Enlarge / Trump speaks at Andrews Air Force Base on September 10, 2020, before boarding a flight for a campaign rally in Michigan. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images reader comments 94 with 56 posters participating Share this story ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, is facing a looming September 15 deadline to sell its ..
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Aurich Lawson reader comments 116 with 79 posters participating Share this story When Microsoft backed a key motion filed two weeks ago in Epic Games’ antitrust lawsuit against Apple, it raised a few eyebrows. Two decades ago, the US Justice Department, 18 states, and the District of Columbia sued Microsoft on allegations the Windows operating ..
Enlarge / AT&T’s logo at its corporate headquarters on March 13, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. reader comments 80 with 62 posters participating Share this story AT&T—which has spent the past decade fighting US-government attempts to improve the country’s horrible broadband maps—is now claiming to be very concerned about the mapping problem that has helped thwart efforts ..
Enlarge / A boat motors by as the Bidwell Bar Bridge is surrounded by fire in Lake Oroville during the Bear fire in Oroville, California, on September 9, 2020. reader comments 140 with 105 posters participating Share this story The ever-worsening climate crisis is already causing waves of human suffering—both internationally and here in the ..
reader comments 483 with 189 posters participating Share this story On February 7 this year, President Donald Trump admitted in an interview with journalist Bob Woodward that the coronavirus was far more deadly than the flu even as Trump continued misleading the public about the pandemic’s severity. In another interview on March 19, Trump told Woodward ..
Enlarge / The Pentagon in its natural habitat—Arlington, Virginia—in 2018. reader comments 87 with 65 posters participating Share this story Amazon is continuing to fight the Department of Defense over a $10 billion contract, as the Pentagon has completed its review of the deal and determined once again that it was correct to award the ..
Enlarge / The tech trade war between China and the US just keeps on escalating. reader comments 119 with 78 posters participating Share this story China’s government today unveiled a new data-security initiative in response to the Trump administration’s efforts to cut Chinese hardware and software out of the US tech scene. “It is important ..
Enlarge / By notifying hacking victims sooner and at higher levels, the FBI hopes to avert another high-impact communications breakdown. Drew Angerer | Getty Images reader comments 13 with 12 posters participating Share this story On April 28, 2016, an IT tech staffer for the Democratic National Committee named Yared Tamene made a sickening discovery: ..
Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. reader comments 113 with 78 posters participating Share this story Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai touted inaccurate broadband-availability data in order to claim that his deregulatory agenda sped up ..
Eric Bangeman reader comments 137 with 92 posters participating Share this story Amazon is investigating the most prolific reviewers on its UK website after a Financial Times investigation found evidence that they were profiting from posting thousands of five-star ratings. Justin Fryer, the number one-ranked reviewer on Amazon.co.uk, reviewed £15,000 worth of products in August ..
