Disneys upcoming live-action version of its animated 1998 film Mulan is still months away from its March 2020 release. And as has often been the case with the studios live-action remakes, the project has not been without some backlash since it was announced i…
The coworking company WeWorks newly unveiled public filings raise a question: What does it even mean to be a tech company these days? WeWork, which leases office space to people and businesses, is valued at a whopping $47 billion more than 10 times its bigge…
Platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are banking on developing artificial intelligence technology to help stop the spread of hateful speech on their networks. The idea is that complex algorithms that use natural language processing will flag racist o…
In a new petition circulating on Medium, Google employees are demanding that their employer pledge not to work with US government agencies such as US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that enforce controversi…
WeWork, which is officially known as the We Company, released paperwork to go public Wednesday. In it, the coworking company tried hard to defend its whopping $47 billion valuation, which is multiples larger than it would be worth if it were considered a real…
A collective of prominent tech leaders that calls itself Build Tech We Trust signed a letter Tuesday demanding that the tech industry stop the spread of hate and terrorism on digital platforms. We are a collective of tech CEOs, activists, changemakers, and …
Sometime very soon (Maybe Monday night! Maybe in the morning! Or the next day!) the media companies CBS and Viacom will finally announce that they are merging. Its the move their owner Shari Redstone has been trying to make for years. The deal will combine …
You gotta respect Amazons tenacity. Amazon found the one part of your online shopping journey it doesnt control what happens between placing a package on your doorstep and you taking the package inside and decided to buy the video doorbell security company R…
Facial recognition is having a moment. Across the US, local politicians and national lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have started introducing rules that bar law enforcement agencies from using facial recognition technology to surveil everyday citizens. …
It doesnt make a ton of sense that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells team would tweet out a video of people making threats to him or, really, that Twitter would decide thats the moment to crack down on the account. But here we are. Conservatives found …
Uber lost more money this spring than it did in any previous quarter, revealing on Thursday a dramatic $5.2 billion deficit in the months before and after its disappointing initial public offering. Losses of that size in just a three-month period might ordin…
Just about everyone is trying to sell you streaming video. Now add Facebook to that list. Starting Thursday, the social network will let some users buy subscriptions to a limited set of offerings from video providers that include Tastemade and CollegeHumor. …