Enlarge / Travelers wearing protective face masks stand around social distancing floor markers at “Gare du Nord” railway station as the lockdown continues due to the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) on May 04, 2020 in Paris, France. reader comments 99 with 48 posters participating Share this story During the pandemic, Ars has done its best to ..
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Getty Images | Peter Dazeley reader comments 72 with 56 posters participating Share this story The New York Times has won its lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, as a federal judge ruled Thursday that the FCC must turn over net neutrality comment records that it refused to give to the NYT. The NYT sued ..
Enlarge / Amazon’s orange-yellow logo wall. David Ryder/Getty Images reader comments 199 with 113 posters participating Share this story Amazon VP Tim Bray, who had been with the company for more than five years, has resigned in protest of Amazon’s treatment of warehouse workers and the firing of other employees who spoke out. The company ..
Cindy Ord | Getty Images reader comments 44 with 37 posters participating Share this story Facial-recognition algorithms from Los Angeles startup TrueFace are good enough that the US Air Force uses them to speed security checks at base entrances. But CEO Shaun Moore says he’s facing a new question: How good is TrueFace’s technology when ..
Enlarge / A Frontier Communications service van. reader comments 39 with 34 posters participating Share this story Small Internet providers have asked for a government investigation into Frontier Communications’ claim that it recently deployed broadband to nearly 17,000 census blocks, saying the expansion seems unlikely given Frontier’s bankruptcy and its historical failure to upgrade networks ..
Enlarge / Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his surprised face speaking in 2019. reader comments 110 with 75 posters participating, including story author Share this story A bipartisan group of House representatives wants Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to show up and explain to their socially distanced faces why media reports say his company ..
dalton00 / Getty reader comments 100 with 79 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit organization that oversees the Internet’s domain name system, has rejected a controversial proposal to sell the .org domain to a private equity group for more than $1 billion. It’s ..
Enlarge / Amazon’s headquarters on a sunny day in 2018. reader comments 160 with 93 posters participating Share this story Amazon is reportedly (and suddenly) enforcing rules limiting employees’ internal communication as workers, critical of the company’s behavior, become increasingly outspoken and organized. Internal listservs with more than 500 participants are now required to move ..
reader comments 132 with 96 posters participating, including story author Share this story Earlier on Wednesday, we reported on some clinical trial data that offered good, if ambiguous, news about treating COVID-19. In the study, participants treated with a drug called remdesivir recovered on average 30 percent quicker than those receiving a placebo. But who ..
Enlarge / Attorney General William Barr speaks as US President Donald Trump listens during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference on Monday, March 23, 2020. reader comments 435 with 202 posters participating Share this story The Trump administration is threatening to sue states and municipalities whose pandemic orders infringe on people’s rights or cause “undue ..
