Enlarge / HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA – NOVEMBER 05: A child holds a sign as dozens of people calling for stopping the vote count in Pennsylvania due to alleged fraud against President Donald Trump gather on the steps of the State Capitol on November 5, 2020 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The activists, many with flags and signs for ..
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Getty Images | Synergee reader comments 180 with 105 posters participating Share this story Millions of Americans live in broadband deserts with no access to anything resembling modern Internet service. But few people have it as bad as those who must rely on AT&T’s ancient DSL network. Kathie McNamee of Raymond, Mississippi is one of ..
Enlarge / Netflix’s Los Angeles office looms above a hapless palm tree. reader comments 118 with 93 posters participating Share this story Netflix is apparently fighting controversy about a film on its platform by issuing copyright takedown requests against tweets that include negative commentary about the movie, according to a new report. TorrentFreak reported today ..
reader comments 33 with 29 posters participating Share this story T-Mobile has agreed to pay a $200 million fine to resolve an investigation into subsidiary Sprint, which was caught taking millions of dollars in government subsidies for “serving” 885,000 low-income Americans who weren’t using Sprint service. Sprint admitted the violations in September 2019, about six ..
reader comments 76 with 62 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Tuesday, voters in Massachusetts chose, by an overwhelming majority, to extend the state’s automotive “right to repair” law to cover connected-car platforms and telematics services. As a result, the state will require that from 2022, all new telematics-equipped vehicles be accessible ..
Enlarge / Headquarters of ride-sharing technology company Uber in the South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood of San Francisco on October 13, 2017. reader comments 134 with 67 posters participating Share this story California voters decisively approved a ballot measure Tuesday allowing ride-hail services like Uber and Lyft to treat their drivers as independent contractors, not ..
Enlarge / Election workers count absentee ballots for the 2020 general election at TCF Center on November 4, 2020 in Detroit, Michigan. Getty Images | Jeff Kowalsky reader comments 456 with 168 posters participating Share this story As President Trump falsely claimed that he has won re-election despite the fact that votes are still being ..
reader comments 131 with 57 posters participating, including story author Share this story A federal court in California has tossed out a lawsuit from the voting rights group Rock the Vote. The lawsuit argued that Donald Trump’s May executive order attacking social media platforms violated the group’s First Amendment rights. Trump’s May executive order was ..
reader comments 78 with 42 posters participating Share this story The price of one bitcoin rose above $14,000 on Saturday morning. It was the first time the virtual currency reached that level since January 2018. As I write this, the currency is trading for around $13,800. Bitcoin, a currency whose name has become synonymous with ..
reader comments 130 with 69 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories Earlier this year, the federal government made a major change to how data on the pandemic is reported, taking the aggregation of hospital data away from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and shifting it into the CDC’s parent ..
