reader comments 73 with 44 posters participating, including story author Share this story The developer behind secure email service ProtonMail today came out swinging against the way Apple allegedly uses its App Store to control access to iOS users and cut out competitors. The company is all but begging regulators to take stronger action. “Apple ..
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Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. reader comments 40 with 33 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission today asked the public for responses to the Trump administration’s attempt to punish social media websites for alleged anti-conservative bias. “Longstanding rules require the agency to put such petitions out for public comment ‘promptly,’ and ..
Enlarge / TikTok’s US operations may soon be part of every cool teen’s favorite code conglomerate, Microsoft. reader comments 353 with 173 posters participating Share this story After weeks of rumor and speculation, the Trump administration this weekend gave TikTok’s parent company, Beijing-based ByteDance, 45 days to sell off the social media sensation or else ..
Enlarge / A SpaceX Starlink user terminal/satellite dish. reader comments 126 with 87 posters participating Share this story SpaceX has asked the US for permission to deploy up to 5 million user terminals for its Starlink satellite-broadband network in the US after nearly 700,000 people in the country registered interest in the service. SpaceX in ..
Enlarge / Closeup of a Predator MQ-9 uncrewed aerial vehicle. reader comments 30 with 15 posters participating Share this story US Reps. Will Hurd and Robin Kelly are from opposite sides of the ever-widening aisle, but they share a concern that the United States may lose its grip on artificial intelligence, threatening the American economy ..
reader comments 148 with 116 posters participating Share this story Authorities on Friday charged three people with orchestrating this month’s epic hack of Twitter and using it to generate more than $100,000 in a bitcoin scam promoted by hijacked accounts of politicians, executives, and celebrities. Federal prosecutors in San Francisco charged Mason Sheppard, 19, Nima ..
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino reader comments 242 with 105 posters participating Share this story Amazon has received US approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth orbit satellites for its planned “Project Kuiper” broadband service. A Federal Communications Commission order granting Amazon’s application was released Thursday. Amazon said in a blog post that it will invest more ..
Enlarge / Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifies (remotely) before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power” in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 29, 2020. reader comments 98 with 71 posters participating, including story author Share this story ..
Enlarge / Jeff Bezos speaks via videoconference during a House Judiciary Committee meeting on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. reader comments 181 with 121 posters participating, including story author Share this story Emails published by the House Judiciary Committee this week confirm an accusation that critics have long leveled against Amazon: that the company’s aggressive price-cutting ..
Enlarge / Anthony Levandowski exits federal court in San Jose, California, on August 27, 2019. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating Share this story The federal government on Tuesday asked a federal judge to sentence Anthony Levandowski to 27 months in prison for theft of trade secrets. In ..
