It is no secret that Big Tech’s news and information monopoly has created a big problem for news publishers and content creators across the U.S. Google News, Facebook News, and analogous news aggregator sites drive a great deal of traffic to their respective sites by presenting a continuous flow of […]
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Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance
Colombia-based call center workers who provide outsourced customer service to some of the nation’s largest companies are being pressured to sign a contract that lets their employer install cameras in their homes to monitor work performance, an NBC News investigation has found. Six workers based in Colombia for Teleperformance, one […]
China Denounces Online Videogames. It Could Boost Big Tech Stocks.
Text size Roblox’s avatar lineup. Courtesy Roblox Videogame stocks’ pain could be Big Tech’s gain. Another potential crackdown on Chinese tech companies may push investors back to the relative safety of large U.S. technology stocks such as Alphabet (ticker: GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT), according to Wedbush analyst Dan Ives. Worry […]
Honeywell, Google bring practical quantum computers a big step closer
Honeywell’s quantum computer uses ytterbium atoms trapped in this chamber, about the size of a football, to perform computations. Honeywell Honeywell and Google have detailed dueling demonstrations of logical qubits, a technology that can correct errors in potentially powerful but notoriously finicky quantum computers. In a research paper released Wednesday, Honeywell […]
Biden: ‘Killing People’ Remark Was Call for Big Tech to Act | Business News
By ZEKE MILLER and BARBARA ORTUTAY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tempered his assessment that social media giants are “killing people” by hosting misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines on their platforms, saying Monday that he hoped they would not take it “personally” and instead would act to […]
iOS 15 beta review (hands on): A big update with big changes
iOS 15 poses a challenge that recent iPhone software updates haven’t had to face. Those recent iOS updates were pretty easy to sum up. Sure, each update contained its fair share of new features and enhancements to existing capabilities, but it was usually easy to pinpoint the biggest changes and […]
Lina Khan, Prominent Big Tech Critic, Will Lead The FTC : NPR
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed to the Federal Trade Commission 32-year-old Lina Khan, a prominent critic of Big Tech and favorite among progressives. Graeme Jennings/AP hide caption toggle caption Graeme Jennings/AP The Senate on Tuesday confirmed to the Federal Trade Commission 32-year-old Lina Khan, a prominent critic of Big Tech […]
Here’s how new antitrust legislation could affect Big Tech… and you
Democrats and Republicans have come together to introduce five bipartisan bills in the House of Representatives that could rein in Big Tech. Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images Democratic and Republican lawmakers have banded together to take on Big Tech. A group of representatives introduced a set of five bipartisan bills […]