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Verizon joins ad boycott of Facebook over hateful contentVerizon is joining an escalating movement to siphon advertising away from Facebook in an effort to pressure the company into doing more to prevent racist and violent info...
NASA naming headquarters for 'Hidden Figures' engineerNASA is naming its headquarters in Washington after the space agency's first African American female engineer.
Google to start paying some news publishers for content Google says it will start paying some news publishers for their journalistic content, in a deal that could ease tensions between the internet search giant and the beleagu...
Wirecard scandal puts spotlight on German company regulationThe accounting scandal at German payments company Wirecard is turning up the heat on the country's financial regulator.
Twitter bans pro-Trump meme maker for copyright violationsA conservative social media user whose memes have been repeatedly reposted by President Donald Trump has been kicked off Twitter for repeated copyright violations.
Google tweaks privacy settings to keep less user data Google is tweaking its privacy settings to keep less data on new users by default.
UK watchdog gives Amazon-Deliveroo deal tentative approvalBritain’s competition watchdog has provisionally approved Amazon’s plan to buy a stake in food delivery company Deliveroo, saying it would not have a negative impact on c...
Court: Montana family owns dinosaur fossils worth millionsAn appeals court has ruled dinosaur fossils worth millions of dollars unearthed on an eastern Montana ranch belong to the owners of the land's surface rights.
Facebook removes another 900 accounts linked to hate groupsFacebook has removed hundreds more social media accounts that it says belonged to members of two different white supremacy groups.
Facebook aims to help voters, but won't block Trump misinfoFacebook is launching a massive effort to boost voter turnout and show authoritative information about voting _ just as its CEO reaffirms its policy allowing politicians ...
CIA unit that crafts hacking tools didn't protect itselfAn internal report prepared after the worst data loss in CIA history says the agency prioritized the development of hacking tools and cyber weapons at the expense of safe...
FCC calls hours-long T-Mobile service outage 'unacceptable'The head of the U.S. communications regulator said T-Mobile’s nationwide, hours-long outage Monday was “unacceptable” and that the Federal Communications Commission will ...
Value of police body cameras limited by lack of transparencyThe killing of George Floyd, ensuing protests and calls for sweeping changes to policing have brought into question how much accountability and transparency there was wit...
Panel: NOAA bowed to political pressure in Dorian disputeOutside experts have concluded that the chief of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and an aide violated the agency's scientific integrity standards in t...
Report: Russia-linked disinformation operation still activeA new report finds that a Kremlin-linked social media disinformation operation that tried to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election has continued its work to divide and di...
EU authorities open twin Apple antitrust investigations European Union authorities have opened antitrust investigations into Apple’s App Store and its payments platform over concerns that its practices stifle competition.
FDA approves video game for treating ADHD in kidsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved a video game for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children.
To help distance learning absentees, educators go sleuthing With huge percentages of students unplugged from distance learning, educators at schools around the country have been working to understand why.
Temperature spike: Earth ties record high heat May readingMeteorologists report that Earth's warming ties a record level for May.
Researchers ask if survivor plasma could prevent coronavirusScientists are beginning a new study to tell if the blood plasma of COVID-19 survivors might help prevent infection in the first place.
