Enlarge / US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in which he frequently contradicted his own health experts. reader comments 177 with 88 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories There was good news and then bad news for public health expertise yesterday. In the wake of increasingly unhinged behavior ..
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reader comments 109 with 70 posters participating Share this story A woman seeking emergency treatment for a life-threatening condition died after a ransomware attack crippled a nearby hospital in Duesseldorf, Germany, and forced her to obtain services from a more distant facility, it was widely reported on Thursday. German authorities are investigating the unknown perpetrators ..
Enlarge / There’s no ban on WeChat in the US right now, the DOJ says, which is true—but that’s supposed to change, somehow, in the immediate future, and nobody knows how. reader comments 47 with 37 posters participating Share this story Three days before a ban on the use of China-owned app WeChat in the ..
Enlarge / Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) disagree about many issues, but they both support the Open Courts Act. reader comments 18 with 18 posters participating Share this story The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved the Open Courts Act—legislation to overhaul PACER, the federal courts’ system for ..
Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Republican members (L-R) Brendan Carr, Michael O’Rielly, and Chairman Ajit Pai participate in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2018, in National Harbor, Maryland. reader comments 89 with 61 posters participating Share this story President Donald Trump today nominated one of his administration officials to ..
Enlarge / An AT&T sign outside a company office in New York City. reader comments 175 with 130 posters participating Share this story AT&T CEO John Stankey said the company may offer cellphone plans subsidized by advertising, giving customers monthly discounts of $5 or $10 in exchange for ads on their phones. “I believe there’s a ..
Enlarge / The TikTok logo displayed on a smartphone, with logo of parent company ByteDance in the background. reader comments 52 with 38 posters participating Share this story President Donald Trump spent several months pushing to have TikTok banned or sold to a US firm. He seems to have gotten his way, as Oracle confirmed ..
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino reader comments 150 with 80 posters participating Share this story Google Fiber will soon offer 2Gbps service for $100 a month, a package that includes a Wi-Fi 6 router and mesh extender, the Alphabet-owned ISP announced yesterday. Google fiber-to-the-home service never rolled out as far as many people hoped, but ..
reader comments 14 with 13 posters participating Share this story After being fired by Facebook this month, a data scientist published a 6,600-word memo to the company’s internal communication systems breaking down 2.5 years of her experiences on the “fake engagement team.” The resulting stories, largely centered on misinformation campaigns with both subtle and clear ..
Enlarge / A sign featuring the YouTube logo, outside the YouTube Space studios in London on June 4, 2019. reader comments 52 with 38 posters participating Share this story A new lawsuit filed in a United Kingdom court alleges that YouTube knowingly violated children’s privacy laws in that country and seeks damages in excess of ..
