Thu, Oct 17 2019

A flaw that means any fingerprint can unlock a Galaxy S10 phone has been acknowledged by Samsung. It promised a software patch that would fix the problem. The issue was spotted by a British woman whose husband was able to unlock her phone with his…

As a child, you develop a sense of what “fairness” means. It's a concept that you learn early on as you come to terms with the world around you. Something either feels fair or it doesn't. But increasingly, algorithms have begun to…

When Elizabeth Warren wanted everyone to see her lie, she paid Facebook to spread it for her. Warren, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts and a 2020 U.S. presidential hopeful, took out a series of Facebook ads in early October claiming that the…

Peter Bailis can't resist dropping more than a dozen f-bombs as he explains how his startup Sisu aims to upend traditional business intelligence and reshape the way companies act on the massive amounts of information — about products, sales…