Mason Pelt, is a guest author for Internet News Flash. He's been a staff writer for SiliconANGLE and has written for TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Social Media Today and more.
He's a Managing Director of Push ROI, Inc. and acted as an informal adviser when building the first Internet News Flash website.
The FDA has cleared new AI-powered mobile X-ray device by GE Healthcare. The company claims the the algorithms, called the Critical Care Suite, can reduce the time to diagnose a collapsed lung to as little as 15 minutes; traditional diagnosis by a medical team could take up to eight-hours. TheContinue Reading
Google has more possible legal trouble with government regulators. This time it’s a probe backed by attorneys general from 48 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Alabama and California have opted not to participate. Today, Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, held a press conference on the steps ofContinue Reading
Google has a team of white hat hackers whose job is to uncover security flaws in widely used tech. This team known as Project Zero discovered a flaw in iOS, the team alerted Apple on February 1, 2019 , and Apple released a patch a few days later on FebruaryContinue Reading
Karen Hepp, a Philadelphia news anchor filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Reddit, and other companies for allegedly hosting dating ads and sexualised memes using an image of her. Hepp is asking for an order removing the image from the defendants’ websites, as well as compensatory damages in excess of $10Continue Reading
Twitter today is temporarily disabling it’s Tweeting via SMS feature, after it was abused by a hacking group to compromise the account of Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey. When hacked, the account posted a series of racist and otherwise offensive tweets to Dorsey’s over 4 million followers. Dorsey’s Twitter account wasContinue Reading
Brave, a privacy-focused web browser, just alleged that Google is using hidden web pages to feed personal data of its users to advertisers. This new evidence of Google’s circumventing EU privacy regulations to collect personal data has been submitted by Brave for an investigation by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission. In a report byContinue Reading
In a blog post, YouTube says it has removed over 100,000 videos and more than 17,000 channels from April to June for violating its new hate speech rules. This is five times more than YouTube removed in the previous three months. The company also took down over 500 million commentsContinue Reading
A group of hackers is using vulnerabilities in over ten WordPress plugins to create admin accounts on WordPress sites. The attacks are an escalation of a hacking campaign that started last month. In the past attacks, the hackers exploited vulnerabilities in these same plugins and planted malicious code on websites. ThisContinue Reading
“Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out of the paper is news,” — That’s the quote racing in my head after having written about 300 words, largely based on a Facebook Press Release. Let me tell you about Facebook’s announcement, and thenContinue Reading
“Getting people to spend more quality time with each other via their mobile devices” would be tattooed on the head of Instagram if they were a person. And according to an unconfirmed report by The Verge, a new messaging feature called “Threads” for Instagram is being developed to do just that.Continue Reading