Quick Summary: Bristol City Women Appointed Strategic Leadership Reset
Bristol City Women appointed Hannah Buckley as CEO, effective June 15, marking a strategic leadership reset.
The club aims to place a...
Last month, Polly became a hit on Snapchat with over 20 million answerers. The feature allowed for users to add multiple-choice polls onto their Snapchat. Instagram is following in their footsteps with their polling feature within Stories. Now just like adding a sticker, users can add a two-answer poll...
Senator Elizabeth Warren said it is time for the Wells Fargo & Co. CEO to get fired.
The Wells Fargo account fraud scandal is an ongoing controversy surrounding the creation of millions of fraudulent accounts on behalf of Wells Fargo clients without their consent. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined...
On Monday, Facebook announced it had given Congress thousands of advertisements linked to Russian influence operations in the United States. Facebook also announced their tightening of ad policies to make sure election impact is harder to achieve on the social network.
Facebook confirmed that it discovered the ad sales earlier...
Facebook is reportedly testing facial recognition as a way of securing accounts more efficiently.
Facebook confirmed the testing to TechCrunch saying, "We are testing a new feature for people who want to quickly and easily verify account ownership during the account recovery process. This optional feature is available only on...
Following the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history, Uber and Lyft have changed their prices in Las Vegas so people can exit the area without being charged outrageous fees.
The news comes after ride services have been criticized in the past for price gouging following a disaster.
According to a...
As of Sunday, October 1, a new French law is in place. It states any models in commercial photography who have been made to appear thinner or thicker by image processing software has to include a statement declaring the image was retouched. Anyone who opts out of this law...
Between 3.7 to 4.5 billion years ago, life on Earth began. Now, researchers argue meteorites splashed down and leaked essential elements into warm ponds.
Scientists at McMaster University and the Max Planck Institute in Germany report wet and dry cycles bonded basic molecular chemicals int he pounds producing a...
The Paranthropus boisei, a species of an ancient bipedal hominid that roamed around the Earth 2.4 until 1.4 million years ago, could be responsible for passing off the first case of genital herpes to humans.
Between 3 and 1.4 million years ago, genital herpes from African apes infected our human...
YouTube has blocked users their ability to link out to external sites in their end cards. Many YouTube users use end cards to link to further monetize their video content. For example, YouTubers could sell merchandise and Patreon pages where fans can donate money to support their projects.
YouTube Partner...
Whole Foods Market, which was acquired by Amazon who bought for $13.7 billion in June, warned customers on Thursday that hackers stole credit card information from several of its stores. The hack affected Whole Foods’ taprooms and restaurants, not stores’ primary checkout lines, the company announced in a statement.
The...
IKEA has signed an agreement to acquire the tech company TaskRabbit.
On Thursday, IKEA Group announced they had signed an agreement to acquire 100% of TaskRabbit, an on-demand services company. Operating out of the United States, TaskRabbit will continue to serve as an independent company and will continue to provide...
Senate Intelligence Committee investigators are planning to ask Twitter representatives today whether misinformation spread by Russian accounts were made into real news stores and were targeting Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton, and whether or not the social network took steps to stop the spread of false news.
According to Politico, Hillary...
African Americans, Hispanics and individuals without a college degree saw the largest gains in wealth since 2013, the Federal Reserve revealed on Wednesday. That said, the improvements did little to eliminate the inequality gap.
The share of America’s income held by the top 1% of households reached 24% in...
Facebook is currently under pressure from the U.S. government to provide detailed information surrounding the investigation into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election. But it is not the only social networking company that could have played a role in the promotion of propaganda during the U.S. election. According...
Last week in a letter Sen. Mark Warner and Amy Klobuchar urged their constituents to support a bill that will regulate campaign ads running on social networks like Facebook. A draft of the bill may hit Congress as early as Tuesday, according to Gizmodo.
Gizmodo reports the bill was...
Over the weekend, Showtime websites were reportedly found to be running a script that allows the websites to mine visitors’ extra CPU power for the cryptocurrency.
Users on Twitter pointed out that the afflicted sites including showtime.com and showtimeanytime.com were mining for the cryptocurrency, but the script has since...
The tweets in your timeline are going to get a bit longer. Twitter announced on today that the company has started testing 280-character tweets, increasing the previous character limit, to help users share their thoughts and ideas.
“Our research shows us that the character limit is a major cause...
The CEO of Equifax has suddenly retired after a major data breach that left over 100 million people affected.
Richard Smith is the CEO and chairman of Equifax. On Tuesday, he retired following a data breach at the credit-reporting service that affected the private information of 143 million people,...
Twitter has responded to critics who claim the social network has given President Donald Trump a pass on his inflammatory tweets.
On Monday, a company spokesman said that it takes into account “newsworthiness” and public interest when deciding whether or not a particular tweet violates the company’s rules for...
A group of hackers connected to Russia’s military intelligence unit, the GRU, started creating fake Facebook accounts to boost stolen emails as early as June 2016, according to a new report by the Washington Post.
The report comes weeks after Facebook announced that fake accounts linked to Russia were...
