reader comments 174 with 74 posters participating Share this story Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is under investigation by a laundry list of US government agencies, including the US Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, according to a report by Bloomberg. The agencies are probing Binance for potential ..
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Enlarge / Interior of a Tesla Model 3. reader comments 224 with 154 posters participating, including story author Share this story The California Highway Patrol said it arrested a man seen riding in the back seat of a Tesla Model 3 that had no one in the driver’s seat. Param Sharma, 25, was arrested “and ..
Enlarge / Elon Musk in 2020. reader comments 320 with 149 posters participating, including story author Share this story Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that Tesla would stop taking bitcoin as payment for the company’s electric vehicles. The change comes less than two months after the automaker began accepting the cryptocurrency. Why the about-face? ..
reader comments 79 with 50 posters participating Share this story President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday in an attempt to bolster US cybersecurity defenses after a number of devastating hacks, including the Colonial pipeline attack, revealed vulnerabilities across business and government. “Recent cybersecurity incidents… are a sobering reminder that US public and ..
Getty Images | Oscar Wong reader comments 54 with 39 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Federal Communications Commission today opened enrollment for $50-per-month broadband subsidies for US residents who have low incomes or who lost income during the pandemic. Over 825 Internet service providers across the US are participating in the ..
stockcam / Getty reader comments 97 with 49 posters participating, including story author Share this story Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, yesterday suspended two apps that allowed users to send anonymous messages to other users on the platform. The move came in response to a lawsuit filed Monday against Snap and the two messaging apps. The ..
Enlarge / Baltimore chief prosecutor Marilyn Mosby being interviewed by NBC News in August 2016, in the neighborhood where Freddie Gray was arrested shortly before his death from a spinal cord injury. reader comments 141 with 82 posters participating Share this story Baltimore’s chief prosecutor has asked the Federal Communications Commission to stop a local ..
Enlarge / Amazon trailers backed into bays at a distribution center in Miami, Florida, in August 2019. reader comments 120 with 101 posters participating Share this story Amazon “seized and destroyed” over 2 million counterfeit products that sellers sent to Amazon warehouses in 2020 and “blocked more than 10 billion suspected bad listings before they ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty reader comments 272 with 123 posters participating Share this story Few bitcoin projects illustrate the cryptocurrency’s enormous climate impact better than the Greenidge power plant in upstate New York. The once-abandoned power plant was bought by private equity firm Atlas Holdings and retasked. A significant portion of Greenidge’s electricity no longer ..
Enlarge / Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 87 with 62 posters participating Share this story To promote her new book, Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota gave a series of interviews this week, one of which was ..
