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Facebook launches ‘Rooms’ to anonymously share common interests

May 23, 2019 at 1:43 p.m.

Today Facebook unveiled its new iOS app called "Rooms." This app, which many speculated would allow for more anonymity than Facebook users are used to, centers around user-created rooms focusing...

Dropbox looks to extend lead in online storage with ‘next chapter’

June 18, 2018 at 9:56 a.m.

Dropbox is unveiling new ways for people to hold onto and share their digital stuff as it tries to build on the popularity of its online storage service. With an...

GitHub is latest tech company to face sexism allegations

June 17, 2018 at 4:21 p.m.

Silicon Valley is wrestling with yet more damaging allegations of harassment and sexism as a prominent engineer accuses her company of creating a hostile work environment that led to her...

Google developing contact lenses for diabetics to monitor glucose

June 17, 2018 at 6:21 p.m.

Google is searching for a better way for millions of diabetics to manage their disease by developing a contact lens that monitors glucose levels in tears. The contact lenses are...

Gmail lets strangers on Google+ email you (but you can opt out)

June 20, 2019 at 3:55 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Privacy advocates are raising the alarm about a new feature in Google's email service Gmail that lets Google+ users send you emails even if they don't know...

Cyanogen gets $23 million for ‘Android on steroids’ operating system

June 18, 2018 at 3:09 p.m.

You can add all the apps in the world to that phone in the palm of your hand. But the device manufacturer still has more say over how your phone...

Facebook Vice President of Product Chris Cox speaks at the Facebook f8 Developer Conference in San Francisco in 2011.

Facebook’s more likable face: How a kid from New Trier tackled the social network’s biggest challenges

November 3, 2021 at 3:28 p.m.

Chris Cox spent his teenage years in Winnetka during the mid-1990s like so many other computer geeks: dialed into Internet chat rooms. These days, the 29-year-old Facebook executive is winning...

Facebook’s more likable face: How a kid from New Trier tackled the social network’s biggest challenges

August 22, 2019 at 5:17 a.m.

Chris Cox spent his teenage years in Winnetka during the mid-1990s like so many other computer geeks: dialed into Internet chat rooms. These days, the 29-year-old Facebook executive is winning...

Google CEO Larry Page grilled by Oracle lawyer

December 24, 2018 at 12:30 a.m.

Google Inc. Chief Executive Larry Page returned to the witness stand for nearly an hour in a San Francisco federal courtroom Wednesday to defend his company against allegations that its...

Google debuts new flight search service

May 9, 2019 at 12:25 p.m.

Google's long delayed flight search is finally taking off. The Internet search giant closed its $700-million purchase of travel software company ITA in April after a nine-month investigation by the...

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