Enlarge / Google’s Matt Brittin, president of EMEA Business and Operations, speaks at the Web Summit on November 9, 2017, in Lisbon, Portugal. Getty Images | Horacio Villalobos reader comments 95 with 68 posters participating Share this story Big Tech companies shouldn’t have to pay for Internet service providers’ network-upgrade costs, a Google executive said ..
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reader comments 59 with 36 posters participating Share this story Millions of Americans share data daily on the video-streaming app TikTok—data the federal government considers a national security risk because the app is owned by China, a foreign adversary. Now it has been left up to President Joe Biden to figure out a way to ..
reader comments 22 with 15 posters participating Share this story For years, people in cars stuck behind blue delivery trucks in traffic have echoed media reports criticizing Amazon for clogging American roadways. It’s well-known that the Amazon drivers steering these fleets of trucks and vans don’t actually work for Amazon but are hired by companies ..
reader comments 77 with 63 posters participating Share this story Starlink’s median download speeds in the US dropped from 90.6Mbps to 62.5Mbps between the first and second quarters of 2022, according to Ookla speed tests. Starlink’s median upload speeds in the US dropped from 9.3Mbps to 7.2Mbps in the same timeframe. Median latency also got ..
Enlarge / Artist’s rendition of the recent arrest of a 17-year-old hacker in the UK. Rockstar Games reader comments 20 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story A Thursday night arrest of a 17-year-old in the UK may have led to the capture of one of the biggest video game-related leakers in ..
reader comments 42 with 37 posters participating Share this story After Apple updated its privacy rules in 2021 to easily allow iOS users to opt out of all tracking by third-party apps, so many people opted out that the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported that Meta lost $10 billion in revenue over the next year. Meta’s ..
Enlarge / The US Supreme Court building. Getty Images | Rudy Sulgan reader comments 123 with 73 posters participating Share this story Florida yesterday asked the US Supreme Court to reinstate its social media regulation law that made it illegal for sites like Facebook and Twitter to ban politicians. Florida’s petition said the Supreme Court ..
Getty Images | rolfo reader comments 167 with 93 posters participating Share this story The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) yesterday recommended that all new vehicles be equipped with alcohol detection systems that can stop people from driving when drunk. The NTSB can’t issue such a regulation on its own but urged the National ..
Eugene Mymrin / Getty Images reader comments 70 with 39 posters participating Share this story Burmese influencer Han Nyein Oo rose to prominence in 2020, posting memes and gossip about Burmese celebrities on Facebook to an audience that grew to several hundred thousand people in Myanmar by early 2021. Then, after the country’s military seized ..
reader comments 30 with 25 posters participating Share this story Top US lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to put Chinese semiconductor company Yangtze Memory Technologies Co on a blacklist for allegedly violating export controls by supplying Huawei. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told the Financial Times that he was concerned about a report, ..
