Getty Images | Jozef Polc | 500px reader comments 31 with 31 posters participating Share this story TracFone Wireless is facing a potential $6 million fine for allegedly defrauding a government program that provides discount telecom service to poor people. The Federal Communications Commission proposed the fine against TracFone yesterday, saying the prepaid wireless provider ..
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Enlarge / Chris Smalls. reader comments 151 with 96 posters participating, including story author Share this story Amazon was eager to make warehouse manager Chris Smalls the face of worker activism at the company, an internal memo shows. The memo was leaked to Vice, which published excerpts of the document on Thursday. “He’s not smart, ..
Enlarge / California tells T-Mobile and Sprint to halt merger. Getty Images | Stefan Jackowski | EyeEm reader comments 42 with 31 posters participating Share this story California state regulators are trying to hold up the T-Mobile/Sprint merger, saying the companies don’t yet have approval to combine their operations in the state. T-Mobile and Sprint ..
Enlarge / After growing exponentially for most of March, US testing has stalled out at around 100,000 tests per day. Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica reader comments 148 with 77 posters participating, including story author Share this story One of America’s biggest fumbles in the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis was inadequate testing. Thanks ..
Enlarge / A person holds a Juul Labs Inc. e-cigarette next to packages of flavored pods on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2018. reader comments 26 with 23 posters participating, including story author Share this story Back in 2018, cigarette maker Altria—formerly known as Philip Morris— apparently saw the writing on the wall for the tobacco industry’s ..
reader comments 169 with 121 posters participating Share this story Update (April 1, 2020): The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to finalize the anti-robocall order on March 31, 2020, complying with instructions the commission received from Congress. The order “requires all originating and terminating voice service providers to implement STIR/SHAKEN in the Internet Protocol (IP) ..
Enlarge / The Huawei P40 Pro. reader comments 53 with 30 posters participating Share this story Huawei is still using components made by US companies in its newest flagship smartphone, a Financial Times teardown has found, despite the US all but blacklisting the Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer. On Thursday, Huawei launched its P40 smartphone—one of ..
Enlarge / Sign in front of Middle Country public Library in Centereach, New York, on March 26, 2020. reader comments 152 with 91 posters participating, including story author Share this story For almost a decade, the Internet Archive, an online library best known for its Internet Wayback Machine, has let users “borrow” scanned digital copies ..
Enlarge / Medical staff at the IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute in Marseille shows packets of a Nivaquine (tablets containing chloroquine) and Plaqueril (tablets containing hydroxychloroquine) on February 26, 2020,. reader comments 143 with 68 posters participating Share this story On Saturday, the Food and Drug Administration issued an Emergency Use Authorization that will allow patients ..
Enlarge / Zoom’s San Jose, Calif., headquarters looks like a lovely place to be socially distanced from. reader comments 45 with 36 posters participating, including story author Share this story We have several more weeks, if not several more months, to go in this sudden era of Everything from Home. Work from home, school from ..
