As we all awaited Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before the House Energy & Commerce Committee, we expected some interesting headlines to arise. No, not really. But the Internet saved the day by unloading on the young, tech-savvy billionaire with hundreds of Zuck memes. The crowd on Capitol Hill is certainly grilling Zuckerberg over his company’s handling […]
Facebook’s stock tumbled more than 14% after news broke that the personal data of tens of millions of its users was accessed improperly by disgraced political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The story begins in 2007, when Facebook provided lots of access to app creators and academics. Developers used the data to build games, dating apps and […]
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates has a lot of opinions, many direct and unflinching — as you might expect from a tech billionaire. His latest, shared in a Reddit “ask me anything” exchange: Cryptocurrencies are deadly. “The government’s ability to find money laundering and tax evasion and terrorist funding is a good thing,” he wrote. “Right […]
