Until recently, scientists thought of viruses as mostly small infectious agents, tiny compared to typical bacteria and human cells. So imagine the surprise when biologist Jeff Blanchard and Ph.D. student ...

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Facebook Watch has failed to capture viewers with its content, so it’s hoping to differentiate through the company’s core strength: social. Today Facebook fully launches Watch Party, its co-viewing feature where users can see and comment on the same video…

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And for the greater good of the Harry Potterverse, it should be The Last Jedi instead.

And with 5G, this may be true in the US, too.

Employees want Google to cancel the Project Dragonfly search app.

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Twitter’s hateful content policies were updated last month.

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Facebook needs to start being more open

We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google’s effort to create a…

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A group of Google employees has signed a public letter calling on the company to abandon its plans for a Chinese search product that censors results.

Googlers are signing their real names to a new letter protesting Project Dragonfly, and the number of signatures is growing quickly.