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Nielsen Records 85 Percent Increase in Americans Streaming Video…

American online media streaming rates during the first three weeks of March were the highest on record, up 85 percent compared to March 2019 reports, according to Nielsen, a data and measurement firm. The record rate comes as the coronavirus sweeps across the world, forcing many countries to order people to stay inside and self-quarantine. […]

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Facebook Removes Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Post Touting Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Coronavirus Treatment…

Facebook made the decision to censor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro by removing a video the company claims violated “community standards” by spreading misinformation that “could lead to physical harm.” Bolsonaro posted a video Sunday in which he said, “Hydroxychloroquine is working in all places.” Facebook took down the video, which featured Bolsonaro talking to a […]

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U.S. Cybersecurity Experts See Recent Spike in Chinese Digital Espionage…

A U.S. cybersecurity firm said on March 25 it has detected a surge in new cyberspying by a suspected Chinese group dating back to late January, when the coronavirus began to spread beyond China. FireEye Inc. said in a report it had spotted a spike in activity from a hacking group it dubs “APT41” that […]

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Big and Small Tech Innovation Makes #PandemicLife Tolerable…

From suggested self-quarantines to the sudden shutting down of businesses (and countless workers being laid off) the past month has brought unprecedented hardships for millions of Americans. Inevitable comparisons have been drawn between the coronavirus pandemic and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic which infected 500 million people and resulted in an astounding 50 million deaths. […]

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Emergency Medical Workers in San Francisco Are Wearing Smart Rings to Detect Coronavirus…

Emergency medical workers at two hospitals in San Francisco will begin wearing smart rings that can detect their body temperature and other metrics in an attempt to detect coronavirus infections early, according to a report from The San Francisco Chronicle. Staff at UCSF Medical Center and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital will begin wearing smart […]

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Today Is the Vernal Equinox…The Earliest One in 124 Years!…

Happy vernal equinox! Today is the day when the Sun rises due east and sets due west. For us in the northern hemisphere (about 90% of humans on Earth), that means spring is coming, with summer not far behind. Some people think of this as the first day of spring — which is fine, but […]

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Amazon Expedites Grocery, Health Shipments at Expense of Other Products…

Amazon is taking steps to speed the delivery of household staples and medical products amid a surge of demand because of the coronavirus pandemic — a move that threatens to devastate businesses that use its platform to sell less-essential goods. The country’s largest online retailer notified vendors and third-party sellers Tuesday that it would temporarily […]

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Cyber-Attack Hits U.S. Health Agency Amid Coronavirus Outbreak…

The U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered a cyber-attack on its computer system, part of what people familiar with the incident called a campaign of disruption and disinformation that was aimed at undermining the response to the coronavirus pandemic and may have been the work of a foreign actor. “We are aware of a […]

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Chelsea Manning Ordered Free From Prison — but Will Still Have to Pay Massive Fines…

On Thursday afternoon, a District Court judge in Virginia ordered that Chelsea Manning be released from jail, where she has been held since last May for refusing to testify before a grand jury. The ruling itself is striking in what it fails to recognize. “The court finds Ms. Manning’s appearance before the Grand Jury is […]

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Bill Gates Resigns From Microsoft Board…

One hour after the close of another one of the most tumultuous weeks in Wall Street history, Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, resigned from the company’s board. Earlier today, Gates stepped down from the board of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate run by his friend and fellow billionaire, Warren Buffett. Both men have been […]

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Twitter Mandates All Employees Work from Home…

After previously recommending all employees work from home, Twitter took things a step further on Wednesday, making telecommuting mandatory for nearly all employees. Why it matters: It’s another sign of just how seriously big tech companies are taking the coronavirus outbreak. Twitter said in a blog post that it was making the move to support […]

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Amazon Launches Business Selling Automated Checkout to Retailers…

Amazon calls it: Just Walk Out – Just Walk Out technology enables shoppers to simply enter a store, grab what they want, and just go. Born from years of experience at Amazon Go, Just Walk Out uses a combination of technologies to eliminate checkout lines. We now offer retailers the ability to leverage this technology […]

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Bipartisan Sens. Demand DOJ Include ‘Search’ In Google Antitrust Investigation…

Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri (R) and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut (R) are instructing the Justice Department to include Google’s search engine in its ongoing antitrust investigation of the tech giant Tuesday. “How Google operates its search engine warrants close scrutiny,” the senators wrote in a letter to Attorney General William Barr. “At more than […]

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SXSW 2020 Canceled Due to Coronavirus….

SXSW, the annual tech, music, and film meetup held in downtown Austin, is the latest major conference to be canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, and just one week before it was slated to start. It is the first time in the event’s 34-year history that it’s been canceled. The festival was scheduled to take […]

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Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Responds to Wiretapping Abuses…

A new order by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court sets forth and reviews specific changes in the wake of government wiretapping abuses. The most noteworthy item bars the FBI and Justice Department (DOJ) officials who were involved in the controversial wiretaps from “drafting, verifying, reviewing, or submitting” new wiretap applications while their actions are under […]

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Why Metadata Matters…

Metadata is often described as everything except the content of your communications. You can think of metadata as the digital equivalent of an envelope. Just like an envelope contains information about the sender, receiver, and destination of a message, so does metadata. Metadata is information about the digital communications you send and receive. Some examples […]

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Facebook Fact-Checking Is Becoming a Political Cudgel…

Facebook’s fact-checking program is designed to stop false information from spreading. But being able to decide what’s true can also be a political weapon, and for the past few days, it’s been used in a fight over President Donald Trump’s coronavirus response. The battle centers on a recent Politico article about a South Carolina Trump […]

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William Barr Helped Build America’s Surveillance State…

William Barr, President Trump’s nominee for attorney general, has a history of getting it wrong. From designing warrantless surveillance programs to justifying the president’s power to disregard acts of Congress, Barr has advanced dubious legal theories that have been rejected by the courts, Congress, and the public. As Barr begins the confirmation process, senators must […]

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