Walmart wants to become your new go-to store for digital books. The big-box retailer said Tuesday it’s opening its first-ever e-books storefront, thanks to a partnership with Rakuten Kobo. Kobo’s library of 6 million digital titles will now be available on Walmart’s US website, supplementing Walmart’s existing selection of physical books. Walmart is also offering […]
Airbnb is serious about business travel. To back that up, the home-rental company on Monday shared updates about how people use its professional community, which was recently rebranded as Airbnb for Work to “better encompass the unique benefits only Airbnb can offer today’s modern workforce.” Airbnb for Work bookings tripled from 2015 to 2016, and then tripled again […]
Actor Macaulay Culkin is ditching “Carson” for a new middle name: Macaulay Culkin. Too meta for you? Well, that’s the kind of middle name you get when you ask the internet to pick it for you. In late November, the Home Alone actor asked the world to gift him a middle name for Christmas because “my middle […]
Meet the steer herd around the world. Knickers is a black-and-white Holstein Friesian living on a farm in Western Australian run by rancher Geoff Pearson. Knickers may be a head of cattle, but he’s head and shoulders above all the others. He’s taller than basketball star Steph Curry and weighs as much as a Toyota Prius. […]
The British government could be preparing to set up an internet regulator that would police the actions of social networks and sanction them if they failed to comply with rules. Buzzfeed News reported on Thursday that it had obtained details of government proposals, which form part of legislation currently being drafted ahead of an official announcement later this […]
China’s population is big — 1.4 billion big — and its internet user population is creeping toward similar heights. A government department called the China Internet Network Information Center ran a report to find out just how many citizens were jumping online. The result was 802 million, and the agency estimates that 29.68 million of […]
Alex Jones is going to war with Silicon Valley. As one of the internet’s most controversial personalities, making outlandish claims and spreading conspiracy theories through his Infowars website and broadcast has made Jones a household name in political circles. Initially, it was for his baseless accusation that 9/11 was an inside job. But in the past […]
Some people logged into Instagram on Thursday to an unwelcome surprise: Their vertical scrolling through images had disappeared. It was all part of a test change Instagram has been considering that would do away with the up-and-down swipe that’s become the standard way we practically scroll through anything in the modern age. Instead, Instagram’s been […]
Trouble is brewing for Facebook in Vietnam. The social network has infringed on a new cybersecurity law in the country by letting users post content it deemed illegal on its platform, state media reported Wednesday. Such posts include those containing ‘slanderous content,’ ‘anti-government sentiment’ and the defamation of individuals and organisations, it added, citing the […]
Facebook suspended 400 and banned one of the thousands of apps it’s investigated since the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal began in March, the company said Thursday. The company issued a full ban to myPersonality, one of the apps at the center of the scandal, on Wednesday after it didn’t agree to a request for […]