US will spend tens of billions to deploy broadband and offer $30 monthly subsidies.
Theranos lab director never entered the lab, resigned over “lack of clarity”
Prosecution dealt setback as judge rules patient can’t testify.
Smartmatic sues OANN, Newsmax over claims it rigged voting machines for Biden
Smartmatic machines didn’t actually switch Trump votes to Biden, lawsuits note.
Wealthy families, encouraged by Henry Kissinger’s lawyer, sank over $400M into Theranos
Attorney said he trusted Theranos documents, including fake Pfizer report.
SFnal Coordination Mechanism Design, Path Dependence and Roads Not Taken
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This Week in Apps: SharePlay arrives, Android Dev Summit wraps, Snap and TikTok go to Congress
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. […]
Internet shutdowns are a political weapon. It’s time to disarm.
Scott Carpenter Contributor Share on Twitter Scott Carpenter is Jigsaw’s Director of Policy and International Engagement. Prior to Google, Carpenter served as the Keston Family Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and as the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy and Human Rights. Authoritarian governments from twenty-one […]
Fossil fuels doomed in New York as regulator blocks new gas power plants
New fossil fuel power plants are “inconsistent” with state climate law.
Pirate-site operator hacked MLB and tried to extort $150,000, feds say
Extorter threatened to reveal security flaw used for illegal streaming, FBI says.
Congress fails to pin down oil company execs on their bad-faith arguments
Spin, lobbying, and obfuscation still rule the day.