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Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google deserve to be grilled at the House antitrust hearing
CEOs Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Sundar Pichai will be pressed on their companies' varying anti-competitive practices. It's going to get heated.
By Jack Morse
Once again, there is no 'anti-conservative' bias on social media
It's called "working the refs."
By Rachel Kraus
XPrize to give $5 million to creator of cheap, fast COVID-19 testing
Google and Amazon are backing it, among others.
Google tells employees to get used to working from home for another year
The company is pushing a return to the office well into summer 2021.
By Jack Morse
Google's internal data collection on competing apps raises new antitrust questions
It's a program called Android Lockbox.
Google will replace certain Nest thermostats that can't connect to Wi-Fi
It's an issue that goes back to at least the end of 2019.
TikTok decides it's had enough of QAnon (sort of)
Searches for QAnon-related terms and hashtags no longer return content on TikTok.
By Jack Morse
Antitrust hearing with Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sundar Pichai set for July 29
Monday morning won't be as stressful for Big Tech's CEOs. They now have two extra days to relax.
By Rachel Kraus
Trump argues with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile over his campaign's spammy text messages
Is the President of the United States allowed to spam text your phone?
By Matt Binder
Facebook will let you host livestreams from Messenger Rooms
If you've ever wanted to broadcast a video call, Facebook is making it easy.
By Alex Perry
Slack to Microsoft: Bundling Teams with Office is an antitrust violation
"They created a weak, copycat product..."
By Michael Kan
QAnon content is no longer welcome on Twitter. Cue the conspiracy theories.
This should go down well.
Amazon finally confirms Prime Day is delayed
We don't know when it'll happen beyond Amazon saying "later than usual."
By Matthew Humphries
Anti-mask Facebook group suspended for spreading coronavirus misinformation
One less hive of misinformation.
By Amanda Yeo
This website lets you see how conspiracy theorists fall down the YouTube rabbit hole
Do you know any conspiracists, fruitarians, or climate deniers?
By Matt Binder
T-Mobile's 'Scam Shield' lets you weed out scam calls with a second number
A free service for Magenta and Essentials subscribers.
Coronavirus conspiracy websites won’t be able to make money with Google ads
Find a different revenue model, conspiracy theorists.
By Matt Binder
His account might hold the secret to the massive Twitter hack. He died two years ago.
@6 can tell us a lot we didn't know.
By Matt Binder
Google's AI starts answering Verizon support calls
Verizon taps Google for a "more natural" support experience.
By Matthew Humphries
Stephen Colbert roasts Twitter and Jack Dorsey over crypto scam hack
"Fun fact: 'We all feel terrible this happened' is Twitter's official motto."
Zoom bug allowed anyone to use a company’s custom meeting URL
Bad actors could have weaponized this.
By Matt Binder
In panic, Twitter locked out users who changed their password in the last month
That is... a lot of accounts.
By Jack Morse
