Food and Drink
Google sells restaurant review service Zagat to The Infatuation
Back in 2011, Google bought Zagat with the hopes that it would offer restaurant reviews in its search results, but things didn't really pan out for the search…
Internet
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Internet trends and policy: streaming TV, social platforms and content rules, net neutrality, online security and new web services from Zillow and Apple.
Internet
UK broadcast regulator will let customers walk away from broadband contracts over slow speeds
When it comes to your internet speeds, you know the term "up to," right? Yeah, that's a term not many consumers are a fan of because of the…
Amazon
European Union provides details for taxes on tech companies’ revenue
The European Union is out to counter tech companies' tax maneuvers by directly targeting their revenue, and now we get some insight into how the EU will make…
Internet
LTE exploits could let intruders conduct serious attacks
Researchers at Purdue and the University of Iowa have released an outline of exploits for the LTE protocols that would allow intruders to conduct ten very serious attacks.…
Internet
Meet AgeID, Pornhub’s new age verification tool for the UK
Pornhub owner Mindgeek has revealed a new tool that might become the new gatekeeping tool for porn in the UK. Meet AgeID, the tool that will ask porn…
Cybersecurity
GitHub survived biggest DDoS attack every recorded
GitHub, a web-based code distribution and version control service, apparently got hit by a massive denial of service attack on Wednesday and came out the other side pretty…
Facebook
New European guidelines ask social network to remove terrorist content within one hour
Today, European Commission published new guidelines for social network and among them, there's a request for these websites to remove reported terrorist content within one hour (via Financial…
Google
New YouTube moderators may have mistakenly purged right-wing channels
It appears that some mistakes were committed by new moderators at YouTube. As the video platform ramps up human-powered moderation, the new moderators appeared to have mistakenly removed…
Business
Woz was scammed out of over $70,000 worth of Bitcoins
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak had apparently fell victim to an old school internet scam and had his bitcoin taken from him. While speaking at The Economic Times of…
Internet
Oregon legislators move to enact their own net neutrality legislation
The state of Oregon just took a step to protecting net neutrality in their state. Yesterday, the Oregon House of Representatives passed a proposal that would require state…
Internet
Senate officially introduces the CRA resolution to restore net neutrality
Last week, we learned that the FCC officially published its net neutrality rollback plans in the Federal Register, which were voted on by the FCC back in December.…
Cryptocurrency
Per bankruptcy documents, 50 Cent admits he never actually owned any bitcoin
It appears that 50 Cent never actually owned any bitcoin. The rapper admitted that he in fact did not make $8 million in bitcoin by accepting the cryptocurrency…
AT&T
Court ruling says FTC data-throttling lawsuit against AT&T may proceed
AT&T has been tied in a long legal battle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In 2014, the FTC sued AT&T for throttling its unlimited mobile data plan…
Google
Chrome’s popular pull-to-refresh feature is making its way to Chromebooks
When you're using Chrome on mobile, you know how you can use the pull-to-refresh feature? Well, there's some good news for you Chromebook and Windows-2-in-1 users. It appears…
Entertainment
Netflix: 54 original TV shows and movies coming in March
March will be a particularly good month for Netflix subscribers. This is because the streaming service will release more original content in March 2018 than it ever has…