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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will not be attending this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas after allegedly receiving death threats. The man who controversially once said he would take a “weed whacker” to former net neutrality regulations has met …
Don’t blame YouTube for Logan Paul’s suicide in Japan video
Logan Paul, a young man with the dubious title of “YouTube star,” last week uploaded a video to the video platform that saw him stifling a guffaw in front of a dead body hanging from a tree in Japan’s “Suicide Forest.” Following a …
Spotify sued for $1.6 billion by major publisher Wixen Music
Music streaming firm Spotify AB is being sued for a massive $1.6 billion by Wixen Music Publishing, even as it reportedly made a confidential filing for an initial public offering. The IPO filing, according to Axios, could happen in the first quarter. But …
Jewish journalist says Twitter sided with neo-Nazis
A senior journalist for Tablet magazine, Yair Rosenberg, says Twitter Inc. took the side of neo-Nazis after a bot he had helped create to expose bigoted trolls was banned by the platform. Rosenberg described the events leading up to the banning in …
Energous brings full wireless charging one step closer to reality
Boosting your device’s battery out of thin air is closer to becoming a reality after the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday approved an “over the air, power at a distance” wireless charging technology. The company behind it, San Jose-based Energous Corp., had its first-generation …
Apple admits to throttling the performance of older smartphones – to avoid sudden shutdowns
Apple Inc. admitted something Wednesday that some of its smartphone users had feared for a while: The company purposely slows down its older phones. Although the conspiracy theory has turned out to be true, it turns out that Apple was doing it for …
Facebook accused of enabling potential age discrimination with targeted ads
Facebook Inc. has in the past been found guilty of abetting race discrimination by how it allowed its users to be targeted with advertising. A new investigation released today revealed that the company also allows advertisers potentially to discriminate by age. The investigation by The …
Microsoft ends arbitration in sexual harassment cases
Microsoft Corp. is taking steps to eliminate the contractual requirement that employees pursue sexual harassment claims through arbitration rather than through the courts, a move that comes on the back on numerous sexual harassment claims in the tech industry and other industries. …
U.S. puts blame on North Korea for WannaCry cyberattack
The U.S. administration says North Korea was behind the WannaCry cyberattack this year that caused mayhem across the globe by infecting more tha 300,000 computers and causing billions of dollars’ worth of damage. The accusation was made today by President Donald Trump’s …
Mozilla gets on the wrong side of users with mysterious browser plug-in
Mozilla Corp. has managed to rankle many people using its Firefox browser after slipping in a plug-in promoting the TV series, Mr. Robot. The plug-in, called “Looking Glass,” was not turned on by default. Nonetheless, people concerned about their privacy didn’t take …