December 19, 2020 Social media companies are already losing the vaccine misinformation fight Content that spreads doubt about vaccines is easy to find online. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Posts that discourage and make fun…
December 18, 2020 Teachers are sacrificing student privacy to stop cheating Getty Images Surveillance software for remote learning is drawing criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers. As the fall semester began at the University of…
December 17, 2020 Google’s three antitrust cases, briefly explained Google is in the spotlight again. | Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images The search giant is facing lawsuits from attorneys general in most US…
December 16, 2020 Google got hit by another huge antitrust case, this time over its ad monopoly Google is in the spotlight again. | Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images Google has ruled the online ad marketplace for years. Now it faces…
December 16, 2020 Twitter joins Facebook and YouTube in banning Covid-19 vaccine misinformation Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, recently testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee. | Hannah McKay/Getty Images The move comes as false rumors about…
December 15, 2020 MacKenzie Scott, the Amazon billionaire, is giving away $1 billion a month to charity MacKenzie Bezos with then-husband Jeff Bezos in Berlin in April 2018. | Jörg Carstensen/picture alliance via Getty Images What is so unusual about how…
December 15, 2020 Inside the final days of the $35 million startup meant to fix the Democratic Party The startup Alloy became something like a battleship roaming busy waters on the hunt for its own enemy — equipped with state-of-the-art technology and…
December 15, 2020 2020 in 20 charts From voting to vaccines and from protests to pets, a look at 2020’s biggest trends. 2020 was such a terrible, bad, no-good year that…
December 14, 2020 How hackers, probably Russian, infiltrated the federal government The Treasury Department is reportedly one of the victims of a potentially massive hack of government systems. | Ting Shen/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images Here’s…
December 14, 2020 Tech billionaire Larry Ellison has moved to Hawaii Phillip Faraone/Getty Images Ellison is the latest Silicon Valley giant to leave California amid the coronavirus pandemic. Larry Ellison, one of the world’s wealthiest…