy Forum -- the advisory council decided that the best thing to do in light of Trump's recent comments about the...
After campaigning on a promise to bring manufacturing jobs back to America and use his business acumen to bolster the nation's economy...
As relations between the White House and corporate executives continue to grow tense, leaders are facing pressure from employees to take stands on recent issues.
The leaders held a phone call today to discuss the future of the council.
A number of CEOs have left since Trump's response to the deadly rally in Charlottesville.
Several CEOs from the council have quit this week.
The chief executives of 3M Co. and Campbell Soup Co. on Wednesday became the latest corporate leaders to leave a White House council on manufacturing after President Donald Trump’s responses to the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va.
The president’s Charlottesville reaction sealed the deal.
Two White House advisory councils that once included tech leaders like Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick have dissolved, after several members resigned over President Donald Trump’s weak condemnation of white supremacists. A member of the Strategic...
A number of CEOs dropped from the manufacturing council in recent days.
Can’t say we didn’t see this coming. President Trump tweeted today that he’s ending his American Manufacturing Council and Strategic and Policy Forum. The move comes after a number of CEOs this week quit the council over...
Activists have been working behind the scenes since January.
Ginni Rometty wrote a letter explaining the decision to employees.
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It's probably easier than engineering ones that fold into the dashboard.
Each truck could save about five tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
Sure, it's only a bit of paint and some trim, but it's not exactly easy to make a car this special even more so.
Filed under: Etc.,Government/Legal,Green,Ford,Emerging Technologies,Technology,Autonomous,Future Take the wheel — literally.Continue reading Ford patent reveals removable steering wheel and pedals for self-driving...
Apple will pay Hollywood $1 billion for new programs.
Apple’s ambitions around creating original content seem set to grow: The Wall Street Journal reports that it has a budget of around $1 billion to spend on creating its own programming next year. That’s a budget that begins to...
Apple Music on iOS 10, with Senior VP Eddy Cue. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) As the battle to create original content for online video services continues, we get a glimpse into Apple's plans for the coming year. According to a report from The...
Apple will invest approximately $1 billion in acquiring and producing original TV shows over the next year, according to The Wall Street Journal. The investment could result in as many as 10 new shows, a source told the publication, with the...
The iPhone maker has set aside a billion dollars to either create or acquire original content so it can go head-to-head with the likes of Netflix and Amazon, reports the Wall Street Journal. The budget shows just how serious a player Apple wants to...
The iPhone maker is preparing to take on Netflix and Amazon.
The money could fund as many as 10 television shows.
Vudu will reportedly be available on Apple next week.
Trump's tweet is part of a string of criticisms he's directed at Amazon, CEO Jeff Bezos and Bezos' Washington Post.
During a shouting-match of a news conference, an angry president asserted that “alt-left” activists in Charlottesville were as much to blame as neo-Nazis.
The president unleashed a tweet against the online shopping giant (whose owner just happens to own the Trump-critical paper, the Washington Post) saying the company is “doing great damage to tax paying retailers” and responsible for...
President Trump, in a long, combative exchange with reporters at Trump Tower, insisted that he did nothing wrong on Saturday when he declined to specifically condemn Nazi and white supremacist groups.
After more bad press from The Washington Post