'The web had failed instead of served humanity': Tim Berners-Lee was crushed by Russia using Facebook to meddle in the US election

World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that he was 'devastated' by recent abuses of the web in an interview with Vanity Fair. He is working on a new platform, named Solid, to re-decentralise the internet and take power away from monopolies like Google and Facebook.

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'The web had failed instead of served humanity': Tim Berners-Lee was crushed by Russia using Facebook to meddle in the US election World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that he was 'devastated' by recent abuses of the web in an interview with Vanity Fair. He is working on a new platform, named Solid, to re-decentralise the internet and take power away from monopolies like Google and Facebook. Read More »

Here are the 10 most popular iPhone apps of all time In honor of the App Store's 10th birthday month, app analytics firm App Annie compiled a comprehensive look at the most popular apps of the last decade in terms of worldwide downloads. Read More »

A company you've probably never heard of is quietly building a fleet of self-driving semis that could revolutionize the trucking industry. And the founder says it has one big advantage over Tesla, Uber, and Waymo BI PRIME: Starsky Robotics wants to put driverless semi-trailer trucks on the road in 2018. The company uses a remote-control system that has trucks drive themselves in simple highway conditions, and has human drivers in a simulator take over when things get tricky. Read More »

Light, the startup that made a $2,000 camera with 16 lenses, is planning a 9-lens smartphone to be released later this year Tech startup Light is known for its futuristic 16-lens camera. Now, the company is working on a smartphone that has between five and nine rear camera lenses that can take 64-megapixel photos. Read More »

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A top Facebook executive opened up about working and living with incurable cancer Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's most senior executive outside of the US, has described working and living with incurable blood cancer. Mendelsohn has changed her routine, cutting travel and changing flight times, and switched up her diet. Read More »

10 things in tech you need to know today Inside a meeting with SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, Amazon is poaching loads of Microsoft staff, and Dell nears deal that would make it a public company again. Read More »

Dell announces it will buy out VMWare tracking stock Dell said on Monday it will buy out the holders of shares that track the performance of VMWare Inc using a mix of cash and equity in Dell. Read More »

Amazon is still selling busted Jawbone fitness trackers in the US after puling them in the UK Retailers including Amazon sold non-functioning Jawbone fitness trackers long after they stopped working, an investigation by Which? has found. The companies said they had removed the items from sale, but Business Insider found fitness trackers still for sale on Amazon and Groupon's US sites. Read More »

Samsung smartphone users are reporting that their photos are randomly being sent to contacts without their knowledge It's a pretty bad bug that Samsung has recognized, and the company is looking into the issue. Read More »

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