The hearing before the House Antitrust Subcommittee will give lawmakers a rare opportunity to grill the Amazon CEO directly about Amazon's market power and business practices, along with other hot-button issues, like its treatment of warehouse workers during the pandemic.
A video of a dozen doctors promoting hydroxychloroquine as a Covid-19 treatment is the latest video to go viral from apparent experts, quietly backed by dark money political organizations, evangelizing treatments for or opinions about the coronavirus that most doctors, public health officials and epidemiologists have roundly decried as dangerous misinformation.
As violent clashes continue between law enforcement and protesters, polic turn to high-tech devices, like remote handcuffs, to try to cut down use of deadly force and injuries.
Donald Trump Jr. has limited access to his Twitter account after sharing a video on the social media platform that violated its rules, the company confirmed Tuesday.
When the App Store launched in 2008 with 500 apps, Apple executives viewed it as an experiment in offering a compellingly low commission rate to attract developers, Apple's top executive for the App Store, Phil Schiller, told Reuters in an interview.
Rite Aid, the American drugstore chain, quietly added facial recognition systems to 200 stores across the United States over about eight years, in one of the largest rollouts of such technology among retailers in the country, a Reuters investigation found.
While it might not have a huge effect on the companies that showcase at CES — they'll still be able to announce products online, after all — it will hurt the Las Vegas economy.
Bill Gates told CNBC that "titillating" misinformation has a tendency to spread faster than the truth on social media services. He also said Elon Musk likes to "maintain a high level of outrageous comments."
Tencent's offer, if successful, would take Sogou private and de-list it from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at a time when U.S. and China tensions rise and threaten Chinese firms listed on Wall Street.
California's attorney general and state and local agencies are investigating whether Amazon has taken adequate steps to protect its workers from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a court filing on Monday.
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