IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy An international coalition of public health and child safety advocates urged Facebook executives Thursday to abandon plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under age 13 because its members feared it would put young users at "great risk."The coalition of 35 organizations and 64 individual experts, coordinated by the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, a Boston-based nonprofit, raised concerns about privacy, screen time, mental health, self-esteem and commercial pressure in...…IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy An international coalition of public health and child safety advocates urged Facebook executives Thursday to abandon plans to launch a version of Instagram for children under age 13 because its members feared it would put young users at "great risk."The coalition of 35 organizations and 64 individual experts, coordinated by the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, a Boston-based nonprofit, raised concerns about privacy, screen time, mental health, self-esteem and commercial pressure in...WW…

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and Kim Johnson was nervous as she sat down at her dining room table in January 2015, clutching an unopened letter from the radiology department at Fleming County Hospital in Flemingsburg, Kentucky.Breast cancer had killed Johnson’s mother years earlier, a painfully slow death that took a toll on her entire family. The prospect of that happening to her was all Johnson had been able to think about since she’d discovered a tender lump in her right breast weeks before, prompting her doctor to...…IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and Kim Johnson was nervous as she sat down at her dining room table in January 2015, clutching an unopened letter from the radiology department at Fleming County Hospital in Flemingsburg, Kentucky.Breast cancer had killed Johnson’s mother years earlier, a painfully slow death that took a toll on her entire family. The prospect of that happening to her was all Johnson had been able to think about since she’d discovered a tender lump in her right breast weeks before, prompting her doctor to...WW…

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and A man who appeared to have "fallen or jumped" was pronounced dead inside an Amazon facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada, early Monday, police said. The coroner later determined the man died by suicide.Officers arrived just before 7 a.m. and found the man inside the building on East Tropical Parkway, in the northeast corner of metropolitan Las Vegas, said Alexander Cuevas, a spokesperson for the North Las Vegas Police Department.On Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the Clark County...…IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and A man who appeared to have "fallen or jumped" was pronounced dead inside an Amazon facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada, early Monday, police said. The coroner later determined the man died by suicide.Officers arrived just before 7 a.m. and found the man inside the building on East Tropical Parkway, in the northeast corner of metropolitan Las Vegas, said Alexander Cuevas, a spokesperson for the North Las Vegas Police Department.On Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman for the Clark County...WW…

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy After recent moves by payment platforms like Visa, Mastercard and Discover to cut off access to Pornhub, the world’s largest porn site, several sex workers said they fear an oncoming “war on porn” that prevents them from making money for their work.Eight adult performers, four of whom sell content on Pornhub, told NBC News that the payment companies’ latest actions hurt them financially far more than they hurt Pornhub. It’s especially destructive, they said, at a time when they have few...…IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy After recent moves by payment platforms like Visa, Mastercard and Discover to cut off access to Pornhub, the world’s largest porn site, several sex workers said they fear an oncoming “war on porn” that prevents them from making money for their work.Eight adult performers, four of whom sell content on Pornhub, told NBC News that the payment companies’ latest actions hurt them financially far more than they hurt Pornhub. It’s especially destructive, they said, at a time when they have few...WW…

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and Fourteen organizations designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center or the Anti-Defamation League have received funding from the Paycheck Protection Program totaling $4.3 million, according to data released last week by the Small Business Administration, revealing who benefited from the pandemic federal relief funds.Those organizations include the , known for publishing the white supremacist website and now-discontinued magazine American Renaissance. That group is run by...…IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and Fourteen organizations designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center or the Anti-Defamation League have received funding from the Paycheck Protection Program totaling $4.3 million, according to data released last week by the Small Business Administration, revealing who benefited from the pandemic federal relief funds.Those organizations include the , known for publishing the white supremacist website and now-discontinued magazine American Renaissance. That group is run by...WW…

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and Nearly 800 Google employees have joined a solidarity campaign in support of one of the company’s top female executives, a known advocate for diversity in the industry who said she was fired after what her boss described as a dispute over a research paper.The executive, Timnit Gebru, technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team, announced on Twitter late Wednesday that she had been fired after sending an email to co-workers stating that the company’s leadership had...…IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and Nearly 800 Google employees have joined a solidarity campaign in support of one of the company’s top female executives, a known advocate for diversity in the industry who said she was fired after what her boss described as a dispute over a research paper.The executive, Timnit Gebru, technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team, announced on Twitter late Wednesday that she had been fired after sending an email to co-workers stating that the company’s leadership had...WW…

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and While U.S. intelligence experts generally agree that Russia is better than any other country at spreading disinformation to undermine voter confidence leading up to the election, security experts have been preoccupied with a longer-term threat. They fear that the Chinese government's disinformation operations pose a far more insidious menace to democracy that will continue well past Election Day.Scholars studying the efforts say the Chinese are growing bolder and more brazen, often...…IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy and While U.S. intelligence experts generally agree that Russia is better than any other country at spreading disinformation to undermine voter confidence leading up to the election, security experts have been preoccupied with a longer-term threat. They fear that the Chinese government's disinformation operations pose a far more insidious menace to democracy that will continue well past Election Day.Scholars studying the efforts say the Chinese are growing bolder and more brazen, often...WW…

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy As major tech platforms try to fight the spread of misinformation, Qualcomm, one of the largest manufacturers of smartphone microprocessors, is taking a different approach by targeting its creation.Qualcomm announced Thursday that it has partnered with the San Diego technology company Truepic to begin embedding a photo and video verification tool within smartphone chips that will be available in some Android devices next year.The feature enables a “secure” photo capture mode within a...…IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.SKIP TO CONTENTBy As major tech platforms try to fight the spread of misinformation, Qualcomm, one of the largest manufacturers of smartphone microprocessors, is taking a different approach by targeting its creation.Qualcomm announced Thursday that it has partnered with the San Diego technology company Truepic to begin embedding a photo and video verification tool within smartphone chips that will be available in some Android devices next year.The feature enables a “secure” photo capture mode within a...WW…