Grab moves to offer digital insurance services in Southeast Asia
Grab is Southeast Asia’s top ride-hailing firm, thanks in no small part to its acquisition of Uber’s local business last year, but the company also houses...
YouTube will “ramp up” enforcement of its policies against dangerous challenges and pranks
YouTube announced several policy updates today, including more stringent enforcement of its ban on videos of dangerous challenges and pranks. In a FAQ posted to its...
Roku Furiously Backpedals After Briefly Saying It Would Allow Infowars Channel
Alex Jones, chief of noxious conspiracy website and suspicious supplement sales front Infowars, was kicked off most of the web’s biggest platforms last year amid legal...
Karen Pence’s New Job is Teaching at a School That Bans LGBT Students
Hey, remember Mike Pence? The very normal vice president of the United States who calls his wife “Mother” and refuses to be alone with other women?...
Grindr News Site INTO Is Dead
LGBTQ dating app Grindr fired the editorial staff and social media team at its popular news site Into on Tuesday. The mass layoffs effectively shutter the...
Roku now deleting Infowars from its platform after customer outcry
Roku is deleting the Infowars channel from its platform, a couple days after adding it as a supported channel. In a tweet, Roku said after the channel...
Defendants Charged in Alleged Scheme to Hack SEC Filing System, Steal Financial Info
U.S. authorities have charged “a suspected Ukrainian computer hacker and several traders” with attempting to cash in on “market-moving corporate earnings news” stolen from Securities and...
FCC Trying to Postpone Net Neutrality Lawsuit Over Shutdown, But It Probably Won’t Work
Citing an ongoing partial shutdown of the U.S. government, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday moved to postpone the next phase of the lawsuit challenging...
A New Ghostbusters Movie, Set in Same World as the Original Film, Is Headed to Theaters
The 2016 Ghostbusters reboot might have been a bit…divisive among certain audiences, but here’s some news to please the haters, and also anyone else who just...
CERN’s plan for 100-km collider makes the LHC look like a hula hoop
The Large Hadron Collider has produced a great deal of incredible science, most famously the Higgs Boson — but physicists at CERN, the international organization behind...
