Enlarge / A Frontier Communications service van. reader comments 51 with 40 posters participating Share this story Minnesota regulators are letting Frontier Communications settle an investigation without admitting fault, despite the state attorney general’s office calling the settlement “paltry compared with Frontier’s alleged misconduct.” Frontier failed to properly maintain its telecom network in Minnesota, leading ..
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Enlarge / “We heard from people working at pizza parlors” being asked to sign noncompete agreements, a Massachusetts state legislator told Ars last year. reader comments 85 with 67 posters participating, including story author Share this story A bipartisan pair of senators has introduced legislation to drastically limit the use of noncompete agreements across the ..
Enlarge / Sen. Ron Wyden questions witnesses during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on social media influence in the 2016 US elections in Washington, DC, on Nov. 1, 2017. reader comments 43 with 32 posters participating Share this story Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) would like tech and data companies to mind their own business and ..
Enlarge / Members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters hold signs while protesting during the McKesson Corp. annual meeting at the Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce in Irving, Texas, US, on Wednesday, July 26, 2017. reader comments 90 with 49 posters participating Share this story Three of the nation’s largest drug distributors plus two big-name ..
Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Republican members (L-R) Brendan Carr, Michael O’Rielly, and Chairman Ajit Pai participate in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. reader comments 37 with 33 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission has voted 3-2 to approve T-Mobile’s acquisition ..
Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager imposes interim measures on Broadcom in TV and modem chipset markets on October 16, 2019, in Brussels, Belgium. reader comments 22 with 20 posters participating Share this story European regulators have hit chipmaker Broadcom with a rare “interim” restriction on its behavior as their antitrust probe into ..
Enlarge / Nicky Morgan, UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport. Leon Neal/Getty Images reader comments 78 with 54 posters participating Share this story The United Kingdom is abandoning plans to try to force pornography websites to age-verify UK Internet users. Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan announced the shift in a Wednesday statement. ..
Enlarge / A new solar array at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. reader comments 125 with 73 posters participating Share this story While US President Donald Trump may be “the world’s most powerful climate change denier,” our latest research suggests that he took over a thriving green economy. According to new data, by 2016 ..
Enlarge / US Army troopers assigned to the Field Artillery Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, fire their M777 Howitzer. The Army is looking for a gun with a bit more range—over 1,000 nautical miles. reader comments 111 with 68 posters participating Share this story In 2017, the US Army established a collection of cross-functional teams (CFTs) ..
Enlarge / Washington State Capitol building in Olympia, Washington. reader comments 30 with 27 posters participating Share this story Although the Federal Communications Commission abandoned its regulation of net neutrality, it wouldn’t be accurate to say there are no net neutrality laws anywhere in the United States. No one enforces net neutrality in Washington, DC, ..
