Internet
Perfect safety is no more possible online than it is when driving on a crowded road with strangers or walking alone through a city at night. Like roads and cities, the internet's dangers arise from choices society has made. ...
Jan 25, 2024
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Business
Big Tech, its hands full with antitrust probes and complaints growing from activists and politicians, turns its attention to quarterly earnings in the coming days expected to show the growing power of Silicon Valley giants.
Jul 22, 2020
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Security
Another holiday weekend in the U.S., another ransomware attack that has paralyzed businesses around the world.
Jul 4, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
Most internet users are by now aware of the vulnerability of their personal data. When the news broke that tech companies misuse and manipulate our personal data, there was a widespread "techlash" against the corporate giants ...
Jun 28, 2022
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Business
EU lawmakers and officials have agreed the main points of a landmark piece of legislation, known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA), that aims to loosen the grip held by Big Tech on life online.
Mar 25, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
From the face scanner that will check in some attendees to the cameras-everywhere array of digital products, the CES gadget show is all-in on surveillance technology—whether it calls it that or not.
Jan 6, 2020
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Business
The little-known field of affective computing is a growing presence in our lives, including the workplace. Is it OK to have your feelings monitored if it's supposed to enhance your well-being?
Apr 27, 2023
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Business
It started with the fight against "nomophobia"—the fear that your phone will run out of power.
May 3, 2023
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Business
Twitter's relaunched premium service—which grants blue-check "verification" labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month—was unavailable Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts ...
Nov 11, 2022
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Business
After years of calling Big Tech too big, Democratic lawmakers are calling for Congress to rein in Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple by breaking them up, limiting future mergers and blocking self-dealing that could hurt competitors.
Oct 7, 2020
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