Enlarge / President Joe Biden signing a different executive order on January 28, 2021. reader comments 51 with 39 posters participating Share this story The White House is launching an effort today to ease the global semiconductor supply crunch affecting a wide array of other industries, but any boost the administration can provide is likely ..
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reader comments 38 with 22 posters participating Share this story Ukraine has accused the Russian government of hacking into one of its government Web portals and planting malicious documents that would install malware on end users’ computers. “The purpose of the attack was the mass contamination of information resources of public authorities, as this system ..
Enlarge / Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters as seen in 2017. reader comments 40 with 35 posters participating Share this story Facebook has apparently emerged victorious from its standoff with the entire nation of Australia, as lawmakers in that country have agreed to amend a proposed law that would have required Facebook to pay publishers ..
Lipton / Timothy B. Lee reader comments 37 with 26 posters participating Share this story Back in 2017, we reported on the bizarre story of the Long Island Iced Tea Company rebranding itself as the Long Blockchain Corp. This happened at the peak of the last big blockchain boom, with bitcoin’s price approaching $20,000 and ..
reader comments 9 with 9 posters participating Share this story AT&T and Frontier have let their copper phone networks deteriorate through neglect since 2010, resulting in poor service quality and many lengthy outages, a report commissioned by the California state government found. Customers in low-income areas and areas without substantial competition have fared the worst, ..
Enlarge / Very few people want to spend a single second longer than they have to in a place like this. reader comments 75 with 56 posters participating Share this story A failure to update critical prison management software has kept hundreds of incarcerated people in Arizona behind bars longer than they should be, according ..
Enlarge / United Airlines 238 suffered an engine out failure on Saturday, Feb. 20. Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images reader comments 254 with 121 posters participating Share this story While the National Transportation Safety Board investigates an aircraft engine failure that occurred in flight on Saturday, manufacturer Boeing has recommended that airlines suspend ..
reader comments 161 with 82 posters participating Share this story Bitcoin’s price soared past $56,000 on Friday, pushing the combined value of all bitcoins past the $1 trillion mark—at least in theory. That’s more than the market capitalization of Facebook, though Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft are worth more. Bitcoin’s value has almost doubled from ..
Enlarge / A Comcast van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018. reader comments 78 with 66 posters participating, including story author Share this story Comcast is delaying a plan to enforce its 1.2TB data cap and overage fees in the Northeast US until 2022 after pressure from customers and lawmakers in multiple states. “[W]e are ..
Peter Summers/Getty Images reader comments 66 with 50 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has ruled that Uber drivers are legally workers, not self-employed contractors as Uber has argued in courts around the world. The ruling means that drivers in Britain and Northern Ireland are eligible ..
