Tech Life: The big business of online charity donations

The lawsuit filed Friday describes how Doe, then a high school student who was not yet out as gay, downloaded Grindr in order to make friends with other underage boys. He then exchanged explicit photographs and messages with the four adult men, who raped him in their homes or in parks, according to the complaint….

How culture and social media are shaping the 2024 presidential race – CBS News Watch CBS News Dr. Marcus Collins, author of “For the Culture,” joins “CBS Mornings Plus” to discuss the influence of social media on voter decision-making. With 19 days left in the race, a CBS News poll reveals more than 20% of…

Will Freeman wants people to know they’re being tracked. His desire to shed light on the proliferation of license plate readers in his neighborhood in Huntsville, Ala., this year spurred an idea for a crowdsourced database where people across the world can upload the locations of the readers. The database, called DeFlock, also provides users…

Getty Images Three years ago, the DNA-testing firm 23andMe was a massive success, with a share price higher than Apple’s. But, from those heady days of millions of people rushing to send it saliva samples in return for detailed reports about their ancestry, family connections and genetic make-up, it now finds itself fighting for its…

Technology 25 April 2024, 6:55 pm 1 minute Reuters was first to report on Google-parent Alphabet declaring its first ever quarterly dividend and announcing a massive $70 billion buyback which sent its shares to a record high when markets opened the next day.  Market Impact Alphabet’s after-hours share surge of nearly 16% following the report…

Leezer, 30, a licensed clinical social worker in Chicago who runs his own private practice, created the TikTok less than a month ago to post videos about the kinds of things he focuses on with his clients: self-esteem, body image, anxiety. Then, last week, he got the comment on one of his videos.  “In that…