peng song / Getty reader comments 97 with 73 posters participating, including story author Share this story Dogecoin, a blockchain-based digital currency named for a meme about an excitable canine, has seen its price rise by a factor of five over the last week. The price spike has made it one of the world’s 10 ..
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China News Service | Getty Images reader comments 105 with 66 posters participating, including story author Share this story Don’t let American companies sell semiconductor design software to Chinese firms, two members of Congress are asking the Department of Commerce. Sen. Tom Cotton (R- Ark.) and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) yesterday requested that electronic design ..
Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images reader comments 88 with 52 posters participating Share this story US officials on Thursday formally blamed Russia for backing one of the worst espionage hacks in recent US history and imposed sanctions designed to mete out punishments for that and other recent actions. In a joint advisory, the National Security Agency, ..
Enlarge / Rooftop antenna at Immaculate Conception School in the Bronx. reader comments 71 with 47 posters participating Share this story Charter Communications employees who have been on strike since 2017 are building an Internet service provider in New York City called “People’s Choice.” “People’s Choice Communications is an employee-owned social enterprise launched by members ..
reader comments 129 with 84 posters participating Share this story Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos used his final letter to Amazon shareholders to focus on employee well-being and the company’s significant carbon footprint. Bezos’ new emphasis on employee well-being comes on the heels of a contentious unionization vote at one of its warehouses in Bessemer, Alabama. ..
reader comments 55 with 38 posters participating Share this story The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union is lobbying state governments to regulate Internet service providers as utilities. The CWA, which represents more than 150,000 workers at AT&T and over 30,000 at Verizon, announced on Monday a “multi-state effort to pass state legislation that would ..
Enlarge / State Capitol building in Olympia, Washington. reader comments 36 with 32 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Washington state legislature has voted to end limits on municipal broadband, and the bill lifting those restrictions now awaits the signature of Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee. The state Senate passed the bill Sunday in ..
reader comments 28 with 22 posters participating Share this story Facebook is allowing its oversight board to rule on moderation decisions relating to content that remains on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. Previously, the only rulings the board could issue were to restore content that moderators had removed. The Facebook Oversight Board was established last ..
Enlarge / Pinocchio. reader comments 33 with 29 posters participating Share this story A judge has ordered Charter Communications to pay $19.2 million to Windstream for lying to customers in order to trick them into switching from Windstream to Charter’s Spectrum Internet service. Charter also faces a $5,279 penalty for shutting off service to hundreds ..
Enlarge / A Winn-Dixie supermarket in Florida. Jeffrey Greenberg/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images reader comments 137 with 75 posters participating, including story author Share this story A federal appeals court struck a significant blow against disability rights this week when it ruled that a Florida grocery store’s inaccessible website did not violate the ..
