We trust strangers to help us do basically everything in our lives. Meanwhile, Uber, Lyft and Airbnb horror stories keep cropping up.
Author: Dalvin Brown, USA TODAY
Facebook’s crisis response tools get extended to WhatsApp
Earlier this week, Facebook extended part of the platform’s “Crisis Response” widget to messaging service WhatsApp.
Spotify Wrapped is back: How to see your most-streamed music in 2019
Spotify is unveiling its annual Wrapped tool that showcases your most-listened-to tracks of 2019 and the decade.
The Internet reacts to Peloton’s ‘unsettling’ holiday ad
Peloton’s latest holiday ad has drawn sharp criticism online, with commentary about how the 30-second clip missed the mark.
‘Hundreds of millions of people’ may have had their text messages exposed online, researchers say
The leaked text message data included phone numbers, university finance applications, job alerts and other private information.
A man sculpted a Tesla Cybertruck out of mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving, and the internet loves it
Greg Milano carved a Tesla Cybertruck from mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving. The internet approves: The video has nearly 4 million views and counting.
Black Friday shoppers spent more in stores, broke records online over the weekend
On Black Friday, the most buzzed-about brands on social media were PlayStation, Nintendo, Apple, Xbox and Google, Salesforce found.
Twitter won’t be removing inactive accounts after backlash over profiles of dead users
Social networking site Twitter initially said it would be wiping accounts that hadn’t been accessed within the past six months.
Twitter is removing inactive accounts which means you can snag your preferred username
Twitter is telling users who haven’t been online in more than six months to sign in by Dec. 11, or else their usernames are up for grabs again.
HP rejects ‘hostile’ takeover bid for second time: ‘We are not dependent on a Xerox combination’
The printing corporation HP announced Sunday that it “will not consider combining with Xerox,” for now.