On March 4th, 2021 with 25 comments
The federal government's definition of high-speed broadband has remained stagnant over the last six years, sitting at 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up since 2015. But...
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On March 3rd, 2021 with 75 comments
Are the TikTok deepfake videos of Tom Cruise doing magic and playing golf a threat to global democracy? Not exactly. "[T]he reality is that they took a lot of...
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On March 3rd, 2021 with 69 comments
The United States Navy is liable for a mass copyright infringement. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sided with the German software company...
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On March 2nd, 2021 with 82 comments
Microsoft today announced Power Fx, a new low-code language that "will become the standard for writing logic customization across Microsoft's own low-code...
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On March 2nd, 2021 with 29 comments
PayPal is said to be in the process of buying Curv, a technology firm that powers the secure storage of cryptocurrency, news outlet CoinDesk reported Tuesday,...
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On March 2nd, 2021 with 130 comments
The U.S., which once had a dominant head start in artificial intelligence, now has just a few years' lead on China and risks being overtaken unless government...
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On March 1st, 2021 with 47 comments
In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online....
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On March 1st, 2021 with 195 comments
quonset writes: "The Korean Fusion Cafe 'Spoon by H' had the ingredients to become an L.A. success story but is the epitome of a small business, with owner...
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On March 1st, 2021 with 113 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Bitcoin rose nearly 7% on Monday as risk assets rallied after last week's bond rout cooled, with Citi saying...
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On March 1st, 2021 with 295 comments
Petaluma, California, has voted to outlaw new gas stations, the first of what climate activists hope will be numerous cities and counties to do so. From a...
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On March 1st, 2021 with 190 comments
Interest rates have been negative in Europe for years. But it took the flood of savings unleashed in the pandemic for banks finally to charge depositors in...
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On March 1st, 2021 with 202 comments
Without naming Amazon specifically, President Joe Biden on Sunday expressed support for a closely watched union vote at one of the retail giant's Alabama...
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On March 1st, 2021 with 150 comments
From a report:
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has an interesting take on who should buy Bitcoins. He being the third richest man in the world said that Bitcoins are...
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On February 28th, 2021 with 87 comments
On Friday credit-card payment systems went down for major businesses scattered across the U.S. Business Insider reports:
Fiserv, one of the leading payments...
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On February 28th, 2021 with 45 comments
Reuters reports:
Bots on major social media platforms have been hyping up GameStop Corp and other "meme" stocks, according to an analysis by...
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On February 27th, 2021 with 140 comments
"Bitcoin's rally this year has hit a speed bump, putting it on track for the worst weekly slide in almost a year amid wider losses in risk assets," reports...
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On February 26th, 2021 with 115 comments
The U.S. has dropped a key demand in negotiations over digital taxation of technology companies such as Alphabet's Google and Facebook, lifting a barrier that...
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On February 26th, 2021 with 78 comments
The Federal Communications Commission has approved final rules for a new broadband subsidy program that could help struggling families pay for internet service...
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On February 26th, 2021 with 141 comments
Best Buy said it laid off 5,000 workers this month and is planning to close more stores this year as more consumers buy electronics online. From a report: The...
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On February 26th, 2021 with 151 comments
A US intelligence report has found that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the murder of exiled journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. BBC: The...
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On February 26th, 2021 with 150 comments
An anonymous reader shares a PopularMechanics report: An American Airlines flight crew encountered an unidentified flying object over New Mexico on February...
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On February 26th, 2021 with 239 comments
President Joe Biden has lifted a freeze on green cards issued by his predecessor during the pandemic that lawyers said was blocking most legal immigration to...
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On February 25th, 2021 with 72 comments
Twitter announced a pair of big upcoming features today: the ability for users to charge their followers for access to additional content, and the ability to...
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On February 25th, 2021 with 20 comments
India is establishing new rules to govern internet firms like Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter, [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source] a...
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On February 25th, 2021 with 86 comments
Australia's law forcing Google and Facebook to pay for news is ready to take effect, though the laws' architect said it will take time for the digital giants...
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On February 24th, 2021 with 229 comments
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday meant to address a global chip shortage impacting industries ranging from medical supplies to electric...
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On February 24th, 2021 with 54 comments
The Federal Reserve's system that allows financial institutions to send money back and forth electronically went down Wednesday morning. From a report: The...
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On February 24th, 2021 with 305 comments
UnknowingFool and scores of other readers have shared this report: Fry's Electronics, the decades-old superstore chain with locations in nine American states,...
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On February 23rd, 2021 with 65 comments
As part of its war on web tracking, Mozilla is adding a new tool to Firefox aimed at stopping cookies from keeping tabs on you across multiple sites. From a...
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On February 23rd, 2021 with 55 comments
The FCC has taken a major step toward offering financial support for people struggling to pay broadband bills during the pandemic. If approved, the Emergency...
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