Telecom
Mexico City has set a world record for free Wi-Fi access thanks to thousands of public internet access points across the capital, Guinness World Records announced Wednesday.
Nov 11, 2021
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Business
The council of a small Oregon city has approved a deal with Google that will enable the technology giant to build two more water-guzzling data centers there, though some residents worry about drought and secrecy.
Nov 09, 2021
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Business
Alibaba shares surged more than six percent on Wednesday after billionaire founder Jack Ma was reported to be in Europe, fuelling investor hopes that the worst of China's regulatory crackdown for the internet giant might ...
Oct 20, 2021
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Internet
Tinder is trying to make it easier to safely spark a love connection with a new feature designed to help love-seekers vet their matches.
Mar 24, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
In "The Social Dilemma," the Netflix documentary that has been in the news recently for its radical revelations, former executives at major technology companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, among others, share how ...
Dec 01, 2020
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Internet
A database with information on virtually the entire US voting population has been circulated on hacker forums, opening up the potential for disinformation and scams that could impact the November 3 election, security researchers ...
Oct 22, 2020
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Internet
"Your early vote has not been recorded," one text message said, with a link for more information.
Oct 11, 2020
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Security
An international team of computer scientists had set a new record for two of the most important computational problems that are the basis for nearly all of the public-key cryptography that is currently used in the real world.
Dec 05, 2019
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Machine learning & AI
The nation's second-largest health system, Ascension, has agreed to allow the software behemoth Google access to tens of millions of patient records. The partnership, called Project Nightingale, aims to improve how information ...
Dec 04, 2019
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Internet
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to "go to the mat" to fight a government attempt to break up the social media giant, according to a report Tuesday based on a leaked audio recording.
Oct 01, 2019
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