House Rep Says Congress Uses Tech Like The DMV, But Should Be Like Uber

Interacting with Congress has more in common with going to the DMV than opening an Uber app. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wa.) thinks that’s a problem. The chair of the House Republican Conference told the 2015 Personal Democracy Forum in New York City on Friday that the Congress of the future will embrace technology the same way the private sector

» Read more

Facebook Study Says Users Control What They See, But Critics Disagree

In the end, the slant of the news you see may be the slant of the news you seek. Even if most Facebook users still don’t know that their news feeds are filtered by an algorithm, they may have more influence over their feeds than they realize. That was the finding of a controversial peer-reviewed study published in Science Magazine

» Read more

SURVEY: Millennials Prefer To Stumble Onto News Stories

CHICAGO (AP) — Young adults have a reputation for being connected to one another and disconnected from the news. But a survey has found that mobile devices and social networking are keeping them more engaged with the broader world than previously thought. They want news, they say, though they don’t always aggressively seek it out — perhaps simply happening upon

» Read more

It’s Like Facebook, But For Stocks. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Thanks to the startup boom, we now have a hip new way to lose money: A social network called Tip’d Off that bills itself as a Facebook-like service for stock trading. “Peers can help you make money in the stock market,” according to its website. The company launched its beta site last month and says it’ll be publicly available in

» Read more