Researchers have new recommendations for where to sit (in the front, for adults; kids still get the back) and what features to look for.

The website was also asked to turn over IP and metadata information of those who commented on John Earnest’s post.

Though it’s just a research project for the moment

But mixed feelings about the internet persist, according to Mary Meeker's latest annual report.

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has come under sustained DDoS attack, which was traced back to IP addresses in China. It’s widely believed this is an attempt to disrupt citizen protests in Hong Kong, which are being coordinated using Telegram’s messaging group feature. The so-called #612strike protesters are against new Chinese extradition laws, saying they threaten Hong Kong’s status as an autonomous region.

With the election approaching, lawmakers are facing up to the fact they need to do something about the explosion in manipulated media.

All it’s missing is weather and traffic

An investigation from Reveal News identified nearly 400 current and former police officers

Firm has uncovered emails that appear to show chief executive’s connection to potentially problematic practices, WSJ reports

‘I honestly do think this technology will be better for the internet’

It used a Shazam-like technology to identify soccer games

The man who was for seven years head of Apple’s Siri efforts has said that virtual assistants don’t deliver on their promise. Bill Stasior left Apple earlier this year, leaving the Siri team without a VP at the helm… He told Business Insider that no virtual assistant currently does what we really want them to.

Electric cars are being used to help power a small Portuguese island in the Atlantic. Porto Santo Island has begun testing a scheme in which the batteries in electric vehicles are charged by solar power during the day but at night return spare energy to the grid to power people's homes.

New cars’ “infotainment systems” are a mess of dangerous touch screens and inscrutable icons. More knobs, please.

Spain’s data protection agency has fined the country’s soccer league, LaLiga, €250,000 (about $280,000) for allegedly violating EU data privacy and transparency laws. The app, which is used for keeping track of games and stats, was using the phone’s microphone and GPS to track bars illegally streaming soccer games, Spanish newspaper El País reported.

Headphones are a fact of life inside open plan offices, but Airpods have quickly become a staple of life at ad agency life, with staffers walking around all day with the signature little pods in their ears. For those who remember when people used phones to make voice calls, this is a somewhat disconcerting development in a business that theoretically thrives on collaboration.

Elon Musk revealed that Tesla has a design for an electric submarine or amphibious car, but it doesn’t sound like it’s something that they plan on bringing to market. The 1977 James Bond movie ‘The Spy Who Loved Me‘ featured a modified Lotus Esprit that could change into a submarine.

The social network tells the group it was kicked off for spreading "harmful misinformation."

A research group led by Washington State University scientists has found a way to turn daily plastic waste products into jet fuel.

Microsoft has quietly taken down a massive facial recognition database containing more than 10 million images of roughly 100,000 people. The images were gathered from search engines and published in 2016 to a dataset called MS Celeb and used to train facial recognition systems around the world, including by military researchers and Chinese firms such as SenseTime and Megvii, the Financial Times reported Thursday.

WhatsApp says it is deleting 2m accounts per month as part of an effort to blunt the use of the world’s most popular messaging app to spread fake news and misinformation. The Facebook-owned service published the data as part of a white paper on “stopping abuse” that was launched on Wednesday in India, the biggest market for the company with more than 200m users.

Many of you store your photos and videos on both Google Drive and Google Photos, which keeps them safe and easy to access. We’ve heard feedback that the connection between these services is confusing, so next month, we’re making some changes to simplify the experience across Drive and Photos.

The Austrian Post is again creative and uses the latest technology: For the first time, it issues a special stamp

On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more generally) tools to help enterprises make sense of the sea of data that they use and amass: Salesforce …

The tech could allow a probe to make it to Saturn in just two years.

Starting July 1, all electric vehicles with four or more wheels in the EU will be required to emit noise of at least 56 decibels if the car is going 20 km/h or slower, the New Atlas reports. This makes a ton of sense as electric cars don’t make any of the engine noises we’ve …

It has a few hurdles to overcome before the service launches, though.The news: Uber Elevate, the company’s aerial arm, has said it will start delivering meals from McDonald’s and other local restaurants to households in San Diego this summer, Bloomberg reports.

According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple's set to buy Drive.ai – an American startup that works on AI that aids self-driving.

And they’re afraid to speak out about it

Newspapers’ sites had until recently been among the few major English-language outlets still regularly accessible in mainland China.

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​For years now, scientists have marvelled at the insulating qualities of polar bear fur, suggesting that it could inspire manmade heat-retaining materials. Well, Chinese researchers have now developed just such a substance, which reportedly outperforms real fur.

Deep-learning techniques have made it easier and easier for anyone to forge convincing misinformation.

If Android becomes more fragmented, Google thinks everybody loses

The Mac Pro might make more sense as an investment for companies, rather than individual creators.