July 19, 2021 Facebook is fighting back against President Joe Biden's comment accusing Facebook of "killing people" with COVID-19 misinformation. In a blog post from the company's vice president of integrity Guy Rosen, Rosen countered the comments, saying more...
July 19, 2021 Engineers at the University of California San Diego recently developed a new type of biofuel that harnesses energy from the sweat of people's fingertips and could one day be used to power electronic wearables while more...
July 19, 2021 On Friday, Virginia representatives and state officials announced plans to boost internet service access and availability. The plans call for Virginia to provide $700 million from the pandemic relief funds to boost broadband access in more...
July 16, 2021 Ookla released its Q2 internet report on mobile performance in the U.S., with T-Mobile being the fastest and most consistent mobile operator to date. According to the Speedtest Global Index, T-Mobile achieved average download speeds more...
July 16, 2021 44% of survey respondents say they would trust an AI algorithm to find them a compatible match while using a dating app. Kaspersky recently published a report called "Love in an algorithmic age" which refers more...
July 15, 2021 Below are general questions about the concept of the right to repair laws that are being pushed by the Biden administration, what it means and what the government is doing to make right to repair more...
July 15, 2021 Google is trying out error correction on its quantum processor. The current generation of quantum hardware is called "NISQ": noisy, intermediate-scale quantum processors. "Intermediate-scale" refers to a qubit count that usually runs into the dozens, more...
July 15, 2021 In their new book An Ugly Truth, Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang write that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tends to believe that free speech will drown out bad speech. He believes that fake news on more...
July 14, 2021 Small technology companies commend the Biden Administration's Executive Order (EO) on Promoting Competition in the American economy, while others say the measures are more focused on consumer businesses and do not do enough to address more...
July 14, 2021 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously Tuesday to implement a $1.9 billion program to reimburse U.S. carriers for removing devices from telecommunications networks of Chinese companies classified as national security threats. The companies more...
July 13, 2021 Australia's federal government has given AU$5.6 million in grants to two companies it hopes will deliver successful blockchain-based supply chain solutions. Funding was provided through the Blockchain Pilot Grants Program, which aims to examine the more...
July 13, 2021 The European Union is suspending its plans to tax online tech giants in the face of global efforts to agree on a minimum tax rate of 15% for companies. Earlier this week, G20 finance ministers more...
