December 23, 2020 The stimulus bill includes a “historic” provision to expand broadband internet access A first-grade teacher tries to teach classes from her living room in San Francisco in March. During the pandemic, access to quality broadband internet…
December 23, 2020 The year we gave up on privacy Christina Animashaun/Vox Our lives moved online in 2020. Too bad privacy laws didn’t. As a digital privacy reporter, I try to avoid sites and…
December 22, 2020 The viral tweet about ***** refusing to give ***** his @POTUS followers is wrong, even if it is on-brand President ***** speaks before signing an executive order targeting social media platforms for perceived anti-conservative bias. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images The confusion…
December 22, 2020 The political chief at Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy is stepping down Courtesy of The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Mike Troncoso is a former top aide to Kamala Harris, so this move is stirring speculation about a…
December 22, 2020 California will have its first Latino senator California Secretary of State Alex Padilla speaks during a news conference at the State Capitol building in 2019 in Sacramento, California. On Tuesday, December…
December 22, 2020 What’s going on with the USPS this holiday season? USPS workers are struggling to keep up with need. They are working longer hours that are taking them away from time with their families. …
December 22, 2020 How virtual reality tricks your brain VR doesn’t need to look hyper-realistic for our brains to believe it. Virtual reality really had a moment back in 2016. The internet is…
December 22, 2020 The pandemic could have crushed WeWork. It may have saved it instead. WeWork is still working. | Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP via Getty Images How do you make a business out of sharing office space when no one…
December 21, 2020 Corporate America would like the vaccine now Dave Lacknauth, executive director of pharmacy services, Broward Health Medical Center, shows off a bottle containing the Pfizer/BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine on December 17 in…
December 21, 2020 A requiem for the Twitter presidency How ***** blurred the lines between politics and persona in ways that will reverberate for years. The first American social media presidency came to…