Enlarge / World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a press conference on COVID-19 at WHO headquarters in Geneva on March 11, 2020. Getty Images | Fabrice Coffrini reader comments 141 with 89 posters participating Share this story On May 29, President Trump said his administration would take immediate action to withdraw the US ..
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Enlarge / A sign on the street is visible to anyone who walks or drives by. A sign online can be strategically, and illegally, targeted away from people against whom you may have a bias. reader comments 63 with 41 posters participating Share this story Google is taking action to reduce unlawful discrimination on its ..
Enlarge / Replacements for outdated master/slave terminology tend to be considerably more accurate, as well as less offensive. reader comments 332 with 150 posters participating, including story author Share this story On Wednesday evening, ZFS founding developer Matthew Ahrens submitted what should have been a simple, non-controversial pull request to the OpenZFS project: wherever possible ..
Enlarge / The (replica) disembodied marble head of David probably didn’t need a 3M mask, but he nonetheless looked fashionable sporting it in the window of a jewelry shop in Switzerland in March 2020. reader comments 91 with 59 posters participating, including story author Share this story 3M—which manufactures N95 filtration masks that have been ..
Enlarge / Voting machines are shown at a polling location on June 9, 2020 in West Columbia, South Carolina. Sean Rayford/Getty Images reader comments 113 with 54 posters participating, including story author Share this story OmniBallot is election software that is used by dozens of jurisdictions in the United States. In addition to delivering ballots ..
Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino reader comments 123 with 76 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission has reversed course on whether to let SpaceX and other satellite providers apply for rural-broadband funding as low-latency providers. But Chairman Ajit Pai said companies like SpaceX will have to prove they can offer low latencies, ..
Enlarge / The flag of China. reader comments 29 with 28 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission and other US agencies have failed to properly oversee Chinese telecom companies that operate in the United States, according to a bipartisan Senate report released today. After a year-long investigation, the staff report by the ..
Getty Images | Juj Winn reader comments 69 with 38 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission today proposed a $225 million fine for health-insurance telemarketers who “made approximately 1 billion spoofed robocalls across the country during the first four and a half months of 2019.” But the FCC’s track record in collecting ..
Enlarge / For Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, shown here without a face mask, public health precautions are for other people. reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories Outside of the United States, Brazil has the largest number of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections; it’s behind only the US and ..
reader comments 70 with 52 posters participating Share this story Cox Communications is lowering Internet upload speeds in entire neighborhoods to stop what it considers “excessive usage,” in a decision that punishes both heavy Internet users and their neighbors. Cox, a cable company with about 5.2 million broadband customers in the United States, has been ..
