162 tech companies file brief against the latest immigration executive order

 Silicon Valley and the tech community at large has been a staunch opponent of Trump’s immigration…

Nature Conservancy gives forest management a digital makeover

 Keeping a forest healthy often means deciding what to do tree by tree and acre by…

Game over, man! The NES Classic is discontinued planet-wide

 Well, it was fun while it lasted. The NES Classic Edition (it went by several names,…

Streamers flock to YouTube Live, but the money (and crowd) is still at Twitch

 YouTube Live is making impressive strides in catching up to incumbent Twitch, but it has a…

The Mercury Effect

 Facebook hosted a murder. But for all the talk about content moderation, machine learning, flag-monitoring algorithms,…

FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn is coming to Disrupt NY

 The last few years have seen the FCC move to the foreground of the tech world…

Steve Jobs’ custom Apple I and other historic machines are on display at Seattle museum

 Long ago, Apple was a handful of people working in an industry that was only just…

WTF is zero rating?

 Whenever you watch a video, post a picture, or send a message, those bytes are analyzed…