Image: Getty Images Facebook's annual developer conference, F8, has historically been a celebration of the company's greatest achievements and most exciting research. Not this year. In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed millions of Facebook users' information was being shared without their direct consent, the social network is preparing to answer tough questions about how it will handle user privacy in the future. To that end, Facebook announced Tuesday its intention...

Image: screenshot / facebook.com One is the loneliest number, which is probably why Facebook is taking steps to connect the people on its network who aren't in a relationship. At it's annual F8 developer conference Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company will soon add a dating service to the main app. "This is going to be for building real long-term relationships, not hookups," Zuckerberg said during the announcement. Zuckerberg did not elaborate much on what the...

Image: Getty Images Elon Musk has been acting strange lately — but he swears it's all for a legitimate reason. The embattled Tesla CEO clarified his remarks on the latest Tesla earnings call in a Friday morning tweetstorm, explaining why he dismissed two critical questions from analysts by calling them "boring" and "boneheaded." Tesla shares to lost more than five percent after the call. First, it’s important to know that Tesla is the most shorted (meaning most bet against) stock on the...

Image: Getty Images Amazon has some explaining to do. The online retail giant has been caught providing facial recognition technology to law enforcement in Oregon and Orlando, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union through a Freedom of Information Act Request. Emails obtained through the request show how Amazon has been advertising and selling its facial recognition product, Rekognition, for only a few dollars a month to law enforcement agencies — in the hopes...

In a surprising Friday news dump, Facebook announced it will remove the Trending news section from its website and app. The company says its users are increasingly consuming news through mobile and video, and it will begin to focus its attention on those two categories. The Trending section will be removed for all users by next week. In a statement, the company said: We introduced Trending in 2014 as a way to help people discover news topics that were popular across the Facebook community....