June 15, 2020 Jeff Bezos will finally be grilled by Congress Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Congress has wanted to hear from Jeff Bezos for a long time. Now Amazon’s CEO says…
June 15, 2020 The inside story of Netflix, the tiny tech company that took over Hollywood This season of Land of the Giants explores how Netflix disrupted Hollywood and changed the way we watch TV and movies. Netflix started out…
June 12, 2020 How protesters are turning the tables on police surveillance Some say that police have acted as counterprotesters in nationwide demonstrations against police brutality following George Floyd’s death. | Ben Hendren / Anadolu Agency…
June 11, 2020 Inside Jack Dorsey’s radical experiment: Rihanna, Jay-Z, and a new model for billionaires to use their money for good Jack Dorsey/Newspix/Getty Images Is it really as hard for billionaires to give away money as they make it out to be? Billionaires are notoriously…
June 11, 2020 Big tech companies back away from selling facial recognition to police. That’s progress. It’s not clear exactly what surveillance technology police are using, but lawmakers on Capitol Hill are now demanding details. | Brett Carlsen/Getty Images After…
June 11, 2020 Questions to ask yourself before sharing images of police brutality Demonstrators confront law enforcement during a protest in downtown Washington, DC, on June 1. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images “The video itself is valuable. The…
June 10, 2020 Amazon suspends police access to its facial recognition technology. But only for one year. An Amazon logo at an anti police brutality protest on June 2 in New York City. | Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images The…
June 10, 2020 Why it matters that IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business As a decades-long leader in the industry, IBM’s actions stand to influence technology companies and lawmakers alike. | Lluis Gene / AFP via Getty…
June 9, 2020 New coronavirus cases reported at reopened Tesla factory. This doesn’t look great for Elon Musk. The Tesla factory in Fremont, California, reopened in May, before local officials had given the all-clear. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A predictable result. In…
June 8, 2020 The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn’t politics. It’s porn. A video explainer with Kristen Bell. Kristen Bell first found out there were deepfake porn videos of her online from her husband, the actor…