Facebook’s Next Target: The Religious Experience
Months before the megachurch Hillsong opened its new outpost in Atlanta, its pastor sought advice on how to build a church in a pandemic.From Facebook.The...
FTX, Cryptocurrency Leader, Moves to Curb High Risk Trades
A popular cryptocurrency exchange announced on Sunday that it was curbing a type of high-risk trading that has been blamed in part for sharp fluctuations...
A Grandfather Died in ‘Swatting’ Over His Twitter Handle, Officials Say
“Mr. Sonderman has expressed his remorse on multiple occasions. He has expressed his regret regarding Mr. Herring’s death,” Mr. Huffman said in an email on...
Biden’s Antitrust Team Signals a Big Swing at Corporate Titans
WASHINGTON — President Biden has assembled the most aggressive antitrust team in decades, stacking his administration with three legal crusaders as it prepares to take...
Officials who are US allies among targets of NSO malware, says WhatsApp chief
Will Cathcart claims government officials around the world among 1,400 WhatsApp users targeted in 2019Senior government officials around the world – including individuals in high...
The F.T.C. asks for an extension to refile its Facebook antitrust suit.
The Federal Trade Commission on Friday asked a federal judge to give it more time to refile an antitrust suit against Facebook that is the...
Amazon will investigate gender bias claims in its cloud division.
Amazon has hired a law firm to investigate claims of widespread gender discrimination in part of its cloud computing division, the company said in an...
How Tech Won the Pandemic and Now May Never Lose
On March 13, 2020, Glenn Kelman, the chief executive of the online real estate broker Redfin, was biking to work when he got a call...
We Need a New Term for Video Games
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.Everyone is trying to get us to come...
Giant Spider-Scorpion Hybrid, Bigfoot Erotica, Killer Chimps and More Mysterious News Briefly — July 23, 2021
Mysterious News Briefly — July 23, 2021 Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), who is forever linked to Bigfoot erotica but is now investigating conspiracy theories,...