[ad_1] Meta has granted access to its most controversial user, former President Donald Trump, to Facebook and Instagram. Facebook and Instagram, along with Twitter, YouTube and Snap, suspended Trump after the former president praised the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021. He used Facebook to instigate a “violent riot” against American democracy. …
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[ad_1] The Department of Justice and eight states have accused Google of using its market dominance to the detriment of its competitors, allowing ad buyers and sellers to use their products on terms that are less favorable than those offered by other companies. It is suing Google over its digital advertising business for forcing it …
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[ad_1] During a CNN interview last fall, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos revealed that he intends to give away most of his fortune — $120 billion as of January 2023. When one of the richest people in the world signals that his immense wealth will go to helping others, ears tend to perk up. The announcement …
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[ad_1] Microsoft announced last week that it will lay off 10,000 people by the end of 2023. On Monday, the company announced it was investing billions in OpenAI, a popular artificial intelligence platform. This is Microsoft’s third investment in the company and solidifies Microsoft’s partnership with one of the most exciting companies developing one of …
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[ad_1] Reed Hastings has been with Netflix since 1997, when he co-founded Netflix in 1997. This is a company that originally shipped DVDs by mail. He no longer intends to run his company on a day-to-day basis. Netflix announced Thursday afternoon that Hastings will become the company’s executive chairman. In his place he will be …
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[ad_1] For years, it seemed as though nothing could stop Amazon’s explosive growth and success. Even a pandemic couldn’t slow it down: In fact, in early 2021, the tech and retail giant reported its largest quarterly profit ever. But a lot can change in just two years: Since then, founder Jeff Bezos stepped down and …
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[ad_1] Before a flight takes off, pilots are to read a Notice to Air Mission (NOTAM) outlining potential safety hazards that may be encountered during the flight. Filled with numeric codes and special acronyms, these critical digital his messages contain warnings of disruptions such as bad weather, migrating flocks of birds, and nearby rocket launches. …
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[ad_1] Not surprisingly, people are still moving to Austin, Texas. Even more amazing, people are moving to San Francisco as well. Over the past 12 months, San Francisco has recorded the second-largest increase in the working-age population in the United States, according to LinkedIn. For every 100,000 LinkedIn users, 83 of them moved to San …
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[ad_1] The act of scrolling through your For You feed on TikTok might come with an additional sense of impending doom these days. After years of hand-wringing over the enormously popular app’s ties to China and the potential national security threat they present, it looks like someone is going to do something about it. TikTok …
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[ad_1] I’m old enough to remember when the internet was going to be great news for everyone. Things have gotten more complex since then: We all still agree that there are lots of good things we can get from a broadband connection. But we’re also likely to blame the internet — and specifically the big …
[ad_1] The world around us was built to accommodate petrol cars. Tank trucks carrying thousands of gallons of fuel are everywhere on the highway. Auto repair shops are stocked with drain pans and wrenches for oil changes. Gas prices are a central focus of politics. Even pedestrians and cyclists rely on the hum of the …
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[ad_1] We — workers, professionals, journalists, and I — can’t stop talking about work these days. And it’s not just because we spend so much of our waking lives doing it. Three years after the pandemic that disrupted the work of many Americans, we are now on the brink of a recession that threatens to …
[ad_1] At the opening of Meta’s last company-wide Q&A of 2022, Mark Zuckerberg sounded disappointed but determined. “We made our plan for ’22 in terms of how we thought the business was going to go, and obviously it hasn’t gone the way that we wanted to,” Zuckerberg told employees in an audio recording of the …
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[ad_1] Space Internet has a reputation for slow service. With questionable signal strength and little bandwidth suitable for Netflix, internet transmitted from low earth orbit is something that’s only available as a last resort or if you’re stuck on a long-haul flight. In 2018, the satellite-based Internet will undergo a major overhaul. Private companies and …
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[ad_1] Federal Trade Commission Chairman Rina Kern has called for a fresh start in her efforts to reinterpret or reapply the agency’s rules to stop what she sees as systemic anti-labor and anti-competitive behavior. This time she’s pursuing non-compete clauses, framing them as anti-competitive and therefore under the agency’s jurisdiction. The FTC announced Thursday that …
