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Footage showing a Turkish villager reacting to a buzzing drone has become one of the most popular videos on social media this week, while triggering public outcry over privacy. 

A gunman opened fire Sunday at an online video game tournament that was being livestreamed from a Florida mall, killing multiple people and sending many others to hospitals, authorities said.

A Turkish globe-trotter dubbed “the youngest Turk to visit all seven continents” is drawing the attention of thousands of followers on social media.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than a thousand Google employees have signed a letter protesting the company's secretive plan to build a search engine that would comply with Chinese censorship.

The letter calls on executives to review ethics and transparency at the company.

Twitter's live-streaming service Periscope will be blocked during Turkey's top football league matches, an Istanbul court has said in a landmark ruling.

Turkey's Competition Board has opened an investigation into Google after concluding in its preliminary findings that a complaint about its search results for shopping could be rightful.

The New York Times is reaffirming its support for new hire Sarah Jeong after social media criticism of her tweets from several years ago that were derogatory of white people.

Facebook Inc. FB, -0.54% Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has taken a new job at Stanford, leaving the Menlo Park, Calif. tech giant behind, according to several reports. According to a tweet from Stamos, he will depart Facebook Aug. 17 and will begin a teaching and research role at Stanford University (he also included a link to his fall class).

Google is crafting a search engine that would meet China's draconian censorship rules, a company employee told AFP on Thursday, in a move decried by human rights activists.

Twenty-two percent of candidates have scored below the threshold of 150 points, i.e. they answered less than 15 out of 120 questions correctly, in the first round of the university exam called the Basic Proficiency Test (TYT).