California has reportedly opened its own antitrust investigation into Google, Politico reports, which would mean the search giant is now facing antitrust probes from every state in the US bar one. It is not known which aspect of the company California’s attorney general is investigating, but recent scrutiny has focused on its acquisitions, and its dominance and conduct in the ad tech market and search markets.

Senator Ron Wyden plans to introduce new legislation that would stop law enforcement agencies from purchasing data they would ordinarily require a warrant or court order to obtain, the Senator's office told Motherboard. Recently agencies have bought information from the commercial sector, such as location data collected from smartphone apps, that in other contexts would be covered by the Fourth Amendment.

The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.

Uber on Thursday said it would let drivers across the state of California set their own rates as a function of the company’s price “multiplier” — used in Uber’s so-called “surge” pricing. The move builds on a pricing experiment that began in January in Sacramento, Santa Barbara and Palm Springs. Previously, drivers had no ability to set their own rates, which was one of the primary critiques of proponents of AB5, the state law that took effect at the beginning of the year.

Apple technologies and data are being used to track the reopening of the U.S. economy amid the global coronavirus health crisis. For example, CNN has built a tool tracking Apple Store reopenings and re-closures as a way of visualizing the virus' spread throughout the U.S.

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino revealed that David Fincher’s “The Social Network” is the best film of the last decade.

Despite the name, it’s not a new CSI show.

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed an administrative complaint with Detroit's police department over what the advocacy organization claims is the country's first known wrongful arrest involving facial-recognition technology.

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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA.

App developers will also have to self-report their app permissions.

The recovery of the Coronavirus pandemic is of immense importance for the health of the world’s economy. Therefore, it is crucial to know the Covid-19 recovery progress of different countries by using Data Science. A question asked often is: Which countries worldwide are currently the most heavily affected by the Covid-19 Coronavirus? We take a look at the Covid-19 Data Science analytics to identify and list down the current 13 worst affected Covid-19 countries.

The world has only six months in which to change the course of the climate crisis and prevent a post-lockdown rebound in greenhouse gas emissions that would overwhelm efforts to stave off climate catastrophe, one of the world’s foremost energy experts has warned. “This year is the last time we have, if we are not to see a carbon rebound,” said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency.

Tesla says its Model S Long Range Plus is the first electric vehicle to achieve over 400 miles of EPA-rated range. The company said in a news release Monday that the vehicle has "an official EPA-rated range of 402 miles, representing a nearly 20% increase in range when compared to a 2019 Model S 100D with the same battery pack design."

Battlefield 6 will be more inspired by the "setting and direction" of Battlefield 3, says insider

Certain vending machines that sell Coca-Cola now accept Bitcoin. As reported by The Australian Financial Review, about 1,200 vending machines in Australia and New Zealand have started to accept cryptocurrencies, chief among them Bitcoin. The deal comes by way of Centrapay, a digital payments startup from New Zealand. The vending machines display QR codes, and customers can scan them with their phone when using the crypto payments and messenger app, Sylo.

Don’t wash your food with bleach. Don’t eat or drink cleaning products. These lifesaving warnings may seem like common sense, but a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests Americans are throwing common sense out the window as they attempt to keep the coronavirus out of their homes. In a survey published Friday, 39% of 502 respondents reported engaging in “non-recommend, high-risk practices,” including using bleach on food, applying household cleaning or disinf...

Platforms' policies on misinformation and violent talk bump up against the power of presidents.