Enlarge / President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure deal at the White House on June 24, 2021. Getty Images | Kevin Dietsch reader comments 112 with 59 posters participating Share this story President Joe Biden announced a $65 billion broadband-deployment deal Thursday with Senate Republicans and Democrats, but he provided no ..
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iStock | Getty Images reader comments 68 with 47 posters participating Share this story The UK competition regulator has opened an investigation into Amazon and Google over fake reviews on their sites that may be duping consumers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the two companies may not have done enough to detect and ..
reader comments 112 with 90 posters participating Share this story The House Judiciary Committee approved antitrust legislation that could prohibit platform operators like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook from favoring their own products and services, and the legislation could even break up industry giants by forcing them to eliminate or sell certain divisions. Companies could ..
reader comments 167 with 95 posters participating Share this story The Supreme Court today ruled in favor of a cheerleader and against the Pennsylvania high school that suspended her from the junior varsity team for a “vulgar” Snapchat post. Brandi Levy was 14 in 2017 when she used Snapchat to express her frustration after failing ..
Enlarge / John McAfee on his yacht off the coast of Cuba in 2019. Adalberto ROQUE / AFP / Getty reader comments 270 with 181 posters participating Share this story John McAfee—the antivirus tycoon whose eccentric and often illegal antics on yachts and in tropical rain forests came to define him in later years—took his ..
reader comments 265 with 184 posters participating Share this story Some Texas residents who opted in to programs that remotely raise thermostat temperatures during heat waves regretted that decision last week. Power companies in multiple states offer promotions to enroll users into services that let the companies remotely adjust smart thermostats’ temperatures by a few ..
Getty Images reader comments 134 with 85 posters participating Share this story In July 2020, OpenAI launched GPT-3, an artificial intelligence language model that quickly stoked excitement about computers writing poetry, news articles, and programming code. Just as quickly, it was shown to sometimes be foulmouthed and toxic. OpenAI said it was working on fixes, ..
Enlarge / A Pornhub logo at the company’s booth during the 2018 AVN Adult Expo on January 25, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. reader comments 152 with 80 posters participating Share this story Pornhub was sued yesterday by 34 women alleging that the site hosted videos without their consent and profited from other nonconsensual content ..
reader comments 137 with 80 posters participating Share this story When Ring wanted to boost sales of its surveillance cameras and burnish its self-styled image as a crime-fighting company, it embarked on a brand-ambassador marketing campaign that would be familiar to many startups. But rather than chase down the Instagram influencers or beat bloggers, the ..
Getty Images reader comments 60 with 51 posters participating Share this story Since the dawn of the iPhone, many of the smarts in smartphones have come from elsewhere: the corporate computers known as the cloud. Mobile apps sent user data cloudward for useful tasks like transcribing speech or suggesting message replies. Now Apple and Google ..
