Trisha Prabhu was only a teenage when she launched the anti-cyberbullying app, ReThink. Today, she is one of Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Social Impact list. Her app has been downloaded over 500,000 times. Most anti-bullying programs focus on getting kids…
NFT stands for "non-fungible token.” It’s a digital work of art, like music, video clips, or a meme. People pay a lot of money to own the original code. Why? It is like owning an original art piece or a…
A new website, Club Cardinal, is helping students cope with an online-only semester at Stanford. The site was created by a team of Stanford students as part of the Stanford Women in Computer Science Innovation Challenge. It won first place…
Instagram Reels launched August 5 in the United States. The app will allow users to record short videos and edit them to add music and other effects. Facebook is hoping to attract TikTok fans with this new Instagram feature. Facebook’s…
Talk about oversharing: Up to 50 million Facebook accounts were affected by a security breach discovered in September 2018. Another 40 million may have been vulnerable at the time. Facebook said it immediately notified users and fixed the issue, but…
Video games sometimes get a bad rap for being violent and addicting. But not all games are like that. The Games for Change Awards celebrate games that help people learn or raise awareness about social issues. One of the finalists…
In September, Yahoo! announced a massive hack to its security system. An estimated 500 million users might have had their private information stolen. The company announced that hacked information could include not only names and email addresses, but also hashed passwords and answers…
Americans will vote to elect a new president on Nov. 8, but first they must register to vote. On National Voter Registration Day in September, social media networks played a major role in helping remind people to register. Facebook placed notifications on the top of the users' newsfeeds. Snapchat had…
When talking about cyberbullying, people often worry about strangers leaving nasty comments. However, a recent study found that cyberbullies are more likely to be friends or exes of their victims. Why is that? According to the study's lead author Diane Felmlee, some teens…
WhatsApp is a messaging app with more than 1 billion users. Part of what makes WhatsApp popular is its emphasis on privacy. However, recent research shows that using the app’s “clear all chats” button might not actually remove the chats from the…