Apple, Google release technology for pandemic apps
MATT O'BRIEN
AP Technology Writer
Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to...
Privacy groups: TikTok app violating children’s privacy
TALI ARBEL
AP Technology Writer
Privacy watchdogs say that the popular TikTok video app is violating a children's privacy law and putting kids at risk.
A...
Facebook removes accounts linked to QAnon conspiracy theory
BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP Technology Writer
OAKLAND (AP) — Facebook says it has removed several groups, accounts and pages linked to QAnon, taking action for the...
Facebook to label national origin of popular posts
BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP Technology Writer
OAKLAND (AP) — Facebook said Wednesday it will label posts from popular accounts with their geographic origin in an attempt...
Facebook to warn users who ‘liked’ coronavirus hoaxes
BARBARA ORTUTAY and AMANDA SEITZ
Associated Press
Facebook will soon let you know if you shared or interacted with dangerous coronavirus misinformation on the site,...
Tech companies step up fight against bad coronavirus info
AMANDA SEITZ and BARBARA ORTUTAY
The Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation has spread from continent to continent like the pandemic itself,...
Apple, Google to adapt phones for virus infection tracking
FRANK BAJAK and MATT O'BRIEN
AP Technology Writer
Apple and Google launched a major joint effort to leverage smartphone technology to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
New...
Hackers’ new target during pandemic: video conference calls
REGINA GARCIA CANO and AARON MORRISON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ceri Weber had just begun to defend her dissertation when the chaos began: Echoes...
Those without broadband struggle in a stuck-at-home nation
TALI ARBEL and MICHAEL CASEY
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — In Sandwich, New Hampshire, a town of 1,200 best known as the setting for...
Home internet jammed up? Try these steps before upgrading
FRANK BAJAK
AP Technology Writer
With so much of the U.S. workforce — and their families — now cooped up at home to combat the...