It’s never a bad idea to learn a new skill or explore a new field. Online learning is a great way to do that — and there are classes out there on pretty much everything. We’ve compiled 15 online courses on sale this weekend, each of which you can grab for less than $30 with the code VIPSALE at checkout.  Even if the rest of 2020 is a wash, at

The first look a Twitter user gets at a tweet might be an unintentionally racially biased one. Twitter said Sunday that it would investigate whether the neural network that selects which part of an image to show in a photo preview favors showing the faces of white people over Black people.  The trouble started over the weekend when Twitter users posted several examples of how, in an image featuring a

The humans are tagging in. YouTube is re-assigning the work of content moderation to more actual humans, Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, told the Financial Times. At the start of the pandemic, YouTube had to reduce the staff and workload of in-office human moderators. So rather relying on that 10,000-person workforce, the company gave broader content moderation power to automated systems that are be able to recognize videos with

The imminent WeChat ban that was set to remove the app from U.S. app stores on Sunday is going to have to wait a bit longer. It’s a big positive step for an app that has more than a billion users worldwide. In a Sunday ruling, a U.S. judge in California put the brakes on Donald Trump’s executive order from August calling for a WeChat ban (h/t CNBC). The court

Mashable’s series Tech in 2025 explores how the challenges of today will dramatically change the near future.  Over the past five years, smartwatches have gone from a futuristic novelty to a flashy product on the roster of nearly every major phone maker as well as other tech and fashion companies. But what do the next five years look like for smartwatches? Plenty of people own and wear smartwatches. A January

The looming and questionably possible TikTok ban seems to have been averted, with TikTok having shared the broad strokes of a pending deal on Twitter. The social network’s PR account released a statement running through the top-level details on Saturday night. “We are pleased that the proposal by TikTok, Oracle, and Walmart will resolve the security concerns of the U.S. administration and settle questions around TikTok’s future in the U.S,”