A few viral YouTube videos have already been sold as NFTs.

The illicit racket is said to have totaled $9.8 million

Research is among the first studies to demonstrate an association between social media use and biological marker associated with poor physical health.

MrBeast is the new No. 1 with record earnings, and Jake Paul ranks second despite past scandals. Here’s how much these celebs raked in.

Social media posts are having a significant impact on employability

The social-media platform’s status as a relic of the Internet has attracted prodigal users as well as new ones.

For more than a decade, the Internet has remained vulnerable to a class of attacks that uses browsers as a beachhead for accessing routers and other sensitive devices on a targeted network. Now, Google is finally doing something about it.

The right-wing host has frequently tangled with media platforms about Covid and other content issues

Mozilla's "Facebook Pixel Hunt" study will run until mid-July—and the company wants your help.

TIME spoke to 19 Reddit moderators around the world who say Reddit has ignored their pleas for the company to rein in hate-speech in non-English language subreddits

How about 'idiot goggles'?

The sex trafficking case impacts hundreds of victims, including young women seeking modeling work.

For a fee, companies will tackle damaging search results. But is the new economy of digital makeovers making things worse?

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Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

Retail Ecommerce Ventures acquired RadioShack in 2020 and hailed the potential of the 100-year-old brand. Now REV is rebranding RadioShack as a cryptocurrency exchange platform.

Tumblr has restricted what its users can see on its iOS app in an effort to make sure it doesn't get kicked out of Apple's App Store again.

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In 2010, EFF launched its campaign to encrypt the entire web—that is, move all websites from non-secure HTTP to the more secure HTTPS protocol. Over 10 years later, 2021 has brought us even closer to achieving that goal. With various measurement sources reporting over 90% of web traffic encrypted,...