NYC girl is Google Doodle finalist
Chloe Chan was calm and cool when announced as the winner of a very big honor. This drawing she created for a chance to be on Google's homepage will now represent the State of New York in the final competition. Chloe entered the Doodle for Google challenge, where kids across the country designed original artwork under the topic "What inspires me."
Chatting digital assistants?
Ask Siri, the iPhone and now HomePod's digital assistant, if she knows Alexa, Amazon's competitor, and she'll respond with one of her pre-programmed responses. Often something like: "I'm sorry. I'm afraid I don't have an answer to that." That answer is a lie. And we can thank the YouTube user danrl, among others, for recording and uploading the proof to call shenanigans on Apple's duplicitous personal assistant, the first speaking machine many of us ever integrated into our lives.
Meltdown and Spectre hardware bugs
Your important data—passwords, photos, e-mails and instant messages—are at risk because of a design flaw in Intel's processor chip. The flaw leaves your personal devices vulnerable to attack. Fixing the flaw could result in your system slowing down as much as 30 percent. The security flaws are called Meltdown and Spectre.
Google will stop reading your email
Most of us know by now that pretty much anything we do online is being watched. But when Google recently announced to its Gmail users that it would stop looking at their emails in an effort to target ads, many customers said, "Wait, you were looking through our emails, too?" Most of us know by now that pretty much anything we do online is being watched. But when Google recently announced to its Gmail users that it would stop looking at their emails in an effort to target ads, many customers said, "Wait, you were looking through our emails, too?"
Be Internet Awesome campaign
Ben is 11 going on 12, so he is using the internet a lot more. And sometimes what he sees online bothers him. He says he has seen horrible racists things posted online, including to his mom's Instagram account. And every once in a while they even say bad things about him, making him scared and sad. But now he is learning how to respond, thanks to a new game geared toward preteens called Interland, part of Google's new "Be Internet Awesome" campaign to teach kids how to be smart when they're online.
Extremism online
Following Saturday's attack in London, Facebook is promising to do more to keep terrorists off its network. But stopping extremists from spreading their message of hate across the web is so difficult because it requires vigilance and cooperation from law enforcement, internet users, and most importantly social media companies, experts told Fox 5. While Facebook and others say they already work to combat online extremism, some critics said that is not nearly enough.