Innovation

The International 2019, a tournament that lets players compete in Valve's hit PC game Dota 2, now has a massive prize pool of over $30 million. The competition, which features a crowdfunded purse to award lucky winners, has continued to grow ever…

Panama is getting ready to do away with plastic bags for good. Over the weekend, the country became the first Central American nation to ban single-use plastic bags. Supermarkets, wholesale stores and other retailers in country will have until 2020…

Back in 2017, credit reporting bureau Equifax was hit with one of the most devastating data breaches on record. The company suffered a hack that compromised the personal information of 147 million Americans, including Social Security numbers, dates…

Are you using an Android phone? You might want to take a look at some of your apps. Following a report from cybersecurity company Avast, Google has removed a handful of apps from the Google Play Store that had the capability of quietly, secretly…

Instagram has been toying with the idea of ditching like counters for some time now. This week, it started making that concept a reality across the world. After a test run launched in Canada, the company rolled out an update that hides how many…

We have all made the mistake of signing up for a free trial and then totally forgetting to cancel it before it rolls over for another month and charges your credit card in the process. Frankly, that's what most companies are counting on when they…

Porn sites are notorious for using the seediest and most underhanded forms of advertising. Pop-ups, misleading links, giant overlays that cover your entire screen — if it's annoying and potentially malicious, you'll probably run into it during those…

Another day, another violation of user privacy by a giant company. This time, instead of computer software, it's telecom conglomerate AT&T that has been hit with a class-action lawsuit for selling user location data to third-parties. The Electronic…

Apple may be hard at work on bringing an additional source of revenue for the company to fruition, and it may come from a source that you weren't expecting. While we know Apple has been developing original programming for its upcoming Apple TV+…