reader comments 161 with 120 posters participating Share this story Mediacom, a cable company with about 1.4 million Internet customers across 22 states, is telling heavy uploaders to reduce their data usage—even when those users are well below their monthly data caps. Mediacom’s fastest Internet plan offers gigabit download speeds and 50Mbps upload speeds with ..
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Enlarge / A closed GameStop store in Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 562 with 209 posters participating, including story author Share this story You’ve probably seen stories about GameStop, the struggling video game retailer that has improbably seen its stock quintuple since the start of the ..
Onay Jakobov / EyeEm / Getty reader comments 54 with 40 posters participating Share this story Dogecoin—the cryptocurrency based on a meme about an over-enthusiastic Shiba Inu dog—reached an all-time record price of 4 cents on Thursday evening. That represents an incredible fivefold increase over the preceding 24 hours. The cryptocurrency was trading for less than ..
Enlarge / U.S. President Joe Biden signs an executive order in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. reader comments 70 with 45 posters participating Share this story Yesterday, US President Joe Biden signed three executive orders. The order with the widest scope was focused on ..
Enlarge / National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy and Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry answer questions during a press briefing at the White House. reader comments 98 with 56 posters participating Share this story Yesterday, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order entitled Putting the Climate Crisis at the Center of United States ..
reader comments 45 with 39 posters participating Share this story In response to Comcast imposing a data cap on Massachusetts residents, state lawmakers have proposed a ban on data caps, new fees, and price increases on home-Internet services for the duration of the pandemic. The legislation was filed on Tuesday this week by Democratic state ..
Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in 2017. Mark Zuckerberg reader comments 89 with 61 posters participating Share this story The Oversight Board, an independent organization set up to review Facebook’s content moderation decisions, handed down its first batch of rulings on Thursday. The rulings didn’t go well for Facebook’s moderators. Out of five substantive ..
Enlarge / WASHINGTON, DC: President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order related to American manufacturing in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex on January 25, 2021 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images reader comments 205 with 93 posters participating, including story author Share this story The federal government owns more ..
reader comments 196 with 94 posters participating Share this story When hackers exploited a bug in Parler to download all of the right-wing social media platform’s contents last week, they were surprised to find that many of the pictures and videos contained geolocation metadata revealing exactly how many of the site’s users had taken part ..
Enlarge / If your phone knows where you are, the feds can, too. reader comments 87 with 54 posters participating Share this story The Defense Intelligence Agency, which provides military intelligence to the Department of Defense, confirmed in a memo that it purchases “commercially available” smartphone location data to gather information that would otherwise require ..
