reader comments 75 with 55 posters participating Share this story Back in the before times, when a larger percentage of the human race roamed the Earth, i.e., several weeks ago, Comcast customers had to deal with something called a “data cap.” Cable users who consumed more than a terabyte of Comcast-branded Internet data in a ..
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reader comments 13 with 11 posters participating Share this story The Guardian says it has evidence that Saudi Arabia is exploiting a decades-old weakness in the global telecoms network to track the kingdom’s citizens as they travel in the United States. The publication cited data provided by a whistleblower that suggests Saudi Arabia is engaged ..
Enlarge / It’s just you and your devices now, in this socially-distanced world we all live in for the time being. Too bad the misinformation campaigns aren’t also all on hold. reader comments 82 with 43 posters participating Share this story The presidential race has fallen off the top of every front page nationwide in ..
Enlarge / Hazard tape blocks the book returns slot at a London library. reader comments 67 with 40 posters participating, including story author Share this story One of the casualties of coronavirus-related social distancing measures has been public libraries, which are shut down in many communities around the world. This week, the Internet Archive, an online ..
Enlarge / Kitboga getting ready to out some scammers on Twitch. reader comments 79 with 64 posters participating Share this story Earlier this week, live on Twitch, the streamer Kitboga attempted to place a wholesale order for an essential oil that, the woman on the phone implied to him, cured COVID-19. There is, of course, ..
Enlarge / President Donald Trump speaks as Vice President Mike Pence looks on during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic at the White House on March 26, 2020. Getty Images | Drew Angerer reader comments 418 with 157 posters participating Share this story President Donald Trump today ordered General Motors to make ventilators to treat ..
Enlarge / A man and a woman, properly socially distanced from the rest of Los Angeles, take in a view of the city on a low air quality day in November, 2019. reader comments 153 with 78 posters participating Share this story 2020 has a new motto: “Cancelled due to the coronavirus.” Businesses, schools, sports, ..
Enlarge / A Charter Spectrum vehicle. reader comments 120 with 72 posters participating Share this story Charter Communications is giving its cable technicians $25 restaurant gift cards instead of hazard pay for going into customer homes during the coronavirus pandemic, BuzzFeed reported yesterday. The gift cards are a “token of our appreciation,” an internal email from ..
Enlarge / The Uber Technologies Inc. logo is seen on the windshield of a vehicle in New York on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. reader comments 23 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story An Uber driver in New York has died as a result of the coronavirus, the New York Post reports. ..
Enlarge / To call the government’s response to the pandemic unsteady would be an understatement. reader comments 411 with 200 posters participating, including story author Share this story In difficult and frightening times, it’s normal for a certain amount of confusion and misinformation to spread. The existence of social media and hyperpartisan “news” outlets undoubtedly ..
