Biased Big Tech algorithms limit our lives and choices. Stop the online discrimination.
The leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google have some serious explaining to do about bias and discrimination when they appear Wednesday at an antitrust hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. The abuse of trust by the platform-based…
QAnon is leaking into the mainstream, moving from internet fringes to primetime cable news as Americans keep falling for the unfounded conspiracy theory
A Donald Trump supporter holding a QAnon flag visits Mount Rushmore National Monument on July 01, 2020 in Keystone, South Dakota. Scott Olson/Getty Images The QAnon conspiracy theory movement, which originated in 2017, has spread beyond the fringes of…
Republicans tear into panel’s Democrats on eve of major tech hearing
Republican staffers on the House Judiciary Committee are blasting the panel’s management of Wednesday’s high-stakes hearing into the tech industry, according to a GOP memo obtained by POLITICO — accusing Democrats of harboring…
Tech CEOs’ opening statements for Wednesday’s tech antitrust hearing
Read the prepared opening remarks from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook, who will testify at a House antitrust hearing on Wednesday. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s opening…
Stock futures open higher ahead of Big Tech hearing, Fed meeting
Stock futures opened higher Tuesday evening ahead of an eventful Wednesday, during which Big Tech executives will testify before Congress and the Federal Open Market Committee will release its July monetary policy statement. A host of quarterly corporate…
Stock Market News for Jul 28, 2020
Possibility of a coronavirus rescue program and positive expectations about tech earnings helped benchmarks close higher on Monday. Investors now brace for a momentous tech earnings week, with reports due from Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet and Apple to name…
Brokers Recommend These Tech Stocks & So Do We
With the FAANG stocks beginning to report this week, there’s much excitement around tech. That’s because, being some of the largest-cap stocks, they tend to influence overall market movement and especially, tech-heavy indexes like the NASDAQ. And of…
Big Tech has no friends in Washington anymore
Hello, everyone! Welcome to the new edition of Insider Today. Please sign up here. QUOTE OF THE DAY “The CEOs don’t want to be testifying. Even having this collective hearing creates a sense of quasi-guilt just because of who else has gotten…
Tax Hike Under Biden Poses Bigger Threat to Tech Than Hearing
(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc. are girding for a tough hearing in Congress on Wednesday. But the real threat facing the tech firms comes not from lawmakers now, but from higher taxes later if Joe Biden…
South Florida city is first in US to use new tech to speed up response to school threats
Coral Springs will be the first city in the country to implement a new technology designed to speed up law enforcement response times in the case of a threat to school safety. The Active Law Enforcement Response Technology (ALERT) from IntraLogic…