Enlarge / District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine (L) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speak during the launch of an antitrust investigation into large tech companies, outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on September 9, 2019. reader comments 156 with 82 posters participating Share this story A coalition of attorneys ..
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Enlarge / Visitors check out new Huawei smartphones at the 2019 IFA home electronics and appliances trade fair Berlin. Sean Gallup/Getty Images reader comments 96 with 58 posters participating, including story author Share this story A Chinese computer science professor named Bo Mao is facing wire fraud charges after he was arrested last month by ..
Enlarge / The courts have become another frontline in the battle against climate change. reader comments 122 with 82 posters participating Share this story Kentucky lawmakers thought requiring that judges consult an algorithm when deciding whether to hold a defendant in jail before trial would make the state’s justice system cheaper and fairer by setting ..
Enlarge / Traffic moves through an interchange along Interstate 580 on July 25, 2019 in Oakland, California. reader comments 161 with 97 posters participating Share this story Four major automakers that recently reached an agreement with the state of California to hold to certain emissions standards over the next decade are now the target of ..
NurPhoto | Getty Images reader comments 23 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story A coalition of states attorneys general is joining together to launch yet another antitrust probe of Facebook, joining several investigations already in progress. “I’m launching an investigation into Facebook to determine whether their actions endangered consumer data, reduced ..
Enlarge / An employee counts 100-yuan notes at a bank in Nantong in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on July 23, 2018. -/AFP/Getty Images reader comments 79 with 53 posters participating Share this story China’s central bank is working on a cryptocurrency that will be similar to Facebook’s Libra, a government official said this week, according ..
Enlarge / The logo of Deutsche Telekom, owner of T-Mobile, seen at Mobile World Congress in February 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. reader comments 39 with 34 posters participating Share this story The New York City government sued T-Mobile yesterday, alleging that its Metro stores routinely use “abusive sales tactics” such as selling used phones as ..
Enlarge / A Ring video doorbell mounted on a home. reader comments 30 with 21 posters participating Share this story Amazon’s Ring line of video doorbells and home surveillance equipment is particularly popular with one key group: police. More than 400 law enforcement agencies around the country have partnered with Ring to use its apps ..
reader comments 279 with 137 posters participating, including story author Share this story Among the stranger subjects that has been caught up in the political wars raging in the United States is the lowly lightbulb. Back in the George W. Bush administration, a law was passed that set efficiency standards for a variety of lightbulbs ..
Getty Images | Marilyn Nieves reader comments 14 with 13 posters participating Share this story A 21-year-old Washington man has pleaded guilty to creating botnets that converted hundreds of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-facing devices into money-making denial-of-service fleets that could knock out entire Web hosting companies. Kenneth Currin Schuchman of Vancouver, Washington, ..
