Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online ~humanities.history Article 379 words, published Dec 18 2019 5 votes
The future of building for digital: Experts talk about changing customer expectations ~tech Article 1504 words 2 votes
Sweeping new copyright measures poised to pass in spending bill - The CASE Act and a felony streaming proposal are included ~tech Article 448 words 36 votes
FTC issues orders to Amazon, TikTok, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube seeking data about practices related to personal information, advertising, and user engagement ~tech social media privacy Article 233 words 29 votes
Widespread malware campaign seeks to silently inject ads into search results, affects multiple browsers ~tech security browsers Article 2280 words 18 votes
Pakistan’s government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back ~tech internet Article 3787 words 6 votes
YouTube Vanced: A privacy-friendly YouTube app for Android with ads and telemetry stripped out ~tech android privacy social media Link 38 votes
YouTube can now place ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them ~tech social media google Article 707 words 26 votes
The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection ~tech internet Article 1712 words 20 votes
BuzzFeed to acquire HuffPost in multi-year partnership with Verizon Media ~news journalism Article 307 words 10 votes
Introducing "How to Fix the Internet," a new podcast mini-series from EFF ~tech internet privacy Article 396 words 7 votes
2.1 million of the oldest internet posts are now online for anyone to read ~tech internet social media Article published Sep 17 2020 14 votes
Teenage girl becomes Finland's PM for the day – Aava Murto is taking over for the day as part of a campaign for girls' digital rights ~life.women Article 33 words 12 votes
In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book ~books Article 2410 words, published Sep 10 2020 26 votes
Digital pregnancy tests just contain a regular paper strip test and the battery, microcontroller, LEDs, photodiodes, screen, etc. are all to read whether it shows one line or two ~tech Tweet 16 votes
Unstaffed, digital supermarkets transform rural Sweden – Lifvs start-up has opened nineteen stores across the country, choosing remote places that have lost their local shops ~tech Article 577 words 15 votes
Ad agency Ogilvy abused Twitch donation messages to cause multiple streamers to advertise Burger King for only a few dollars ~tech social media Article 1598 words 9 votes
Can killing cookies save journalism? A Dutch public broadcaster got rid of targeted digital ads and its revenues went up 62-79%. ~tech privacy Article 2533 words 31 votes
eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces ~finance business Article 350 words 6 votes
Over 400 advertisers hit pause on Facebook, threatening $70 billion juggernaut ~tech facebook social media Article 1604 words 8 votes
Pressure mounts as Starbucks, Coca-Cola join Facebook ad boycott; Facebook updates policy ~tech facebook social media Article 1251 words 9 votes
With YouTube Music, Google is holding my speakers for ransom ~tech google Article 1601 words 19 votes
Google has banned ZeroHedge from its ad platform for content policy violations related to misinformation about the Black Lives Matter protests ~tech google Article 591 words 19 votes
The digital archives of the oldest Black newspaper in America show a long struggle for justice ~tech Article 45 words 5 votes
Sweden's cashless society dream isn't all it's cracked up to be – as debates rage along lines of age, wealth and location, the country is looking to create a digital currency ~finance Article 1833 words 4 votes
The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860 ~books libraries Article 251 words 10 votes
Apple now allows push notification advertising, updates dating app review guidelines and more ~tech apple.app store Article 373 words 11 votes
Sweden starts testing new official digital currency – pilot project will be run in an isolated test environment together with digital tech consultants Accenture ~finance Link 5 votes
The downside of diagnosis by smartphone ~health medicine healthcare Article 3893 words, published Feb 5 2020 6 votes
Varo Money receives FDIC approval, enabling it to become America's first standalone national digital bank ~finance banking Article 363 words 5 votes
Sweden's central bank has tapped Accenture to develop its e-krona digital currency pilot project ~finance Link 6 votes
Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions ~tech facebook social media Article 5950 words 11 votes
US Trade Representative investigation concludes that France's Digital Services Tax discriminates against US companies, proposes retaliatory tariffs of up to 100% on French products ~finance Article 416 words 7 votes
The Internet Archive is digitising & preserving over 100,000 vinyl records: Hear 750 full albums now. ~music Article 738 words 8 votes
Online cesspool got you down? You can clean it up, for a price ~tech internet Article 2614 words 6 votes