Federal authorities announced a major crackdown on dozens of robocallers responsible for about 1 billion robocalls. The effort, dubbed “Operation Call it Quits,” included actions by the Federal Trade Commission and 25 additional federal, state and local agencies, to target spam call operations nationwide that pitch a range of products and services, including credit card Read more about Crackdown targets scammers behind 1 billion robocalls[…]
Audiences love a good European road trip. Remember when Clark Griswold and family yukked around the continent in “European Vacation”? Or how the song “Scotty Doesn’t Know” incited a “EuroTrip”? Well, now we’ve got “National Lampoon’s Spider-Man.” Actually it’s called “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” but that’s the vibe — teen mischief and trans-Atlantics — except Read more about ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ is more teen comedy than action movie[…]
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is evaluating how it should handle “deepfake” videos created with artificial intelligence and high-tech tools to yield false but realistic clips. In an interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said it might make sense to treat such videos differently from Read more about Zuckerberg says developing deepfake video policy is ‘really important’[…]
New Jersey police are on the hunt for a heartless person who tossed two kittens from a moving SUV over the weekend. Police were called to the intersection of Route 70 and Massachusetts Avenue in Toms River around 8 p.m. Saturday after witnesses saw a passenger in a red Nissan Pathfinder throw the cats onto Read more about Cops hunt for monster who threw kittens from moving SUV[…]
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday fired a broadside at front-runner Joe Biden, asserting that he was the better candidate to take on President Trump because the ex-veep was “out of touch” with today’s progressive Democrats. “I respect him, but he’s out of touch with today’s Democratic Party,” the mayor told MSNBC the morning after Read more about De Blasio takes aim at ‘out of touch’ Joe Biden[…]
Price tags have been clickbait for a long time. The last 10 years are littered with sticker-shock stories: Paris Hilton's $325,000 "dog villa," Nicolas Cage's $276,000 (stolen) dinosaur skull, Kim Kardashian's $23,000 diaper bag, every celebrity's multi-multimillion-dollar home. Implicit in most of those stories was not only covetousness but judgment: how wonderful, how out of Read more about The Psychological Impact of Seeing YouTubers Spend Millions[…]
The stereotype of the visionary male founder dominates Silicon Valley. The “move fast and break things” culture rewards those who announce promising new directions with confidence, often neglecting existing resources. It’s how the Valley has disrupted business and society for decades. Earlier this month, Tristan Harris, cofounder of the Center for Humane Technologies, proposed a Read more about To Really 'Disrupt,' Tech Needs to Listen to Actual Researchers[…]
Tech employees are taking a stand against migrant detention centers; a proposal asking tech companies to disclose the value of your data; and a live reading of the Mueller report. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up Read more about Wayfair Walkout, Facebook Data Value, and More News[…]
We're just spit-balling here, but it seems likely that finding out you've just scored the title role in a superhero franchise might be the best news an actor can ever get. So, how did Spider-Man: Far From Home star Tom Holland find out he was going to be Peter Parker? He saw it on Instagram. Read more about <em>Spider-Man: Far From Home</em>'s Tom Holland Found Out He Was Peter Parker on Instagram[…]
A Brooklyn federal judge Wednesday sentenced an admitted ISIS recruiter and failed government cooperator to only 48 months behind bars — despite prosecutors’ requests that the New Jersey woman serve 30 to 50 years for her crimes. The lenient sentence from Judge Jack Weinstein means Sinmya Amera Ceasar, who’s already served 29 months, will walk Read more about New Jersey ISIS recruiter gets just 48 months behind bars[…]