By Amy Tennery (Reuters) – Facebook on Thursday emphasized that it does not permit its employees to block news stories from its “Trending Topics” list based on political bias, amid
By Amy Tennery (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate committee launched an inquiry on Tuesday into how social media website Facebook selects its news stories after a report that company employees
By Amy Tennery (Reuters) – Facebook <FB.O> workers have often omitted conservative political stories from the website’s “trending” list, the technology news site Gizmodo said on Monday in a report
By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday it did not own the rights to the technical method a contractor used to open
By Greg Roumeliotis and Liana B. Baker (Reuters) – Verizon Communications Inc <VZ.N> was set on Tuesday to advance to the second stage of bidding for Yahoo Inc’s <YHOO.O> core
By Andrew Heikkrila (TechCrunch) – Replicants. Cylons. Skynet. Hal 9000. These are the classic pop-culture references the average person might conjure when they hear the term “artificial intelligence.” Yet, while
By Joseph Menn and Mark Hosenball SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The company that helped the FBI unlock a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone to get data has sole legal ownership of
By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California lawmakers on Tuesday took a major step toward outlawing the use of so-called “ransomware” to hijack computers for money, passing a bill
By Dustin Volz and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Security researchers and civil liberties advocates on Friday condemned draft legislation leaked from the U.S. Senate that would let judges order
By Julia Love, Joseph Menn and Nate Raymond (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Friday said it would keep fighting to force Apple Inc to open an iPhone in
