reader comments 70 with 46 posters participating Share this story Amazon is again under fire for its policies allegedly forbidding its online retailers from selling their products for lower prices on other websites and retail platforms. Critics say this has led to years of higher prices for consumers instead of allowing markets to determine fair ..
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Enlarge / San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott answers questions in a meeting with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images reader comments 164 with 90 posters participating Share this story San Francisco has been sued by a sexual assault victim in a complaint ..
Enlarge / You can buy a number of 5G phones in an AT&T store, but only a handful of them will make use of the carrier’s most reliable frequencies. reader comments 74 with 56 posters participating Share this story Update: An AT&T spokesperson said in response to this story that “only 2022 and newer devices can ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 191 with 72 posters participating Share this story Twitter shareholders voted to approve Elon Musk’s purchase of the company, weeks ahead of a trial over Musk’s attempt to exit the merger deal. Though a specific vote tally wasn’t available today, multiple news reports said investors backed the Twitter board’s ..
reader comments 65 with 54 posters participating Share this story Several years after Facebook-owner Meta acquired WhatsApp and Instagram, the Federal Trade Commission launched an antitrust lawsuit that claimed that through these acquisitions, Meta had become a monopoly. A titan wielding enormous fortune over smaller companies, the FTC said Meta began buying or burying competitors ..
Getty Images | SOPA Images reader comments 121 with 64 posters participating Share this story SpaceX’s Starlink division has appealed the Federal Communications Commission decision to block it from receiving $885.51 million in broadband funding. Starlink called the funding reversal “grossly unfair” and “flawed as a matter of both law and policy.” The appeal submitted ..
Enlarge / A Project Nimbus cloud contract with the Israeli government has some Google and Amazon workers upset. reader comments 77 with 52 posters participating Share this story Hundreds of Google workers and their supporters gathered near the company’s downtown San Francisco offices Thursday, raising signs that read “No Tech for Apartheid” and filling the ..
reader comments 142 with 94 posters participating Share this story Both Google and Meta have taken steps to start paying US publishers for aggregating their news content, but neither tech giant has yet found a perfect solution that would fairly compensate publishers and potentially help combat the mass shuttering of newsrooms across America. The Wall ..
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of low Earth-orbit satellites like those launched by SpaceX and OneWeb. reader comments 52 with 38 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission has a plan to minimize space junk by requiring low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to be disposed no more than five years after being taken out ..
reader comments 45 with 36 posters participating Share this story After the Federal Trade Commission began investigating a massive Uber data breach in 2016, the tech company was hit with another breach that was seemingly just as concerning. Rather than report the second data breach to the FTC and risk further public embarrassment, then-Uber security ..
