Liu Guanguan/China News Service reader comments 96 with 76 posters participating Share this story Thea-Mai Baumann had posted to Instagram using the @metaverse handle for nearly a decade when her account was disabled on November 2. “Your account has been blocked for pretending to be someone else,” the app told her. Baumann wasn’t exactly sure ..
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Enlarge / Supporters of Julian Assange outside the Royal Courts of Justice on December 10, 2021, in London, England. Getty Images | Chris Ratcliffe reader comments 80 with 54 posters participating Share this story A UK court ruling today brought the US government one step closer to securing the extradition of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks ..
Enlarge / Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her partner, Billy Evans, right, leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on November 23, 2021, in San Jose, Calif. Ethan Swope/Getty Images reader comments 55 with 31 posters participating Share this story Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes took one last shot at ex-boyfriend Ramesh “Sunny” ..
NurPhoto | Amazon reader comments 37 with 30 posters participating Share this story Amazon said it would appeal a €1.1 billion fine from Italy after antitrust investigators found the online shopping giant had given unfair preference to sellers who also ship their goods through Amazon’s logistics service. Amazon had previously tried to halt the case ..
Enlarge / A privacy notice appears on an iPhone 12 under the new iOS 14.5.1 operating system. Developers of an application have to ask for the user’s permission to allow cross-app tracking. Picture Alliance | Getty Images reader comments 118 with 84 posters participating Share this story Apple has allowed app developers to collect data ..
reader comments 57 with 48 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile has been incorrectly rejecting rebate requests from customers who purchased new iPhones, according to an article yesterday by Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. T-Mobile acknowledged the problem and said it is being fixed. Gurman experienced the problem himself when he traded in an iPhone 12 ..
Enlarge / Footprints made out of fresh green grass on a dry cracked earth base. reader comments 14 with 14 posters participating Share this story Carbon taxes can attract a lot of flak. On one hand, some groups hate taxes and are indifferent to climate change—in Canada, various provincial governments actively fought (and ultimately lost) ..
MirageC | Getty Images reader comments 158 with 79 posters participating Share this story Algorithms play a growing role in our lives, even as their flaws are becoming more apparent: a Michigan man wrongly accused of fraud had to file for bankruptcy; automated screening tools disproportionately harm people of color who want to buy a ..
Daniel Grizelj | Getty Images reader comments 102 with 70 posters participating Share this story Instagram? Sure! WhatsApp? Go nuts. But don’t mess with GIFs. That’s the strange position taken by Britain’s competition watchdog in choosing to block Meta’s takeover of GIF repository Giphy. Meta, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ruled, must now ..
reader comments 77 with 58 posters participating Share this story The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Nvidia’s acquisition of Arm, the semiconductor design firm, saying that the blockbuster deal would unfairly stifle competition. “The FTC is suing to block the largest semiconductor chip merger in history to prevent a chip conglomerate from stifling ..
