Enlarge / Attorney General William Barr . reader comments 21 with 20 posters participating Share this story Attorney General William Barr is pressuring the career lawyers at the Department of Justice to complete work on a potential antitrust case against Google by the end of September, The New York Times reports. It’s the latest sign ..
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Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg speaking at Facebook’s F8 developer summit in 2018. reader comments 43 with 34 posters participating Share this story Although it may feel like the campaigns have been going on forever and will continue forever, linear time inexorably marches on and we are, at last, exactly two months away from the 2020 ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 120 with 68 posters participating, including story author Share this story If anyone was going to be enthusiastic about online voting, it would be Ben Adida. After starting multiple dot-com startups in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Adida earned a computer science PhD from MIT in 2006. ..
reader comments 46 with 31 posters participating Share this story The National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone metadata from telecom providers was illegal, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday. The court also found that the phone-metadata collection exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden was not necessary for the arrests of terror suspects in ..
Enlarge / Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, reportedly objected to the FDA’s decision to grant an Emergency Use Authorization to plasma treatments. reader comments 88 with 60 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last week, the FDA announced that it was issuing an emergency use authorization for the ..
Enlarge / Police on the streets of Hong Kong, where demonstrators continue to protest the erosion of freedoms. reader comments 113 with 62 posters participating Share this story Google and Facebook have withdrawn plans to build an undersea cable between the United States and Hong Kong after the Trump administration raised national security concerns about ..
reader comments 163 with 130 posters participating Share this story AT&T is reportedly trying to sell DirecTV to private-equity investors just five years after buying the satellite provider. The negotiations with potential buyers come after millions of customers ditched DirecTV over the past two years and could value DirecTV at much less than the $49 ..
Yuchiro Chino | Getty Images reader comments 66 with 57 posters participating Share this story Companies pay cloud-computing providers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google big money to avoid operating their own digital infrastructure. Google’s cloud division will soon invite customers to outsource something less tangible than CPUs and disk drives—the rights and wrongs of using ..
Enlarge / Facebook wanted the event purchase screen on iOS to look like the screenshot on the left. But Facebook says Apple nixed the idea. reader comments 294 with 158 posters participating Share this story Apple nixed a message in the Facebook app for iOS warning users that Apple would take 30 percent of event ..
reader comments 70 with 54 posters participating Share this story Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory was the target of a concerted plot to cripple the company’s network with malware, CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Thursday afternoon. The plan’s outline was divulged on Tuesday in a criminal complaint that accused a Russian man of offering $1 million to ..
